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By: Italo Calvino
ISBN: 9780241472859
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: A. Hatto
ISBN: 9780140441376
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1965
UK Publication Date: 26th August 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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"The Nibelungelied" is the principal literary expression of the heroic legends that make up Wagner's ring cycle.
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By: John McPhee
ISBN: 9781925773170
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Text Publishing
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This wide-ranging essay collection serves as a covert memoir of a cult literary figureNew Yorker writer John McPhee.
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By: Jacqueline Rose
ISBN: 9781804270486
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2023
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
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A collection of essays imagining a world in which a radical respect for death might exist alongside a fairer distribution of the earth's wealth, by one of our leading thinkers.
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By: Wang Xiaobo
ISBN: 9780241648520
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Deborah Levy
ISBN: 9780241674505
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Adam Gopnik
ISBN: 9781529414653
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
UK Publication Date: 14th March 2024
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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Bestselling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik embarks on a wildly creative inquiry into perhaps the oldest question: how do we learn a new skill
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By: Albert Camus
ISBN: 9780141182018
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
UK Publication Date: 7th December 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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An essay on the nature of human revolt, this book makes a critique of communism, how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, and the resulting totalitarian regimes. It also questions two events held sacred by the left wing, the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917.
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780141185293
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Deals with the working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, the Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. This title includes descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, and more.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2020
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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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: Deborah Levy
ISBN: 9780241983089
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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