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  • Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend by Romney, Rebecca
    Rebecca Romney

    Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend

    From rare book dealer and guest star of the hit show Pawn Stars, a page-turning literary adventure that introduces readers to the women writers who inspired Jane Austen--and investigates why their books have disappeared from our shelves.Long before she was a rare book dealer,...
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  • The Great War and Modern Memory Lib/E by Fussell, Paul
    Paul Fussell

    The Great War and Modern Memory Lib/E

    Author: Paul FussellISBN-10: 1665230487ISBN-13: 9781665230483Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/20/2018Format: CD
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  • How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form by Foster, Thomas C.
    Thomas C. Foster

    How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form

    The follow-up and companion volume to the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor--a lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and funOf all the literary forms, the novel is arguably...
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  • The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends by Carpenter, Humphrey
    Humphrey Carpenter

    The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends

    During the 1930s at Oxford, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams--remarkable friends, writers, and scholars--met regularly to discuss philosophy and literature and to read aloud from their own works in progress. Calling themselves the Inklings, their circle grew. It was...
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  • The Return of the Light: Twelve Tales from Around the World for the Winter Solstice, 5th Anniversary Edition by Edwards, Carolyn McVickar
    Carolyn McVickar Edwards

    The Return of the Light: Twelve Tales from Around the World for the Winter Solstice, 5th Anniversary Edition

    A collection of twelve traditional tales from around the world that honor the "return of the light" that takes place on the winter solstice The winter solstice, the day the "sun stands still," marks the longest night and the shortest day of the year,...
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  • How Sondheim Can Change Your Life by Schoch, Richard
    Richard Schoch

    How Sondheim Can Change Your Life

    Discover the powerful and universal lessons from the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim, the genius behind such musical theater masterworks as Company, West Side Story, and Into the Woods.Stephen Sondheim died on November 26, 2021, but for countless fans around the world, he...
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  • Didion and Babitz by Anolik, Lili
    Lili Anolik

    Didion and Babitz

    Joan Didion is revealed at last in this outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work on the mutual attractions--and mutual antipathies--of Didion and Didion's fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz."Could you write what you write if you weren't so tiny, Joan?" --Eve Babitz, in a...
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  • The World in Books: 52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction by Davis, Kenneth C.
    Kenneth C. Davis

    The World in Books: 52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction

    A delightful, inspiring, and idea-rich selection of fifty-two of the best, most important short nonfiction works of all time--from Plato to Michael Pollan and Dante to Joan Didion--chosen by historian, lifelong reader, and bestselling author of Don't Know Much About History.From ancient times to...
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  • Taylor Swift by the Book: The Literature Behind the Lyrics, from Fairy Tales to Tortured Poets by Feder, Rachel
    Rachel Feder

    Taylor Swift by the Book: The Literature Behind the Lyrics, from Fairy Tales to Tortured Poets

    From the childhood nostalgia of Peter Pan in Speak Now to the haunted halls of Rebecca in Evermore, Taylor Swift's lyrics are packed with literary connections. Make sure you're catching them all with this expert guide to the novels, poems, and plays that influenced...
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  • Classic BBC Radio Shakespeare: Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, William
    William Shakespeare

    Classic BBC Radio Shakespeare: Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Twelfth Night

    Three classic radio productions from the BBC archives starring Nigel Hawthorne, Miriam Margolyes, Geraldine McEwan and a host of celebrated acting talent. These three legendary plays, performed by some of the best-known theatrical actors of the 20th Century, are the perfect way to commemorate...
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  • How to Be Heard by Gay, Roxane
    Roxane Gay

    How to Be Heard

    Roxane Gay, the prominent novelist, New York Times bestselling author of Hunger and Bad Feminist, cultural critic, and columnist provides practical guidance for everyone who wants to use their voice to write powerful work to share with the world.All writing advice is terrible, Roxane...
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  • You Can't Joke about That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together by Timpf, Kat
    Kat Timpf

    You Can't Joke about That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together

    What happens when we can't joke about some of the most important stuff in life?In a 2019 study, 40% of people reported censoring themselves out of fear that voicing their views would alienate them from the people they care about most. Those people should...
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  • A Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry by Oliver, Mary
    Mary Oliver

    A Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry

    "Mary Oliver would probably never admit to anything so grandiose as an effort to connect the conscious mind and the heart (that's what she says poetry can do), but that is exactly what she accomplishes in this stunning little handbook."--Los Angeles TimesFrom the beloved,...
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  • The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir by Leadbeater, Cory
    Cory Leadbeater

    The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir

    A brilliant debut memoir about a young writer--struggling with depression, family issues, and addiction--and his life-changing decade working for Joan DidionAs an aspiring novelist in his early twenties, Cory Leadbeater was presented with an opportunity to work for a well-known writer whose identity was...
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  • On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud by Tb匤, Colm
    Colm Tb匤

    On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud

    The controversial father of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud charted the human unconscious, brought us the talking cure, and wrote books that now rank among the classics of world literature. In On the Couch, the great analyst is analyzed by some of today's great...
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  • Norse Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook: From Vikings to Valkyries, an Epic Who's Who in Old Norse Mythology by Fuller-Shafer, Kelsey A.
    Kelsey A. Fuller-Shafer

