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Moranthology

Author: Caitlin Moran
Publication Date: 13 September 2012

Possibly the only drawback about the "How To Be A Woman" was that its author, was limited to pretty much one subject: being a woman. This book is a proof that she can actually be 'quite chatty' about other things, including cultural, social and political issues which are usually province of learned professors.

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What the Dog Saw
and Other Adventures

Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publication Date: 6 May 2010

Covers everything from criminology to spaghetti sauce to show how the ordinary subjects can illuminate extraordinary things about ourselves and our world. Looking under surface of seemingly mundane, the author explores underdogs, overlooked, curious, miraculous and disastrous, and reveals how everyone and everything contains an incredible story.

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Letter from America
1946-2004

Author: Alistair Cooke
Publication Date: 2 June 2005

Covering key moments from the assassination of Kennedy through Vietnam and Watergate to September 11, Iraq and anticipating the 2004 elections, this book provides a collection of Letters from the author's legendary BBC Radio 4 broadcasts.

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York Notes on "The Spire"

Author: William Golding
Publication Date: 21 September 2006

YORK NOTES ADVANCED - THE ULTIMATE LITERATURE GUIDES.

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Turning It On: A Reader in Women & Media

Author: Helen Baehr
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1995

Intended for the use of students of communication, media, cultural and women's studies, this work presents a group of key texts which chart the central issue in the study of women and media and indicate the developments of what is now a significant body of work. The criterion for selection is less to produce a "canon" of work on women and media than to give students access to a broad range of mate...

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A Literary Herbal

Author:  Rodway
Publication Date:

A delightful collection of quotations from authors ancient and modern concerning nature's most useful plants. Information on the history, uses and traditional beliefs associated with each herb introduces the quotations........

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Daily Strengths for Daily Need

Author:  
Publication Date: 15 November 2003

This book of brief selections in prose and verse with accompanying texts of scripture, is intended for a daily companion and...

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the brightening day

Author: michael mclaverty
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1987

a young teacher is an innocent victim of malicious scandal...

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Dream Catcher
Literary Arts Journal
Issue 14

Author:  
Publication Date: 1 October 2004

Containing fiction and poetry, this issue's highlights include: Catherine Smith's story "House"; Jonathan Attrill's "Darker than Fairytales"; Poet, David Constantine's "Back There"; and award-winning American-Croatian Mario Susko's chronicle of poems about the aftermath of Croatian-Bosnian war with "Reclaiming Life".

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Great Expectations

Author: Charles Dickens
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Chesterton

Author: G K The Spirit of Christmas
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1984

A selection of stories - poems - essays. Selected and arranged by Marie Smith....

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Violets and Vinegar: An Anthology of Women's Writings and Sayings Chosen by Jilly Cooper and Tom Hartman

Author: Jilly Cooper
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1980

"The pieces they have chosen (Jilly Cooper & Tom Hartman)are a delicious blend of sweet and sour, ranging from prose and poetry of compelling beauty to prime cuts of kitsch and salvoes of pithy one-liners. The result? A thoroughly entertaining anthology which proves to any who doubt it that women are at least as amusing, moving and witty as men." Includes: "I never hated a man enough to give ...

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Joseph Conrad: his romantic-realism

Author:  Stauffer
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1922

4 parts. Part 1-The meaning of Romantic-Realism & its application to Joseph Conrad. Part 2-T Romantic-Realism of Conrad's method of plot construction & of character development. Part 3-The Romantic-Realism in Conrad's use of setting. Part 4-The spirit of Conrad. Appendices....

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How to Be An Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and More Advanced Pupils

Author: George Mikes
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1951

George Mikes says, 'the English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.' But they do have a sense of humour - they provide it by buying over three hundred thousand copies of a book that took them quietly and completely apart, a book that really took the Mikes out of them....

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Penguin Book of English Romantic Verse

Author: David Wright
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1968

1968 Penguin edition of English Romantic Verse - in very good condition,...

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A Country Calendar

Author: John Clare
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1979

A diary for every year, writings in prose by John Clare, engravings mostly by Thomas Bewick...

