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* A pathbreaking new book by one of the world s leading sociologists * The book is a study of the rise of detective novels and spy novels in the…
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Mysteries and Conspiracies
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"This splendid collection of essays, with its lucid, witty, and masterful introduction by the editors, will transform our understanding of the decadent aesthetic, and demonstrate its relevance to a wide…
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Perennial Decay
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"Slow violence" from climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war occurs gradually and often invisibly. Rob Nixon focuses on the inattention we have paid…
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Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
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David Mamet’s Oleanna
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Catherine Cookson is known and loved for her vibrant and earthy novels set in and around the North-East of England, past and present.
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Our Kate
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOWIn 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed…
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My Guru and His Disciple
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His evocative tales of grand hotel life have a reporter's eye for sensory detail, yet he always manages to bathe his world and it's lovable characters in the mood of…
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Hotel Bemelmans
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As an internationally bestselling phenomenon and queen of the Regency Romance, Georgette Heyer is one of the most beloved historical novelists of our time.
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The Private World of Georgette Heyer
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Through the story of his grandparents and parents, and his brothers' involvement in the violent Mau Mau uprising, Ngugi deftly etches a tumultuous era, capturing the landscape, the people and…
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Dreams in a Time of War
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTONSubtitled 'An education in the twenties', this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public…
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Lions and Shadows
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The definitive biography of Daphne Du Maurier, one of history's greatest psychological thriller novelistsRebecca, published in 1938, brought its author instant international acclaim, capturing the popular imagination with its haunting…
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Daphne Du Maurier
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With a father he imitated but could not respect, and a mother he both adored and resented, he picked his way through a world that refused to explain its rules,…
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Boyhood: A Memoir
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Nadezhda saw it as an opportunity for her husband to mend his shattered life, but it was a trap and he was arrested for the last time. 'My case will…
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Hope Against Hope
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In this remarkable work of autobiography, the son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life,…
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Experience
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Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing is to be found in this collection of five unpublished pieces. In 'Reminiscences' Virginia Woolf focuses on the death of her mother, 'the greatest disaster…
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Moments Of Being
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From the age of 21, everything he wrote was shaped by the urgency of a dying man's testament - his witness, the quintessence of his life and knowledge - and…
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Gathering Evidence
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Orwell has become one of the most potent and symbolic figures in western political thought. Even the adjective 'Orwellian' is now a byword for a particular way of thinking about…
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Orwell
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Jay Rubin explains how Murakami developed a distinctive new style in Japanese writing. In tracing the reclusive writer’s career, he draws on his own interviews with him, and observations gathered…
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Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words
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A story, in which the author takes us on a journey through his childhood and adolescence, along Jerusalem's war-torn streets in the 1940s and '50s, and into the infernal marriage…
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A Tale of Love and Darkness
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The Orientalist unravels the mysterious life of a man born on the border between West and East, a Jewish man with a passion for the Arab world. Tom Reiss first…
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The Orientalist
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Mary Wesley published her first novel at seventy and went on to write a further nine bestsellers, including the legendary The Camomile Lawn, in a style best described as arsenic…
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Wild Mary: The Life Of Mary Wesley
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Aims to unearth the life story of the creator of "The Leopard", one of the novels of the twentieth century. This book stands as a meditation on what it is…
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The Last Leopard
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Georgette Heyer is known for her historical romances set in Regency England. Her works include "Regency Buck", "The Grand Sophy" and "Friday's Child". This is a guide to her wonderful…
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Georgette Heyer’s Regency World
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Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on public events or the joys and trials of…
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Selected Diaries
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A collection of George Orwell's correspondence. It provides an eloquent narrative of Orwell's life, from his schooldays to his final illness. It affords a view of his thoughts on matters…
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A Life in Letters
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This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote - from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice…
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Kurt Vonnegut: Letters
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Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2014Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best BiographyNew York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearPenelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was…
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Penelope Fitzgerald
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Looking back not only at his own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him - James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald…
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A Moveable Feast
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Selected Poems
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Offers an introduction to the First World War Poetry. This title features the sequence of poems that is drawn from a number of sources, mixing both well-known and less familiar…
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Poems of the Great War
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A memoir that offers a picture of the author's growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out…
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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
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A Critical Companion to the theatre of Ireland's foremost living playwright, whose work spans fifty years and has won numerous awards, including three Tonys and a Lifetime Achievement Arts Award.…
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The Theatre of Brian Friel
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War and Literature: Looking Back on 20th Century Armed Conflicts War and Literature: Looking Back on 20th Century Armed Conflicts la super preț online: Livrarea Produselor În mod curent Books…
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War and Literature: Looking Back on 20th Century Armed Conflicts
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This edition makes available for the first time a comprehensive range of letters by one of the twentieth century's greatest literary figures. This volume (1957-1965) shows Beckett reacting to, and…
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The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 3, 1957–1965
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August Wilson’s Fences
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The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel
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Raymond Chandler
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One of the most important literary works of the 20th century, Ulysses is also one of the most realistic novels ever written. The characters visit shops and pubs that can…
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James Joyce’s Dublin
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Beatrix Potter, born into a wealthy London family, became a passionate country woman and skilled farmer in the northern countryside, where her characters were brought vividly to life by the…
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Beatrix Potter – English
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In the revised edition of this popular text, Randall Stevenson has expanded, re-emphasised and amended his work to make it even more relevant to today's student studying the Modernist period…
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Modernist Fiction
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Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia
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First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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August Wilson
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William Faulkner has enjoyed a secure reputation as American modernism's foremost fiction writer, and as a landmark figure in international literary modernism, for well over half a century. Less secure,…
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William Faulkner and the Faces of Modernity
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The Fiction of Narrative traces the arc and evolution of White's field-defining thought and will become standard reading for students and scholars of historiography, the theory of history, and literary…
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The Fiction of Narrative – Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957 2007
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These articles gradually outline a practical project that both looks back to the radical artistic doctrines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and anticipates the most original developments…
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Desperate Clarity
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This is an authoritative single-volume guide to the work of twenty-five American playwrights from the 1960s to the present written by a team of twenty-five eminent scholars from the USA,…
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The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights
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On publication Arundhati Roy's first novel The God of Small Things (1997) rapidly became an international bestseller, winning the Booker Prize and creating a new space for Indian literature and…
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Arundhati Roy’s the God of Small Things
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Explores self-consciousness and metafictional awareness in modern fairy tale and its expression across literary fairy tale, popular fairy tale, and fairy-tale film. This title argues draws on the critical fields…
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Marvelous Geometry
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Existentialism meets the philosophy of the Absurd. They should have been a dream-team. It turned into a duel to the death.
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The Boxer and The Goal Keeper
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Aims to promote sophisticated literary analysis through the concept of character. This book demonstrates the necessity of linking character analysis to texts, themes, issues and ideas, and encourages students to…
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Waiting for Godot
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The official book on Ian Fleming and James Bond by the bestselling author of Agent Zigzag
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For Your Eyes Only
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Dissects what Proust had to say about friendship. This title looks at paying attention, taking your time, being alive and includes the author's commentary. Explores what Proust had to say…
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De Botton, A: How Proust Can Change Your Life
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A memoir of a young boy's unusual travels with his mother. The author recreates his boyhood experiences, relating how he and his mother travelled throughout the United States, and tracing…
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This Boy’s Life
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Hamlet and the Baker's Son is the autobiography of Augusto Boal, inventor of the internationally renowned Forum Theatre system, and 'Theatre of the Oppressed' and author of Games for Actors…
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Hamlet and the Baker’s Son
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In this candid and revealing memoir, Elizabeth Jane Howard looks back over the course of her eventful life, providing a story of as full of love, passion and betrayal as…
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Slipstream
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Through his alcoholism and her mental illness, his career highs (and lows) and her institutional confinement, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's devotion to each other endured for more than twenty-two years.…
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Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda
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The critically acclaimed biography of a man respected for his fierce commitment to truth and honesty, and his passionate belief in the avant-garde.
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Coe, J: Like a Fiery Elephant
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Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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This stimulating study takes a fresh look at two of Fitzgerald's major texts. Part I uses carefully selected short extracts for close textual analysis, while Part II examines the historical…
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby/Tender is the Night
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Contemporary Women Playwrights
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Joy Davidman is known, if she is known at all, as the wife of C. S. Lewis. Their marriage was immortalized in the film Shadowlands and Lewis's memoir, A Grief Observed. Now, through…
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Joy
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Kathleen Parkinson places this brilliant and bitter satire on the moral failure of the Jazz Age firmly in the context of Scott Fitzgerald's life and times. She explores the intricate…
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Critical Studies
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Covering literature, film, interior design, architecture, photography, fashion, ballet, and flower arranging, Baroque between the Wars offers a new take on modernism that explores how baroque offered a whole new…
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Baroque between the Wars
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The British novelist and critic Christine Brooke-Rose (born 1923) is increasingly being regarded as one of the most significant writers of the contemporary period. In her dozen novels she has…
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Utterly Other Discourse
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On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that would change his life forever: Ayatollah Khomeini, a leading Muslim scholar, had issued him with…
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Joseph Anton
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Letters 1941-1985
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Mysteries and Conspiracies