    Norse Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook: From Vikings to Valkyries, an Epic Who's Who in Old Norse Mythology

    Discover the gods, goddesses, and heroes from Norse mythology with this beautiful handbook that captures the ancient stories that captivated the Vikings.Learn more about your favorite Norse gods, goddesses, and heroes with this collection of profiles that share the real stories behind the characters....
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  • The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir by Leadbeater, Cory
    Cory Leadbeater

    The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir

    A brilliant debut memoir about a young writer--struggling with depression, family issues, and addiction--and his life-changing decade working for Joan DidionAs an aspiring novelist in his early twenties, Cory Leadbeater was presented with an opportunity to work for a well-known writer whose identity was...
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  • Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia's Fascist Youth by Garner, Ian
    Ian Garner

    Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia's Fascist Youth

    How did Vladimir Putin galvanize the Russian people to back his genocidal war in Ukraine, and why are so many of them willing to embrace fascism? This vivid, on-the-ground narrative reveals how Russia's fascist generation came into being--and the dark future that awaits the...
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  • A Left-Handed Woman: Essays by Thurman, Judith
    Judith Thurman

    A Left-Handed Woman: Essays

    WINNER OF THE 2023 PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY A collection of essays from Judith Thurman, the National Book Award-winning biographer and New Yorker staff writer. Judith Thurman, a prolific staff writer at The New Yorker for more than two decades,...
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  • The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth: The Stories of the Mischievous Kappa, Trickster K by Matsuura, Thersa
    Thersa Matsuura

    The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth: The Stories of the Mischievous Kappa, Trickster K

    Discover everything you've ever wondered about the legendary spirits, creatures, and figures of Japanese folklore including how they have found their way into every corner of our pop culture from the creator of the podcast Uncanny Japan.Welcome to The Book of Japanese Folklore: a...
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  • Mythologies Lib/E: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation by Barthes, Roland
    Roland Barthes

    Mythologies Lib/E: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation

    Author: Roland BarthesISBN-10: 8200083438ISBN-13: 9798200083435Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/13/2012Format: CD
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  • The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes by Crawford, Jackson
    Jackson Crawford

    The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes

    The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised ) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a thirteenth-century Icelandic manuscript are...
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  • The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses by Hastings, Patrick
    Patrick Hastings

    The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses

    In The Guide to James Joyce's 'Ulysses, ' Patrick Hastings provides comprehensive support to readers of Joyce's magnum opus by illuminating crucial details and reveling in the mischievous genius of this unparalleled novel. Written in a voice that offers encouragement and good humor, this...
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  • Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation by Barthes, Roland
    Roland Barthes

    Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation

    Author: Roland BarthesISBN-13: 9798200083442Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/13/2012Format: CDWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 5.60h x 5.80w x 1.10d
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  • Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse by Di Robilant, Andrea
    Andrea Di Robilant

    Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse

    Author: Andrea Di RobilantISBN-10: 1665137312ISBN-13: 9781665137317Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/26/2018Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.50d
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  • Horace: A Very Short Introduction by Morgan, Llewelyn
    Llewelyn Morgan

    Horace: A Very Short Introduction

    Horace was one of the greatest poets during the reign of Augustus and is seen as mark of cultural sophistication since this time. This Very Short Introduction examines how Horace's poetry has exerted enormous influence but argues that it is best understood within the...
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  • Horace: A Very Short Introduction by Morgan, Llewelyn
    Llewelyn Morgan

    Horace: A Very Short Introduction

    Horace was one of the greatest poets during the reign of Augustus and is seen as mark of cultural sophistication since this time. This Very Short Introduction examines how Horace's poetry has exerted enormous influence but argues that it is best understood within the...
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  • Natives Against Nativism: Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France by Harrison, Olivia C.
    Olivia C. Harrison

    Natives Against Nativism: Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France

    For the past fifty years, the Palestinian question has served as a rallying cry in the struggle for migrant rights in postcolonial France, from the immigrant labor associations of the 1970s and Beur movements of the 1980s to the militant decolonial groups of the...
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  • Natives Against Nativism: Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France by Harrison, Olivia C.
    Olivia C. Harrison

    Natives Against Nativism: Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France

    For the past fifty years, the Palestinian question has served as a rallying cry in the struggle for migrant rights in postcolonial France, from the immigrant labor associations of the 1970s and Beur movements of the 1980s to the militant decolonial groups of the...
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  • My Perfect Opinions by Oyler, Lauren
    Lauren Oyler

    No Judgment: Essays

    From the celebrated national bestselling novelist and critic, a groundbreaking collection of essays exploring the state of cultural criticism and what meaning art has in our ever-challenging world.Lauren Oyler has emerged as one of the most trenchant, influential, and revelatory critics of her generation,...
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  • Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out by Reed, Shannon
    Shannon Reed

    Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

    A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile, and Thurber Prize finalistWe read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference,...
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  • A Poetry Handbook by Oliver, Mary
    Mary Oliver

