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Zadie Smith
AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK The one and only Zadie Smith, prize-winning, bestselling author of Swing Time and White Teeth, is b... (Source: Google Books API)
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald
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Marilynne Robinson
New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit ... (Source: Google Books API)
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Michael Eberle-Sinatra
Leigh Hunt s contributions to English literature, although downplayed for several decades, are now acknowledged by scholars as key to our u... (Source: Google Books API)
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Karl Ove Knausgaard
Two world-class writers reveal themselves to be the ultimate soccer fans in these collected letters Karl Ove Knausgaard is sitting at home i... (Source: Google Books API)
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Donald Watt
This set comprises forty volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as... (Source: Google Books API)
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Christopher K. Coffman
Several of American literature s most prominent authors, and many of their most perceptive critics and reviewers, argue that fiction of the... (Source: Google Books API)
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Rendel Harris
This book, first published in 1917, explores the meaning and genesis of the Prologue to the Fourth Gospel. The author, J. Rendel Harris (185... (Source: Google Books API)
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Lilla Maria Crisafulli
Bringing together leading British, North American, and Italian critics, this collection makes a crucial intervention in the reclamation of w... (Source: Google Books API)
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Abiodun Alao
The first comprehensive account of the linkage between natural resources and political and social conflict in Africa. (Source: Google Books API)
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Marilynne Robinson
In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Wh... (Source: Google Books API)
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Andrew Solomon
From the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics Circle Award ”and one of the most original thinkers of our time ... (Source: Google Books API)
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Miles Leeson
A reassessment of Murdoch's fictional work regarding her links with her own philosophy and the philosophy of Plato, Sartre, Nietzsche, Heide... (Source: Google Books API)
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Tobias Nicklas
In this collection of essays renowned experts deal with the role of the dead or dying human body in different ancient religious and cultural... (Source: Google Books API)
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Peter McDonald
In this multi-volume edition, the poetry of W.B. Yeats (1865 “1939) is presented in full, with newly-established texts and detailed, wide-ra... (Source: Google Books API)
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Amara Thornton
Archaeologists in Print is a history of popular publishing in archaeology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a pivotal period of exp... (Source: Google Books API)
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Lukas Erne
This important collection brings together leading scholars to examine crucial questions regarding the theory and practice of editing Shakesp... (Source: Google Books API)
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Joanna Baillie
Volume two of The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie features her correspondence with Margaret Holford Hodson, Lady Byron, Mary Montgomery,... (Source: Google Books API)
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Peter J. Conradi
These never before published writings comprise Iris Murdoch's passionate wartime correspondence with two early intimates: the poet Frank Tho... (Source: Google Books API)
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Cynthia Burkhead
Introduces the life and work of John Steinbeck, explores his contributions to American literature, and analyzes his works. (Source: Google Books API)
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Thomas W. Kniesche
A companion to contemporary German crime fiction for English-speaking audiences is overdue. Starting with the earlier Swiss classics Glaus... (Source: Google Books API)
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Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
The notion of home has always been elusive. But as evidenced in these stories, poems, and testaments, perhaps home is not so much a place, b... (Source: Google Books API)
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Nicola Bown
Essays by literary scholars, art historians and science historians explore the diversity of the Victorians' fascination with the supernatura... (Source: Google Books API)
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John Griswold
The main subject of the book is best stated in a quote from C. S. Lewis: "Often we need not so much to be taught as to be reminded." As I sa... (Source: Google Books API)
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James Peacock
Jonathan Lethem is the first full-length study dedicated to the work of an exciting, genre-busting contemporary writer with an increasingly ... (Source: Google Books API)
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Robert Gottlieb
A new collection of immersive essays from the most acclaimed editor of the second half of the twentieth century This new collection from the... (Source: Google Books API)
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Peter Edgerly Firchow
The essays collected here deal with modernist writers who, on the whole, felt 'reluctant' about their modernist status because they believed... (Source: Google Books API)
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Michael L. Klein
During his life, Michael Klein played an important role in helping establish the modern study of the Targums. This collection brings togethe... (Source: Google Books API)
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Peter Edgerly Firchow
The present collection of essays primarily honours Bernfried Nugel the teacher and scholar, but it also pays homage to Bernfried Nugel the i... (Source: Google Books API)
