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Rocky Wood
There are a multitude of interesting updates in the revised edition of the classic book about King's hidden work. Included in the new inform... (Description from external book data)
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Harold Bloom
At a time when faster and easier electronic media threaten to eclipse reading and literature, the author explores reasons for reading and de... (Description from external book data)
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George Beahm
The Stephen King Companion is an authoritative look at horror author King's personal life and professional career, from Carrie to The Bazaar... (Description from external book data)
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Harold Bloom
The book remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature. (Description from external book data)
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Dan Burstein
The first book to help you understand the mysteries and secret histories within the plot of Dan Brown's bestselling ANGELS AND DEMONS. SECRE... (Description from external book data)
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Julie Mullaney
This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introduct... (Description from external book data)
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Dan Burstein
Unauthorised (but authoritative) guide to the mysteries behind the phenomenal bestseller THE DA VINCI CODE Readers of Dan Brown's extraordin... (Description from external book data)
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Mary Beth Pringle
Examines the works of the novelist, describing his characters, narrative and strategies, plot development, literary devices, settings, and m... (Description from external book data)
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Claire Squires
Offers an accessible and informative introduction to the popular novel. (Description from external book data)
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Stanisław Lem
In The Lem Reader, Peter Swirski has assembled an in-depth and insightful collection of writings by and about, and interviews with, one of t... (Description from external book data)
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S. T. Joshi
John Dickson Carr is known as the master of the locked-room mystery ”the impossible crime. But Carr also wrote short stories, radio play... (Description from external book data)
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&. Kim McCann
Feminist Theory Reader is an anthology of classic and contemporary works of feminist theory, organized around the goal of providing both loc... (Description from external book data)
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Michelle Ann Abate
Given the long-standing belief that children ought to be shielded from disturbing life events, it is surprising to see how many stories for ... (Description from external book data)
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Dirk Sacré
Leading journal in the field of Renaissance and modern Latin As well as presenting articles on Neo-Latin topics, the annual journalHumanisti... (Description from external book data)
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Slavoj Zizek
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (Description from external book data)
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T.J. Carty
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (Description from external book data)
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Beverly Lyon Clark
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (Description from external book data)
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T. A. Shippey
Explores the sources of the inspiration, magic, and enchantment of Tolkien's Middle-earth books. (Description from external book data)
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Dr Rosemarie Morgan
Bringing together eminent Hardy scholars, The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy offers an overview of Hardy scholarship and suggest... (Description from external book data)
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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
From vampires and demons to ghosts and zombies, interest in monsters in literature, film, and popular culture has never been stronger. This ... (Description from external book data)
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Professor Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
This concise encyclopedia provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative A-Z of monsters throughout the ages. It is t... (Description from external book data)
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Dieter Mehl
With the publication of Brian Gibbons's Jacobean City Comedy thirty-five years ago, the urban satires by Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas... (Description from external book data)
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Catherine Delafield
Using private diary writing as her model, Catherine Delafield investigates the cultural significance of nineteenth-century women's writing a... (Description from external book data)
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John Rodden
The making of literary reputations is as much a reflection of a writer's surrounding culture and politics as it is of the intrinsic quality ... (Description from external book data)
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Megan Riley McGilchrist
The western American landscape has always had great significance in American thinking, requiring an unlikely union between frontier mytholog... (Description from external book data)
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Stephen Ingle
Stephen Ingle is Professor at the Politics Department, University of Stirling. His main academic interests are in the relationship between p... (Description from external book data)
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Bernfried Nugel
Aldous Huxley Annual is the official publication of the Aldous Huxley Society at the Center for Aldous Huxley Studies in MÃ (Description from external book data)
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Roger Lancelyn Green
This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete se... (Description from external book data)
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Sonia Massai
Drawing on debates around the global/local dimensions of cultural production, an international team of contributors explore the appropriatio... (Description from external book data)
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James D. Mardock
In this thought-provoking study Mardock looks at Ben Jonson's epigrams, prose, and verse satire in order to focus on Jonson's theatrical app... (Description from external book data)
