Writers Who Changed History by DK; James Naughtie (Foreword by)
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Category: Literary Criticism
This stunning visual celebration of the world's most celebrated novelists, poets, and playwrights tells the fascinating stories of their lives and works. Lavishly illustrated with portraits of each writer, alongside photographs of their homes and studies, and personal artefacts - along with pages from o ...Show more
100 Books That Changed The World by Colin Salter, Scott Christianson
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Category: Literary Criticism
A chronological survey of the world's most influential books. Many books have become classics, must-reads or overnight publishing sensations, but how many can genuinely claim to have changed the way we see and think? In 100 Books that Changed the World, authors Scott Christianson and Colin Salter brin ...Show more
Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the CastleInsight Text Guides by Maude Ashton
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Category: Literary Criticism
The Insight Text Guide on Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a comprehensive guide to the novel for senior secondary students of English. It provides detailed notes on context and background, genre, structure and language, as well as an analysis of each chapter. Characters and theme ...Show more
Sunday Best - 80 Great Books from a Lifetime of Reviews by John Carey
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Category: Literary Criticism
A collection of John Carey's greatest, wisest, and wittiest reviews--amassed over a lifetime of writing In 1977, newly installed as a professor of English at Oxford, John Carey took the position of chief reviewer for the Sunday Times. In a career spanning over 40 years and upwards of 1,000 reviews, Care ...Show more
100 Novels That Changed the World by Colin Salter
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Category: Literary Criticism
The inspiring novels that have left a significant mark on the world of literature and popular culture. Before the novel, the world of books was dominated by scientific tomes, religious tracts and histories of the victorious in war. There had been stories and epic poems from ancient times - Homer's Iliad ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Books by David Damrosch
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Category: Literary Criticism | Series: Pelican Books
A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them.Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's department of Comparative Literature and founder of ...Show more
Everyday Shakespeare: Lines for Life by Ben Crystal, David Crystal
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Category: Literary Criticism
Shakespeare had an ear and hand that was able to capture our everyday thoughts and emotions, pin them to a page, and express them so well that still today they can make us feel stunned to be seen.'Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.''Make not your thoughts your prisons.''Wisely and slow. ...Show more
What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book by Pandora Sykes
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Category: Literary Criticism
Time and again, writers are asked the same questions about their favourite books: What are they? What’s the book you wish you had written? What’s the book that changed your life? In What Writers Read, Pandora Sykes – herself a voracious, omnivorous reader – collects short essays from bestselling and be ...Show more
Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences by Bev Vincent
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Category: Literary Criticism
Celebrate the King of Horror's 75th birthday with Stephen King, which explores the connections between Stephen King's life and his body of work. Explore the evolution and influences of Stephen King's body of work over his nearly 50-year career, and discover how the themes of his writing reflect the chan ...Show more
Great Novels: The World's Most Remarkable Fiction Explored and Explained by DK
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Category: Literary Criticism
A beautifully illustrated guide to the greatest novels ever writtenDiscover everything you ever wanted to know about the world's greatest novels.From medieval romances and tales of chivalry through the realist novels of the 19th century to experimental modernist works and today's explorations of the sel ...Show more
Lohrey by Julieanne Lamond
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Category: Literary Criticism
A guide to the world of Amanda Lohrey's fiction, and a meditation on what her writing has to say about contemporary life and how we live it.Amanda Lohrey is a fearless and idiosyncratic writer whose award-winning career spans four decades. Her work is experimental, political, intimate and compelling. Lo ...Show more
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life) by George Saunders
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Category: Literary Criticism
From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a c ...Show more