A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain
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"We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love...
Alexander the Great: A Very Short Introduction
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Alexander the Great became king of Macedon in 336 BC, when he was only 20 years old, and died at the...
Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele
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Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele' tells for the first time the riveting life-story of an...
Backstairs Billy: The Life of William Tallon, the Queen Mother's Most Devoted Servant
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William Tallon, who died in 2007, was a shopkeeper's son from the Midlands who worked for the Queen...
English for Academic Research: Grammar Exercises
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This book is based on a study of referees' reports and letters from journal editors on reasons why...
The Academic Job Search Handbook
Julia Miller Vick, Jennifer S. Furlong and Rosanne Lurie
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The Academic Job Search Handbook is the comprehensive guide to finding a faculty position in any...
Lust for Life: Irvine Welsh and the Trainspotting Phenomenon
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In the early 1980s Irvine Welsh's life was going nowhere fast. His teenage dreams of being a...
Moby Dick
Herman Melville, Hershel Parker and Harrison Hayford
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A section of "Whaling and Whalecraft" features prose and graphics by John B. Putnam, a sample of...
The Sound and the Fury: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism
William Faulkner and Michael Gorra
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William Faulkner's provocative and enigmatic 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury, is widely...
Words are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a Writer's Week
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"Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how...