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  • The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature by Daniel Hahn

    The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature by Daniel Hahn

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    The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most fertile periods in the history of children's books: the flowering of imaginative illustration and writing, the Harry Potter phenomenon, the rise of young adult and crossover fiction, and books that...
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  • Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality by Rachel Hope Cleves

    Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality by Rachel Hope Cleves

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    The sexual exploitation of children by adults has a long, fraught history. Yet how cultures have reacted to it is shaped by a range of forces, beliefs, and norms, like any other social phenomenon. Changes in how Anglo-American culture has understood...
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  • Fierce Appetites: Loving, losing and living to excess in my present and in the writings of the past by Elizabeth Boyle

    Fierce Appetites: Loving, losing and living to excess in my present and in the writings of the past by Elizabeth Boyle

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    'Like nothing else you will read' Hilary MantelTop 25 History Books of the Year, The Times - the perfect gift for book lovers this Christmas!Every day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty.All three happening...
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  • The World of Bede by Peter Hunter Blair 9780521398190

    The World of Bede by Peter Hunter Blair 9780521398190

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    An engaging and accessible introduction to the writings and intellectual development of the Venerable Bede (d.735), this book (originally published in 1970) is available again for the enjoyment of all those interested in the early medieval world. With an...
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  • Shakespeare'S Storms by Gwilym Jones

    Shakespeare'S Storms by Gwilym Jones

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    Winner of the 2016 Shakespeare's Globe Book AwardThe first comprehensive study of Shakespeare's storms. Whether the apocalyptic storm of King Lear or the fleeting thunder imagery of Hamlet, or the thunderbolt of Pericles, there is an instance of storm in...
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  • What Happens in Hamlet by J. Dover Wilson

    What Happens in Hamlet by J. Dover Wilson

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    John Dover Wilson's What Happens in Hamlet is a classic of Shakespeare criticism. First published in 1935, it is still being read throughout the English-speaking world and has been widely translated. Hamlet has excited more curiosity and aroused more...
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  • Fifty Forgotten Books by R. B. Russell

    Fifty Forgotten Books by R. B. Russell

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    Fifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books, by a great bookman and for book-people of all ages and levels of experience. Not quite literary criticism, not quite an autobiography, it is at once a guided tour through the dusty...
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  • J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys: The Real Story Behind Peter Pan by Andrew Birkin 9780300098228

    J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys: The Real Story Behind Peter Pan by Andrew Birkin 9780300098228

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    An enchanting biography of J. M. Barrie, the man who created Peter Pan and his Lost Boys "For an insightful exploration of Barrie and the boys who inspired him, nothing rivals [this book]."-Norman Allen, Smithsonian Magazine J. M. Barrie, Victorian...
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  • A History of Ambiguity by Anthony Ossa-Richardson

    A History of Ambiguity by Anthony Ossa-Richardson

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    Ever since it was first published in 1930, William Empson's Seven Types of Ambiguity has been perceived as a milestone in literary criticism-far from being an impediment to communication, ambiguity now seemed an index of poetic richness and expressive...
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  • In and out of Bloomsbury: Biographical Essays on Twentieth-Century Writers and Artists by Martin Ferguson Smith 9781526171931

    In and out of Bloomsbury: Biographical Essays on Twentieth-Century Writers and Artists by Martin Ferguson Smith 9781526171931

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    These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists. Based on detailed research and presenting previously unpublished texts, pictures, and photographs, they are notable feats of scholarly...
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  • A Literary Guide to the Lake District by Grevel Lindop 9781910758120

    A Literary Guide to the Lake District by Grevel Lindop 9781910758120

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910758120Author Grevel LindopFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Sigma PressPublisher Sigma Press
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney by Bernard O'Donoghue 9780521547550

    The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney by Bernard O'Donoghue 9780521547550

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    Seamus Heaney is a unique phenomenon in contemporary literature, as a poet whose individual volumes (such as his Beowulf translation, and individual volumes of poems such as Electric Light and District and Circle) have been high in the bestseller lists...
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  • The Life of a Long Distance Writer by Richard Bradford 9780720613179

    The Life of a Long Distance Writer by Richard Bradford 9780720613179

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780720613179Author Richard BradfordFormat HardbackPage Count 510Imprint Peter Owen PublishersPublisher Peter Owen Publishers
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  • The Possibility of Literature: The Novel and the Politics of Form Peter Boxall 9781009314299

