
A Good Parcel of English Soil: The Metropolitan Line
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Richard Mabey, one of Britain's leading nature writers, looks in A Good Parcel of English Soil at...

Dante's Lyric Poetry: Poems of Youth and of the 'Vita Nuova'
Andrew Frisardi, Teodolinda Barolini and Richard Lansing
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The first comprehensive English translation and commentary on Dante's early verse to be published in...

Ford Madox Ford, 1873-1939: Bibliography of Works and Criticism
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The Protean personality and career of Ford Madox Ford as poet, novelist, editor, critic, and...

New Readings of Silvina Ocampo: Beyond Fantasy
Patricia Nisbet Klingenberg and Fernanda Zullo-Ruiz
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The critical essays in this volume are dedicated to the works of Argentine writer Silvina Ocampo...

Night Waking
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Historian Anna Bennett has a book to write. She also has an insomniac toddler, a precocious,...

Plain Words
Rebecca Gowers and Ernest Gowers
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'Be short, be simple, be human.' When Sir Ernest Gowers first wrote Plain Words, it was intended...

Playwriting: The Structure of Action
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This practical guide provides the principles of dramatic writing. Playwrights and screenwriters will...

Selected Speeches
Demosthenes and Robin Waterfield
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'Even if everyone else succumbs to slavery, we must still fight for our freedom.' Admired by many in...

The Wicked Wit of Charles Dickens
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Admired by his contemporaries, and a hugely celebrated writer of his day, Charles Dickens is now...
True Stories: And Other Essays
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An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and...