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  • LITERATURE FOR THE PEOPLE
    LITERATURE FOR THE PEOPLE
    SARAH HARKNESS
    From an impoverished childhood in the Scottish highlands to Victorian London, this is the inspiring story of two brothers - Daniel and Alexander Macmillan - who built a publishing empire - and brought Alice in Wonderland to the world. Their remarkable achievements are revealed in this entertaining, superbly researched biography.Daniel and Alexander arrived in London in the 1830...
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  • EVE BITES BACK
    EVE BITES BACK
    ANNA BEER
    Anna Beer investigates the lives and achievements of eight women writers, uncovering a startling and unconventional history of literatureMargery Kempe. Aemilia Lanyer. Aphra Behn. Lady Mary. Jane Austen. Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history. ‘Smart, funny and highly readable... a tour de force.' ...
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  • HOW TO THINK LIKE A POET
    HOW TO THINK LIKE A POET
    DAI GEORGE
    An entertaining guide to history's mostinfluential and inspiring poets - fromHomer and Sappho to Shakespeare andFrank O'Hara - and how they can teachus to better understand the worldaround us.This book paints vivid pictures of aglobal assortment of renowned poetsthroughout history. ...
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  • THE UNTOLD STORY OF BOOKS
    THE UNTOLD STORY OF BOOKS
    MICHAEL CASTLEMAN
    "Bibliophiles will be enthralled." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"Immensely readable." --LIBRARY JOURNALFrom Gutenberg to Amazon, Michael Castleman's The Untold Story of Books is the first and only history of publishing told from a veteran author's point of view. Witty, entertaining, and full of remarkable new insights, it is a deeply researched, fascinating history of the idiosyncratic b...
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  • SHAKESPEARE IS HARD, BUT SO IS LIFE
    SHAKESPEARE IS HARD, BUT SO IS LIFE
    FINTAN O'TOOLE
    A provocative but serious reflection on Shakespeare's greatest tragedies, showinghow the finest plays of Shakespeare have been made unintelligible and irrelevantto a modern audience in an attempt to fit a world of conservative values.The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere,from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from cl...
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  • YOU: THE STORY
    YOU: THE STORY
    RUTA SEPETYS
    The nonfiction debut by #1 New York Times bestselling author Ruta Sepetys is now in paperback! Perfect for fans of Burn After Writing and Bird by Bird.Life is a story in motion. Each day, you add to your story, revise it, and view it from a different angle. You erase things. Tear pages out. And sometimes, in hindsight, wish you could put them back. A day is a story. A year is a...
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  • SHAKESPEARE'S SISTERS
    SHAKESPEARE'S SISTERS
    RAMIE TARGOFF
    This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long before anyone ever imagined the possibility of "a room of one's own."In an innovative and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespeare's England, Ramie Targoff carries us from ...
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  • BOOK AT WAR
    BOOK AT WAR
    ANDREW PETTEGREE
    Propaganda, pulp fiction, spies and censorship: the fascinating and action-packed story of books in wartime. Chairman Mao was a librarian. Stalin was a published poet. Evelyn Waugh served as a commando - before leaving to write Brideshead Revisited. Since the advent of modern warfare, books have all too often found themselves on the frontline. Chairman Mao was a librarian. Stal...
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    Q. 180

  • BLURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM
    BLURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM
    LOUISE WILLDER
    A dazzling dictionary of book blurbs, filled with writing tips, literary folklore and publishing secretsA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A small masterpiece. There is something funny, notable or awe-inspiring on every single page' Jenny Colgan, Spectator A joyful celebration of books - the perfect gift for bibliophiles, word lovers and anyone who's ever wondered, should you judge a bo...
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    Q. 160

  • THE MEDIEVAL WORLDS OF NEIL GAIMAN
    THE MEDIEVAL WORLDS OF NEIL GAIMAN
    SHILOH CARROLL
    Neil Gaiman is one of the most widely known writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, having produced fiction and nonfiction, fantasy and horror, television, comics, and prose. He often attributes this eclecticism to his "compost heap" approach to writing, gathering inspiration from life, religion, literature, and mythology. Readers love to sink into Gaiman's mediev...
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  • BURNING QUESTIONS
    BURNING QUESTIONS
    ATWOOD, MARGARET
    In this brilliant selection of essays, the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from whether or not The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopia to the importance of how to define granola—and seeks answers to Burning Questions such as...• Why do people everywher...
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    Q. 170

