Mark Twain's Humor: Critical Essays
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Originally published in 1993. The purpose of this volume is to lay out documents which give an...

Never Let Me Go
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In one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of...
Nora Ephron: Everything is Copy
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Nora Ephron famously claimed that she wrote about every thought that ever crossed her mind, from her...

Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean
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Suddenly, comics are everywhere: a newly matured art form, filling bookshelves with brilliant,...

Scandinavian Crime Fiction
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With its bleak urban environments, psychologically compelling heroes and socially engaged plots,...
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, and Race
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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 40 of the most important scholars...
Writers and Social Thought in Africa
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Social theory and social theorizing about Africa has largely ignored African literature. However,...

10:04
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In the past year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, been diagnosed with...

100 Prized Poems: Twenty-Five Years of the Forward Books
Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Armitage, William Sieghart and Moniza Alvi
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"The Forward Prizes have turned a spotlight on contemporary poetry which is both searching and...

Peter Pan (1911)
J.M. Barrie and Anne Hiebert Alton
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For twenty-six years after his first mention of the character, J.M. Barrie worked on the story of...