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Clear and Simple as the Truth - Writing Classic Prose - Second Edition

Praise for the first edition: "[Clear and Simple as the Truth] has changed the way that I write and think about writing."--Paul Bloom, Ya...

Astrid Lindgren - The Woman Behind Pippi Longstocking

The first English-language biography of Astrid Lindgren provides a moving and revealing portrait of the beloved Scandinavian literary ico...

Beyond Borders - Transgressions in European Literatures

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The Koran - Or, Essays, Sentiments, Characters, and Callimachies, of Tria Juncta in Uno, M.N.a. Or Master of No Arts. Three Volumes Complete in One

Literary Wonderlands - A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created

From the advent of the first works of literature many millennia ago, writers have used imaginary worlds both to entertain their readers a...

Books That Changed History - From the Art of War to Anne Frank's Diary

Featuring a foreword by James Naughtie. Turn the pages of the most famous books of all time and marvel at the stories behind them. Over 7...

A Book of Verses

Graphisches Erzählen in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur

Der vorliegende Band erscheint als zweiter Band der Schriftenreihe »Wiener Vorlesungen zur Kinder- und Jugendliteratur« und nimmt Vorträg...

Object Studies - Introductions to Material Culture

Object Studies: Introductions to Material Culture is a textbook that introduces students to an interdisciplinary approach to material cul...

Making of Middle-earth - The Worlds of Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings

This book, originally published in 2013 and richly illustrated with photographs and artwork, was the first to connect all the threads of ...

Great Novels - The World's Most Remarkable Fiction Explored and Explained

Discover everything you ever wanted to know about the world's greatest novels. From medieval romances and tales of chivalry found in the ...

Inventions of a Present - The Novel in its Crisis of Globalization

The giant of literary theory analyzes the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Márquez, Gibson, Knausgaard a...

Tolkien and Alterity

This exciting collection of essays explores the role of the Other in Tolkien's fiction, his life, and the pertinent criticism. It critica...

On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction

Brian Boyd explains why we tell stories and how our minds are shaped to understand them. After considering art as adaptation, Boyd examin...

A Companion to Cultural Memory Studies

This handbook represents the interdisciplinary and international field of "cultural memory studies" for the first time in one volume. Art...

Pastures of the Empty Page - Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry

A collection of essays that offers an intimate view of Larry McMurtry, America's preeminent western novelist, through the eyes of a panth...

Tolkien, Self and Other - "This Queer Creature"

This book examines key points of J. R. R. Tolkien¿s life and writing career in relation to his views on humanism and feminism, particular...

Bibliophile - An Illustrated Miscellany

Jane Mount brings literary people, places, and things to life in this treasure. Readers will discover their next great read in 50 lovingl...

Consistent Democracy - The "Woman Question" and Self-Government in Nineteenth-Century America

Consistent Democracy offers an intellectual history of democracy and the so-called woman question from the 1830s through the 1890s. It sh...

100 Novels That Changed the World

A look at 100 inspiring novels that have left a significant mark on the world of literature and popular culture.

Read Dangerously - The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arm...

Ex Libris - 100+ Books to Read and Reread

Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic Michiko Kakutani shares 100 personal, thought-provoking essays about books that have mattered to h...

The Last Days of Sylvia Plath

A new, vivid account of the final months of the esteemed writer's life

Shakespeare at War - A Material History

This first material history of how Shakespeare has been used in wartime tells a fresh and compelling story about how he has been 'recruit...

Star Wars The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire

A history of the dark times "So this is how liberty dies-with thunderous applause." -Senator Padmé Amidala When Palpatine declared the bi...

The Gutenberg Parenthesis - The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet

The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present - and draws out lessons for the ag...

George Orwell - The Ethics of Equality

George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality is the first book written by a philosopher about George Orwell's philosophy, especially his ethics....

Myths & Legends - An illustrated guide to their origins and meanings

The world's great myths and legends, from the Greek gods, goddesses and heroes to the Norse story cycles, presented across vivid retellin...

The Literature Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained

From the Iliad to The Great Gatsby, DK's The Literature Book is a fascinating graphic-led journey through the greatest works of literatur...