  • I WILL WRITE TO AVENGE MY PEOPLE
    I WILL WRITE TO AVENGE MY PEOPLE
    ERNAUX, ANNIE
    Published for the first time in a beautiful collectible edition, the essential lecture delivered by the 2022 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Annie Ernaux.«J'écrirai por venger ma race»It was as a young woman that Annie Ernaux first wrote these words in her diary, giving a name to her purpose in life as a writer. She returns to them in her stirring defense of literat...
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    Q. 90

  • THE CURSE OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE
    THE CURSE OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE
    JOEL WARNER
    u003cbu003eu003ciu003eNEW YORK TIMES u003c/iu003eEDITORS' CHOICE • The captivating, deeply reported true story of how one of the most notorious novels ever written—Marquis de Sade's u003ciu003e120 Days of Sodomu003c/iu003e—landed at the heart of one of the biggest scams in modern literary history.u003cbru003eu003cbru003e"Reading u003ciu003eThe Curse of the Marquis de Sade, u003...
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    Q. 300

  • WRITE FOR LIFE
    WRITE FOR LIFE
    JULIA CAMERON
    "A 6-Week Artist's Way Program Julia Cameron has been teaching the world about creativity since her seminal book, The Artist's Way, first broke open the conversation around art. Now, in Write for Life, she turns to one of the subjects closest to her heart: the art and practice of writing. Over the course of six weeks, Cameron carefully guides readers step by step through the cr...
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    Q. 280

  • THE SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY BOOK OF INTERVIEWS
    THE SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY BOOK OF INTERVIEWS
    ADAM BILES ED.
    Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for anglophone writers and readers. In that tradition, determined for the bookshop to remain a place of meaningful and transformative conversation, owner Sylvia Whitman and novelist and literary directo...
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    Q. 270

  • THE STORYTELLER'S WORKBOOK
    THE STORYTELLER'S WORKBOOK
    YOUNG, ADRIENNE / ISABEL IBAÑEZ
    Your companion to writing a novel from start to finish, with thoughtful prompts, calendars, and checklists to guide you along the way.Wherever you are on your journey as a writer, The Storyteller's Workbook is your one-stop shop for planning, writing, and pitching your novel. Find the space and freedom to create authentically with just enough structure and guidance to get you t...
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    Q. 210

  • CATCHING FIRE
    CATCHING FIRE
    HAHN, DANIEL
    An energizing real-time journey through the translation of Never Did the Fire and the process of literary translation.In Catching Fire , the translation of Diamela Eltit's Never Did the Fire unfolds in real time as a conversation between works of art, illuminating both in the process. The problems and pleasures of conveying literature into another language?what happens when you...
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    Q. 170

  • EMILY DICKINSON'S GARDENING LIFE
    EMILY DICKINSON'S GARDENING LIFE
    MARTA MCDOWELL / MCDOWELL & BLAHNIK
    "A visual treat as well as a literary one...for gardeners and garden lovers, connoisseurs of botanical illustration, and those who seek a deeper understanding of the life and work of Emily Dickinson." --The Wall Street JournalEmily Dickinson was a keen observer of the natural world, but less well known is the fact that she was also an avid gardener--sending fresh bouquets to fr...
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  • THE LITERATURE BOOK
    THE LITERATURE BOOK
    VARIOS AUTORES
    "Books, let's face it, are better than anything else." Nick HornbyTurn the pages of The Literature Book to discover over 100 of the world's most enthralling reads and the literary geniuses behind them. Storytelling is as old as humanity itself. Part of the Big Ideas Simply Explained series, The Literature Book introduces you to ancient classics from the Epic of Gilgamesh writt...
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  • A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING
    A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING
    JUDITH FLANDERS
    u003cpu003e'Marvellous...I read it with astonished delight..It is equally scholarly and entertaining.' Jan Morrisu003c/pu003e u003cpu003e'Delightfully quirky and compelling' The Sunday Timesu003c/pu003e u003cbru003e u003cpu003eOne we've learned it as children few of us think much of the alphabet and its familiar sing-song order. And yet the order if the alphabet, that simple kn...
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    Q. 240

