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    An Autobiography: and Other Writings

    £9.89 £10.99
    The only autobiography by a major Victorian novelist, Trollope's account offers a fascinating insight into his literary life and opinions. This edition shows how he exaggerated to create his compelling narrative, and includes other writings to show how subtle and complex his approach to literature really was.

    An Editor's Burial: Journals and Journalism from the New Yorker and Other Magazines

    £9.89 £10.99
    Inspirations for Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch - fascinating essays on Paris by some of the twentieth century's finest writers.

    An English Library Journey: With Detours to Wales and Northern Ireland

    £13.49 £14.99
    A witty, impassioned tour of England's libraries from a charming, erudite bibliophile

    An Opinionated Guide to London Bookshops

    £9.86 £10.95

    An Uncommon Story

    £8.09 £8.99
    First translation into English of an extraordinary document that lays bare the jealousies felt but rarely expressed by writers, and an eternal monument to literary paranoia.

    Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours

    £21.56 £23.95
    The ancient Greeks' concept of "the hero" was very different from what we understand by the term today. In 24 installments, based on the Harvard course Nagy has taught and refined since the 1970s, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours explores civilization's roots in Classical literature-a lineage that continues to challenge and inspire us.

    And Yet: Essays

    £10.79 £11.99
    And Yet... gathers the previously uncollected essays of the late Christopher Hitchens into a final volume of peerless prose from one of the great thinkers of our times.

    Animal Satire

    £107.99 £119.99
    Animal Satire presents a cultural history of animal satire, a critically neglected but persistent presence in the history of cultural production, in which animals expose human folly while the strategies of satire expose the folly of human-animal relations.

    Anita Desai

    £16.82 £18.69
    The notion of thinking as an outside, and the critical distance which this entails, is a key to an understanding of Desai as writer, and a recurrent theme for the discussions of her novels and short stories in her book.

    Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time

    £8.99 £9.99

    Aphra Behn: A Secret Life

    £13.49 £14.99
    An exploration of the life, work, and historical background of Aphra Behn: seventeenth-century dramatist, poet, novelist, political propagandist, bisexual and spy.

    Apology for Poetry (or the Defence of Poesy)

    £11.69 £12.99
    Since 1965 Geoffrey Shepherd's edition of Philip Sidney's "Apology" has been the standard, and this revision, with a new introduction and extensive notes, is designed to introduce the soldier-poet's work to a new generation of readers at the beginning of the 21st century.

    Appointment in Arezzo: A friendship with Muriel Spark

    £8.09 £8.99
    With sources ranging from notebooks kept from his very first encounter with Muriel and the hundreds of letters they exchanged over the years, this is an invaluable portrait of one of Edinburgh's premiere novelists. The book will be published to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Muriel's birth in 2018.

    Approaches to Teaching the Works of Orhan Pamuk

    £28.80 £32.00

    Archaic Modernism: Queer Poetics in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini

    £26.96 £29.95
    Offers the first book-length, English-language examination of three adaptations of Greek tragedy produced by the gay and Marxist Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini. Archaic Modernism makes the case that these three films are as essential as those Pasolini films more often studied in the Anglophone world.

    Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590-1674

    £81.00 £90.00
    Munro explores the conscious use of archaic language by poets and dramatists including Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson and Milton.

    Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War

    £37.80 £42.00
    Argues that cultural politics - specifically America's often covert patronage of the arts - played a highly important role in the transfer of imperial authority from Britain to the United States during a critical period after World War II.

    Arden of Faversham

    £13.49 £14.99

    Areopagitica and Other Writings

    £11.69 £12.99
    John Milton was celebrated and denounced in his own time both as a poet and as a polemicist. This edition of Milton's major prose works includes: Of Education, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates and the Divorce tracts, as well as the famous 1644 polemical tract on the opposing licensing and censorship, Areopagitica.

    Ariadne's Thread: Story Lines

    £15.40 £22.00
    An exploration of the intricacies of narrative theory. Considering a range of texts from Western literature over the past two centuries, Miller explores the way rhetorical devices and figurative language interrupt, break into, delay and expand storytelling.

    Ariel: A Literary Life of Jan Morris

    £13.49 £14.99
    Jan Morris is one of the great British writers of the post-war era. For many readers she is best known for her candid memoir Conundrum, which described the gender reassignment operation she underwent in 1972. In this book, the author demonstrates that this is just one of the many remarkable facts about her life.

    Ariel:Literary Life of Jan Morris

    £11.69 £12.99
    Derek Johns was Jan Morris's literary agent for twenty years, and Ariel is a literary life, an appreciation of the work and achievements of someone who besides being a delightful writer is known to many as a generous, affectionate, witty and irreverent friend.

    Around the World in 80 Books

    £11.69 £12.99

    Arrow in the Blue

    £13.49 £14.99
    The first volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon. The second volume of Arthur Koestler's autobiography is The Invisible Writing.

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