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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... (Description from external book data)
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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 ... (Description from external book data)
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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... (Description from external book data)
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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... (Description from external book data)
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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... (Description from external book data)
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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... (Description from external book data)
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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... (Description from external book data)
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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... (Description from external book data)
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Abiodun Alao
The first comprehensive account of the linkage between natural resources and political and social conflict in Africa. (Description from external book data)
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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... (Description from external book data)
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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 ... (Description from external book data)
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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... (Description from external book data)
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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... (Description from external book data)
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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... (Description from external book data)
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Arundhati Roy
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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... (Description from external book data)
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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... (Description from external book data)
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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,... (Description from external book data)
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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... (Description from external book data)
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Cynthia Burkhead
Introduces the life and work of John Steinbeck, explores his contributions to American literature, and analyzes his works. (Description from external book data)
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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... (Description from external book data)
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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... (Description from external book data)
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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... (Description from external book data)
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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... (Description from external book data)
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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 ... (Description from external book data)
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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... (Description from external book data)
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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... (Description from external book data)
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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... (Description from external book data)
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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... (Description from external book data)
