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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 vibrant guide to the world of literature, from dramatic plays to engrossing novels
Literature has inspired every civilisation, from Greek myth to today's ...
A legendary editor's survey of the twentieth-century novel and how it shaped the form for years to come
A legendary editor's survey of ...
A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicists
Homer's Iliad is the famous epic ...
The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere, from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from classic theatre ...
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 ...
A major hardcover compendium of nonfiction by one of America's most
brilliant essayists, timed to the celebration of his centenary
Novelist, essayist, and public ...
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 ...
A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking
Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and ...
An insightful exploration of one of Australia's most acclaimed writers, the award-winning Alexis Wright
A brilliant study of renowned Indigenous author Alexis Wright, winner ...
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 ...
A revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account-and how they became a cultural sensation
From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of ...
The complete edition of Sylvia Plath's prose including much unpublished and previously uncollected material, edited by Peter K. Steinberg.
The Collected Prose stands alongside ...
From twice Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, a moving and revelatory collection exploring the muses that have shaped her life and work as a writer
In ...
