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Culled from the most imaginative and provocative minds of the pas thirty years, these pieces demonstrate the vitality and diversity, the excitement and commitment of the writers who helped make science fiction what it is today.
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Gateway
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2014-05-29
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Presenting acclaimed essays from one of contemporary science fiction's most imaginative wordsmiths, this collection shows that Robert Silverberg's nonfiction is as witty and original as his fiction and full of acute observations and matter-of-fact insights. Whether he...
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Gateway
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2014-05-29
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Fredrik Sjöberg's Swedish bestseller about summer, islands, freedom and boundaries.'The light, the warmth, the smells, the mist, the birdsong - the moths. Who can sleep? Who wants to?'Fredrik Sjöberg finds happiness in the little things. Millions of them, in fact. This...
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Penguin
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2014-05-29
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Given the rise of new interdisciplinary and methodological approaches to African American and Black Atlantic studies, The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative will offer a fresh, wide-ranging assessment of this major American literary genre. The...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-02-28
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This carefully crafted ebook: “On Masturbation: "Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
One evening in Paris in 1879, The Stomach Club, a society of American writers and artists,...
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e-artnow
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2014-02-25
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The first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography' on writing and womanhood. 'Unmissable. Like chancing upon an oasis, you want to drink it slowly . . . Subtle, unpredictable, surprising' Guardian_________________________________ Taking George...
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Penguin
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2014-02-06
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Along with the theoretical or traditionally historical question “What is literature?”, the critical and political question “What can literature do?” begs an answer. What value do contemporary society and culture ascribe to literature? What utility? What role? “My...
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Collège de France
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2014-02-06
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Leçons inaugurales
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rom new or newly confirmed talents to veteran writers such as Arjin Panjaphan, Kanokphong Songsomphan and Korn Siriwattano, thirteen of the best Thai short stories translated – for the first time ever – during the year 2013.
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Thaifiction Publishing
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2013-12-12
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ThaiFiction
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Marginal Notes, Doubtful Statements by Jonathan Coe - an extraordinary non-fiction collection from the author of EXPO 58From celebrating the greatness of Gulliver's Travels to tracing the impact of Margaret Thatcher's death, from interviewing Brian Eno to finding...
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Penguin
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2013-12-05
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'These sixteen pieces brim over with vitality . . . every one of them opening up fresh lines of thought' John Gray, New StatesmanAt the Same Time contains sixteen illuminating essays by Susan Sontag with a preface by David Rieff.The sixteen essays represent the last...
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Penguin
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2013-12-05
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These two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. In the short memoir Hôjôki, Chômei recounts his decision to withdraw from worldly affairs and live as a hermit in a tiny hut in the mountains,...
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Penguin
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2013-12-05
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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Journalism of Oscar Wilde” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Throughout the 1880s Oscar Wilde devoted a great part of his creative energies to working as a professional journalist and he...
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e-artnow
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2013-12-02
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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Non-Fiction Writings (Essays on Art + The Rise Of Historical Criticism + Poems in Prose + The Soul of a Man under Socialism + De Produndis and more)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of...
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e-artnow
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2013-12-02
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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Truth of Masks: a Note on Illusion (an essay of dramatic theory)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. It is an essay written by Edgar Allan Poe, first publisched in 1886. “The Truth of Masks”...
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e-artnow
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2013-12-02
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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Rise Of Historical Criticism (Unabridged)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Rise of Historical Criticism, published in complete form in 1908, is a mature essay by Oscar Wilde,...
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e-artnow
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2013-12-02
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‘Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century’ The TimesWhat begins as the record of W. G. Sebald’s own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present. From Chateaubriand,...
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Vintage Digital
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2013-11-30
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This Van Der Post 'reader', thematically organised to reflect the patterns and themes which have influenced his life and his writing, distils the essence of the writer, thinker, spiritual guru and man of action.This evocative and thought-provoking selection, combining...
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Vintage Digital
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2013-11-30
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A selection of the most popular and relevant essays from Adam Phillips, the man New Yorker called 'Britain's foremost psychoanalytic writer''Phillips's prose is poetic in the best sense: it is muscular, resonant, and thrums with a dark music that is all its own' John...
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Penguin
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2013-11-28
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Autobiography has been an essential element of the London Review of Books since its founding in 1979. This volume collects many outstanding pieces of memoir that first appeared in the LRB’s pages.Here, Lorna Sage remembers growing up with her grandfather during the...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2013-11-21
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A collection of Terry Wogan's best TELEGRAPH columns, with his trademark wry take on life.'It's my feeling that whatever's bothering you, you ought to be able to say it in less than 500 words. The rest is window-dressing ... Probably explains why I didn't write WAR AND...
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Orion
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2013-11-07
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