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By: Ashleigh Young
ISBN: 9781925336443
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Co
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By: Wes Jamison
ISBN: 9781636281162
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: Red Hen Press
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By: Zadie Smith
ISBN: 9780141019468
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
UK Publication Date: 30th June 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features a collection of essays on literature, cinema, art - and everything in between.
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By: Una Cruickshank
ISBN: 9781776922154
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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By: Cicero
ISBN: 9780862920142
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1991
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This edition, first published by Macmillan in 1943, has the straightforward utilitarian aims of all those prepared by H.E. Gould and J.L. Whiteley: a basic introduction, reliable text, suitable illustrations, and a vocabulary that gives only those meanings that are required.
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By: H. Grose-Hodge
ISBN: 9780862920937
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1991
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This volume contains the explanatory sections of Cicero's speech Pro Cluentio - the defence in a particularly lurid murder case set in the provincial Italian town of Larinum. This is unadapted and exciting Latin well within the grasp of those tackling a 'real' text for the first time; a fine introduction to the reading of Golden Latin prose
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By: Sophie Cunningham
ISBN: 9781922268846
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Text Publishing
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A rich and insightful collection of personal essays about life, death and our connection to the environment from bestselling Australian author Sophie Cunningham now in a new format edition
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By: Italo Calvino
ISBN: 9780141193748
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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With encyclopedic knowledge, this title writes about such diverse subjects as the imaginative pleasures of maps, bizarre exhibitions and the earliest forms of written language. It provides a glimpse into the mind of a master of the magination.
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By: Tina Makereti
ISBN: 9781776562299
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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By: Thomas De Quincey
ISBN: 9780141194943
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Describing the surreal hallucinations, insomnia and nightmarish visions he experienced while consuming daily large amounts of laudanum, De Quincey's account of the pleasures and pains of opium forged a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, and paved the way for later generations of literary drug-takers from Baudelaire to Burroughs.
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By: M. F. K. Fisher
ISBN: 9781911547273
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 15th November 2018
Publisher: Daunt Books
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'Eating an oyster is like French kissing a mermaid.' - Tom Robbins
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By: Xenophon
ISBN: 9780140445176
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1990
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 1990
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist and, in so doing, transformed the great philosopher into a legendary figure. This title offers insights into the Socratic world and into the intellectual atmosphere and life of ancient Greece. It reveals much about this man.
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By: Rachel Cusk
ISBN: 9780571350452
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A series of essays from Rachel Cusk - about choices, womanhood and art.
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By: Albert Camus
ISBN: 9780241339121
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Imants Tillers
ISBN: 9781922725332
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2022
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Co
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By: Catriona Menzies-Pike
ISBN: 9780648062196
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Sydney Review of Books
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By: Carmen Maria Machado
ISBN: 9781800814523
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 23rd November 2023
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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An anthology of essays on video games by some of today's best literary writers
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By: Kimberle Crenshaw
ISBN: 9781565842717
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 1996
Publisher: The New Press
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The founders of the critical race movement have collaborated to edit this collection of important writings on the subject. Included in the essays are "Whiteness as Property" by Cheryl Harris, "Race Consciousness" by Garry Peller and "Race, Reform and Retrenchment" by Kimberle Crenshaw.
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By: Clive James
ISBN: 9781529077346
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 28th April 2022
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Clive James the essayist and cultural critic at his brilliant best a dizzyingly erudite tour of twentieth-century culture.
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By: Matthew Arnold
ISBN: 9780141396248
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th February 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Poet, education reformer, social theorist and passionate critic of Victorian England condemned an industrial society in 'bondage to machinery' and argued instead that the wonder and joy of culture - in particular the 'sweetness and light' of classical civilization - were essential to human life. This book deals with his works.
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By: James Baldwin
ISBN: 9780241337547
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9780140439908
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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An account of Oscar Wilde's spiritual journey while in prison, and describes his new, shocking conviction that 'the supreme vice is shallowness'. It also includes further letters to his wife, his friends, the Home Secretary, himself, as well as "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", the poem about a man sentenced to hang for the murder of woman he loved.
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By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 9780008275709
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 8th March 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today written as a letter to a friend.
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By: Simon West
ISBN: 9781925780468
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann
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