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Hardy’s Grandmother, Betsy, and her family

Author: Lois Deacon
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1968

Monographs on the Life, Times and Works of Thomas Hardy: No.34 General Editor: J Stevens Cox FSA’ 9 illustrations black and white photo plates. Signed by Lois Deacon....

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Hardy’s Summer Romance, 1867

Author: Lois Deacon
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1967

‘An interpretation and reconstruction. Monographs on the Life, Times and Works of Thomas Hardy: No.38 General Editor: J Stevens Cox FSA’ ...

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A Plymouth Pen

Author: Lois Deacon
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1949

From A Plymouth Pen,with a foreword by the right honourable Isaac Foot, Including: Charlotte Bronte - A presidential address to the Plymouth Business and Professional Women’s Club on the 29th September 1949 ...

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Sweete Themmes

Author: John Irwin
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1951

co author Jocelyn Herbert, A chronicle in prose and verse, with black and white photos, woodcuts, illustrations...

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Stories, Essays and Poems

Author: D H Lawrence
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1966

introduction by Desmond Hawkins...

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Variations

Author: Jaroslav Havelka
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1988

"...using metaphors, aphorisms, Koan-like riddles, critical comments and poetic symbols" Havelka comments on our world......

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A Book of English Poetry

Author: G. B. Harrison
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1945

Early Pelican-A17. Chaucer to Rossetti. Originally published in 1937. In this anthology the aim has been to gather a typical and representation of the English poets from the 14th to the 19th century. The arrangement is roughly chronological from the poet's birth. In this way, the collection show was the progress of English poetry. An ideal reference point for the serious student to develop....

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The Crack-up

Author: F Scott Fitzgerald
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1945

First edition (USA) of this remarkable New Directions publication edited by Edmund Wilson.As well as The Crack-Up, it includes other Uncollected Pieces, Note-Books and Unpublished Letters by Scott Fitzgerald. Essential for the Scott Fitzgerald enthusiast or collector....

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Letters

Author: George Moore
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1942

Letters written by George Moore to John Eglinton. Scarce private publication....

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A SociablePlover

Author: Eric Linklater
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1957

An outstanding collection of essays and stories, mostly with a Scottish setting. Wood engravings by Reynolds Stone....

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THE MODERN AGE

Author: BORIS FORD
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1964

VERY SLIGHT SPINE WEAR BUT EVERYTHING ELSE IS JUST GREAT AND HARD TO TELL ITS AGE. I SHIP SAME, NEXT DAY. C...

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The teahouse of the august moon

Author: John Patrick
Publication Date:

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THE TEST OF TIME - WHAT MAKES A CLASSIC A CLASSIC?

Author:  HOLGATE
Publication Date: JANUARY 1999

A large number of prominent individuals were asked to define what makes a classic novel. The short essays and lists make for entertaining reading....

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Ulysses - the corrected text

Author: James Joyce
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1987

This Garland Edition is the result of seven years research in order to reconstruct as closely as possible the creative process by which Joyce wrote Ulysses. Here is Ulysses as Joyce conceived it and meant it to be read....

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The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays

Author: Ilan Stavans
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1997

"The history of the essay does not show us a limbo of indecisive people or apprentices, but an emphatic assembly of spirits who felt confident, ingenious, and aware. With selections by Andres Bello, Jorge Amado, Julio Cortazar, Clairce Lispector, Octavio Paz, Ariel Dorfman, Manuel Puig, and many others, The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays is just such an assembly of spirits who deepen our awa...

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The American Scholar Summer 2001

Author:  Fadiman
Publication Date: 01/01/2001

The American Scholar a quarterly journal of literature, science and culture, has been published for a general readership since 1932. Summary of Contents: The Mass in Spanish, by D Graham Burnett Loving and Hating Simone Weil, by Francine du Plessix Gray Ohio States, by Jeffrey Hammond. Three Men and a Book, by Jacques Barzun. Van, by Brian Doyle. A House in Bali, by Jamie James. Relic...

