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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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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...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2021-06-17
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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
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Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of...
Editeur :
Cassell
Parution :
2012-01-10
Collection :
1001
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A COMPANION TO THE HISTORY OF THE BOOKA COMPANION TOTHE HISTORY OF THE BOOK Edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose “As a stimulating overview of the multidimensional present state of the field, the Companion has no peer.” Choice “If you want to understand how...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-08-24
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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When Alice was nine years old, she and her father - a beloved school librarian - made a promise to read aloud together for 100 consecutive nights. Upon reaching their goal, they celebrated over pancakes, but it was clear that neither wanted to let go of what had become...
Editeur :
Two Roads
Parution :
2011-06-09
ePub
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The invention of writing was one of the most important technological, cultural, and sociological breakthroughs in human history. With the printed book, information and ideas could disseminate more widely and effectively than ever before -- and in some cases, affect and...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2009-07-22
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This book is about the experience of reading–what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read and under what conditions, what drives people to read, and, conversely, what halts the individual in the pursuit of the pleasures of reading. The authors...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2016-06-30
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The first collection of critical essays devoted to the study of English-Canadian literary anthologies brings together the work of thirteen prominent critics to investigate anthology formation in Canada and answer these key questions: Why are there so many literary...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2015-11-02
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Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace brings to light the relationship between writers in Canada and the marketplace within which their work circulates. Through a series of conversations with both established and younger writers from...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2013-06-15
Collection :
TransCanada
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Autobiographical impostures, once they come to light, appear to us as outrageous, scandalous. They confuse lived and textual identity (the person in the world and the character in the text) and call into question what we believe, what we doubt, and how we receive...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2011-04-20
Collection :
Life Writing
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As a comparative study which includes the analysis of both English-Canadian and Quebec novels, this book provides an overview of the novel as it has developed in this country since the Second World War. Focusing on narratological rather than thematic elements, the book...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2006-01-01
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Nana von Émile Zola – Endlich verständlich mit der Lektürehilfe von derQuerleser! Diese klare und zuverlässige Analyse von Émile ZolasNana aus dem Jahre 1880 hilft Dir dabei, den Klassiker schnell in seinen wichtigsten Punkten zu erfassen. Die KurtisaneNana manipuliert...
Editeur :
derQuerleser.de
Parution :
2019-11-15
Collection :
Lektürehilfe
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