Words Are My Matter: Talks, Essays, Introductions, Reviews and the Journal of a Writer's Week, 2000-2015 by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Category: Literary Studies
Words Are My Matter gathers talks, essays, introductions to beloved books, and book reviews by Ursula K. Le Guin, one of our foremost public literary intellectuals. A must-listen collection, Words Are My Matter is a manual for investigating the depth and breadth of contemporary fiction-and, through the ...Show more
Books That Saved My Life - Reading for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure by Michael McGirr
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Category: Literary Studies
Here are forty texts to read at some stage in your life: forty texts that can enrich you in all manner of ways. Some are recent, like Harry Potter; some ancient, like Homer and Lao Tzu. There are memoirs (Nelson Mandela), poetry (Les Murray) and many of the world's great novels, from George Eliot's Midd ...Show more
Can You Ever Forgive Me? - Memoirs of a Literary Forger by Lee Israel
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Category: Literary Studies
Before turning to her life of crime, running a one-woman forgery business out of a phone booth in a Greenwich Village bar, and dodging the FBI, Lee Israel had a legitimate, even celebrated, career as an author of biographies. Her first book on Tallulah Bankhead was a New York Times bestseller, and her s ...Show more
Go, Girl - Inspiration and Motivation for Dreamers, Believers and Achievers by Summersdale Publishers
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Category: Literary Studies
Empowered women empower women Find your inner pizzazz with these kick-ass quotes, statements and motivational tips that'll make you want to go out and grab life with both hands.
The Merchant of Venice (Cambridge School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Cambridge School Shakespeare Ser.
An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative world in accessible and creative ways. Students are en ...Show more
Strangers - Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb
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Category: Literary Studies
A perceptive, vivid and sometimes startling re-evaluation of homosexuality in the Victorian era
Griffith Review 63 - Writing the Country by Ashley Hay; Julianne Schultz
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
How we speak of and to the world we live in requires us to make sense of where we are and where we?re going; it requires us to describe, interrogate and analyse our places from the smallest to the grandest of scales.In the second issue of Griffith Review, published fifteen years ago, Melissa Lucashenko ...Show more
White by Bret Easton Ellis
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Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Bret Easton Ellis has wrestled with the double-edged sword of fame and notoriety for more than thirty years now, since Less Than Zero catapulted him into the limelight in 1985, earning him devoted fans and, perhaps, even fiercer enemies. An enigmatic figure who has always gone against the grain and refu ...Show more
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: very good
'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line, from the play, was adopted by Jean Anouilh, to characterize the first production of "Waiting For Godot" at the Theatre de Babylone, in 1953. He went on to predict that the play would, in time, represent the most important premiere to b ...Show more
Woman's Encyclopedia Of Myths & Secrets by Barbara G. Walker
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Category: Literary Studies
A compulsively readable one-volume encyclopedia of information on essential cultural history from a feminist perspective; focuses on mythology, anthropology, religion, and sexuality. Do You Know... where the legend of a cat's nine lives comes from? why "mama" is a word understood in nearly all languages ...Show more
Writing Picture Books Revised and Expanded Edition: A Hands-On Guide From Story Creation to Publication by Ann Whitford Paul
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Category: Literary Studies
Master the Art of Writing Enthralling Tales for the Youngest pre-and emerging readers Fully updated and thoroughly revised, Writing Picture Books Revised and Expanded Edition is the go-to resource for writers crafting stories for children ages two to eight. You'll learn the unique set of skills it takes ...Show more
Why Young Men: The Dangerous Allure of Violent Movements and What We Can Do About Them by Jamil Jivani
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Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: Adult
Using his own story as a jumping off point, Jivani discusses why it's so often young men who fall into patterns of violence and extremism, and how we can bring change to this ever increasing global problem. Why Young Men is not just a powerful and beautifully written non-fiction narrative book, it's a b ...Show more