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The Long-legged House

(Paperback)

By: Wendell Berry

ISBN: 9781619020016
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Counterpoint
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The Major Works

(Paperback)

By: C. Patrides

ISBN: 9780140431094
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1977
UK Publication Date: 30th June 1977
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents an account of common errors in subjects including sciences, history, literature and philosophy. This title includes "Hydriotaphia" or 'Urn Buriall', "The Garden of Cyrus", "A Letter to a Friend", and "Christian Morals".

The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker

(Paperback)

By: Jelani Cobb

ISBN: 9780008498740
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2022
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

The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker

(Hardback)

By: Jelani Cobb

ISBN: 9780008498702
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 30th September 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

The Men in My Life

(Hardback)

By: Vivian Gornick

ISBN: 9780262073035
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Gornick on V. S. Naipaul, James Baldwin, George Gissing, Randall Jarrell, H. G. Wells, Loren Eiseley, Allen Ginsberg, Hayden Carruth, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth and the intimate relationship between emotional damage and great literature.

The Message

(Hardback)

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

ISBN: 9780241724187
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 6th February 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The Monsters and the Critics

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By: J. R. R. Tolkien

ISBN: 9780261102637
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1997
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Complete collection of Tolkiens essays, including two on Beowulf, which span three decades beginning six years before The Hobbit to five years after The Lord of the Rings.

The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America

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By: Martin Amis

ISBN: 9780099461869
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2006
UK Publication Date: 5th January 2006
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America.

The Moth Presents: A Point of Beauty: True Stories of Holding On and Letting Go

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By: Moth

ISBN: 9780593139035
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 12th March 2024
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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The Natural History of Selborne

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By: Gilbert White

ISBN: 9780140431124
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1977
UK Publication Date: 26th May 1977
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of Gilbert White's letters to the explorer and naturalist Daines Barrington and the eminent zoologist Thomas Pennant - White's intellectual lifelines from his country-village home. This title presents an evocation of the lives of the flora and fauna of eighteenth-century England.

The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: Practical Rituals, Prayers, Blessings, and Meditations on Crossing Over

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By: Starhawk

ISBN: 9780062515162
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1997
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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The first comprehensive guide to Paganism's beliefs and practices in facing death.

The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 1

(Paperback, Main)

By: Philip Gourevitch

ISBN: 9781841959252
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2007
UK Publication Date: 18th January 2007
Publisher: Canongate Books
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The first volume of fascinating interviews from one of the world's best loved literary magazines

The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise

(Paperback)

By: Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN: 9780141192949
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
UK Publication Date: 26th August 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of essays that discusses the existence (or non-existence) of Hell, the flaws in English literary detectives, the philosophy of contradictions, and the many translators of "1001 Nights". It examines the very nature of our lives, from cinema and books to history and religion.

The Portable Anna Julia Cooper

(Paperback)

By: Anna Julia Cooper

ISBN: 9780143135067
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The Practice Of The Wild: Essays

(Paperback)

By: Gary Snyder

ISBN: 9781640094215
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 8th September 2020
Publisher: Counterpoint
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The Prince

(Hardback)

By: Niccolo Machiavelli

ISBN: 9781857150797
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1992
UK Publication Date: 4th June 1992
Publisher: Everyman
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Born in 1469, Niccolo Machiavelli undertook diplomatic missions to various courts, before his imprisonment and exile. To quote his own words, this book discusses "what a principality is, what kinds there are, how they can be acquired, how they can be kept and why they are lost".

The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman

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By: Sue Townsend

ISBN: 9780241961766
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
UK Publication Date: 30th August 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Covers everything from hosepipe bans to Spanish restaurants, from writer's block to slug warfare, from slob holidays to the banning of beige. This book reveals the author, ourselves and the nation in a new light.

The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version Of The Indian Epic

(Paperback)

By: R. K. Narayan

ISBN: 9780143039679
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2007
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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"The Ramayana" is the greatest of Indian epics - and one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling. Telling the story, this work suggests that it can be enjoyed for its psychological insight, its spiritual depth and its wisdom - or as a tale of abduction, battle and courtship played out in a universe with heroes, deities and demons.

The Red Notebook

(Paperback, Main)

By: Paul Auster

ISBN: 9780571226412
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2005
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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In this acrobatic and virtuosic collection, Paul Auster traces the compulsion to make literature.

The Republic and Other Works

(Paperback)

By: Plato

ISBN: 9780385094979
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1987
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
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The Ring of Bright Water Trilogy: Ring of Bright Water, The Rocks Remain, Raven Seek Thy Brother

(Paperback)

By: Gavin Maxwell

ISBN: 9780140290493
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2001
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The author went to live in an abandoned house on a shingle beach on the west coast of Scotland. A haven for wildlife - he settled there with the otters Mij, Edal and Teko. This title chronicles his life with these playful animals in this natural paradise and the story of the difficult last years and the final abandonment of the settlement.

The Rings of Saturn: (Vintage Voyages)

(Paperback)

By: W.G. Sebald

ISBN: 9781784875350
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindWhat begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia becomes the great, constellated story of people and cultures past and present: of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms.

The River of Consciousness

(Hardback)

By: Oliver Sacks

ISBN: 9781447263647
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 19th October 2017
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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The River of Consciousness is a remarkable culmination of a lifetime's research into the way the brain works by the celebrated late neurologist Oliver Sacks.

The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1994-2016

(Paperback)

By: Martin Amis

ISBN: 9780099488729
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 20th September 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed.

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