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By: Charles Bukowski

ISBN: 9781786894434
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2018
Publisher: Canongate Books
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A previously unpublished collection of work on the art of writing - by one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.


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By: Jelani Cobb

ISBN: 9780008498719
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A collection of the New Yorkers groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more


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By: Marcus Aurelius

ISBN: 9780915145799
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1983
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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A major new translation of one of the most influential and admired books of the ages--the wisdom and advice from the Emperor of Rome, 161-180 A.D.--includes a new introduction.


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By: Therese Spruhan

ISBN: 9781742236582
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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Swimming is a central part of most Australian childhoods. We idealise beaches and surf, but for many kids the local pool - whether it's an ocean, tidal or a chlorinated pool - is where they pass summer days. Evocative, funny and sometimes bittersweet, almost 30 people remember the pools that shaped their childhoods.


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By: Ovid

ISBN: 9780140422306
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2002
UK Publication Date: 28th March 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In "The Metamorphoses", Ovid draws on Greek mythology, Latin folklore, and tales from Babylon and the East to create a series of narrative poems, linked by the common theme of transformation. This is Arthur Golding's 16th-century translation of the verses.


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By: Italo Calvino

ISBN: 9780241472859
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: A. Hatto

ISBN: 9780140441376
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1965
UK Publication Date: 26th August 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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"The Nibelungelied" is the principal literary expression of the heroic legends that make up Wagner's ring cycle.


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By: John McPhee

ISBN: 9781925773170
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Text Publishing
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This wide-ranging essay collection serves as a covert memoir of a cult literary figureNew Yorker writer John McPhee.


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By: Jacqueline Rose

ISBN: 9781804270486
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2023
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
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A collection of essays imagining a world in which a radical respect for death might exist alongside a fairer distribution of the earth's wealth, by one of our leading thinkers.


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By: Wang Xiaobo

ISBN: 9780241648520
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Deborah Levy

ISBN: 9780241674505
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Deborah Levy

ISBN: 9781405961165
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Adam Gopnik

ISBN: 9781529414653
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
UK Publication Date: 14th March 2024
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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Bestselling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik embarks on a wildly creative inquiry into perhaps the oldest question: how do we learn a new skill


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By: Albert Camus

ISBN: 9780141182018
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
UK Publication Date: 7th December 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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An essay on the nature of human revolt, this book makes a critique of communism, how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, and the resulting totalitarian regimes. It also questions two events held sacred by the left wing, the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917.


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By: George Orwell

ISBN: 9780141185293
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Deals with the working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, the Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. This title includes descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, and more.


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By: Vivian Gornick

ISBN: 9781788735506
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: Verso Books
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"Now back in print after its initial publication in 1977 and with a new introduction by the author, [this book] is a landmark work of new journalism, profiling American Communist Party members and fellow travelers as they joined the Party, lived within its orbit, and left in disillusionment and disappointment as Stalin's crimes became public"--Bac


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By: Guillaume de Lorris

ISBN: 9780691044569
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 1995
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Presents a tale about the Lover and his quest - against the admonishments of reason and the obstacles set by jealousy and resistance - to pluck the fair Rose in the Enchanted Garden. This work includes an introduction, covering such topics as the iconographic significance of the imagery and the use of irony in developing the central theme of love.


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By: Ellen Wayland-Smith

ISBN: 9781639550968
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
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By: Juvenal

ISBN: 9780140447040
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1998
UK Publication Date: 27th August 1998
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers satirical and bitter denunciation of the degeneracy of Roman society. This work draws forth a world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachers. It portraits of decadent aristocrats - male and female - and the jumped-up sons of newly-rich former slaves.


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By: Ian Wedde

ISBN: 9781776921218
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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Celebrated poet, novelist and critic Ian Weddes third collection of essays.


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By: Oscar Wilde

ISBN: 9780140433876
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2001
UK Publication Date: 30th August 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Includes "The Portrait of Mr W H", Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from "Intentions" (1891): "The Decay of Lying", "Pen, Pencil, Poison", and "The Critic as Artist". This volume presents Wilde as a deep and serious reader of literature and philosophy, and an eloquent thinker about society and art.


(Paperback)

By: David Mura

ISBN: 9781517914547
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Georgi Gospodinov

ISBN: 9781399623117
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 15th February 2024
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Some smuggle cigarettes or alcohol, others weapons, but for the International Booker Prize-winning novelist Georgi Gospodinov, the most dangerous contraband is carried by writers, as they move stories across borders


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By: Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN: 9780141183022
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2001
UK Publication Date: 18th January 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction prose. This title features more than 150 of Borges' pieces.

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