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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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Making a Literary 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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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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Whether a five-star chef or beginning home cook, any gourmand knows that recipes are far more than a set of instructions

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J.R.R. Tolkien'sThe Lord of the Ringstook first place in a nationwide British poll to find the greatest book of the

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

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This first English language biography of Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) in two decades paints a strikingly new picture of on

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Mary Wollstonecraft was an extraordinary individual, yet her literary life exemplifies how many women of her time used p

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