Literature

A Companion to Jane Austen

Everything you ever wanted to know about Jane Austen and probably didn't even know enough to ask. An extensive, perhaps…

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Mrs. Hemingway: A Novel

Often the clearest picture of someone is the one seen through others’ eyes. Such is the fascinating look at Ernest…

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The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare

Shakespeare (Edinburgh Critical Guides) by Gabriel Egan The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare by Emma Smith Studying Shakespeare: A Guide to the…

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Hemingway’s Girl

With Mrs. Hemingway by Naomi Wood, the life of Ernest Hemingway is revealed through the eyes of all four of…

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The Cambridge Introduction to Emily Dickinson

Visitors to Emily Dickinson’s family home in Amherst, Massachusetts—known familiarly as “The Homestead”—can still walk through the same gardens, kitchen,…

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Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a Provincial Playwright into the Bard

Unlike most biographies, this one begins not with the birth, but with the death of its subject. Not much is…

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Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years

How can you fit a complex life into a single book? Some biographies are so replete with research and sometimes…

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Brief Lives: Charles Dickens

When it comes to an author with the enormous energy that Charles Dickens had and the voluminous outpouring of work…

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Beckett: A Guide for the Perplexed

Beckett: A Guide for the Perplexed The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett Samuel Beckett (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) People who…

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Franz Kafka

Anyone working in law knows that intent is hard to prove. This fact makes Sander Gilman’s 2005 work, Franz Kafka,…

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