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The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships
by Robert B Silvers
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Now in paperback Many of the illustrious contributors to The New York Review of Books have had deep and abiding relationships-both personal and intellectual-with other poets, writers, artists, composers, and scientists of equal stature. The Company They... (read more)

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The Essentials of Literature in English, Post-1914
by Ian Mackean
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Secret Lives of Great Authors: What Your Teachers Never Told You about Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights
by Robert Schnakenberg
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Neverland: J. M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers, and the Dark Side of Peter Pan
by Piers Dudgeon
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Between the Sheets: Nine 20th Century Women Writers and Their Famous Literary Partnerships
by Lesley Mcdowell
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Russian Literature (Brief Insight)
by Catriona Kelly
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American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
by F O Matthiessen
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In 1566, Queen Elizabeth I visited Oxford for the first time. She toured the colleges, gave lectures, and attended a play in her honor at Christ Church. She was presented with a companion—a handbook made specifically for her and now fully... (read more)

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Literature at War, 1914-1940: Representing the "Time of Greatness" in Germany
by Wolfgang G. Natter
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A History of Feminist Literary Criticism
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by Deborah Baker
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Writers Talk: Conversations with Contemporary British Novelists
by Phillip Tew
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