Everybody by Olivia Laing
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Category: Literary Studies
LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. At a moment in which basic rights are once again imperilled, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents, using the ...Show more
Who Gets to Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge by Bri Lee
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Category: Literary Studies
In 2018 Bri Lee's brilliant young friend Damian is named a Rhodes Scholar, an apex of academic achievement. When she goes to visit him and takes a tour of Oxford and Rhodes House, she begins questioning her belief in a system she has previously revered, as she learns the truth behind what Virginia Woolf ...Show more
Women Don't Owe You Pretty: The record-breaking best-selling book every woman needs by Florence Given
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Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: very good
Women Don't Owe You Pretty tells you to love sex, hate sexism, protect your goddamn energy, life is short, dump them, and that you owe men nothing, least of all pretty. Florence's debut book explores all progressive corners of the feminist conversation; from insecurity projection and refusing to find co ...Show more
Society of the Crossed Keys - Selections from the Writings of Stefan Zweig, Inspirations for the Grand Budapest Hotel by Stefan Zweig
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Category: Literary Studies
'I had never heard of Zweig until six or seven years ago, as allthe books began to come back into print, and I more or less by chance bought a copy of Beware of Pity. I immediately loved this book, his one, big, great novel-and suddenly there were dozens more in front of me waiting to read.' Wes Anderso ...Show more
Every Day a Word Surprises Me & Other Quotes by Writers by Phaidon Editors
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Category: Literary Studies
Advice, strong opinions, and personal revelations by the world's greatest writers - exclusively researched for this new book Featuring the most inspirational and insightful collection of quotes by writers through the ages and across the globe, Every Day a Word Surprises Me is the ideal keepsake for rea ...Show more
101 Best Sex Scenes Ever Written by Barnaby Conrad
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Category: Literary Studies
Making the provocative purposeful, this analysis spotlights the most exciting—or potentially embarrassing—story element: the obligatory sex scene. This sensibly suggestive guide demonstrates how to advance plots and reveal truths about characters through their romantic tableaus. Each scene is accompanie ...Show more
Macquarie Concise Thesaurus by Macquarie Library
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Category: Literary Studies
The Macquarie Concise Thesaurus is in the form of an A-Z dictionary of synonyms. It has been produced directly from the respected Macquarie Thesaurus.Featuring:- Over 200,000 synonyms, from the colourfully colloquial to the scientifically specific- Wide range of contemporary words- Australian English, i ...Show more
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Oxford World's Classics
`The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation' In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Walden is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account of thi ...Show more
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk
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Category: Literary Studies
What happens within us when we read a novel? And how does a novel create its unique effects, so distinct from those of a painting, a film, or a poem? In this inspired, thoughtful, deeply personal book, Orhan Pamuk takes us into the worlds of the writer and the reader, revealing their intimate connection ...Show more
Beatific Soul - Jack Kerouac on the Road by Isaac Gewirtz
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Category: Literary Studies
In Beatific Soul : Jack Kerouac on the Road, the writer's evolution is traced through material never before seen by the general public, from the Jack Herouac Archive of the New York Public Library's Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and Americal Literature.
The Grand Canyon Reader by Lance Newman
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Category: Literary Studies
An anthology that brings together writing about the Grand Canyon - stories, essays, and poems written across five centuries by people inhabiting, surviving, and attempting to understand what one explorer called the 'Great Unknown'.
For the Time Being by Annie Dillard
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Category: Literary Studies
Explores the rich diversities of our world, ranging from a natural history of sand to the rise of Hasidic thought to the eternal questions of God, evil, individuality, and time.