Perennial Decay

Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor

David Mamet’s Oleanna

Our Kate

My Guru and His Disciple

Hotel Bemelmans

The Private World of Georgette Heyer

Dreams in a Time of War

Lions and Shadows

Daphne Du Maurier

Boyhood: A Memoir

Hope Against Hope

Experience

Moments Of Being

Gathering Evidence

Orwell

Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words

A Tale of Love and Darkness

The Orientalist

Wild Mary: The Life Of Mary Wesley

The Last Leopard

Georgette Heyer’s Regency World

Selected Diaries

A Life in Letters

Kurt Vonnegut: Letters

Penelope Fitzgerald

A Moveable Feast

Selected Poems

Poems of the Great War

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

The Theatre of Brian Friel

War and Literature: Looking Back on 20th Century Armed Conflicts

The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 3, 1957–1965

August Wilson’s Fences

Raymond Chandler

James Joyce’s Dublin

Beatrix Potter – English

Modernist Fiction

Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia

August Wilson

William Faulkner and the Faces of Modernity

The Fiction of Narrative – Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957 2007

Desperate Clarity

The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights

Arundhati Roy’s the God of Small Things

Marvelous Geometry

The Boxer and The Goal Keeper

Waiting for Godot

For Your Eyes Only

De Botton, A: How Proust Can Change Your Life

This Boy’s Life

Hamlet and the Baker’s Son

Slipstream

Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda

Coe, J: Like a Fiery Elephant

Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby/Tender is the Night

Contemporary Women Playwrights

Joy

Critical Studies

Baroque between the Wars

Utterly Other Discourse

Joseph Anton

Letters 1941-1985

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