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A Complete Identity: The Youthful Hero in the Work of G.A. Henty and George MacDonald
R.E. Johnson
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An examination of the hero figure in the stories of two major Victorian authors of children's literature and the complex way in which they engaged with the dominant ideologies of the time.


Poetry & Responsibility
Neil Corcoran
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£27.20

This book considers the kinds of responsibility which modern lyric poetry takes on, or to which it makes itself subject - social, cultural, political, aesthetic and personal.


Jane Austen: pocket GIANTS
Caroline Sanderson
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£1.55

and: A Rambling Fancy: In the Footsteps of Jane Austen, a travel book about Jane Austen's life and locations.Caroline's articles, book reviews and author interviews have appeared in The Times, The Independent on Sunday, Mslexia, newbooks and Books for Keeps.


For the love of letters
John O'Connell
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A tribute to the dying art of letter writing celebrates the promise and relevance of hand-written letters in a world increasingly driven by technology, showcasing powerful examples by such writers as Samuel Richardson, Wilfred Owens and Jane Austen. --Publishers Description.


The Hotel Oneira
August Kleinzahler
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Presents poetry that is concerned with permeability: voices, places, the real and the dreamed, the present and the past, colliding and intersecting and spilling over into each other.


Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust
Lorenza Foschini
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Part literary mystery, part biography, part curiosity, here is the short, charming (and true) story of one man's obsession with Marcel Proust, and his decades-long quest to collect everything that once belonged to the writer - right down to his overcoat


In a dark wood
Joseph Luzzi
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"In the aftermath of a heartbreaking tragedy, a scholar and writer uses Dante's Divine Comedy to shepherd him through the dark wood of grief and mourning--a rich and emotionally resonant memoir of suffering, hope, love, and the power of literature to inspire and heal the most devastating loss. Where ...


Granta 131: The Map Is Not the Territory
Sigrid Rausing
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Nonsense
Christopher Reid
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Christopher Reid's new collection is a quartet of works for voice, opening with the brisk and brightly coloured monologue of Professor Winterthorn - recently widowed, soon to be retired, who decides on impulse to attend a conference (on 'Nonsense and the Pursuit of Futility as strategies...') in California.


Six Bad Poets
Christopher Reid
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It follows the exploits of a group of hapless bards, more intimately connected than they themselves can possibly know, in their attempts to navigate the hazards of London literary society.


William Clark Russell and the Victorian Nautical Novel: Gender, Genre and the Marketplace
Andrew Nash
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William Clark Russell wrote more than forty nautical novels. Immensely popular in their time, his works were admired by contemporary writers, such as Conan Doyle, Stevenson and Meredith, while Swinburne, considered him 'the greatest master of the sea, living or dead'. Based on extensive archival research, Nash explores this remarkable career.


Poetic Lives: Coleridge
Daniel Hahn
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Poet, philosopher, and critic, Samuel Taylor Coleridge is now best remembered for the extraordinary "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan." With his friend William Wordsworth he founded the Romantic movement—theirs was one of the most productive and creative partnerships in the history ...


Ode to Bully Beef: WWII Poetry They Didn't Let You Read
John Sadler, Rosie Serdiville
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The Second World War (1939-45) was not greeted with the same lavish outpouring of patriotic fervour that had attended August 1914. The Great War had been heralded as `the war to end all wars';One significant difference between the two conflicts is that, whilst both were industrial wars, the Second World War was far nearerthe concept of total war.


Pressing Forward: Alfred, Lord Tennyson and the Victorian Age
Louis A. Markos
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Louis A. Markos places the poetry of Tennyson in the context of the crisis of faith that marked the Victorian Age, whose notable figures included Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin, John Ruskin, John Henry Newman and Stuart Mill.


Roddy Doyle: The Essential Guide
Jonathan Noakes, Margaret Reynolds
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In Vintage Living Texts, teachers, students and any lover of literature will find the essential guide to the major works of Roddy Doyle. Featuring the texts: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, The Van and A Star Called Henry.


Mary Barnard, American Imagist
Sarah Barnsley
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"Uncovers a new chapter in the story of American modernist poetry"--Provided by publisher.


The Merchant's Tale
Geoffrey Chaucer
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A dual-language edition of Chaucer's timeless tale of adultery and deception, presenting a brand new modern-English translation by acclaimed Chaucer scholar, Lyn Richmond. --Book Jacket.


The Wherewithal: A Novel in Verse
Philip Schultz
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"One of the strongest literary renditions of the Shoah I know."-Saul Friedlander, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Years of Extermination


Failure and the American Writer: A Literary History
Gavin Jones
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Jones explores encounters with failure by nineteenth-century American writers - including Poe, Melville and Twain - whose celebrated works more often struck readers as profoundly messy, flawed and even perverse. Here, they emerge as theorists of failure who discovered ways to translate their own social insecurities into complex portrayals of a modern self.


Poet and Critic: The Letters of Ted Hughes and Keith Sagar
Ted Hughes, Keith Sagar
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The correspondence between the English poet Ted Hughes and the literary critic Keith Sagar began in 1969 and lasted until Hughes's death in 1998. During that time Hughes wrote 146 letters to Sagar, which show a unique dialogue between a writer and a critic.

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