Around the World in 80 Books - A Literary Journey

'Restlessly curious, insightful, and quirky, David Damrosch is the perfect guide to a round-the-world adventure in reading' Stephen Green...

The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory

J. A. Cuddon was a writer, school teacher and academic. Best known for his Dictionary of Literary Terms, he also produced the large Dicti...

Small World - Ireland, 1798-2018

A survey of 200 years of Irish writing, this book offers analytic accounts of key Irish works and authors.

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir

Winner of the Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award, and a Lambda Literary Aw...

Anatomy of Criticism - Four Essays

Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism is the magnum opus of one of the most important and influential literary theorists of the twentieth ...

Translating Myself and Others

"In 2016, the novelist Jhumpa Lahiri published In Other Words, the story of her quest to learn Italian, which involved moving with her fa...

Ex Libris - 100+ Books to Read and Reread

**SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020** From renowned, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic, Michiko Kakutani, comes an i...

What We See When We Read

A San Francisco Chronicle and Kirkus Best Book of the Year A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of r...

Shining Sheep - Poems

A collection of vital, melancholic, elemental, and vibrantly contemporary poems. In the beginning, was the light, or was it the Lumières?...

The Real Thing - Reflections on a Literary Form

A clear-sighted and entertaining defence of literary realism, and an account of its key practitioners

A Year of Reading Aloud - 52 poems to learn and love

A poem is given for each week of the year to present a sense of the mindful joy of reading aloud.

Bookish Broads - Women Who Wrote Themselves Into History

Women have written some of our most extraordinary literary works while living in societies and cultures that tried to silence them. Featu...

Literary Witches

LITERARY WITCHES celebrates the most witchy women of the literary world with beautiful illustrations and mini creative bios. Gorgeous, ee...

Happy in Berlin? - English Writers in the City, The 1920s and Beyond | Englische Autor*innen der 1920er und 30er Jahre

Faszination, Inspiration und sexuelle Freiheit - ein neuer Blick auf englische Autor*innen und ihr Berlin der Goldenen Zwanziger. John Ch...

Saying the Unsayable: - Poethics of Silence in Contemporary North American Novels

Im Kontext nordamerikanischer Literatur bieten Schriftsteller*innen aus marginalisierten Gruppen Gegenerzählungen an, um dem Schweigen, d...

All the Knowledge in the World - The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE

The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, a good ...

Save the Cat! Writes a Novel - The Last Book On Novel Writing You'll Ever Need

The first novel-writing guide from the best-selling Save the Cat! story-structure series, which reveals the 15 essential plot points need...

A Book of Irish Verse

The book "" A Book of Irish Verse , has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten ...

Clever Betsy; A Novel

The book, "" Clever Betsy; A Novel "" , has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgot...

Unfinished Business - Notes of a Chronic Re-reader

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2020. One of our most beloved writers reassess the e...

Aesop's Animals - The Science Behind the Fables

Turns a critical eye on Aesop's Fables to ask whether there is any scientific truth to Aesop's portrayal of his animals. Despite originat...

Papyrus - The No 1 International Bestseller

The bestselling phenomenon - a 6,000-year adventure through the history of books and reading A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND MAIL ON SUN...

Poems for a world gone to sh*t - the amazing power of poetry to make even the most f**ked up times feel better

This uplifting, entertaining and accessible anthology featuring inclusions by voices ranging from Kate Tempest to Walt Whitman amounts to...

Translating Myself and Others

Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translator Translating Myself and Others is a...

Traffic

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Speed. Bump. Speed. Traffic co...

Blanket

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We are born into blankets. The...

Ethical Narratives - Reauthorization of Authorial Agency and Articulation of Authenticity in Post-Postmodern Novels

The authors analyze selected English post-postmodern novels by Zadie Smith, Arundhati Roy and Jonathan Franzen to demonstrate that a para...

Novelist as a Vocation

The Meaning of the Photographs in the Novel "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Literature - Modern Literature, grade: 2,0, Fontys University of Applied Sciences Venlo (...

Bird

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Hope, as Emily Dickinson famou...

Grave

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Grave takes a ground-level vie...