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Literary theoryCult Writers: 50 Nonconformist Novelists You Need to Know
Author: Ian Haydn Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Cult Writers handpicks 50 notable figures from the modern world of literature and explores the creative genius that earned them...
William Shakespeare: A Companion Guide to His Life & Achievements
Author: Gill Davies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 William Shakespeare was born April 1564 and died 23 April 1616, four hundred years ago. Today the bard from Queen Elizabeth's...
Forgotten Women: The Writers
Author: Zhi Ying Tsjeng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'To say this series is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and...
Beowulf: Volume 46
Author: Alan Jacobs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Should we still bother with the supposedly great works of past ages? Aristotle believed that men were naturally superior to women....
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
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Author: Salman Rushdie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Newly collected, revised, and expanded nonfiction from the first two decades of the twenty-first century-including many texts never previously in print-by...
Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People
Author: Rick Gekoski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Rick Gekoski has been traversing the rocky terrain of the rare book trade for over fifty years. The treasure...
Roman Literary Culture: From Plautus to Macrobius
Author: Elaine Fantham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Scholars of ancient literature have often focused on the works and lives of major authors rather than on such questions as...
Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers
Author: Mary Wellesley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'This book is an expression of love... Sublimely conceived and beautifully written' Gerard DeGroot, The Times 'Immersive, conversational and...
Breaking Bread with the Dead: Reading the Past in Search of a Tranquil Mind
Author: Ros Barber Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 The bestselling 30-Second... series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand....
The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels
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Author: Adam Nicolson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Brimming with poetry, art, and nature writing--Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them before June 1797 to September 1798 is...
The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives
Author: Nancy Pearl Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 NEW & NOTEWORTHY ~ THE NEW YORK TIMES With a Foreword by Susan Orlean, twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including...
Jane Austen's Universal Truths: Wisdom and witticisms from her writings
Author: Susan Hart-Byers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 The enduring appeal of Jane Austen's fiction is captured in this pocket-sized collection of quotations taken from her celebrated works. The...
Jane Austen's Little Book of Wisdom: Words on Love, Life, Society and Literature
Author: Andrea Kirk Assaf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Jane Austen's Little Book of Wisdom offers more than 300 bite-size quotes of inspiration and wisdom from one of the...
The Ancient Fable: An Introduction
Author: Niklas Holzberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 We are all familiar with the moralizing animal tales ascribed to Aesop. Described as fiction that conveys truths, fables can be...
Waka and Things, Waka as Things
Author: Edward Kamens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A challenging study offering a new perspective on classical Japanese poems and how they interact with and are part of material...
Is Heathcliff a Murderer?: Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Author: Jon Sutherland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Does Becky kill Jos at the end of Vanity Fair? Why does no one notice that Hetty is pregnant in Adam...
Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine
Author: Will Loxley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'An army of bitchy, backstabbing, rivalrous literary greats inhabit this energetic history... Loxley's voice is energetic and enthused' The Times 'I...
In the Heart of the Country: A Novel
Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A story told in prose as feverishly rich as William Faulkner's, In the Heart of the Country is...
The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature, and the Dreyfus Case
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Author: Michael Rosen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 It is the evening of July 18, 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Emile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking...
What to Read and Why
Author: Francine Prose Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In this brilliant collection, the follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, the distinguished novelist, literary critic,...
The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses
Author: T. S. Eliot Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 688 This critical edition establishes a new text of the Collected Poems 1909-1962, rectifying accidental omissions and errors. As well as...
William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays
Author: Prof. Eric Rasmussen (USA) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 816 Developed in partnership with The Royal Shakespeare Company, this is the first edition for over a hundred years of...
One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern
Author: R. Howard Bloch (Yale University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The forerunner of our digital age, a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897, with its mind-bending...
The William H. Gass Reader
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Author: William H Gass Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 928 Throughout his career, William Gass relentlessly pushed at the boundaries of language, celebrating the music of the sentence and the...
Mr. Penrose: The Journal of Penrose, Seaman
Author: William Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Long neglected as the first American novel, Mr. Penrose narrates the adventures of a British youth who flees an...
Doctor
Author: Dr. Andrew Bomback (Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, USA) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the...
Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic
Author: Claudia Baracchi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 Although Plato's Republic is perhaps the most influential text in the history of Western philosophy, Claudia Baracchi finds that the work...
The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound
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Author: Daniel Swift Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In 1945, the American poet Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during...
The Sword of Ambition: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt
Author: 'Uthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 478 The Sword of Ambition belongs to a genre of religious polemic written for the rulers of Egypt and Syria...
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded: Volume One
Author: Yusuf al-Shirbini Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 465 Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One,...
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded, with Risible Rhymes: Volume Two
Author: Yusuf al-Shirbini Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One,...
Music of the Ghosts: A Novel
Author: Vaddey Ratner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 This "novel of extraordinary humanity" (Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing) from New York Times...
Little Faith
Author: Nickolas Butler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Lyle Hovde is at the onset of his golden years, living a mostly content life in rural Wisconsin with...