Crime Writing in Interwar Britain: Fact and Fiction in the Golden Age
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The interwar period is often described as the 'Golden Age' of detective fiction, but many other...
Germinal
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Considered by André Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language, Émile Zola's...
H.M.S. Surprise
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Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of...
Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Kick Their Asses: Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy in Feminist Perspective
Donna King and Carrie Lee Smith
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Stieg Larsson was an unabashed feminist in his personal and professional life and in the fictional...
Reading Austen in America
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Reading Austen in America presents a colorful, compelling account of how an appreciative audience...
Reading Robin Hood: Content, Form and Reception in the Outlaw Myth
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Reading Robin Hood explores and explains stories about the mythic outlaw, who from the Middle Ages...
The Language of Stories: A Cognitive Approach
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How do we read stories? How do they engage our minds and create meaning? Are they a mental...
The Road to Wigan Pier
George Orwell, Peter Davison and Richard Hoggart
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A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial...
The Story of Hong Gildong
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The Story of Hong Gildong is arguably the single most important work of classic Korean fiction. Like...
Think, Pig!: Beckett at the Limit of the Human
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This book examines Samuel Beckett's unique lesson in courage in the wake of humanism's postwar...