The Road to Middlemarch - My Life with George Eliot by Rebecca Mead
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Category: Literary Criticism | Reading Level: very good
What would happen if I stopped to consider how Middlemarch has shaped my understanding of my own life? Why did the novel still feel so urgent, after all these years? And what could it give me now, as I paused here in the middle of things, and surveyed where I had come from, and thought about where I was ...Show more
Show Me a Story! Why Picture Books Matter by Leonard S. Marcus
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Category: Literary Criticism
In compelling interviews by the acclaimed Leonard S. Marcus, twenty-one top authors and illustrators reveal their inside stories on the art of creating picture books. Max and Mickey; Miss Nelson; Pack, Quack, and Mrs. Mallard; Pigeon; Sylvester; John Henry; and a very hungry caterpillar -- these are jus ...Show more
Basho's "Narrow Road": Spring and Autumn Passages by Basho Matsuo
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Category: Literary Criticism | Series: Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature Ser.
Matsuo Basho (1644-94) is considered Japan's greatest haiku poet. "Narrow Road to the Interior" (Oku no Hosomichi) is his masterpiece. Ostensibly a chronological account of the poet's five-month journey in 1689 into the deep country north and west of the old capital, Edo, the work is in fact artful and ...Show more
To The Letter: A Journey Through a Vanishing World by Simon Garfield
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Category: Literary Criticism | Reading Level: very good
To the Letter tells the story of our remarkable journey through the mail. From Roman wood chips discovered near Hadrian's Wall to the wonders and terrors of email, Simon Garfield explores how we have written to each other over the centuries and what our letters reveal about our lives. Along the way he d ...Show more
By the Book: A Reader's Guide to Life by Ramona Koval
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Category: Literary Criticism
By the Book is Ramona Koval's love letter to books and writing. What is it about reading that we love so much? Why do books make our lives so much richer? Ramona Koval's By the Book is about reading and living, and about the authors that have written themselves into her life: from Oliver Sacks to Oscar ...Show more
Paris Review Issue 206 (Autumn 2013) by Lorin Stein
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Category: Literary Criticism
The Paris Review is a groundbreaking publication bringing together fiction, poetry and prose from great writers all over the world. Its legendary interview series alone represents the single most important body of work that celebrates writing about writing. Publishing quarterly, each issue is a tribute ...Show more
Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives by John Sutherland
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Category: Literary Criticism
This is a complete history of fiction in English, it provides the lives of some 282 novelists writing in English, from the genre's 17th-century origins to the present.
Arresting Incarceration : Pathways out of Indigenous Imprisonment by Don Weatherburn
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Category: Literary Criticism
Despite sweeping reforms by the Keating government following the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the rate of Indigenous imprisonment has soared. What has gone wrong? In Arresting incarceration, Dr Don Weatherburn charts the events that led to Royal Commission. He also argues tha ...Show more
On Offence - The Politics of Indignation by Richard King
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Category: Literary Criticism | Reading Level: very good
Most of us know what it is to be offended. In a society bound by complicated behavioural codes, the potential for offence is ever-present, the varieties of emotional trespass legion. A person who claimed never to have taken offence would either be lying or uniquely tolerant, while someone who claimed ne ...Show more
Eats, Shoots And Leaves (PB) by Lynne Truss
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Category: Literary Criticism
Anxious about the apostrophe? Confused by the comma? Stumped by the semicolon? Join Lynne Truss on a hilarious tour through the rules of punctuation that is sure to sort the dashes from the hyphens. We all had the basic rules of punctuation drilled into us at school, but punctuation pedants have good re ...Show more
Tolkien Illustrated Ency Hb by N a
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Category: Literary Criticism
The first encyclopedic illustrated guide to the world of Middle Earth and the Undying Lands, this book brings together every important aspect of Tolkien's vast cosmology. More than five hundred alphabetical entries cover five major subject areas: history, geography, sociology, natural history and biogra ...Show more
A Guide to Tolkien by David Day
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Category: Literary Criticism
This book explores Tolkien's mythical world of Middle-earth and the Undying lands, the backdrop to his saga 'The Lord of the Rings'. Arranged in an A-Z format, it explains the creatures, plants, events and places that make up these strange and wonderful places.