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Adding to 15 other titles currently available in the How to Read series

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How to Read is a personal master-class in reading, bringing you face to face with the work of some of the most influential and challenging writers in history.

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Translation of: Je ne suis pas sortie de ma nuit.

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In the first comprehensive reading of dozens of American literary and social culture classics, Tom Cronin, one of Americas most astute students of the American political tradition, tells the story of the American political experiment through the eyes of forty major novelists, from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Hunter S. Thompson.

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Kiberd - one of Ireland's leading critics and a central figure in the FIELD DAY group with Brian Friel, Seamus Deane and the actor Stephen Rea - argues that the Irish Literary Revival of the 1890-1922 period embodied a spirit and a revolutionary, generous vision of Irishness that is still relevant to post-colonial Ireland.

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This guide to Anthony Powell's 12-volume sequence of novels, 'A Dance to the Music Time' contains extensive character, book, painting and place indices, creating a database of Powell's imagination and England's cultural landscape. It details over 400 characters and one million words of Powell's lively 50-year dance of fiction and fact.

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Who were the women writers that inspired Jane Austen Why have they all but disappeared from our bookshelves Rare books dealer Rebecca Romney sheds a light on Austen's inspirations and contemporaries in this page-turning literary adventure.

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Offers insights into the creativity of Franz Kafka and the torment he suffered as a man, a lover, and a writer. This book explores the letter that Kafka wrote to his fiancee, from their first tender moments together to his final letter and his refusal to reconcile.

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Why should one half be free to live, while the other is doomed to watch silently from the sidelines In this collection, the author leads us on a transformative journey through the liberating powers of the mind.

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Vonnegut and Stinger talk about the place where the lives they lead meet the art they practice.

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A Wisconsin family grapples with the power and limitations of faith when one of their own falls under the influence of a radical church.

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A Wisconsin family grapples with the power and limitations of faith when one of their own falls under the influence of a radical church.

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A guide to the works of Louis de Bernieres. It deals with de Bernieres' themes, genre and narrative technique, and includes a close reading of the texts that are accompanied with likely exam questions, and contexts and comparisons.

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LOVE LETTERS FROM MONTMARTRE is an ode to love, Paris and empathy from international bestselling author Nicolas Barreau

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LOVE LETTERS FROM MONTMARTRE is an ode to love, Paris and empathy from international bestselling author Nicolas Barreau

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Born in Dublin in 1917 to politically active parents, Maeve Brennan's childhood in Ireland was moulded by the cultural ideologies of nationalism and lit by the creative energy of the Abbey and Gate theatres.

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A socio-cultural analysis of the relationship between modernism and science fiction, from the 1870s to the 1970s, with examples drawn from literature and other media in Britain, Europe and the Americas. The book challenges how high and low culture has been mapped in the twentieth century.

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Lorna Sage looks at the ways in which pre-war women writers, some famous, some less well known, invented themselves as authors in the face of the rigid conceptions of feminine creativity which prevailed at the time.

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For almost 50 years (until his death in 1963) Jean Cocteau held a unique place in French cultural life. The breadth of his artistic success bears witness to the variety of his talents. In these fields - theatre, cinema, art, ballet and literature - Cocteau made many life-long friends. Portraits of these friends and intimates make up this volume.

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Following the discovery of an unfinished manuscript written by his father, Kureishi looks back on his own development as a writer in the light of his father s unrealised literary ambitions

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The life story of Isabel Allende one of the world's favourite writers is as exotic, passionate and inspiring as one of her novels.

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A collection of essays that introduces readers to the wonders and value of science fiction writing.