Richmal Crompton, Author of Just William: A Literary Life (Literary Lives) 9783030965112, 9783030965105, 3030965104

Richmal Crompton, Author of Just William: A Literary Life celebrates the first two William books, Just William (1922) an

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Richmal Crompton, Author of Just William: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)
9783030965112, 9783030965105, 3030965104

A reading of the oeuvre of Toni Morrison—fiction, non-fiction, and other—drawing extensively from her many interviews as

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Based on his correspondence, books, and review columns, the biography views Deacon’s life in terms of this involvement a

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A transformative portrait of Churchill, whose love of history, theater, and reading was inextricably linked to his life

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Elizabeth Bowen: A Literary Life reinvents Bowen as a public intellectual, propagandist, spy, cultural ambassador, journ

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As Carolyn See says, writing guides are like preachers on Sunday—there may be a lot of them, but you can’t have too many

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The work of Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996), one of Russia’s great modern poets, has been the subject of much study and debat

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Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is widely regarded as Braz

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Following the publication of Seven Types of Ambiguity in 1930 William Empson was quickly recognised as a critic of great

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Explores both the theory and practice of rhythm in literature with a focus on nineteenth and twentieth-century poetry. E

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St. Louis : 1914-1931 -- Los Alamos : 1929-1932 -- Cambridge : 1932-1938 -- New York : 1939-1941 -- Chicago and New York

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