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The American Scholar

Author: Anne Fadiman
Publication Date: 01/01/2001

items by/about: Thomas Mallon, Andrew Levy (Thomas Jefferson) Tim Morris, Vijay Seshadri, Stacy Schiff, Daniel Aaron (Northampton, MA), Spencer Nadler, Peter Schwendener, Sherwin B. Nuland, Lewis B. Day, Geoff Dyer (F. Scott Fitzgerald), Dierdre McCloskey, Kate Barnes (poem), Lola Haskins (poem), Susan Donnelly (poem), Gregory Djanikian (poem), Michael Fallon (poem), Jean Hollander (poem), Gary Fi...

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Hawthorne Nathaniel : Celestial Railroad (Sc)

Author:  
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A Feast of True Fandangles

Author: Patrick Campbell
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1980

Collection of Campbell's humorous essays - 'Like passing a jolly afternoon in one of Dublin's lovely pubs, with the drink all of he house.'...

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unpopular opinions

Author: Dorothy sayers
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1946

Essays by one of Britain's greatest detective writers on religious and political issues, as well as on Sherlock Holmes....

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True Fiction

Author:  
Publication Date: 19981105

A collection of articles from the "True Fiction" column from the "Weekend FT". These pieces occupy a twilight world where truth and fiction meet, tinged with humour and irony. With pieces by Joe Queenan, Michael Thompson-Noel, Kieran Cooke and many others.

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Thank heavan for friend

Author:  Helen Exley
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1993

A beautiful illustrated pocket book of quotes from William Shakespeare Aristotle, Helen Keller, William Wordsworth and lots more....

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The Flame in the Darkness

Author: Victor Sparre
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1980

A unique picture of most of the men who have led what is known in the West as the dissident movement. Solzhenitsyn, Sakharov, Bukovski, and many others who have been in the headlines, move through these pages, drawn with a painter's perceptiveness....

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The Dead And Other Stories

Author: James Joyce
Publication Date: 1995xz

Short stories by James Joyce and read by Gerard McSorley....

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Home is Where the Heart is

Author:  Various
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1997

In 'Home is here the Heart is' writers down the ages welcome us to homes large and small, humble and noble, real and imaginary to enjoy a celebration in verse and prose of the pleasures of home-making and home-life...

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Liam O'Flagherty's short stories:Volume 2

Author: Liam O'Flagherty
Publication Date: May 1981

collection of short stories from classic irish author Liam O'Flagherty...

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The Verdict of Bridlegoose

Author:  Powys
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1875

A collection of essays first published in 1927...

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Marilyn Monroe and other poems

Author: Ernesto Cardenal
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1975

A collection of poems by the famous Latin American poet....

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The Shattered Ring: science fiction and the quest for meaning

Author: Lois & Stephen Rose
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1970

A critical evaluation of smoe leading SF writers, suggesting that such writers are creating new myths for our times....

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Picador 21st Book

Author:  
Publication Date: 10 September 1993

In 1993 Picador celebrated its 21st anniversary. This book marks the event by including 21 authors, each of which looks at a year between 1972 and 1992. Thus Oliver Sacks chose 1972, the year his mother died and he wrote "Awakenings" while the book ends with Tariq Ali writing about cricket in 1992.

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I, An Actor

Author: Nicholas Craig
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1988

A spoof humorous autobiography of fictional theatrical actor Nicholas Craig (wrtten by Nigel Planer of BBC TV's "The Young Ones" fame)....

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Women on Man

Author:  Ammerlaan
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The mystery of the knowing smile, the thread of the supppressed giggle, the terrifying bravado of the outright laugh. These were the reactions to the first volume of Woman on Men. So read this volume with reverence, knowing it is deictated to all those women living on the edge of the bathroom...

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Burnt Norton

Author: t. s. Eliot
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Singular poem...

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Vol de Nuit

Author: Antoine Saint Exupery
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This is an autobiographical account of Saint Exupery's life as a pilot. The novel is in the original French....

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the psalms

Author:  metcalfe
Publication Date:

the psalms...

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prefaces to shakespeare hamlet

Author:  granville barker
Publication Date:

pub 1937...

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Aesop's Fables

Author:  
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The View from the High Board
Writings on Sport

Author:  
Publication Date: 20030925

As Chief Sports Writer of "The Guardian", Richard Williams has the pick of the best sporting assignments: Olympic Games, world title fights, Grands Prix, Test matches and the World Cup. In this collection of his sports writing he considers the greatness of some of the biggest figures in sport.

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