Peeling the Onion
Author: Gunter Grass
Gunter Grass' parents ran a corner shop, but his mother, whom he adored, encouraged him towards books and music. This memoir evokes his modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians and con ... |
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The Friendship
Wordsworth and Coleridge
Author: Adam Sisman
The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the legendary friendship -- and quarrel -- between Wordsworth and Coleridge, two giants of English Romanticism. |
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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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MItfords
Letters Between Six Sisters
Author: Charlotte Mosley
The never-before published letters of the legendary Mitford sisters, alive with wit, affection, tragedy and gossip: a charismatic history of the century's signal events played out in the lives of a controversial and uniq ... |
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An Anthology of Classical Myth
Primary Sources in Translation
Author: Stephen M. Trzaskoma, R.Scott Smith & Stephen Brunet
This volume is designed as a companion to the standard undergraduate mythology textbooks or, when assigned alongside the central Greek and Roman works, as a source-based alternative to those textbooks. In addition to the ... |
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Angela Carter
Author: Lorna Sage
This is a fascinating study of the works of Angela Carter - the most inventive British novelist of her generation. Although much of Carter's work is considered part of the contemporary canon, its true strangeness is stil ... |
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Snapshots of Bloomsbury
The Private Lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell
Author: Maggie Humm
In this enthralling portrait, Maggie Humm makes available, for the first time, a wealth of barely known photographs, both amateur and professional, that cast new light on the private lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa B ... |
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Athenaze
an Introduction to Ancient Greek
Author: M.G. Balme
Combining the best features of traditional and modern methods, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, 2/e, provides a unique course of instruction that allows students to read connected Greek narrative right from th ... |
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Athol Fugard
Author: Dennis Walder
A succinct and informed account of the career and main themes of South Africa's leading dramatist by an authority in the field. Athol Fugard is widely recognised as one of the most important living dramatists, a total ma ... |
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William Blake
Author: John Maynard
With its combination of poetic brilliance and exquisite art, the Poetry for Young People series has won the admiration of critics, educators, children, and parents. Every breathtaking volume in this acclaimed, bestsellin ... |
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Brave New Words
The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction
Author: Jeff Prucher
The first historical dictionary devoted to science fiction,Brave New Words:The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction shows how science-fictional words and their associated concepts have developed over time , with full cit ... |
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Upstaged
Australian Women Dramatists in the Limelight at Last
Author: Michelle Arrow
This book tells the stories of some of Australia's largely forgotten playwrights -- women who wrote drama that was performed on the nation's stages and broadcast across the airwaves from the late 1920s to the late 1960s. ... |
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The Bardo of Waking Life
Author: Richard Grossinger
An avant-garde set of improvisational essays, Richard Grossinger's The Bardo of Waking Life is a meditation on the Tibetan Buddhist bardo realm which, in popular culture, is viewed as the bridge between lives, the state ... |
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Shakespeare and the Practice of Physic
Medical Narratives on the Early Modern English Stage
Author: Todd Howard James Pettigrew
By Shakespeare's time, the debate over legitimate medical practice had become vociferous and public. The powerful College of Physicians fought hard to discredit some and rein in others, but many resisted, denied, or igno ... |
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A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture C.1350-C.1500
Author: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350-c.1500 challenges readers to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries. It features a ground-breaking collection of newl ... |
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Chapters in a Mythology
The Poetry of Sylvia Plath
Author: Judith Kroll
Judith Kroll's Chapters in a Mythology - groundbreaking when it was published in 1976, and now a classic - is essential reading for anyone interested in Sylvia Plath. It was the first full-scale study of Plath's poetry a ... |
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Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology of Writing in English, 1375-1575
Author: Derek Pearsall
In this key anthology Derek Pearsall offers a radically new approach to those teaching and studying English writing from Geoffrey Chaucer to the early work of Edmund Spenser. Ignoring the traditional barrier between med ... |
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Chinua Achebe
Author: Nahem Yousaf
The publication of Things Fall Apart in 1958 brought world-wide attention to the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe and established him as the pre-eminent African writer working in English. Achebe has been instrumental in bri ... |
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The Tempest: Complete Study Edition
Author: William Shakespeare
In the CliffsComplete guides, the play's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resour ... |
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Collins Complete Works of Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
The Alexander Text of the Complete Works of Shakespeare is one of the most authoritative editions and is recognized the world over for its clarity and scholarship. New to this edition is an internet resources section, pr ... |
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