
Metaphors We Live by
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
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People use metaphors every time they speak. Some of those metaphors are literary - devices for...

Artists' Postcards: A Compendium
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Over the last twenty years an increasing number of artists have turned to expressing themselves...

Made Flesh: Sacrament and Poetics in Post-reformation England
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During the Reformation, the mystery of the Eucharist was the subject of contentious debate and a...

The Thinking Man's Idiot: The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson
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Boris Johnson [is] known as the thinking man's idiot - Humphrey Lyttelton on "I'm Sorry I Haven't a...

London: An Illustrated Literary Companion
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'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can...

Seventeenth-Century British Poetry, 1603-1660
John Peter Rumrich and Gregory Chaplin
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A time of political and social unrest in England, this period produced some of the greatest poetry...

Lonesome Melodies: The Lives and Music of the Stanley Brothers
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Carter and Ralph Stanley--the Stanley Brothers--are comparable to Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs as...

The Hurt Business: A Century of the Greatest Writing on Boxing
George Kimball and John Schulian
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From Jack London to Joyce Carol Oates, The Hurt Business is the ultimate boxing book covering a...