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The World of Chaucer
Derek Brewer
Geoffrey Chaucer died on 25 October 1400. To mark the six-hundredth anniversary of his death...
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The Unpunished Vice
Edmund White
An insightful account of the key role reading has played in the life of literary...
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The Temptation of the Impossible
Mario Vargas Llosa
It was one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century and Tolstoy called...
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The Social Life of Books
Abigail Williams
A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity...
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The Silent Woman
Janet Malcolm
In an astonishing feat of literary detection, one of the most provocative critics of our...
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The Sighted Singer
Allen Grossman
During a week in January 1981, poets Allen Grossman and Mark Halliday met for a...
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The Shelf
Phyllis Rose
Can you have an Extreme Adventure in a library? Phyllis Rose casts herself into the...
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The Postmodern Condition
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial...
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The Infernal Library
Daniel Kalder
A mesmerizing study of books by despots great and small, from the familiar to the...
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The Daemon Knows
Harold Bloom
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY...
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The Classic Guide to Better Writing
R Flesch
Every phase of writing is addressed in this authoritative, practical guide. Specific topics include: organizing...
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The Chronology of American Literature
Daniel S Burt
If you are looking to brush up on your literary knowledge, check a favorite author's...
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The Business of Books
Andre Schiffrin
Part-memoir, part-history, The Business of Books is an irascible, acute and often passionate account of...
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The Burning Library: Our Great Novelists Lost and Found
Geordie Williamson
The Burning Library explores the lives and work of Australian novelists, many of whom haveunjustly...
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The Bow and the Lyre
Octavio Paz
In The Bow and the Lyre Octavio Paz, one of the most important poets writing...
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The Art of the Publisher
Roberto Calasso
An interior look at Roberto Calasso's work as a publisher and his reflections on the...
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The Anna Karenina Fix
Viv Groskop
As Viv Groskop knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened to a person...
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Suburbanism
Robert Wood
Suburbanism is a book of twelve essays on contemporary poetry. Robert Wood looks at New...
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September 1, 1939
Ian Sansom
This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about...
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Science Fiction
David Seed (Professor in the School of English, University of Liverpool)
Science Fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination...
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Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image
Anthony Uhlmann (Associate Professor, University of Western Sydney)
Beckett often made use of images from the visual arts and readapted them, staging them...
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Roth Unbound
Claudia Roth Pierpont
A critical evaluation of Philip Roth--the first of its kind--that takes on the man, the...
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Readings/Writings
Dening, Greg
The erotics of reading for me-its moments of trembling pleasure-lie in those times when I...
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Radical Wordsworth
Jonathan Bate
A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 'Radical Wordsworth deserves to take its...
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Penguin Portrait
Steve Hare
Published to mark the 60th anniversary of Penguin books in 1995, this book covers the...
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Paul Gilroy
Paul Williams
Paul Gilroy has been a controversial force at the forefront of debates around race, nation,...
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Packing My Library
Alberto Manguel
A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the...
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Oxford Reader's Companion to Trollope
R.C. Terry
The second in the series of "Oxford Reader's Companions". This illustrated work brings together Anthony...
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