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A book about how language shapes us, from the Nobel and Booker-prizewinning author and his Spanish translator,
This is a book about languages, what languages ...
A worldwide exploration of the history, purpose, and inescapable influence of the Iliad and the Odyssey that will inspire readers to think anew about Homer ...
Joan Didion's hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties.
We tell ourselves ...
Orwell's memoir of living in poverty in Paris during the 1920s.
'You can live on a shilling a day in Paris if you know ...
What is a revolution? What are the sounds of the commons, the crickets, the carpark, the quails and the creek? Who funds culture wars, and ...
Jorge Luis Borges (1899--1986) is one of the most influential literary figures of the twentieth century. His short stories, poems, essays, and translations explore Argentine ...
Portent, symbol, metaphor: from the Bunyip to the Slenderman, from Count Dracula to the (far more sinister) emotional vampire, monsters of all forms have offered ...
From the author ofLast Words on Earth an reimagining of Roberto Bolao's life comes a book articulating the final years of Aliocha Coll, one ...
'Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.' Measure for Measure, act 3, scene 1
Shakespeare's plays and poems remain as beloved in the twenty-first ...
Walking in the Luxembourg Garden, exchanging letters about enigmatic diva Eleonora Duse or an irascible Tolstoy: Rainer Maria Rilke's French translator Maurice Betz enjoyed ...
"When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a ...