    The Possibility of Literature: The Novel and the Politics of Form Peter Boxall 9781009314299

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    The Possibility of Literature is an essential collection from one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in contemporary literary studies. Bringing together key compositions from the last twenty-five years, as well as several new pieces, the book...
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  • The Treasuries: Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture by Clare Bucknell

    The Treasuries: Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture by Clare Bucknell

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    The fascinating history of poetry anthologies and their influence on British society and culture over the last four centuries. For hundreds of years, anthologies have shaped the way we encounter literature. Eighteenth-century children and young women...
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  • Julian Barnes from the Margins: Exploring the Writer's Archives by Professor Vanessa Guignery 9781350243187

    Julian Barnes from the Margins: Exploring the Writer's Archives by Professor Vanessa Guignery 9781350243187

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    Exploring the archives of the Man Booker prize-winning novelist Julian Barnes - including notebooks, drafts, typescripts and publishing correspondence - this book is an extraordinary in-depth study of the creative practice of a major contemporary...
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  • Liberty against the Law: Some Seventeenth-Century Controversies by Christopher Hill

    Liberty against the Law: Some Seventeenth-Century Controversies by Christopher Hill

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    In this, the last book published during his lifetime, renowned historian of the English Revolution Christopher Hill uses the literary culture of the seventeenth century to explore the immense social changes of the period as well as the expressions of...
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  • Beckett's Dying Words: The Clarendon Lectures 1990 by Christopher Ricks 9780192824073

    Beckett's Dying Words: The Clarendon Lectures 1990 by Christopher Ricks 9780192824073

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  • Seamus Heaney and the Language Of Poetry Bernard O'Donoghue 9780745007168

    Seamus Heaney and the Language Of Poetry Bernard O'Donoghue 9780745007168

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    This book scrutinizes Heaney's language in order to examine his theory of poetry and the writer's responsibility to art and politics. The author, himself a poet, works chronologically through the poetry and discusses it in light of Heaney's writings on...
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  • The Real Kenneth Grahame: The Tragedy Behind The Wind in the Willows by Galvin, Elisabeth 9781526748805

    The Real Kenneth Grahame: The Tragedy Behind The Wind in the Willows by Galvin, Elisabeth 9781526748805

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    He wrote one of the most quintessentially English books, yet Kenneth Grahame (1859 -1932) was a Scot. He was four years old when his mother died and his father became an alcoholic, so Kenneth grew up with his grandmother who lived on the banks of the...
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  • Pilgrim Soul: W.B. Yeats and the Ireland of His Time by Daniel Mulhall 9781848408814

    Pilgrim Soul: W.B. Yeats and the Ireland of His Time by Daniel Mulhall 9781848408814

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848408814Author Daniel MulhallFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint New Island BooksPublisher New Island BooksWeight(grams) 373gDimensions(mm) 215mm *...
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  • Virginia Woolf: The Waves by Virginia Woolf 9780521315630

    Virginia Woolf: The Waves by Virginia Woolf 9780521315630

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    Eric Warner places The Waves in the context of Virginia Woolf's career and of the 'modern' age in which it was written. He examines how she came to write the novel, what her concerns were at the time, and how it is linked both in style and theme with her...
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  • The International Companion to Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature by Sheila M. Kidd

    The International Companion to Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature by Sheila M. Kidd

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908980359Author Sheila M. KiddFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Scottish Literature InternationalPublisher Association for Scottish Literary...
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  • Things I Don't Want to Know: A Response to George Orwell's Why I Write by Deborah Levy 9781907903632

    Things I Don't Want to Know: A Response to George Orwell's Why I Write by Deborah Levy 9781907903632

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    Things I Don't Want to Know is a unique response to George Orwell from one of our most vital contemporary writers. Taking Orwell's famous list of motives for writing as the jumping-off point for a sequence of thrilling reflections on the writing life,...
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  • Pygmalion Bernard Shaw 9780713679977

    Pygmalion Bernard Shaw 9780713679977

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    'Not bloody likely' Ever since Pygmalion opened in London in April 1914 it has proved a very controversial play, from the (then) shocking language, to arguments about its correct ending. Critical interpretations have been similarly disputatious,...
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  • Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness by Professor Graham Bradshaw

    Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness by Professor Graham Bradshaw

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776069Author Graham BradshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD
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  • William Golding's Lord of the Flies John Carey 9781907776625

