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  • Novel Insights

    de David Leon Higdon ...
    At virtually all levels of the study, knowledge of many of the basic aspects and qualities of novels is assumed somehow to have entered the reader's understanding through osmosis, since they are often not discussed in the rush to cover characters and meaning. NOVEL INSIGHTS aims to acquaint the reader with basic mastery of such features as titles, epigraphs, structures, narrative voice, and styles ... Leer más

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  • Kidnapping The Real: John Fowles' The Collector

    de David Leon Higdon ...
    John Fowles' 1963 novel, The Collector, evolve from three sources, two of which are well known: his attendance at a performance of Béla Bartók's opera, Duke Bluebeard's Castle and his own teenage captivity fantasies. The mystery of the third source can now be resolved, and its identity is detailed in this essay. ... Leer más

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  • A Concordance to Conrad's Under Western Eyes

    de David Leon Higdon, Todd K. Bender ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Joseph Conrad
    Originally published in 1983, this volume follows others in the series. The user is provided with a Verbal Index, citing each type and its location, a Word Frequency Table, and a Field of Reference. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for all of Conrad’s works. ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

  • A Concordance to Conrad's The Rover

    de David Leon Higdon, Todd K. Bender ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Joseph Conrad
    Originally published in 1985, as with the earlier volumes in the series, the reader of The Rover is here provided a Verbal Index, citing each type and its location, a Word Frequency Table, and a Field of Reference. Using the tables in this concordance, the reader should be better able to address the issue of style and determine on a more informed basis whether Conrad has deliberately eschewed the ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

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  • Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita

    de John Lennard ...
    An illuminating study of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel with special attention to its film versions. From its first publication in 1955 Nabokov's Lolita has been denounced as immoral filth, hailed as a moral masterpiece, and both praised and damned for stylistic excess. In this fresh appraisal John Lennard provides convenient overviews of Nabokov's life and of the novel (including both ... Leer más

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  • Common Phrases

    And the Amazing Stories Behind Them

    de Max Cryer ...
    In day-to-day speech we use words and phrases without a passing thought as to why we use them or where they come from. Max Cryer changes all that by showing how fascinating the English language really is. Did you know that the former host of Today, Jane Pauley, claims to have coined the term “bad hair day,” or that a CBS engineer named Charley Douglass invented the name and use of “canned laughter ... Leer más

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  • Curiosities of Literature

    A Feast for Book Lovers

    de John Sutherland ...
    When did cigarettes start making an appearance in English literature? Which author's heart was purportedly eaten by a cat? One of our best-known and best-loved literary critics turns his attention to the more bizarre areas of literature in this miscellany of fact and trivia. Which author had the heaviest brain? What was the original title of 1984? Who made the first bouillon soup? What do 12 ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • How Novels Work

    de John Mullan ...
    Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups and in the interest of a non-academic readership in the discussion of how novels work. Drawing on his weekly Guardian column, 'Elements of Fiction', John Mullan examines novels mostly of the last ten years, many of which have become firm ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Who Said That First? The curious origins of common words and phrases

    de Max Cryer ...
    Many bright minds have come up with expressions we now take for granted as part of the English language, and which we use freely in vernacular speech. But the originators of many of our most useful second-hand remarks go uncredited. So who said it first? This collection sets out to credit as far as its possible to do so the people who actually created many familiar terms in common us. For example, ... Leer más

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  • How to Write Like Tolstoy

    A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers

    de Richard Cohen ...
    A thought-provoking journey inside the minds of the world’s most accomplished storytellers, from Shakespeare to Stephen KingNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SPECTATOR • “Richard Cohen’s book acted as a tonic to me. It didn’t make me more Russian, but it fired up my imagination. I have never annotated a book so fiercely.”—Hilary Mantel“There are three rules for writing a novel,” ... Leer más

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    de Clive James ...
    "[A] collection of Clive James's essays on a variety of literary topics . . . This is sanity, humor and acuity in the face of death" ( The Wall Street Journal).In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that "if you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do," James moved his library to his Cambridge house, where he would ... Leer más

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  • Summary and Analysis of The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

    Based on the book by Simon Winchester

    de Worth Books ...
    Series series Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Professor and the Madman tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Simon Winchester's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester includes ... Leer más

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