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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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A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers
by Michael Holroyd
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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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One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life -- A Story of Race and Family Secrets
by Bliss Broyard
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Between the Sheets: Nine 20th Century Women Writers and Their Famous Literary Partnerships
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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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Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist
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Writers Talk: Conversations with Contemporary British Novelists
by Phillip Tew
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