BOOKS ARE MY BUSINESS : THE LIFE OF A PUBLISHER by A W REED
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Ninety-Nine Novels - The Best in English since 1939 by Anthony Burgess
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THE MODERN LIBRARY : THE 200 BEST NOVELS IN ENGLISH SINCE 1950 by Carmen Callil; Colm Tóibín
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The authors have chosen the 200 books since 1950 that they consider to be the best. It includes some familiar names and some surprises. Witty and controversial, their aim is to encourage reading.
Great Books - My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and other indestructible writers of the western world by David Denby
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THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER At the age of forty-eight, writer and film critic David Denby returned to Columbia University and re-enrolled in two core courses in Western civilization to confront the literary and philosophical masterpieces -- the "great books" -- that are now at the heart of the culture wars. ...Show more
The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations by Tony Augarde (Editor)
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Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf, Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy, Louis Armstrong and Mae West, Woody Allen and Dorothy Parker--these are but a few of the figures who have given voice to our century's most memorable quotations. Now, in The Oxford Dict ...Show more
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature : Vol 3 1800-1900 by George Watson (Editor)
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More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 3 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been re ...Show more
Take a Cold Tub, Sir! - The Story of the 'Boy's Own Paper' by Jack Cox
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Few magazines have ever won such affection and regard as the Boy's Own Paper. In its meridian years B.O.P.'s influence reached world-wide, and its name is still a household world. First issued on January 18, 1879, price one penny, it was a modest 16-page publication produced by the Religious Tract Socie ...Show more
THE GERMAN TRADITION IN LITERATURE 1871-1945 by RONALD GRAY
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature by Margaret Drabble (Editor)
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Sir Paul Harvey's original Oxford Companion to English Literaure, published in 1932, was the book that began Oxford's celebrated Companion series. In its various editions in the half-century since then, it has enjoyed an enormously faithful following and unflagging sales (over 400,000 to date). Now, for ...Show more
Style in Fiction - A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose by Geoffrey N. Leech; M. H. Short
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Describes the ways in which the techniques of linguistic analysis and literary criticism can be combined, and illuminated, through the linguistic study of literary style, and draws on the prose fiction of the last 150 years to demonstrate the approach.