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From New York Times bestselling author and Founding Fathers' biographer Harlow Giles Unger comes the astonishing biography of the man whose pen set America ablaze, inspiring its revolution, and whose ideas about reason and religion continue to try men's souls.

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A collection of the work of Thomas Paine plus letters and prophetic articles.

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'I wonder what you'd think of me if you found out that I've done something really serious.' So begin the confessions of Thomas Quick - Scandinavia's most notorious serial killer.

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A contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.

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Featuring nearly 100 luminous watercolour illustrations, this title collects passages from the writings of Thoreau. Drawn mainly from his journals, the short excerpts, it provides insight into his thought processes by presenting his raw, unedited feelings about the things that meant the most to him.

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The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer

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The author of A Life of David Garnett, short-listed for the Slightly Fox Best First Biography Prize and for the James Tait Black Prize, now turns to the pioneering photographer, admired by Man Ray: Barbara Ker-Seymer and her outre circle of avant-garde artists of London of the 1940s and 50s.

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'This killer read is a true crime compendium of female murderers in early modern Britain. It makes for a fascinating insight into our obsession with female killers then, and now' Janice Hallett

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Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year 2015
Winner of the New Angle Book Prize 2017

John Craske, a Norfok fisherman, was born in 1881 and in 1917, when he had just turned thirty-six, he fell seriously ill.

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Three Danish comedy plays by Johan Ludvig Heiberg and Holberg--the "father" of Danish and Norwegian literature. Plays have been translated by Michael Meyer.

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Analyzes the last three days of the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower in January, 1961, including their foundations in Eisenhower's personal experiences as well as their effects on the presidency of John F. Kennedy and beyond.

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Having urgently assembled the British war cabinet, the new Prime Minister is confronted with an intense game of political chess as he tries to persuade peace treaty supporters, including Neville Chamberlain, that Britain must not concede. One man has to make a monumental decision, that will shape the future of the free world.

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Russia. A beautiful country estate. The mid-nineteenth century. Patrick Marber reinterprets Turgenev's A Month in the Country.

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These some three hundred poems from the Tang Dynasty (618-907)-an age in which poetry and the arts flourished-were gathered in the eighteenth century into what became one of the best-known books in the world, and which is still cherished in Chinese homes everywhere.

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A dark new play by bestselling playwright Simon Stephens which is pan-Euopean, a detective story, crime thriller and a moral parable.

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Santayana's argument for the unity of philosophy and poetry.

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'What is remarkable about Alan Ayckbourn's comedy is that it contrives to be simultaneously hilarious and harrowing. The settings are simple - a kitchen, a bedroom, a party - but the relationships between the husbands and wives are more complicated.

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Published for the first time together are three of Ayn Rand's most compellingstage plays, gathered for the 100th anniversary of Rand's birth. Includes twonever-before-produced plays--"Ideal" and "Think Twice." Original.

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Originally published: New York: Harper & Row, 1957.

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The three plays collected here mirror the era after King Charles II. In Etherege's "The Man of Mode", Dorimant meets his match. In Wycherley's "The Country Wife", Horner fakes impotence to fool husbands into giving him access to their wives. In Congreve's "Love for Love", the Valentine can win his beloved only if he loses his inheritance.

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