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The Essentials of Literature in English, Post-1914
The Essentials of Literature in English, Post-1914
by Ian Mackean
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By identifying and analyzing the leading works and authors in modern English literature, this book provides the reader with an engaging and knowledgeable insight into the books, their writers and the connections between them. From Graham Greene to... (read more)

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Secret Lives of Great Authors: What Your Teachers Never Told You about Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights
Secret Lives of Great Authors: What Your Teachers Never Told You about Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights
by Robert Schnakenberg
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Strange-but-true tales of murderers, adulterers, drug addicts, and other literary legends.   With outrageous and uncensored profiles of everyone from William Shakespeare to Thomas Pynchon, Secret Lives of Great Authors tackles all the tough... (read more)

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A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers
A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers
by Michael Holroyd
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A Time Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2011 A Seattle Times Best Book of 2011 On a hill above the Italian village of Ravello sits the Villa Cimbrone, a place of fantasy and make-believe. The characters who move through Michael Holroyds A Book of Secrets&#... (read more)

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The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships
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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Neverland: J. M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers, and the Dark Side of Peter Pan
Neverland: J. M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers, and the Dark Side of Peter Pan
by Piers Dudgeon
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In his revelatory Neverland, Piers Dudgeon tells the tragic story of J. M. Barrie and the Du Maurier family. Driven by a need to fill the vacuum left by sexual impotence, Barrie sought out George du Maurier, Daphne du Maurier's grandfather (author of the... (read more)

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One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life -- A Story of Race and Family Secrets
One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life -- A Story of Race and Family Secrets
by Bliss Broyard
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Two months before he died of cancer, renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard called his grown son and daughter to his side, intending to reveal a secret he had kept all their lives and most of his own: he was black. But even as he lay dying, the truth... (read more)

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Between the Sheets: Nine 20th Century Women Writers and Their Famous Literary Partnerships
Between the Sheets: Nine 20th Century Women Writers and Their Famous Literary Partnerships
by Lesley Mcdowell
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Why did a gifted writer like Sylvia Plath stumble into a marriage that drove her to suicide? Why did Hilda Doolittle want to marry Ezra Pound when she was attracted to women? Why did Simone de Beauvoir pimp for Jean-Paul Sartre? The list of the damages... (read more)

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Apostles of Modernity: American Writers in the Age of Development
Apostles of Modernity: American Writers in the Age of Development
by Guy Reynolds
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Following World War II, Americans entertained a far more international political, cultural, and intellectual awareness as well as a greater fascination with development, progress, and modernity than ever before. In a revisionist account that takes... (read more)

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John Payne Collier: Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century
John Payne Collier: Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century
by Arthur Freeman
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John Payne Collier (1789-1883), one of the most controversial figures in the history of literary scholarship, pursued a double career. A prolific and highly influential writer on the drama, poetry, and popular prose of Shakespeare's age, Collier was at... (read more)

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American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
by F O Matthiessen
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"[Matthiessen's] exploration of the haunted mind of Hawthorne, of Emerson's integrity, of the mental hell in which Melville lived, of Whitman's schizophrenia, of Thoreau's chosen solitude, [has] produced a book unequaled in American critical writing... (read more)

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The History of Pendennis. His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy. by William Maekpeace Thackeray. with Illustrations on Wood
The History of Pendennis. His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy. by William Maekpeace Thackeray. with Illustrations on Wood
by William Makepeace Thackeray
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1850. With illustrations on wood by the author. Vanity Fair is Thackeray's masterpiece, but he also showed great skill in writing historical fiction with fine attention to period manners and customs and a dispassionate sympathy for his character's... (read more)

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Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change
Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change
by Lauran R Hartley
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Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change is the first systematic and detailed overview of modern Tibetan literature, which has burgeoned only in the last thirty years. This comprehensive collection brings together fourteen pioneering scholars in the... (read more)

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Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry
Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry
by Di Brandt
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Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry announces a bold revision of the genealogy of Canadian literary modernism by foregrounding the originary and exemplary contribution of women poets, critics, cultural activists... (read more)

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The American 1930s: A Literary History
The American 1930s: A Literary History
by Peter Conn
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Beginning with the stock market crash of 1929 and ending with America's entry into the Second World War, the long Depression decade was a period of immense social, economic and political turmoil. In response, writers as various as John Dos Passos... (read more)

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Queen Elizabeth's Book of Oxford
Queen Elizabeth's Book of Oxford
by Louise Durning
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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
Literature at War, 1914-1940: Representing the "Time of Greatness" in Germany
by Wolfgang G. Natter
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In this fascinating examination of German texts written about the First World War, Wolfgang Natter offers a new understanding of the relationship between culture and warfare. He focuses not only on the literary voices of German authors whose works are... (read more)

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A History of Feminist Literary Criticism
A History of Feminist Literary Criticism
by Gill Plain
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This authoritative history of feminist literary criticism charts the development of the practice from the middle ages to the present.... (read more)

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Russian Literature (Brief Insight)
Russian Literature (Brief Insight)
by Catriona Kelly
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Catriona Kelly takes an enlightening and nontraditional approach to exploring Russia's unique literary traditions. Rather than proceeding chronologically, she uses Pushkin as the central figure in Russia's literary genesis and analyzes how this “... (read more)

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Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist
Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist
by Hazel Carby
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A cultural history of the work of nineteenth-century black women writers, this volume traces the emergence of the novel as a forum for political and cultural reconstruction, examining the ways in which dominant sexual ideologies influenced the literary... (read more)

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Writers Talk: Conversations with Contemporary British Novelists
Writers Talk: Conversations with Contemporary British Novelists
by Phillip Tew
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Writers Talk includes interviews with Kate Atkinson, Pat Barker, Jonathan Coe, Jim Crace, Toby Litt, Graham Swift, Matt Thorne, David Mitchell, AlanWarner, and Will Self. "Is it a good time to be a writer in the time of The Da Vinci Code? It's not... (read more)

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