Jane AustenInside Her Novels by Matthew Coniam
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Category: Literature | Series: Pitkin Guide
This beautifully illustrated guide to Jane Austen's novels, released to commemorate the 200th anniversary of her death, is an essential for any Jane Austen fan or literary lover. Revealing key aspects of Jane s own background and life, this fascinating guide explores the relationships between the key th ...Show more
A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare
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Category: Literature
'Comrade Stalin wishes to speak with you.' A fascinating exploration of the relationship between writers and tyranny, from the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize. In June 1934, Joseph Stalin allegedly telephoned the famous novelist and poet Boris Pasternak to discuss the arrest of fell ...Show more
In Praise of Good Bookstores by Jeff Deutsch
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Category: Literature
From a devoted reader and lifelong bookseller, an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular importance of bookstores Do we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In this beautifully written book, Jeff Deutsch--the director of Chicago's Seminary Co-op Bookst ...Show more
50 Books to Read If You're a Hopeless Romantic by Eric Karl Anderson
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Category: Literature
A book lover's guide to the 50 most iconic and interesting novels centred on a love story.
Meanjin Vol 82, No 3 by Esther Anatolitis
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Category: Literature
Devoted entirely to work by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and artists, Meanjin 82.3 Spring 2023 is framed around notions of place. The Meanjin Paper that opens this special edition is an archival interview with Oodgeroo Noonuccal, followed by a State of the Nation piece by Gary Foley, an ...Show more
Gardening Can Be Murder: How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers by MARTA MCDOWELL
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Category: Literature
With their deadly plants, razor-sharp shears, shady corners, and ready-made burial sites, gardens make an ideal scene for the perfect murder. But the outsize influence that gardens and gardening have had on the mystery genre has been underappreciated. Now, Marta McDowell, a writer and gardener with a ne ...Show more
Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts by Kathryn Harkup
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Category: Literature
An in-depth look at the science behind the creative methods Shakespeare used to kill off his characters. In Death By Shakespeare, Kathryn Harkup, best-selling author of A is for Arsenic and expert on the more gruesome side of science, turns her expertise to William Shakespeare and the creative methods ...Show more
The Sounds of Poetry - A Brief Guide by Robert Pinsky
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Category: Literature
The Poet Laureate's clear and entertaining account of how poetry works. Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art, Robert Pinsky declares in The Sounds of Poetry. The medium of poetry is the human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth. ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories (Leather Bound) by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Literature | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
Scurry down the rabbit hole and step through the looking glass with this luxurious compilation of works from Lewis Carroll. Don't be late--it's a very important date Witty, whimsical, and often nonsensical, the fiction of Lewis Carroll has been popular with both children and adults for over 150 year ...Show more
The Well: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1986 (Popular Penguins) by Elizabeth Jolley
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Category: Literature | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Driving one night along the deserted track that leads to the farm, Miss Hester Harper and Katherine run into a mysterious creature. They dump the body into the farm's deep well but the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farthe ...Show more
Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl
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Category: Literature | Series: Popular Penguins
In this collection of stories, Dahl tantalizes, amuses, and sometimes terrifies readers into a sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary. Included in this collection are such notorious gems of the bizarre as "The Second Machine," "Lamb to the Slaughter," "Neck," and "The Landlady." Other stories explor ...Show more
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
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Category: Literature
In one of the most striking opening scenes ever written, a bizarre ballooning accident and a chance meeting give birth to an obsession so powerful that an ordinary man is driven to the brink of madness and murder by another's delusions. Ian McEwan brings us an unforgettable story--dark, gripping, and br ...Show more