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A comprehensive account of the work of J.G. Ballard, one of the most important fiction writers of the past forty years. Traces the development of his career, and the significant contribution he has made to contemporary writing. -- .

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James K. Baxter was a great twentieth-century poet. His Complete Prose chronicles his life and times, his preferences and prejudices, his crises and turbulent occasions. Its contents are remarkable for their range, coherence and passionate integrity.

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The enduring appeal of Jane Austens fiction is captured in this pocket-sized collection of quotations taken from her celebrated works.

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This collection of essays offers an intimate history of Austens art and life told through objects associated with her personally and with the era in which she lived. Her teenage notebooks, music albums, pelisse-coat, letters and the portraits made of her during her life all feature in this lavishly illustrated collection.

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Jane Austens Little Book of Wisdom offers more than 300 bite-size quotes of inspiration and wisdom from one of the greatest females writers in the English language.

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This new selection of John Keats's poetry is part of a series of collections from six great nature poets.

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"Look Back in Anger" is one of the few works of drama that are indisputably central to British culture in general, and its name is one of the most well-known in postwar cultural history. This guide provides a comprehensive critical introduction to the play, giving students an overview of the background and context.

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A detailed study of the fiction of Julian Barnes from Metroland to Arthur & George. Approachable, student friendly and comprehensive analysis of all Barnes's novels -- .

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An authoritative collection of essays celebrating Kafkas life and work, and examining how his writing has continued to provide inspiration for over a century.

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A comprehensive collection of newly commissioned essays from world-leading Kazuo Ishiguro scholars which offers chapters on each of the novels (including the first publication on Klara and the Sun (2021)), short fictions, and screenplays,

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A fresh, radical assessment of Keats's odes that meshes the intimate with the critical

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David Scott Kastan's lucid exploration of the remarkable richness and ambitious design of "King Henry IV Part I" reveals the play to be almost a treatise on the central relationship between value and political authority.

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Through a study of ten modern stage and screen productions of 'King Lear', this book examines the way performance and interpretation are bound together, and shows how different performances have illuminated the contradictions in this play. The updated second edition has new chapters on Ian Holm's television performance, and Akira Kurosawa's 'Ran'.

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A study aid, which explores and dissects the play's themes, issues, motifs and

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This comprehensive edition of King Richard III offers all the features associated with the Arden Shakespeare. Richard is one of Shakespeare's great villains and the play that bears his name is one of his most popular in performance and in classrooms.

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Curtis Smith writes about how Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five influenced him as an author.

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After her husband's death, Bernarda Alba forces her five daughters into eight years of strict mourning. The appearance of Pepe El Romano, a man who wishes to marry the eldest daughter, Angustias, unleashes a series of tragic events.

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This book brings together previously unpublished transcripts of oral presentations in which Michel Foucault speaks at length about literature and its links to some of his principal themes: madness, language and criticism, and truth and desire.

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This book brings together previously unpublished transcripts of oral presentations in which Michel Foucault speaks at length about literature and its links to some of his principal themes: madness, language and criticism, and truth and desire.

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This book is aimed at helping students enhance their command of Latin grammar and vocabulary. The exercises have been structured in a manner that gradually enables students to build their Latin prose skills.