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A fascinating and innovative introduction to the best works of fiction from the last 500 years. Simply constructed, the book explores 60 key novels from The Tale of Genji to My Brilliant Friend.In addition to enjoyable descriptions of the novels and concise explanations...
Editeur :
Laurence King Publishing
Parution :
2024-08-08
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Most classists have viewed Aulus Gellius' second-century text, the Noctes Atticae, as little more than a haphazard collection of short essays and excerpts by an amateur scholar. Often called a "miscellany," the Noctes Atticae collects vast amounts of otherwise lost...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-05-21
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HOW A BOOKSELLER INSPIRED A NATIONThe diary of a publicist-turned bookseller who left Florence to open a tiny bookshop on a Tuscan hill. 'Like Chocolat meets Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop, set in the Tuscan hills... A celebration of writing, words and people:...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2022-11-03
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'Like all good diarists Paling's musings are funny, tender and uncensored' Sunday Times6 April 2007Writing income for the year so far: minus £300'I feel that this might just be the year in which something happens. Then again it might not. But hope drives all writers...
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Constable
Parution :
2021-06-17
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From Henry James' fascination with burnt manuscripts to destroyed books in the fiction of the Blitz; from junk mail in the work of Elizabeth Bowen to bureaucratic paperwork in Vladimir Nabokov; modern fiction is littered with images of tattered and useless paper that...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-16
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65,72€
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From Henry James' fascination with burnt manuscripts to destroyed books in the fiction of the Blitz; from junk mail in the work of Elizabeth Bowen to bureaucratic paperwork in Vladimir Nabokov; modern fiction is littered with images of tattered and useless paper that...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-16
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65,72€
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This volume provides a wide-ranging account of the development and importance of private libraries and book ownership through the seventeenth century, based upon many kinds of evidence, including examination of thousands of books, and a list of over 1,300 known owners...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-26
ePub
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80,32€
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This volume provides a wide-ranging account of the development and importance of private libraries and book ownership through the seventeenth century, based upon many kinds of evidence, including examination of thousands of books, and a list of over 1,300 known owners...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-26
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80,32€
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For a whole year on his train to work, Stig Abell read books from across genres and time periods. Then he wrote about them, and their impact on our culture and his own life.The result is a work of many things: a brisk guide to the canon of Western literature; an...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2020-11-12
ePub
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Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary women readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. Female readers are key to the future of fiction and--as...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-05
ePub
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10,94€
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Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary women readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. Female readers are key to the future of fiction and--as...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-05
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10,94€
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The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities.The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-11-08
ePub
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15,81€
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The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities.The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-11-03
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18,24€
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Alastair Fowler presents a fascinating study of title-pages printed in England from the early modern period to the nineteenth century. He examines pictorial title-pages in the context of the History of the Book for the first
time. The first part of The Mind of the Book...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-02-16
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36,50€
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Alastair Fowler presents a fascinating study of title-pages printed in England from the early modern period to the nineteenth century. He examines pictorial title-pages in the context of the History of the Book for the first
time. The first part of The Mind of the Book...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-02-09
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40,15€
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The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities.The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-07-21
ePub
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19,46€
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The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities.The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-24
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19,46€
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Diverting Authorities examines the glossing of a variety of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century texts by authors including Lydgate, Douglas, Chaloner, Baldwin, Bullein, Harington, and Nashe. It is concerned particularly with the use of glosses as a means for authors to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-12-11
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59,63€
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The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars.The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-06-26
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Along with Shakespeare, Jane Austen (1775-1817) can be said to be the most widely studied author in the history of English literature. But unlike Shakespeare, her language has received little scholarly attention. This is especially true for the language of her letters....
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-22
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