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A fascinating look at the gardens that helped inspire the settings for Beatrix Potter's stories.

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Becketts afterlives is the first book-length study dedicated to posthumous adaptations of Becketts oeuvre. This collection analyses the remarkable diversity of creative engagements across different media and cultural contexts that have ensured the survival and continuing relevance of Becketts work in a constantly changing world.

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Introduces students to the study of Shakespeare and grounds their understandings of his work in theoretical discourses. By addressing what is primarily at stake in the major theoretical approaches to Shakespeare's works, the book breaks down both fears and preconceptions to offer students a map of the current critical practices of others.

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When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this title offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols, a review quiz and essay topics. It is suitable for late-night studying and paper writing.

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Beowulf is much more than a poem.

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Tracing the life of an iconic Australian literary work in the lead-up to, and after, its publication: Henry Lawson's While the Billy Boils from 1896, Eggert follows Lawson's gradual development of pared-back bush realism, as he struggled to forge a career writing for newspapers.

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"We tend to have romanticized and sentimental ideas about birds. But what is it about birds that so captivates us And what does this captivation, in its various forms, say about us humans"--

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Three brashly funny yet sobering plays by award-winning playwright Victor Rodger explore what it means to be gay and Samoan in contemporary New Zealand. The collection includes Black Faggot (2012), At the Wake (2012) and Club Paradiso (2015).

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"Investigates what blackface is, why it occurred, and what its legacies are in the 21st century"--

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Blanket explores covers in everyday contexts, "New World" colonial encounters, contemporary art, emerging economies, and collecting practices to show how the blanket is not just an object of utility, but one that provides lessons in metaphor, viruses, and secrets.

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A dazzling dictionary of book blurbs, filled with writing tips, literary folklore and publishing secrets

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A dazzling dictionary of book blurbs, filled with writing tips, literary folklore and publishing secrets

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The critic and scholar Heather Cass White offers an exploration of the nature of reading.

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A profound, funny and uplifting collection of reminiscences about a life in books, now available in a smaller, competitively priced format.

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Barry Forshaw is acknowledged as a leading expert on European crime fiction, but his principal area of expertise is in the crime arena of the British Isles. Continuing the earlier success of the series with Nordic Noir and Euro Noir, he now returns home to produce the definitive reader's guide to modern British crime...

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A close look at an invention with a curious history and influence, an object that speaks to our notions of, and need for, security in all its forms.

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How did Italy Italianise Byron And how did Byron Byronise Italy These are the key questions that the volume sets out to answer. -- .

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An examination of the influence of Oxford on the writing of C.S. Lewis, bringing to light new archival discoveries including letters and an unpublished poem.

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This book offers the complete text of three novellas, along with vocabulary and explanatory notes to make them fully accessible to learners of Spanish from post-GCSE level and upwards. The introduction provides background on the author and her position in Spanish cultural, political and literary history, and on the history of feminism in Spain.