A Horror and a Beauty: The World of Peter Ackroyd's London Novels
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Peter Ackroyd's writing is obsessed with the defining heterogeneity of London its rich diversity of...
Chaucer's Decameron and the Origin of the Canterbury Tales
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A possible direct link between the two greatest literary collections of the fourteenth century,...
Dostoevsky and the Affirmation of Life
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Dostoevsky's philosophy of life is unfolded in this searching analysis of his five greatest works:...
In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery
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In Search of First Contact is a monumental achievement by the influential literary critic Annette...
Missing Link: The Evolution of Metaphor and the Metaphor of Evolution
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We look for missing links in the sciences and humanities, but the essential missing link - metaphor...
The Art of Invective: Selected Non-Fiction 1953-94
John Williams, Dennis Potter, Ian Greaves and David Rolinson
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Dennis Potter (1935-94) was Britain's leading television dramatist for almost thirty years and...
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac
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In alternating chapters that reveal a nascent period in their development as two of the twentieth...
The Shadow of the Wind: The Cemetery of Forgotten Books 1
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A stunning literary thriller in the tradition of Umberto Eco. The discovery of a forgotten book...
Everything is Illuminated
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Everything Is Illuminated is Jonathan Safran Foer's bestselling novel of a search for...
Exit Ghost
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Like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes...