We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think Selected Essays by Shirley Hazzard
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Category: Literature
Spanning the 1960s to the 2000s, these nonfiction writings showcase Shirley Hazzard's extensive thinking on global politics, international relations, the history and fraught present of Western literary culture, and postwar life in Europe and Asia. They add essential clarity to the themes that dominate h ...Show more
The Shock of Recognition: The Books and Music That Have Inspired Me by Barry Jones
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Category: Literature
'How much time do I have left? A hundred days? A thousand? If I knew I was going to die next week but could be taken to see The Marriage of Figaro tonight, would I go? Absolutely.'In a long and generously lived life, Barry Jones has been on an endless quest to share the extraordinary and the beautiful, ...Show more
Singing for All He's Worth: Essays in Honour of Jacob G. Rosenberg by Alex Skovron; Alex Miller; Raymond Gaita
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Category: Literature
In the early 1990s, after writing for most of his life in Yiddish, his mother tongue, Jacob Rosenberg decided to switch to English. The period of extraordinary creativity that followed was cut short only by his death in 2008, at the age of 86. During those fifteen-odd years, Rosenberg wrote and publishe ...Show more
The Writing Life by David Malouf
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Category: Literature
Who else, but a writer, is really able to interrogate the work of other writers? From Christina Stead, Les Murray and Patrick White to Proust, Shakespeare and Charlotte Bronte, David Malouf reads and examines the work of writers who have challenged, inspired and entertained us for generations. He also e ...Show more
My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs (The Nobel Lecture) by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Category: Literature
A generous and hugely insightful biographical sketch, it explores his relationship with his homeland of Japan, reflections on his own novels and an insight into some of his inspirations, from the worlds of writing, music and film. Ending with a rallying call for the ongoing importance of literature in t ...Show more
The Rub of Time by Martin Amis
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Category: Literature
Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. The Rub of Time comprises superb critical pieces on Amis's heroes Nabokov, Bellow and Larkin to brilliantly funny ruminations on ...Show more
A Literary Tour of Italy by Tim Parks
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Category: Literature
An acclaimed author of novels and short stories, Tim Parks - who was described in a recent review as "one of the best living writers of English" - has delighted audiences around the world with his finely observed writing on all aspects of Italian life and customs. This volume contains a selection of his ...Show more
The Fiction of Tim Winton by MCCREDDEN , LYN
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Category: Literature | Series: Sydney Studies in Literature
Twelve Angry Men: Methuen Student Editions by Reginald Rose
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Category: Literature | Series: Student Editions
The Methuen Drama Student Edition of Twelve Angry Men is the first critical edition of Reginald Rose's play, providing the play text alongside commentary and notes geared towards student readers. In New York, 1954, a man is dead and the life of another is at stake. A 'guilty' verdict seems a foregone co ...Show more
The Long Life by Helen Small
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Category: Literature
The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear through works by Thomas Mann, Balzac, Dickens, Beckett, Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, to more recent writing by ...Show more
Night Walking: A Nocturnal History of London by Matthew Beaumont
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Category: Literature
Throughout its history, London has been two places: the daytime city of business and work the nighttime palace of dark desires, crime, and vagrancy. This place has attracted writers, lawyers, poets, and politicians who have all attempted to chart and control the nocturnal flows of the capital. In the me ...Show more
How to be Alone - Essays
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Category: Literature
Passionate, independent-minded non-fiction from the international bestselling author of 'The Corrections'.Although his subjects range from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each piece wrestles with familiar themes of Franzen's writing: the erosion of civic life and private di ...Show more