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This enthralling new history of Aboriginal writing challenges conventional beliefs about how and when Indigenous authorship began. This book deals with real stories of how Indigenous Australians used writing and reading to negotiate a changing world, to challenge their oppressors, to preserve country and kin.

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Follow the brilliant and hilarious adventures of a mad Zen Buddhist monk who rose from humble beginnings to become one of China's greatest folk heroes!

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From Vanessa Bell and Charlotte Bront to Nina Simone and Jane Campion, here are over one hundred and forty female writers, painters, musicians, sculptors, poets, choreographers, and filmmakers on how they create and work.

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Putting 48 pioneering and innovative female writers firmly back on the modern map.

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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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In 1852 Stowe's bestselling Uncle Tom's Cabin was acclaimed by Northerners and condemned by Southerners. The following year she produced this defense, which cites real-life equivalents to her characters.

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This unique document of the Russian author's creative process is illustrated by facsimiles of original pages from his notebooks, which reveal at least eight plans for the story, with numerous variations on each.

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Read, Remember, Recommend for Teens offers more than 2400 award-winning and notable reading suggestions in many genres, cross-referenced to help parents and teens chose the right books for them.

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The ultimate organizing resource for book-lovers and a self-published hit, Read, Remember, Recommend gives readers a one-stop shop to keep track of their reading.

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Master storyteller's recollections of his hobo days paint a vivid portrait of life during a major economic depression. London recounts his experiences hopping trains, begging, and serving a jail term for vagrancy.

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For the first time, the complete history of literary hoaxes is revealed. Suitable for bookworms of all ages and persuasions, this is true crime for people who don't like true crime, and literary history for the historically illiterate.

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Keep track of your book club selections and record your latest literary adventures with this reading journal to stay organized for your next meeting!

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.

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Pbk. printing of hardcover ed. published in 2005.

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In the mid-1940s, writers James McAuley and Harold Stewart submitted a series of poems to the modernist literary magazine, "Angry Penguins", under the fictitious name Ern Malley. This book not only offers an account of the Ern Malley hoax, but also presents a study of literary hoaxes and poetry in general.

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A beloved actor and famous man-on-the-scene, Alan Cumming takes the reader on a wild journey of pithy and cheeky fun, presenting his real-life stories of debauchery during late night Hollywood parties, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, and hilarious yet poignant memories of his life, family, and friends.

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

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This is a collection of Terry Eagleton's best criticisms and book reviews. His skill in this field is notable: never content merely to assess the ideas of a writer, Eagleton, in his inimitable style, always paints a vivid theorectical fresco as the background to his engagement with the texts.

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A highly acclaimed novelist on the way in which the landscape has both influenced and been represented in British Romantic literature.

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This is the first major publication on the Mainz Charterhouse manuscript collection. Published in two volumes, it provides authoritative and superbly detailed descriptions, including information about the physical characteristics, decoration, binding, and provenance of the manuscripts. Each manuscript is illustrated.