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By: Orhan Pamuk
ISBN: 9780571327355
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2015
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Other Colours is a collection of the best pieces from twenty years of writing from Orhan Pamuk, the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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By: Marcella Durand
ISBN: 9780262049283
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 23rd October 2024
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780436210099
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2002
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Volume 20 of The Complete Works of George Orwell
In 'Reflections on Gandhi', published in January 1949, in which he modified the strictures made in a previous review, Orwell wrote, 'our job is to make life worth living on this earth, which is the only earth we have'.
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By: Zahra Hankir
ISBN: 9781529111675
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Alice Walker
ISBN: 9781583229170
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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In this essay Alice Walker eloquently calls attention to ignores justices around the world.
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By: A S Byatt
ISBN: 9781784740801
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2016
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Here he worked alongside the French model who became his wife and collaborator, including on the Delphos dress a flowing gown evoking classical Greece.
Morriss Red House, outside London, with its Gothic turrets and secret gardens, helped inspire his stunning floral and geometric patterns;
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By: James Hannaham
ISBN: 9781593767013
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
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By: Albert Camus
ISBN: 9781857152784
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2004
UK Publication Date: 5th August 2004
Publisher: Everyman
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By: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9781857150421
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1991
UK Publication Date: 26th September 1991
Publisher: Everyman
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Famed as a wit and bon viveur, Oscar Wilde lived up to his reputation. This selection of plays, poems and prose writings, introduced by Terry Eagleton, includes "The Importance of Being Earnest", "Lady Windermere's Fan", "The Picture of Dorian Gray", "The Critic as an Artist" and "Apologia".
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By: William Blake
ISBN: 9781857150346
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1991
UK Publication Date: 26th September 1991
Publisher: Everyman
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This is a selection of the poet's work, including all the great lyrics and the more important prophetic books. In her introduction the poet and critic expounds Blake's esoteric theory and shows how it helped to create a poetry which is unlike any other.
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By: W. Somerset Maugham
ISBN: 9780099288909
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2001
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2000
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Eclectic and illuminating, these essays are the last that Maugham published. Ranging from an appreciation of Goethe's novels, to an encounter with an Indian holy man, with a considered analysis of the form at which Maugham himself excelled - the short story - they present the enduring views and opinions of this eminent writer.
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780141393063
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Includes all issues such as political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. This title offers an essay on style.
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By: Dennis Tedlock
ISBN: 9780684818450
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1996
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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This is a translation of one of the most important texts in the native languages of the Americas, "Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life". This edition features with newly deciphered hieroglyphics that show the deep roots of the "Popol Vuh" in Mayan culture.
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By: Truman Capote
ISBN: 9780812994391
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Charles Lyell
ISBN: 9780140435283
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1997
UK Publication Date: 27th November 1997
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Influencing Darwin, Tennyson and Dickens among others, Lyell's "Principles" was an ambitious attempt to forge links between observable causes - volcanoes, earthquakes, rivers, tides and storms - and the current state of the earth. This edition has an introduction by Jim Secord.
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By: Jean Genet
ISBN: 9781590170281
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2004
UK Publication Date: 1st January 2003
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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Genet's final masterpiece, written and rewritten on his deathbed, is a lyrical and philosophical voyage to the bloody intersection of oppression, terror, and desire at the heart of the contemporary world.
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By: Katie Mitchell
ISBN: 9780593581346
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2025
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Czeslaw Milosz
ISBN: 9780141193199
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
UK Publication Date: 6th May 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers a collection of essays that covers the author's passion for poetry, his love of the Polish language that was so nearly wiped out by the violence of the twentieth century, and his happy childhood.
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By: Henning Mankell
ISBN: 9781784701567
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In January 2014 Henning Mankell was informed that he had cancer.
However, Quicksand is not a book about death, but about what it means to be human.
It is a book about how humanity has lived and continues to live, and about how Henning lived his own life.
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By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
ISBN: 9780940450158
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1983
Publisher: The Library of America
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By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
ISBN: 9781598530841
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
Publisher: The Library of America
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This major new volume offers a wide selection of works from Emerson's lectures and essays, including some that have seldom been reprinted such as "Quotation and Originality." In addition, leading Emerson critic Richard Poirier provides helpful annotations to a generous selection of poems.
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By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
ISBN: 9781598530674
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
Publisher: The Library of America
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By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
ISBN: 9781598530681
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2010
Publisher: The Library of America
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By: Bill Viola
ISBN: 9780262720250
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1995
UK Publication Date: 12th December 1995
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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A collection of essays, notebook entries, interviews, descriptions of projects, and b&w drawings, video stills, and photographs that together provide a sense of the renowned multimedia artist's work. Edited by Robert Violette in collaboration with the author, with an introduction by Jean-Christophe
