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Martin Amis
Author: Margaret Reynolds & Jonathan Noakes
In Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Martin Amis. Vintage Living Texts is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Martin Amis, relating specifically to ... |
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My Movie Business
Author: John Irving
John Irving's memoir describes the author's involvement (and lack thereof) in five of the films that have (and have not) been made from his nine novels. It focuses primarily on the 13 years Irving spent writing and rewri ... |
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How to Read a Book
Author: Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren
How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely ... |
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The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
Author: J.A. Cuddon
The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory is firmly established as a key work of reference in the complex and varied field of literary criticism. Now in its fourth edition, it remains the most comprehe ... |
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Life After Death
Author: Nigel Starck
In recent years, the obituary has enjoyed a remarkable resurgence in literary prestige and popularity with readers. As David Bowman, a distinguished Australian editor and journalist, says: 'In the English-speaking world, ... |
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The History of the Hobbit: Mr Baggins v. 1
Author: John Rateliff
A major new examination of how J.R.R.Tolkien came to write his original masterpiece 'The Hobbit', including his complete unpublished draft version of the story, and many little-known illustrations and previously unpublis ... |
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Celebrations
Author: Maya Angelou
Grace, dignity, and eloquence have long been hallmarks of Maya Angelou's poetry. Her measured verses have stirred our souls, energized our minds, and healed our hearts. Celebrations is a collection of timely and timeless ... |
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Mind the Country
Author: Salhia Ben-Messahel
The first book-length critical study of this prolific, acclaimed writer. It considers aspects of the writer's imagination, and shows how the environment in Winton's novels, whether set in Australia or elsewhere, is prese ... |
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My Invented Country
Author: Isabel Allende
The life story of Isabel Allende -- one of the world's favourite writers -- is as exotic, passionate and inspiring as one of her novels. |
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Heart of Darkness
Author: Joseph Conrad
The most supportive, easy-to-use and focussed literature guides to help your students understand the texts they are studying at GCSE and A Level |
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Borges
Author: Edwin Williamson
Edwin Williamsons major new biography is the first in any language to encompass the entire span of Jorge Luis Borgess life and work. Drawing upon previously unknown or unavailable sources, it brings out the human side of ... |
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The Enigma of V. S. Naipaul
Author: Warwick University Caribbean Studies
In this book, Helen Hayward presents a perceptive, well-researched, and objective study of V.S. Naipaul, and identifies the recurring themes that run through his novels, travel books short stories, articles, and intervie ... |
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A Companion to the Works of Hartmann Von Aue
Author: Francis G. Gentry
In perhaps 25 years of creative productivity (ca. 1180-ca. 1205), Hartmann von Aue authored a dispute about love between the body and the heart, Die Klage, numerous songs of courtly love, crusading songs, and most likely ... |
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This Crazy Thing a Life
Author: Richard Freadman
The first book-length study of Australian Jewish autobiography, This Crazy Thing A Life makes a substantial contribution to multicultural and migrant writing. From humble, self-published memoirs by amateur chroniclers to ... |
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Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium
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Behind the Bestsellers
Author: Jenny Bond & Chris Sheedy
Behind the Bestsellers is a collection of fifty fascinating stories about the lives, loves and literature that inspired the world's greatest books. Full of literary history, dinner party trivia and lore of all kinds, thi ... |
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Peeling the Onion
Author: Gunter Grass
Peeling the Onion is a searingly honest memoir that evokes Grass' modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians and concludes with the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum, in Paris. Gr ... |
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Simulations
Author: Jean Baudrillard
Simulations never existed as a book before it was translated into English. Actually it came from two different bookCovers written at different times by Jean Baudrillard. The first part of Simulations, and most provocati ... |
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Flaws in the Glass
Author: Patrick White
A self-portrait the author that explains how on the very rare occasions when he re-reads a passage from one of his books, he recognises very little of the self he knows. |
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Anna of All the Russias
Author: Elaine Feinstein
Her stubborn loyalty to friends in danger - Shotakovich, Mandelstam and the playwright Bulgakov - showed a courage few possess, and she became an iconic figure for those whom the Soviet regime repressed. This heroic role ... |
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