  • HOW TO WRITE LIKE TOLSTOY
    HOW TO WRITE LIKE TOLSTOY
    COHEN, RICHARD
    A Spectator Best Book of the Year‘This book is a wry, critical friend to both writer and reader. It is filled with cogent examples and provoking statements. You will agree or quarrel with each page, and be a sharper writer and reader by the end.' Hilary Mantel‘There are three rules for writing a novel,' Somerset Maugham once said. ‘Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.'So ...
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    Q. 160

  • THE ACCIDENTAL LIFE
    THE ACCIDENTAL LIFE
    TERRY MCDONELL
    u003cbu003eAn Amazon Best Book of 2016u003cbru003eu003cbru003eA celebration of the writing and editing life, as well as a look behind the scenes at some of the most influential magazines in America (and the writers who made them what they are).u003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e You might not know Terry McDonell, but you certainly know his work. Among the magazines he has to...
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  • THIS LITTLE ART
    THIS LITTLE ART
    BRIGGS, KATE
    An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's u003ciu003eThis Little Artu003c/iu003e is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes's lecture notes as a starting point, the author threads ...
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  • THE LITERATURE BOOK
    THE LITERATURE BOOK
    DK PUBLISHING
    A global look at the greatest works of Eastern and Western literature and the themes that unite them, for students and lovers of literature and reading."The Literature Book" is a fascinating journey through the greatest works of world literature, from the Iliad to Don Quixote to The Great Gatsby. Around 100 crystal-clear articles explore landmark novels, short stories, plays, a...
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    Q. 260

  • SURVIVAL
    SURVIVAL
    ATWOOD, MARGARET
    When first published in 1972, u003ciu003eSurvivalu003c/iu003e was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way Canadians look at themselves. Distinguished, provocative, and written in effervescent, compulsively readable prose, Survival is simultaneously a book of ...
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  • THE CITY OF WORDS
    THE CITY OF WORDS
    ALBERTO MANGUEL
    The end of ethnic nationalism Ñ building societies that promote civic nationalism with universally accepted value systems Ñ seems eminently sensible. But something is going wrong. In these 2007 Massey Lectures, Alberto Manguel takes a fresh look at the problems that come with creating new societies. Race riots in France, political murder in The Netherlands, bombings in Britain ...
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  • POETRY AS INSURGENT ART
    POETRY AS INSURGENT ART
    LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
    From the groundbreaking "A Coney Island of the Mind" in 1958 to the personal epic of "Americus, Book I" in 2003, Ferlinghetti has been the poetic conscience of America. In this work, he offers--in prose--what poetry is, could be, and should be.In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the first paperback bookstore in the United States. In over five decades City Lights, the bookstor...
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  • PLAINWATER
    PLAINWATER
    ANNE CARSON
    The poetry and prose collected in u003cbu003ePlainwateru003c/bu003e are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as "the most exciting poet writing in English today." Succinct and astonishingly beautiful, these pieces stretch the boundaries of language and literary form, while juxtaposing classical and modern traditions...
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  • LONG LIVE LATIN
    LONG LIVE LATIN
    GARDINI, NICOLA
    Virgil gave us the Aeneid, and Ovid the Metamorphoses; Lucretius analysed the material world and Caesar interrogated how we view reality through the lens of reason - but what does Latin offer us today?Often seen as the bulky relic of school curricula long forgotten, Latin seems to have lost its punch in the popular conscious. Oxford academic Nicola Gardini, however, argues the ...
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  • NOT TO READ
    NOT TO READ
    ALEJANDRO ZAMBRA
    In Not to Read, Alejandro Zambra outlines his own particular theory of reading that also offers a kind of blurry self-portrait, or literary autobiography. Whether writing about Natalia Ginzburg, typewriters and computers, Paul Léautaud, or how to be silent in German, his essays function as a laboratory for his novels, a testing ground for ideas, readings and style. Not to Read ...
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