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An impressively researched, highly readable, invaluable guide to Tolkien's world.

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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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An in-depth and illustrated guide to Tolkien's dark powers.

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A moving and personal anthology from the Sunday Times bestseller, encompassing melancholy, morality, mortality and more.

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A comprehensive companion to The Hobbit and Tolkien's universe

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Discover over 300 seasonal book recommendations in the ultimate reading list for book lovers everywhere.

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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.

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When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this book 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.

(Hardback)

A beautiful gift book that will change the way you see books for ever

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The Testaments features explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols including: power; collective guilt; embroidery; aphorisms; Agnes's dollhouse; and Baby Nicole.

(Hardback, Illustrated edition)

The perfect companion piece to the first three novels in the spellbinding All Souls series. A thorough insight into the history and magic behind Deborah Harkness's world of witches, daemons and vampires.

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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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This guide helps make Shakespeare's play more accessible. It contains a complete text of the original work, along with a line-by-line modernisation and plenty of helpful commentary.

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From Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons and Anzia Yzierska's The Bread Givers to Laurie Colwin's Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object and Chet Raymo's The Dork of Cork, here are some of the forgotten gems of American literature.

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A reference guide to American literature, with more than four hundred entires devoted to aspects of American history, literary movements, influential writers and key texts. It is suitable for students of American literature at any level, and it is also relevant to those interested in American history and American Studies.

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(Paperback, 2nd edition)

This second edition of Beginning postmodernism offers clear, accessible and step-by-step introductions to postmodernism across a wide range of subjects. -- .

(Hardback)

His work has generated an enormous amount of scholarship and his writings are part of the curricula taught in most American colleges and universities.

This third volume presents a comprehensive annotated bibliography of books, articles, and non-print materials by and about Garcia Marquez published between 1992 and 2002.

(Paperback, 8th edition)

Deciding what to read next when you've just finished an unputdownable novel can be a daunting task. The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide features hundreds of authors and thousands of titles, with navigation features to lead you on a rich journey through some the best literature to grace our shelves.

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In so doing, it will help readers get a sense of the vast world beyond North America that is conveyed by fiction titles from dozens of countries and language traditions.

Within the guide, approximately 1,000 contemporary non-English-language fiction titles are fully annotated and thousands of others are listed.

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Children's literature continues to receive growing scholarly attention, and this is due, in part, to the increased awareness of the complexity of these works and their importance in the curriculum.