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(Hardback)
By: Marc Leeds
ISBN: 9780385344234
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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"Includes the original foreword by Kurt Vonnegut and a new foreword by Mark Vonnegut"--Jacket.
(Paperback)
By: Frederick Reuss
ISBN: 9780375725043
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2003
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Sandra Newman
ISBN: 9780141044521
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Why does most writing about the classics have words like 'seminal' or 'oeuvre' in it What does postmodernism mean Can I get away with just reading the introduction This title guides you through the Western literary canon, century by century: from Ancient Greek drama to the modern novel, via Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and Proust.
(Paperback)
By: Margaret Reynolds
ISBN: 9781529176612
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 24th February 2022
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: David Hinton
ISBN: 9781611804607
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
UK Publication Date: 12th July 2017
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Nivedita Majumdar
ISBN: 9781788737463
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Verso Books
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Radical universalism vs postcolonial theory
(Paperback, Main)
By: Professor David Riggs
ISBN: 9780571221608
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2005
UK Publication Date: 19th May 2005
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The definitive biography, compellingly narrated , of the sensational life of Christopher Marlowe, poet, playwright, atheist and spy
(Hardback)
By: Jeremy Dauber
ISBN: 9780805242782
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: Schocken Books
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(Paperback)
By: Nancy Pearl
ISBN: 9780063028838
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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"Moving, joyful, and insightful collection of conversations with today's living literary legends about the books that changed their lives, made them think, and brought them joy, from 'American's Librarian' Nancy Pearl and noted playwright Jeff Schwager"--]cProvided by publisher.
(Paperback)
By: Martin Puchner
ISBN: 9781783783144
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 5th July 2018
Publisher: Granta Books
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The true story of literature -- of how writing changed civilizations, cultures and the history of the world.
(Paperback)
By: Andy Miller
ISBN: 9780007255764
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
UK Publication Date: 23rd April 2015
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A working father whose life no longer feels like his own discovers the transforming powers of great (and downright terrible) literature in this laugh-out-loud memoir.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Jane Smiley
ISBN: 9780571231102
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning author's revelatory celebration of the novel - at once an anatomy of the art of fiction, a guide for readers and writers and a memoir of literary life
(Hardback)
By: Joan Anim-Addo
ISBN: 9781529414592
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 28th October 2021
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A decolonised reading list for anyone who wants to redress the racial bias of their education and to rethink what are considered the 'classics' of literature.
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By: Jules Verne
ISBN: 9780451529411
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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Now repackaged--the classic fable of men facing the forces of nature. Armed with only courage and ingenuity, five Union prisoners escape the siege of Richmond, Virginia, in a hot-air balloon. Swept off course by a raging storm, they land on the shores of an uncharted island. Reissue.
(Paperback, Main - Poet to Poet)
By: Thom Gunn
ISBN: 9780571230693
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2007
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2007
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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One of six new additions to the acclaimed Poet to Poet series to be published this year.
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By: Charles Simic
ISBN: 9780571236640
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2007
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Part of the growing collection of Faber's Poet to Poet serise.
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By: Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 9780571328758
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
UK Publication Date: 19th May 2016
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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This new selection of Thomas Hardy's poetry is part of a series of collections from six great nature poets.
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By: Thomas Paine
ISBN: 9781883011031
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1995
Publisher: The Library of America
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A collection of the work of Thomas Paine plus letters and prophetic articles.
(Paperback, Main - Poet to Poet)
By: Thomas Wyatt
ISBN: 9780571232291
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2008
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.
(Paperback)
By: Henry David Thoreau
ISBN: 9781556438837
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: North Atlantic Books,U.S.
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Featuring nearly 100 luminous watercolour illustrations, this title collects passages from the writings of Thoreau. Drawn mainly from his journals, the short excerpts, it provides insight into his thought processes by presenting his raw, unedited feelings about the things that meant the most to him.
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By: Isaiah Berlin
ISBN: 9781845952136
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2013
UK Publication Date: 5th December 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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This book brings together three major studies from Isaiah Berlin's central intellectual project to explain the opposition to the excessively scientistic French Enlightenment by getting under the skin of its critics and giving a sympathetic account of their views.
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By: Johan Ludvig Heiberg
ISBN: 9781840020601
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Three Danish comedy plays by Johan Ludvig Heiberg and Holberg--the "father" of Danish and Norwegian literature. Plays have been translated by Michael Meyer.
(Hardback)
By: George Santayana
ISBN: 9780262043359
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Santayana's argument for the unity of philosophy and poetry.
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By: Jean Sprackland
ISBN: 9780224080866
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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These are poems that explore the ambivalence and dark unease of slippage and collapse, but they also carry a powerful sense of the miraculous made manifest amongst the ordinary: the mating of natterjack toads, ice on the beach ('dream stuff, with its own internal acoustic') or 'the fund of life' in a used contraceptive.
