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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
(Paperback, Third Edition)
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.
(Paperback, Paperback original)
By: Ellen Wayland-Smith
ISBN: 9781639550968
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
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(Paperback)
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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(Hardback)
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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By: Carlos Manuel lvarez
ISBN: 9781913097912
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 11th May 2022
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
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Teeming with life and compulsively readable, the pieces gathered together in The Tribe aggregate into an extraordinarymosaic of Cuba today.
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By: Livy
ISBN: 9780140441451
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1965
UK Publication Date: 30th September 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Hannibal, one of the most compelling personalities of the ancient world, inflicted a tremendous defeat on the Romans at Cannae in 216 BC. This text looks at the figure
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By: Wendell Berry
ISBN: 9780141984131
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Carlo Rovelli
ISBN: 9780241454688
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Don Watson
ISBN: 9780143787006
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Random House Australia
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By: Lucy Ellmann
ISBN: 9781922458070
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Text Publishing
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A scorching collection of essays from the Booker-shortlisted author of Ducks, Newburyport
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By: Megan Dunn
ISBN: 9780143774853
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Penguin Group (NZ)
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By: Jessica Friedmann
ISBN: 9781925321968
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Scribe Publications
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Through the tide of hormones surging within my body, and the little runnels of blood, and the sour tang of my breasts, I lay awake, listening, and thinking of breath and of water. I had broken my relationship with sleep.
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By: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN: 9780141398389
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Christine Lee Gengaro
ISBN: 9781526123916
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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'What can literature and music do for each other' In This man and music, novelist and composer Anthony Burgess explores the topic, touching on composition, poetry, prose, and his own personal experiences. -- .
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By: Liang Qichao
ISBN: 9780241568781
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
UK Publication Date: 26th October 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback, 2nd New edition)
By: Anthony Munday
ISBN: 9780862921392
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1991
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Designed to give students a working knowledge of the Greek language in order to examine the ancient texts with confidence and enjoyment. The text includes some of the more familiar of the myths, some of the exciting parts of the Odyssey, and a number of extracts from other Greek authors from the earliest down to the New Testament.
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By: Mclauchlan Danyl
ISBN: 9781776564118
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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Danyl McLauchlan wanted to get closer to the hidden truth of things. But it was starting to look like the truth of things was that nothing was real, everything was suffering, and he didn't really exist. In these essays Danyl explores ideas and paths that he hopes will make him freer and happier - or at least, less trapped, medicated and depressed.
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By: Professor Jane Tynan
ISBN: 9781501375163
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Jia Tolentino
ISBN: 9780008294953
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 23rd July 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A Times book of the year A Guardian book of the year MagnificentThe Times Dazzling New Statesman It filled me with hope Zadie Smith
