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by Jason Wilson
<p>“Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces ...
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A Critical Introduction, 1920-1936
by Nigel Dennis
<p>Writer, critic, and cultural activist José Bergamín (1895-1983) was unjustly relegated to the sidelines of contemporary Spanish intellectual life for reasons that have more to do with his political dissidence and long periods of exile than ...
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by Kieron O'Hara
This book argues that the novelist Joseph Conrad’s work speaks directly to us in a way that none of his contemporaries can. Conrad’s scepticism, pessimism, emphasis on the importance and fragility of community, and the difficulties of escaping ...
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Joseph Conrad: A Psychoanalytic Biography
by Meyer, Bernard Constant
<p>Joseph Conrad once voiced the hope that from the reading of his pages might "emerge at last the vision of a personality: the man behind the books ... a coherent justifiable personality both in its origin and its actions." Dr. Meyer arrives at
ISBN: 9781400870318
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by Jonathan Swift
<p>A Journal to Stella is a work by Jonathan Swift first partly published posthumously in 1766.</p> <p>It consists of 65 letters to his friend, Esther Johnson, whom he called Stella and whom he may have secretly married. They were written ...
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by Alexis Pettway
<p>Funny thing about Love is that we rarely see it coming especially for the first time. It sidelines our hearts and re-positions our minds.<br />The journey of falling in love is a road we all travel and discover the happiness, the pain, the ...
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by Clara Henshaw & Paris Venus
<p>Paris Venus was feeling old, lonely, fat, and depressed when Senior FriendFinder popped up on her computer screen. A dating site for old people? The lowest tier of membership was free, so she filled out a profile, listing her age as sixty-one
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Poet, Seeker and the Woman Who Captivated C. S. Lewis
by Abigail Santamaria
<p>Joy Davidman is known, if she is known at all, as the wife of C. S. Lewis. Their marriage was immortalized in the film Shadowlands and Lewis's memoir, A Grief Observed. Now, through extraordinary new documents as well as years of research and
ISBN: 9780281074280
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To the Orient With Hans Christian Andersen
by Michael Booth
<p><strong>'The next Bill Bryson.’ <em>New York Times</em></strong></p> <p>Having been dragged against his will to live in Denmark, Michael Booth discovered one of the great secrets of travel literature - Andersen's <em>A Poet's Bazaar</em> - a
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On Fatherhood
by Bill Gaston
<p>**Shortlisted for the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize</p> <p>Shortlisted for the 2019 BC Book Prize - Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize</p> <p>Shortlisted for the 2019 BC Book Prize - Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize</p> <p>From Giller-nominated, ...
ISBN: 9780735234079
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The Early Years
by Reiner Stach
<p>How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography of the writer answers that question with more facts and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, ...
ISBN: 9781400884476
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The Strange Case of a Literary Legacy
by Benjamin Balint
When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend and champion Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfil Kafka’s last instruction: to burn his remaining manuscripts. Instead, Brod devoted the rest of his life to canonizing Kafka as the most ...
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The Strange Case of a Literary Legacy
by Benjamin Balint
When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend and champion Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfil Kafka’s last instruction: to burn his remaining manuscripts. Instead, Brod devoted the rest of his life to canonizing Kafka as the most ...
ISBN: 9781509836734
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by Kahlil G. Gibran & Jean Gibran
<p>A comprehensive illustrated biography of <strong>Kahlil Gibran</strong>, Lebanese-American artist, poet and author of the best-selling inspirational fiction <em>The Prophet</em>.</p> <p>Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-born artist, poet, writer ...
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Essays
by John-Paul Powley
<p><em>It’s funny how often I forget the power of stories</em></p> <p>In these brilliant and wide-ranging essays John-Paul Powley harnesses the power of stories to tell us about ourselves and where we come from. Acting as ‘kaitiaki o te po,’ a ...
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by Huzeyfe Mücahid Osmanoglu
<p>“Büyük bir magaramiz olsun bizim de. Bu sehre, bu karmasaya, bu merhametsizlige, bu gürültüye ayak uyduramayanlarin siginabilecegi bir magaramiz olsun” diyor sehre kosarak giren adamin kâtibi.</p> <p>Biz duvarlarina hakikatin nurlari ...
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The Heroine of Kurdistan fighting Islamic Terrorism
by Hamma Mirwaisi
<p>Kani The Heroine of Kurdistan fighting Islamic Terrorism Are the stories of Kurdish girls and women dedicated to my heroines, the Kurdish guerrilla fighters of YJA-STAR, YPJ, HPJ and YJÊ of Yazidi Kurds - beyond the calls of bravery you are ...
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by Victor Cousin
<p>Kant est le père de la philosophie allemande : il est l’auteur ou plutôt l’instrument de la plus grande révolution philosophique<br /> qui ait eu lieu dans l’Europe moderne depuis Descartes. Or, toute révolution digne de ce nom est fille du ...
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At the Fringe of Genius
by Mark Boulby
<p>This is the first complete biographical and critical study of Karl Philipp Moritz (1756–93), German novelist, teacher, journalist, and philologist. His psychological novel, <em>Anton Reiser</em>, replete with insights into the sociological ...
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by Katie Gramich
<p>When the Welsh writer Kate Roberts died in 1985 at the age of 94, the Times obituary noted that ‘she was felt by many to rank with Maupassant as one of the leading European short story writers’. Roberts is widely acknowledged as the major ...
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