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Lorna Sage looks at the ways in which pre-war women writers, some famous, some less well known, invented themselves as authors in the face of the rigid conceptions of feminine creativity which prevailed at the time.

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Weird fiction wouldn t exist without the women who created it. Meet the female authors who defied convention to craft some of literature s strangest tales. And find out why their own stories are equally intriguing.

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In Lives of the Intellectuals one of contemporary America's leading critics and scholars offers a provocative reassessment of the lives and work of eight influential twentieth- century American writers: Lionel Trilling, Dwight Macdonald, W.H. Auden, William Maxwell, Saul Bellow, Alfred Kazin, Norman Mailer and Frank O'Hara.

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The great Polish poet Aleksander Wat's memoirs provide a powerful and moving account of life in Eastern Europe in the terrible twentieth century.

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For almost 50 years (until his death in 1963) Jean Cocteau held a unique place in French cultural life. The breadth of his artistic success bears witness to the variety of his talents. In these fields - theatre, cinema, art, ballet and literature - Cocteau made many life-long friends. Portraits of these friends and intimates make up this volume.

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Following the discovery of an unfinished manuscript written by his father, Kureishi looks back on his own development as a writer in the light of his father s unrealised literary ambitions

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The life story of Isabel Allende one of the world's favourite writers is as exotic, passionate and inspiring as one of her novels.

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Since the beginning of time, trees have held a special place in our collective consciousness. Moyra Caldecott gathers here a collection of myths celebrating the rich symbolism of trees, from African, European, Native American, Russian, Indian, Arabian, and other traditions--bringing to life a time when trees and forests were thought be be inhabited by spirits and divine beings.

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Previous edition: The essential Basho, 1999.

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"Weaving together the biographies of two poets separated by some eight-hundred years, Robert Richardson brings to life one of the most famous-- and ancient works of poetry in all existence"--Front jacket flap.

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Bringing together book historians, textual editors, and new media theorists, this is an engaging and wide-ranging examination of the interactions between the history of the book and digital humanities.

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Having lost ten years to heroin addiction and recovery, the author emerges now as a fully-fledged and significant English poet. This book includes his poems that address Englishness, secular Jewishness, and the childhood pleasures of Oxfordshire - an increasingly deceptive pastoral, stalked and eventually shattered by heroin.

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A collection of essays that introduces readers to the wonders and value of science fiction writing.

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A selection of poems, made by the author himself, is taken from his last eight collections and spans over twenty-five years of work. His poems, brilliant in their dexterity and virtuoso in their use of form, engage with a spectacular range of subjects, revealing a dark, haunted imagination leavened by moments of exuberant levity.

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The volume contains two of his re-workings of eighteenth-century history, The Art of Success and In the Ruins, his intelligent and original political parable Zenobia and his chilling adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw.

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Adam Thorpe's fourth collection continues his engagement with history: the living continuum that connects us with our near and distant past, nourishing and illuminating our present. Performing his unique archaeology on lives lived, Adam Thorpe once again displays the range of his imagination and the depth of his humanity.

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This brilliant, incisive volume captures the high points of Myles' work in New York City during the 1980s.

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Throughout his long and prolific career, John Fuller has been admired for the way in which he melds levity with serious reflection.

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WINNER OF THE 2014 IRISH BOOK LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor was first published in a tiny edition in Dublin in 1975.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-110) and index.