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By: Professor John Carey
ISBN: 9780571203178
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2006
UK Publication Date: 18th September 2000
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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An experienced and imaginative anthologist, editor of The Faber Book of Reportage and The Faber Book of Science, Carey has gathered together a vast range of texts from Ancient Egypt to modern California, the authors of which, in different ways, attempt to describe a better world than our own.
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By: Kate Cayley
ISBN: 9780771050862
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Inc.
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By: Dashiell Hammett
ISBN: 9781857152630
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
UK Publication Date: 23rd November 2000
Publisher: Everyman
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As an operative for Pinkertons Detective Agency Dashiell Hammett knew about sleuthing from the inside, but his career was cut short by the ruin of his health in World War I. Despite or because of that, Hammett had an enormous effect on mainstream writers between the wars.
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By: Kamel Daoud
ISBN: 9781590517512
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Other Press LLC
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By: Cara Delevingne
ISBN: 9780241513514
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 28th October 2021
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
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By: Alistair Carr
ISBN: 9781788310758
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Ann Charters
ISBN: 9780142437537
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2004
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." This book collects the significant writings of the fellow members of the Beat Generation. In poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs, it captures the triumphant rudeness, energy, and exhilaration of a movement that swept through American letters.
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By: Dorothy Parker
ISBN: 9780143039532
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2006
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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The second revision in 60 years, this sublime collection ranges over the verse, stories, essays and journalism of one of the 20th century's most quotable and renowned authors.
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By: Edwin Frank
ISBN: 9781681373911
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: Theodor Storm
ISBN: 9781590173015
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2009
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Theodor Storm's novella is a gripping dramatization of the bloody reckonings that lie beneath the surface of civilization.
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By: Richard Woodman
ISBN: 9780751531084
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2001
UK Publication Date: 7th December 2000
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Drinkwater is sent to patrol the Channel coast, helping the royal Navy maintain a heroic blockade of the enemy's post but the Antigone is soon needed elsewhere as everything now hinges on the confrontation that Nelson has forced off Cape Trafalgar - an action in which Nathaniel Drinkwater has an unexpected role.
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By: Burton Raffel
ISBN: 9780451529633
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2004
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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From the early 1800s to the outbreak of World War II, this collection spans more than 100 years of literary history with 33 complete short stories by such timeless masters as Washington Irving, Mark Twain, Jack London, and William Faulkner. Reissue.
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By: Abraham Lincoln
ISBN: 9781598535679
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: The Library of America
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By: J.F. Powers
ISBN: 9780940322226
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2006
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Powers wrote about many things: baseball and jazz, race riots and lynchings, the Great Depression, and the flight to the suburbs. His greatest subject, however-and one that was uniquely his-was the life of priests in Chicago and the Midwest.
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By: Walter Benjamin
ISBN: 9781681370583
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 23rd July 2019
Publisher: New York Review Books
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"A new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin's work as it pertains to his famous essay, "The Storyteller," this collection includes short stories, book reviews, parables, and as a selection of writings by other authors who had an influence on Benjamin's work"--
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By: Ithamar Handelman Smith
ISBN: 9781910924587
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
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By: Various
ISBN: 9781616957759
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Soho Press Inc
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Sixteen delightful holiday short stories by some of your favorite Soho Crime authors!
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By: Jill Foulston
ISBN: 9781844082742
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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* Some of us adore it, some of us live for it, some of us loathe it - but we all do it. SHOP. This is a book to celebrate the passion and the fear.
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By: David Hinton
ISBN: 9781611809237
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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By: Barbara Ann Kipfer
ISBN: 9780761107569
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2001
UK Publication Date: 10th January 1997
Publisher: Workman Publishing
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An inspirational to-do list for life, a check-off of goals, a wellspring of dreams, thoughts, ideas, things to accomplish, see, do, taste and experience.
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By: Pam Rhodes
ISBN: 9781473630048
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A personal collection of the most inspiring Christmas carols, poems and readings
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By: Larry Brown
ISBN: 9781616209759
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
Publisher: Workman Publishing
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For the first time in print, a celebratory collection of the complete stories by one of the most original and powerful voices in American literature.
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By: Simon Garfield
ISBN: 9780857868619
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2014
Publisher: Canongate Books
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From Simon Garfield, the bestselling author of On the Map and Just my Type, comes a wonderful journey through the history of letter-writing and our relationship with the mail.
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By: Linda L Miller
ISBN: 9780062005908
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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