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A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour

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Now revised and expanded for its first paperback publication, The Life of Crime was the winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating Awards; and was shortlisted for both the Agatha and Gold Dagger Awards

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Explores contemporary ways of reading some important New Zealand literary works, all produced between 1910 and 1940. Interpretations of these texts have had a significant impact on New Zealanders' ideas of themselves.

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A ground-breaking exploration of Vincent O'Sullivan as critic, editor, essayist, librettist, Mansfield scholar, novelist, poet and short story writer.

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A truly astonishing, illustrated history of Science fiction, covering fantasy, and horror, with forays into crime, mystery and the gothic. From Frankenstein to Pulp Magazines, Twilight Zone to Stranger Things the book charts the incredible story of Sci-Fi through timelines, illustrations, movie posters and stills. Online links and free texts.

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Presents a biography of place that studies the 'hidden houses' in conjunction with the novels of Virginia Woolf and the diaries and letters of both Woolf, and her sister Vanessa Bell. This book provides a glimpse into the world of the upper-middle-class Victorian/Edwardian holidaymakers, whilst giving an insight into their minds.

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Discusses the development of science fiction as a genre through the lens of the associated figurines and toys, and how this was affected by real world events, politics (eg Cold War/Space Race), technology and social change. Foreword by James Opie.

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A team of distinguished and internationally acclaimed writers and illustrators share their personal insights into the maps they love, the maps they use and the maps that set them dreaming.

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Women's Work challenges influential accounts about gender and the novel by revealing the complex ways in which labour (as material reality and philosophical concept) shaped the lives and writings of a number of women authors working in the second half of the long eighteenth century -- .

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This publication brings together some of New Zealand's finest literary practitioners: 15 writers and 15 literary critics - in discussions about each author's work, the nature of writing and the place of land, culture, belonging, society, family and art in their work.

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The complete guide to the world's most famous detective.

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The world-renowned novelist shares quotations on subjects such as life and opportunity, the frontier, knowledge and learning, poverty and wealth, women, wild life, law and justice, and more from the pages of his best-selling novels.

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Iris Murdoch: A Writer at War is a fascinating private memoir of one of the great women writers and thinkers of the 20th century and a remarkable historical document of life behind the scenes during the Second World War.

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From the very first book publication in 1920 to the upcoming film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christies Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably the worlds favourite fictional detective.

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Rourke's pioneering "study of the national character" examines such legendary figures as the Yankee, the backwoodsman, the minstrel singer, and the stroller to show how the popular comic imagination has contributed to America's changing self-awareness.

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A lively way into the works of beloved children's author Beatrix Potter, this book provides fresh understanding of her writing and its legacies via twenty six alphabetically arranged and interlinked essays covering her published work and private writings

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"Copyright 1939 by Raymond Chandler, renewed 1966 by Mrs. Helga Greene"--Copyright page.

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ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL is a unique attempt to examine the novel afresh, rejecting the traditional methods of classification by chronology or subject-matter.

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Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg--are names that continue to reverberate as the Beats remain a vital source of inspiration to successive generations of readers and writers. Here THE PARIS REVIEW interviews key Beats and members of the offshoot Black Mountain School of experimental poets, to describe the writers' art and lives--creating a unique and fascinating record.

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A beautiful new edition of Edward Said's classic which argues that a beginning is different from (and preferable to) an origin, because a beginning can be chosen and an origin can only be acknowledged.

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Germany's most gifted literary critic on the critical discussion of Nobel Prize laureate Thomas Mann.