    William Golding's Lord of the Flies John Carey 9781907776625

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776625Author John CareyFormat PaperbackPage Count 117Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD
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  • Beckett and Embodiment: Body, Space and Agency by Amanda M Dennis

    Beckett and Embodiment: Body, Space and Agency by Amanda M Dennis

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    Reveals how the body in Beckett, embedded in its material environment, exhibits embodied agency Accents the importance of the body in Beckett and provides a new reading of the body in his postwar writing and experimental prose of the 60's and 80's ...
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  • Romantic Poetry: An Annotated Anthology Michael O'Neill (Durham University) 9780631213178

    Romantic Poetry: An Annotated Anthology Michael O'Neill (Durham University) 9780631213178

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    Easily adaptable as both an anthology and an insightful guide to reading and understanding Romantic Poetry, this text discusses the important elements in the works from poets such as Smith, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Barbauld, Byron, Shelley,...
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  • Your Marriage: An Owner's Manual by Martin Baxendale 9780951354247 [USED COPY]

    Your Marriage: An Owner's Manual by Martin Baxendale 9780951354247 [USED COPY]

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951354247Author Martin BaxendaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Silent But Deadly PublicationsPublisher Silent But Deadly Publications
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  • The Life of Christina of Markyate by Samuel Fanous

    The Life of Christina of Markyate by Samuel Fanous

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    'I wish to remain single, for I have made a vow of virginity.' This is the remarkable story of the twelfth-century recluse Christina, who became prioress of Markyate, near St Albans in Hertfordshire. Determined to devote her life to God and to remain a...
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  • The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961 by I. T. Ker 9780852446256

    The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961 by I. T. Ker 9780852446256

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852446256Author I. T. KerFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint GracewingPublisher GracewingWeight(grams) 370gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm
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  • A Life Of Walter Scott: The Laird of Abbotsford by A. N. Wilson

    A Life Of Walter Scott: The Laird of Abbotsford by A. N. Wilson

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    'I have read all W. Scott's novels at least fifty times,' wrote Byron. '...grand work. Scotch Fielding, as well as great English poet - wonderful man! I long to get drunk with him.' A. N. Wilson's subtle, entertaining and frequently provocative...
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  • Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology by Laura Otis

    Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology by Laura Otis

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    'It has been said by its opponents that science divorces itself from literature; but the statement, like so many others, arises from lack of knowledge.' John Tyndall, 1874 Although we are used to thinking of science and the humanities as separate...
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  • The Canterbury Tales Handbook by Elizabeth Scala

    The Canterbury Tales Handbook by Elizabeth Scala

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    An ideal companion to The Canterbury Tales, this brief, accessible book introduces students to Chaucer's tales and helps them understand the language, genres, forms, historical background and critical history.About the AuthorElizabeth Scala is a...
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  • Shakespeare and Virtual Reality by Stephen Wittek 9781009001878

    Shakespeare and Virtual Reality by Stephen Wittek 9781009001878

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    Teaching Shakespeare through performance has a long history, and active methods of teaching and learning are a logical complement to the teaching of performance. Virtual reality ought to be the logical extension of such active learning, providing an...
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  • Chaucer's Language by Simon Horobin 9780230293793

    Chaucer's Language by Simon Horobin 9780230293793

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    The English language has changed dramatically over the past 500 years, making it increasingly difficult for students to read Chaucer's works. Assuming no previous linguistic knowledge or familiarity with Middle English, Simon Horobin introduces students...
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  • Privacy, Domesticity, and Women in Early Modern England by Dr Corinne S. Abate

    Privacy, Domesticity, and Women in Early Modern England by Dr Corinne S. Abate

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    The ten essays in this collection explore the discrete yet overlapping female spaces of privacy and domesticity in early modern England. While other literary critics have focused their studies of female privacy on widows, witches, female recusants and...
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  • White Mythologies by Robert J. C. Young 9780415311816

    White Mythologies by Robert J. C. Young 9780415311816

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    In 1990, Robert Young's White Mythologies set out to question the very concepts of history and the West. Is it possible, he asked, to write history that avoids the trap of Eurocentrism? Is history simply a Western myth? His reflections on these topics...
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  • Richard the Third by Paul Murray Kendall 9780393007855

    Richard the Third by Paul Murray Kendall 9780393007855

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    Paul Murray Kendall's masterful account of the life of England's King Richard III has remained the standard biography of this controversial figure.About the AuthorPaul Murray Kendall (1911-1973) is the author of Warwick the Kingmaker, The Yorkist Age,...
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