The Penguin Modern Classics Book by Henry Eliot
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The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world, and the companion volume to The Penguin Classics Book. For six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, rad ...Show more
Byron In Love by Edna O'Brien
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'Edna O'Brien has always had a gift for writing about affairs of the heart' Guardian 'Her boldly coloured portrait rewrites his life with all the brio and elan for which her novels are renowned' The Herald 'Hugely enjoyable' Daily Telegraph BYRON IN LOVE - the nobility, arrogance and sheer theatre of By ...Show more
Pulped Fiction - An Anthology of Microlit by Cassandra Atherton (Editor)
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Cri Fi, Sci Fi, Noir, Rom Com, Lit Fic, Western, Horror, Gothic, Fantasy, Fairytale... In Spineless Wonders' latest anthology of microlit, writers were invited to play with genre. Here you will find some of the well-worn tropes from literature and film reshaped and manipulated – all in less than half a ...Show more
I Saw the Dog: How Language Works by Alexandra Aikhenvald
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A leading expert draws on a lifetime of fieldwork to reveal the mysteries and magic of language. Every language in the world shares a few common features: we can ask a question, say something belongs to us, and tell someone what to do. But beyond that, our languages are richly and almost ...Show more
Lost in Thought - The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz
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An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendours of a life of learning.In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everybody is judged by its usefulness, where can we turn for escape, lasting pleasure, contemplation, or conn ...Show more
The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities by Paul Anthony Jones
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'Brilliant for anyone interested in the effervescent oddness of English' --Stig Abell on Word DropsThis is the perfect language gift book: a surprising or obscure word for every day of the year. Paul Anthony Jones has unearthed a wealth of wonderful and strange words: dip into this beautifully designed ...Show more
A History of Writing by Steven Roger Fischer
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From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers an investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the world. Illustrated with numerous examples, this book offers a global overview in a format that everyone can ...Show more
House of Fiction: From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life by Phyllis Richardson
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From the gothic fantasies of Walpole's Otranto to post-modern takes on the country house by Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, Phyllis Richardson guides us on a tour through buildings real and imagined to examine how authors' personal experiences helped to shape the homes that have become icons of English l ...Show more
Who Owns This Sentence? - A History of Copyrights and Wrongs by David Bellos; Alexandre Montagu
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Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wallpa ...Show more
Proverbs from Around the World by Gerd De Ley
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As much as there are differences in our cultures, traditions, and beliefs, there are more similarities between us all than we all realise. One of these similarities is our penchant to record age-old wisdom through generations. Proverbs From Around the World feature a grand collection of these passed dow ...Show more
John Keats - Poetry, Life and Landscapes by Suzie Grogan
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We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author.' (John Keats to J.H. Reynolds, Teignmouth May 1818)John Keats is one of Britain's best-known and most-loved poets. Despite dying in Rome in 1821, at the age of just 25, his poems continue to inspire gene ...Show more
Stranger Shores: Essays 1986 - 1999 by J. M. Coetzee
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Stranger Shores is the first of three collections of literary criticism by J. M. Coetzee to be republished by Text. It includes essays on Dostoevsky and Kafka, A. S. Byatt and Doris Lessing. These are concise, accessible introductions to some of the world's greatest writers, by a contemporary master. ...Show more