    A Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry

    "Mary Oliver would probably never admit to anything so grandiose as an effort to connect the conscious mind and the heart (that's what she says poetry can do), but that is exactly what she accomplishes in this stunning little handbook."--Los Angeles TimesFrom the beloved,...
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  • Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece the Sun Also Rises by Blume, Lesley M. M.
    Lesley M. M. Blume

    Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece the Sun Also Rises

    "Brimming, addictive . . . In Everybody Behaves Badly, the party has just begun and the taste of fame is still ripe . . . The Lost Generation [is] restored to reckless youth in living black and white." -- James Wolcott, Vanity Fair "An...
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  • Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth by Haynes, Natalie
    Natalie Haynes

    Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

    New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in this scintillating follow-up to Pandora's Jar.Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered bestselling author Natalie Haynes. Divine Might is a...
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  • How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read by Bayard, Pierre
    Pierre Bayard

    How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read

    In this delightfully tongue-in-cheek book, a #3 bestseller in France, literature professor Bayard contends that, in this age of infinite publication, the truly cultivated person is not the one who has read a book but the one who understands the book's place in our...
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  • Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out by Reed, Shannon
    Shannon Reed

    Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

    A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile, and Thurber Prize finalistWe read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference,...
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  • The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians by Lozada, Carlos
    Carlos Lozada

    The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians

    The Pulitzer Prize-winning opinion columnist at The New York Times explores how people in power reveal themselves through their books and writings and, in so doing, illuminates the personal, political, and cultural conflicts driving Washington and the nation.As a long-time book critic and columnist...
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  • Yestermorrow: Obvious Answers to Impossible Futures by Bradbury, Ray D.
    Ray D. Bradbury

    Yestermorrow: Obvious Answers to Impossible Futures

    Essays discuss Bernard Berenson, Walt Disney, Federico Fellini, the cities of Paris and London, art, literature, history, science fiction, and the design of public placesAuthor: Ray D. BradburyISBN-10: 8200703282ISBN-13: 9798200703289Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2022Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.17lbs
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  • Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse by Di Robilant, Andrea
    Andrea Di Robilant

    Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse

    Author: Andrea Di RobilantISBN-10: 1665137320ISBN-13: 9781665137324Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/26/2018Format: CDWeight: 0.50lbs
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  • Roughing It by Twain, Mark
    Mark Twain

    Roughing It

    In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West. Roughing It is a hilarious record of his travels over a six-year period that comes to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting, social satire, and rollicking tall tales....
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  • Roughing It by Twain, Mark
    Mark Twain

    Roughing It

    In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West. Roughing It is a hilarious record of his travels over a six-year period that comes to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting, social satire, and rollicking tall tales....
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  • The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's a Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits by Standiford, Les
    Les Standiford

    The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's a Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits

    As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western world. Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his...
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  • Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth by Haynes, Natalie
    Natalie Haynes

    Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

    New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in this scintillating follow-up to Pandora's Jar.Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered bestselling author Natalie Haynes. Divine Might is a...
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  • Borges in 90 Minutes by Strathern, Paul
    Paul Strathern

    Borges in 90 Minutes

    Weaving fiction with fact, fantastic matter with historical figures, Borges' frequent theme of a world where time, culture, and place converge is both timely and pertinent in our advance toward globalization. Drawing from his multi-ethnic and -lingual upbringing in Argentina, Borges' focus on universal...
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  • Virginia Woolf in 90 Minutes by Strathern, Paul
    Paul Strathern

    Virginia Woolf in 90 Minutes

    A highly sensitive and intelligent child, Virginia Woolf grew up in a large family prone to psychological instability. Throughout her life, she was subject to periods of mental breakdown, yet when she was lucid she was capable of a uniquely perceptive and frank introspection....
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  • Beckett in 90 Minutes by Strathern, Paul
    Paul Strathern

    Beckett in 90 Minutes

    Samuel Beckett's work evokes passionate responses: readers and playgoers either revere it or consider it a load of pretentious nonsense. But his philosophy of pessimism will always find a new generation of young readers, for it bursts the rainbow soap bubbles of illusion, leaving...
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  • Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes by Strathern, Paul
    Paul Strathern

    Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes

    Building on his enormously successful series of Philosophers in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern now applies his witty and incisive prose to brief biographical studies of the world's great writers. He brings their lives and ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. After narrowly...
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  • The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes by Crawford, Jackson
    Jackson Crawford

    The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes

    The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised ) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a thirteenth-century Icelandic manuscript are...
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  • The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love by Feder, Rachel
    Rachel Feder

    The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love

    What if we've been reading Jane Austen and romantic classics all wrong? A funny, brainy, eye-opening take on how our contemporary love stories are actually pretty terrifying.Covering cultural touchstones ranging from Twilight to Taylor Swift and from Lord Byron to The Bachelor, The Darcy...
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  • Garcia Marquez in 90 Minutes by Strathern, Paul
    Paul Strathern

    Garcia Marquez in 90 Minutes

    Garcia Marquez stands on the shoulders of a great Latin American literary heritage. But he is also that modern rarity, a writer with aspirations to high art who also remains hugely popular. For those who fall under his spell, his novel, One Hundred Years...
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