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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist -- the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist -- the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England
by Daniel Pool

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For every frustrated reader of the great nineteenth-century English novels of Austen, Trollope, Dickens, or the Brontës who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl, when to yell "Tally Ho!" at a fox hunt, or how one landed in "debtor's prison,... (read more)

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Secret Lives of Great Authors: What Your Teachers Never Told You about Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights Secret Lives of Great Authors: What Your Teachers Never Told You about Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights
by Robert Schnakenberg

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In the tradition of Cormac O'Brien's bestselling "Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents," Schnakenberg delivers uncensored profiles of the world's greatest writers, complete with hundreds of little-known, politically incorrect, and downright bizarre facts.... (read more)

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Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
by Anatole Broyard

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"Nineteen forty-six was a good time — perhaps the best time — in the twentieth century. The war was over and there was a terrific sense of coming back, of repossessing life. Rents were cheap, restaurants were cheap, and it seemed to me that... (read more)

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Through the Russian Prism: Essays on Literature and Culture Through the Russian Prism: Essays on Literature and Culture
by Joseph Frank

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Joseph Frank's continuing biography of Dostoevsky is by now recognized as one of the major achievements of this century in this form, and perhaps the best work on the author in any language. During the course of this long-range effort, Frank has also... (read more)

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Writing a New Society: Social Change Through the Novel in Malay (ASAA Southeast Asia Publications) Writing a New Society: Social Change Through the Novel in Malay (ASAA Southeast Asia Publications)
by Virginia Mat Hooker

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Recent social and political upheaval in Malaysia has taken many analysts by surprise, but the stresses and fissures in Malaysia society have been vividly described in Malay novels since the early 1960s. Writing a New Society is the first extended study... (read more)

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American Salons: Encounters with European Modernism, 1885-1917 American Salons: Encounters with European Modernism, 1885-1917
by Robert M Crunden

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In American Salons, Robert Crunden provides a sweeping account of the American encounter with European Modernism up to the American entry into World War I. Crunden begins with deft portraits of the figures who were central to the birth of Modernism... (read more)

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Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives from Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives from Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer
by Kennedy Fraser

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A brilliant collection.... Ms. Fraser does the greatest honor a writer can do people: she brings them alive. -- The New York Times Book Review Kennedy Fraser brings to the fourteen essays in this indispensable volume the sensitivity, freshness of... (read more)

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On or about December 1910: Early Bloomsbury and Its Intimate World On or about December 1910: Early Bloomsbury and Its Intimate World
by Peter Stansky

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"On or about December 1910" human character changed, Virginia Woolf remarked, and well she might have. The company she kept, the Bloomsbury circle, took shape before the coming of World War I, and would have a lasting impact on English society and... (read more)

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Bohemia: Where Art, Angst, Love, and Strong Coffee Meet Bohemia: Where Art, Angst, Love, and Strong Coffee Meet
by Herbert Gold

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Bruce Cook of the Washington Post Book World has written that: Bohemia has become an acceptable, even desirable lifestyle all around America, and indeed the world over. But to understand how this happened, how an alternative lifestyle became so... (read more)

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Banquet Years Banquet Years
by Roger Shattuck

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Portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period of renewal and accomplishment, who laid the ground-work for Dadaism and Surrealism.... (read more)

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The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870 The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870
by Walter E Houghton

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'It is now forty years, ' Walter Houghton writes, 'since Lytton Strachey decided that we already knew too much about the Victorian era to view its culture as a whole.' Recently the tide has turned and the Victorians have been the subject of sympathetic... (read more)

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The World Through a Monocle: The New Yorker at Midcentury The World Through a Monocle: The New Yorker at Midcentury
by Mary F Corey

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Today The New Yorkeris one of a number of general-interest magazines published for a sophisticated audience, but in the post-World War II era the magazine occupied a truly significant niche of cultural authority. A self-selected community of 250,000... (read more)

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Bloomsbury Recalled Bloomsbury Recalled
by Quentin Bell

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In Bloomsbury Recalled, Quentin Bell has written an extraordinary memoir of the circle of intellectuals in London early in this century know as the Bloomsbury group. Bell offers remarkable judgments about and recollections of each of the notable people... (read more)

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One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life--A Story of Race and Family Secrets One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life--A Story of Race and Family Secrets
by Bliss Broyard

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A father's stunning secret sparks a life-transforming journey in this story of race, identity, and the American dream. Broyard tries to make sense of her father's choices and the impact of his revelation on her own life.... (read more)

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The Natural History of Make-Believe: A Guide to the Principal Works of Britain, Europe, and America The Natural History of Make-Believe: A Guide to the Principal Works of Britain, Europe, and America
by John Goldthwaite

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The Man in the Moon has dropped down to earth for a visit. Over the hedge, a rabbit in trousers is having a pipe with his evening paper. Elsewhere, Alice is passing through a looking glass, Dorothy riding a tornado to Oz, and Jack climbing a beanstalk to... (read more)

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The Word from Paris: Essays on Modern French Thinkers and Writers The Word from Paris: Essays on Modern French Thinkers and Writers
by John Sturrock

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A lucid and accessible guide to the literature and thought of 20th-century France. In a series of definitive essays, journalist John Sturrock ranges over the broad landscape of French writing, clarifying various intellectual movements and discussing... (read more)

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The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel (Cambridge Companions to Literature) The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
by Deirdre David

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In The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel, a series of specially-commissioned essays examine the work of Charles Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot and other canonical writers, as well as that of such writers as Olive Schreiner, Wilkie... (read more)

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The Language of Silence: West German Literature and the Holocaust The Language of Silence: West German Literature and the Holocaust
by Ernestine Schlant

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Focussing on individual authors from Heinrich Boll to G3~nther Grass, Hermann Lenz to Peter Schneider, "The Language of Silence" offers an analysis of West German literature as it tries to come to terms with the Holocaust and its impact on postwar West... (read more)

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Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present
by Harold Bloom

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Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or J) writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the Iliad, the Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, the... (read more)

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History of 20th Century Literature History of 20th Century Literature
by Simon Beesley

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Poets representing war's anguish, modernists transforming the novel, Beats capturing the rhythm of the times: the 20th century witnessed some of the most diverse and experimental writing since the birth of literature. Survey this vast and varied... (read more)

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