A Therapeutic Library: 100 Essential Books That Teach Fulfilment, Calm and Wellbeing by The School of Life
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Recommended reading from The School of Life, featuring 100 books that offer therapeutic insight and enlightenment. Books, however familiar, are amongst the strangest objects on the planet: little portals that open directly into the ideas, feelings, loves and sorrows of writers from all times and places. ...Show more
A Jane Austen Christmas: Celebrating the Season of Romance, Ribbons and Mistletoe by DEVITO CARLO
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Filled with the remarkable wit and insight of one of the world's most cherished authors, "A Jane Austen Christmas" gives readers insight into Austen's life through little-known stories about how she and her family celebrated the treasured holiday season. Carlo DeVito provides an intimate portrait of Aus ...Show more
The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka; Reiner Stach (Editor); Shelley Frisch (Translator)
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A splendid new translation of an extraordinary work of modern literature--featuring facing-page commentary by Kafka's acclaimed biographer In 1917 and 1918, Franz Kafka wrote a set of more than 100 aphorisms, known as the Zürau aphorisms, after the Bohemian village in which he composed them. Among the ...Show more
The Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen by Penelope Hughes-Hallett
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A beautifully illustrated account of the letters and correspondence of Jane Austen. It has been said that Jane Austen the woman and Jane Austen the author are all of a piece, and nowhere is this more evident to the lovers of her novels than in the pages of her letters. This handsome celebration of Auste ...Show more
A Little Book About Books: Quotes for the Bibliophile in Your Life by Unnamed
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Category: Reference Literature | Series: The Little Books of Literature Ser.
A book about books for people who love books, packed full of one-liners, quotes and famous lines from books. The world of books in one little book. It doesn't matter how well read you are, A Little Book About Books is packed full of quotes, one-liners and famous lines from names that everyone will recog ...Show more
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
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"A wonderful story... It has all the ingredients of one of Patrick McGrath's icily stylish novels: madness, violence, arcane obsessions, weird learning, ghastly comedy" - John Banville, Literary Review. Two distinguished-looking Victorians, both learned and serious, yet from very different worlds: one a ...Show more
Because Internet: Understanding how language is changing by Gretchen McCulloch
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!! "Gretchen McCulloch is the internet's favorite linguist, and this book is essential reading. Reading her work is like suddenly being able to see the matrix." --Jonny Sun, author of everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too Because Internet is for anyone who's ever ...Show more
Mad about Shakespeare: from Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room by Jonathan Bate
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'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern lives. 'The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.' ...Show more
The Novel Project: A Step-by-Step Guide to Your Novel, Memoir or Biography by Graeme Simsion
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The no-drama novel writing method behind Graeme Simsion's global bestsellersSave the drama for the story.'Writing is easy- all you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.' Variously attributed to Thomas Wolfe, Paul Gallico and Ernest Hemingway, the quote p ...Show more
The Girl Prince Virginia Woolf, Race and the Dreadnought Hoax by Danell Jones
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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
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
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A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels. Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with reade ...Show more
Letters for the Ages Winston Churchill - The Private and Personal Letters by Sir Winston S. Churchill; Michael Dobbs (Foreword by); James Drake (Editor)
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Category: Reference Literature | Series: Letters for the Ages Ser.
Here are some of the best of Churchill's letters, many of a more personal nature, written to a wide range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President Eisenhower. Letters for the Ages concentrates on the more intimate words of Winston Churchill, seeking to show t ...Show more