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Students of science fiction and of literature and politics will find Bartter's work enlightening, provocative reading.

Bartter argues that a close examination of American fiction, particularly science fiction, can offer important new insights into the events surrounding the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.

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A gripping novel tracing the life of Aboriginal boxer and journalist Charlie Thomas from highly successful Australian writer Peter Corris.

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For the first time ever, a fascinating look at the remarkable life of Barbara Taylor Bradford. From the cobbled streets of Yorkshire to the sweeping avenues of Manhattan, Barbara's own story is as dramatic a tale as any one of her bestsellers.

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A guide to the published writings of Graham Greene, from his literary writings to published letters and interviews. It surveys not only Greene's literary work - including his fiction, poetry and drama - but also his other published writings.

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In her reading of Rhys's fiction and autobiographical writing, the author of this text analyzes the political and ethical locations of Rhys's authorial and narrative voices with respect to discourses of empire, gender, sex, class, ethnicity, and desire that shaped Rhys's sense of the world.

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Examines JM Coetzee's writings about Elizabeth Costello, and the ways in which philosophers have responded to them. This book considers the relations among reason, language, and the imagination, as well as more specific ethical issues concerning the moral status of animals, the meaning of mortality, the nature of evil, and the demands of religion.

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Providing access to information on 450 short stories, this guide surveys a wide spectrum of world literature, canonical works and contemporary fiction. It has full annotations, identifies thematic elements and has bibliographic information on the anthologies where the stories can be found.

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This unique resource provides readers with a systematic guide to the central themes in 150 of the most commonly taught American novels.

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Shows, through close readings of three major novelists, how Modernist fiction developed new ways of expressing thought.

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Shows, through close readings of three major novelists, how Modernist fiction developed new ways of expressing thought.

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With his genius for research and his mastery of many cultures, James Michener cuts to the heart of the issues that threaten to fragment and undermine America today: racial conflict, the widening gulf between rich and poor, the decline of education, the inadequacies of our health-care system. Then he offers a detailed program that will help America sustain what he terms its "outstanding success".

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"Explores and assesses the impact of Thomas Bernhard on writers around the world since his death in 1989"--

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"Examines the recent resurgence of folk horror and argues that Thomas Hardy is one of its progenitors by analysing his prose (in particular his rarely examined short fiction) and its adaptations as foundational in the development of folk horror in literature, film and television"--

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"Examines the recent resurgence of folk horror and argues that Thomas Hardy is one of its progenitors by analysing his prose (in particular his rarely examined short fiction) and its adaptations as foundational in the development of folk horror in literature, film and television"--

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A comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature, Thomas Pynchon -- .

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A comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature, Thomas Pynchon -- .

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For Jacobean society, witchcraft was a potent force, an area of controversy in which King James 1 participated and a phenomenon that attracted many dramatists and writers. The three plays in this book "Sophonisba", "The Witch" and "The Witch of Edmonton" reflect the variety of beliefs in witches and practice of witchcraft in the Jacobean period.