On Kim Scott : Writers on Writers by Tony Birch
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
'I value Kim Scott's fiction so highly because I feel that his approach is to put the flags aside. That Deadman Dance asks us not to consider who we were so much as who we could be, collectively, in the future.'Noongar writer Kim Scott has won the Miles Franklin Award twice for his novels. In this movin ...Show more
Criticism and Truth - On Method in Literary Studies by Jonathan Kramnick
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Thinking Literature Ser.
A defense and celebration of the discipline of literary studies and its most distinctive practice--close reading. Does literary criticism offer truths about the world? In Criticism and Truth, Jonathan Kramnick offers a new and surprising account of criticism's power by zeroing in on its singular method ...Show more
Who Owns This Sentence? - A History of Copyrights and Wrongs by David Bellos; Alexandre Montagu
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wallpa ...Show more
Literary Theory: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
First published in 1983, Literary Theory: An Introduction is probably the best-selling work of literary criticism in the world today. It propelled its author to a position of such influence and controversy within the British academy that even Prince Charles once described him as "that dreadful Terry Eag ...Show more
Great Italian Stories: 10 Parallel Texts by Various Authors
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
A spellbinding selection of short stories in the original Italian alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Italy. Each story appears in the ...Show more
Great Spanish Stories: 10 Parallel Texts by Various Authors
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Spain. Each story appears in Spanish alongside an ...Show more
The Girl Prince Virginia Woolf, Race and the Dreadnought Hoax by Danell Jones
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
A new look at a revolutionary writer, a diverse imperial city, and a controversial trick on the Royal Navy.In February 1910, the future Virginia Woolf played the most famous practical joke in British military history. Blackening her face and masquerading as an Abyssinian prince, the young writer and her ...Show more
Chaucer Here and Now by Marion Turner (Editor)
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
The Geoffrey Chaucer of this book is not the Father of English Literature that you think you know. In this wide-ranging collection of essays you will find wartime Chaucer, postcolonial Chaucer, feminist Chaucer, misogynist Chaucer, radical Chaucer and conservative Chaucer, among many other interpretatio ...Show more
The Little Book of Bridge: Learn How to Play, Score, and Win by Brent Manley
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: The\Little Book Of Ser.
A comprehensive guide to the classic card game of bridge, including an overview of the basics, tips and techniques how to play--and strategies to win; perfect for new bridge players and experienced pros alike. Bridge is all about memory, bidding, and skill. It is one of the most popular card games i ...Show more
Short Stories in Arabic for Intermediate Learners - Read for Pleasure at Your Level, Expand Your Vocabulary and Learn Arabic the Fun Way! by Olly Richards
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Foreign Language Graded Reader Ser.
An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for adult and young adult learners. "Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work - and ...Show more
Short Stories in Irish for Beginners: Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn Irish the fun way! by Olly Richards
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Foreign Language Graded Reader Ser.
An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners of Irish."Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work - a ...Show more