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By: Charles Lamb

ISBN: 9780141392912
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Brings together the prose writings of the great early nineteenth-century essayist Charles Lamb, whose shrewd wit and convivial style have endeared him to generations of readers. This title discusses how his tragic life and sainted reputation, caring for his mentally ill sister Mary, belied the quality of his work.


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By: John Muir

ISBN: 9781841593777
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2017
Publisher: Everyman
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This volume of John Muir's selected writings chronicles the key turning points in his life and study of the American wilderness.


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By: Gertrude Stein

ISBN: 9780679724643
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1990
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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The entire literary career of Gertrude Stein is represented in this selection poetry and prose.


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By: Minna Salami

ISBN: 9781786995261
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Minna Salami captures the mood of a disaffected generation, and forges the path for a radical Black feminist way of knowing for everyone.


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By: Tristan Tzara

ISBN: 9780714548609
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 26th July 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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This volume contains Tristan Tzara's famous manifestos, which first appeared between 1916 and 1921 and became essential texts of the modern movement and models for Breton's Surrealist manifestos.


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By: Michel De Montaigne

ISBN: 9781590177228
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
UK Publication Date: 9th June 2014
Publisher: New York Review Books
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This new edition of this seminal work, edited by Stephen Greenblatt and Peter G. Platt, features an adroitly modernized text, an essay in which Greenblatt discusses both the resemblances and real tensions between Montaigne's and Shakespeare's visions of the world, and Platt's introduction to the life and times of the extraordinary Florio.


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By: Lawrence Jackson

ISBN: 9781644450833
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Graywolf Press,U.S.
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"In 2016, Lawrence Jackson accepted a new job in Baltimore, searched for schools for his sons, and bought a house. It would all be unremarkable but for the fact that he had grown up in West Baltimore and now found himself teaching at Johns Hopkins, whose vexed relationship to its neighborhood, to the city and its history, provides fodder for this captivating memoir in essays."--


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By: Valeria Luiselli

ISBN: 9781847085191
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2013
Publisher: Granta Books
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A dazzling follow-up to the novel Faces in the Crowd, this collection of literary peregrinations around the margins of metropolitan life demonstrates Valeria Luiselli's equal virtuosity as a writer of non-fiction.


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By: Ann Wroe

ISBN: 9781784708375
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Shes a genius, I believe, because she lights up every subject she touches. Hilary Mantel

A Spectator Book of the Year

Goethe claimed to know what light was.


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By: Lydia Lunch

ISBN: 9781609809430
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 25th July 2019
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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Lunch pulls the reader into a world that is entirely hers, where she exacts vengeance with an enviable ease and exerts an almost-sexual dominance over authority.


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By: George Orwell

ISBN: 9780141191270
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
UK Publication Date: 26th August 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features essays that look at the joys of spring, the picture of humanity and more.


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By: Wendell Berry

ISBN: 9781582437453
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
Publisher: Counterpoint
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By: Scott Russell Sanders

ISBN: 9780807063415
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Beacon Press
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In the tradition of Wendell Berry, Sanders champions fidelity to place, informed by ecological awareness, arguing that intimacy with one's home region is the grounding for global knowledge.


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By: Salman Rushdie

ISBN: 9780099421870
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2004
UK Publication Date: 6th November 2003
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The book ends with the lectures that give it its title - Rushdie's exploration of the theme of frontiers: crossing them, breaking taboos, and - in the light of September 11 - the world of permeable frontiers in which we all live.


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By: Ralf Webb

ISBN: 9781399713214
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 25th July 2024
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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From a Forward Prize shortlisted young British poet: An investigation of masculinity, bisexuality and queerness, routed through the lives and works of four mid-century writers


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By: Trudier Harris

ISBN: 9780807072554
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Beacon Press
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Trudier Harris will tell you that African Americans who consider themselves Southern are about as rare as summer snow. But Harris has always embraced the South, and in Summer Snow she explores her experience as a black Southerner and how it has shaped her into the writer and intellectual she has become.


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By: Joanna Pocock

ISBN: 9781910695852
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 15th May 2019
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
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Blending personal memoir with reportage, Surrender is a narrative nonfiction work on the changing landscape of the West and the scavenger, rewilder and ecosexual communities, inspired by a two-year stay in Montana.


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By: John McPhee

ISBN: 9780374603601
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
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"A collection of essays and essay fragments John McPhee wrote over the course of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why"--


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By: John McPhee

ISBN: 9781250335708
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2024
Publisher: St Martin's Press
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A literary legends engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why.


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By: Shumon Basar

ISBN: 9780141979564
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Provides the images, language and perceptions of our unfurling digital lives. The authors invent a glossary of new words to describe how we are truly feeling today; and 'mindsource' images and illustrations from over 30 contemporary artists.


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By: Kingsley Amis

ISBN: 9780141195308
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: J.M. Synge

ISBN: 9780140184327
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1992
UK Publication Date: 15th June 1992
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Records the author's visits to the Aran Islands in 1898-1901, when he was gathering the folklore and anecdotes out of which he forged "The Playboy of the Western World" and his other major dramas.


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By: Roberto Calasso

ISBN: 9780141978482
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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All the books published by a certain publisher could be seen as links in a single chain. In this book, the author meditates on the art of book publishing. It looks at the publishing industry as a whole, from the essential importance of graphics, jackets and cover flaps to the consequences of universal digitization.


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By: Ralph D. Sawyer

ISBN: 9780813319513
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1994
UK Publication Date: 11th February 1994
Publisher: Basic Books
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Written over 2000 years ago, Sun-tzu's "Art of War" embodies the Eastern tradition of strategy. This translation, written in simple language, is intended to be of equal value to both military historians and students of business strategy.

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