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Charles Dickens
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Grahame Smith
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Rudyard Kipling has been one of the most loved and the most loathed of English writers. Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life is a study of the forces and...
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George Herbert
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Dreams and Destinies
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The Berlin Years
Norman Page
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The Brothers Grimm
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Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, one of the more astute critics of fairy tales, explores the...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Often seen as a mirroring the contemporary movement of American history itself, F. Scott Fitzgerald's literary life was a roller-coaster ride from early...
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A Bernard Shaw Chronology
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Charles Dickens
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Elizabeth Gaskell
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Katherine Mansfield
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Angela Smith
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In a letter, Katherine Mansfield wrote: "I hate the sort of license that English people give themselves--to spread over and flop and roll about. I feel as...
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My Other Family
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Patricia Morley
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Patricia Morley joined her husband, who was an officer in the Colonial Service, in Singapore in 1946, and as a professional portrait and sculptor began a...
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The Philip Larkin I Knew
Maeve Brennan
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The Philip Larkin I Knew traces the author’s close friendship with the poet and stretches over his 30 year tenure of office as librarian of the...
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Laurence Kelly
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Comrade Heart
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Andy Croft
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The Life and Work of Günter Grass
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This book traces the career of the most widely read and influential German novelist in the second half of the twentieth century. It shows in particular how his...
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John Pilling
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The most complete chronological account of Samuel Beckett's life and work.
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A Katherine Mansfield Chronology
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Roger Norburn
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Katherine Mansfield is New Zealand`s most famous author and was arguably the finest short-story writer of her day. This chronology provides a synopsis of her...
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Elizabeth Gaskell, 2nd Editioin
A Portrait in Letters
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Manchester University Press
Elizabeth Gaskell is best known as a novelist and biographer, but she was also a lively and sensitive letter writer, with a vivacious interest in all that was...
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson
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Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)--poet, philosopher, painter, novelist, playwright, composer, traveller, political commentator and Asia’s first Nobel...
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