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Something Rotten
A Thursday Next Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2005
The fourth installment in Jasper Fforde’s New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England—from the author of Early Riser
The popularity of Jasper Fforde’s one-of-a-kind series of genre-bending...
How to Read Novels Like a Professor
A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Of all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and today's masters, the novel has grown with and adapted to changing societies and technologies, mixing...
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by Daniel Defoe
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
"ROBINSON CRUSOE - Top Classic Novels" This edition included NEW illustrations + Free AudioBook Links + Clickable Table of Contents for both the list of included books and their respective chapters. Navigation couldn't be easier.
The text and chapters are perfectly set up...
by Margaret Eby
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
A literary travelogue into the heart of classic Southern literature.
What is it about the South that has inspired so much of America's greatest literature? And why, when we think of Flannery O'Connor or William Faulkner or Harper Lee, do we think of them not just as writers, but as Southern...
Sean O'Casey, Writer at Work
The Definitive Biography of the Last Great Writer of the Irish Literary Revival
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2006
Christopher Murray’s definitive study of Seán O’Casey, the last great writer of the Irish literary revival, provides a strong interpretative context for his life.
Murray looks afresh at the Dublin of the 1880s and 1890s in order to provide an authoritative background to O’Casey’s childhood....
Remembering How we Stood
Bohemian Dublin at the Mid-Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
With a foreword by J.P. Donleavy. The best book about literary Dublin ever written' - FRANK DELANEY. Edna O'Brien chose John Ryan's memoirs as her Observer Book of the Year in 1975, describing it as a fine and loving account of literary Dublin in the golden fifties', which purrs with life and anecdote'....
by Annie Fields
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Accounts of personal contacts with well-known authors. Chapters cover: Longfellow, Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Celia Thaxter, Whittier, and Tennyson According to Wikipedia: "Annie Adams Fields (June 6, 1834 January 5, 1915) was a United States writer.... Born in Boston,...
by William Dean Howells
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885...
Love, Amy
The Selected Letters of Amy Clampitt
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
This extraordinary collection of letters sheds light on one of the most important postwar American poets and on a creative woman's life from the 1950s onward. Amy Clampitt was an American original, a literary woman from a Quaker family in rural Iowa who came to New York after college and lived in...
The Rise of the Modernist Bookshop
Books and the Commerce of Culture in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The trade in books has always been and remains an ambiguous commercial activity, associated as it is with literature and the exchange of ideas. This collection is concerned with the cultural and economic roles of independent bookstores, and it considers how eight shops founded during the modernist...
by Bob Hasenfratz, Professor Greg M. Colón Semenza
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
From The Death of Nancy Sykes (1897) to The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) and beyond, cinematic adaptations of British literature participate in a complex and fascinating history. The History of British Literature on Film, 1895-2015 is the only comprehensive narration of cinema's 100-year-old...
The Talented Miss Highsmith
The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2010
Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt is now a major motion picture (Carol) starring Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska, directed by Todd Hayes
A 2010 New York Times Notable Book
A 2010 Lambda Literary Award Winner
A 2009 Edgar Award Nominee
A 2009 Agatha Award Nominee
A Publishers Weekly Pick...
How to be Well Read
A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiosities
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
As the annual flood of published novels grows ever greater, it’s a hard a job to keep up, let alone sort the wheat from the chaff. Fortunately, literary sleuth and academic John Sutherland is on hand to do precisely that. In the course of over 500 wittily informative pieces he gives us his own very...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
The interviews in this collection cover Walter Mosley's career and reveal an overarching theme: a belief in the transformative power of reading and writing. Since the 1990 publication of his first novel, Devil in a Blue Dress, Mosley (b. 1952) has published over thirty books in a tremendous range...