Latest Readings by Clive James
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Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: very good
In 2010 Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that "if you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do," James moved his library to his house in Cambridge, where he would "live, read, and perhaps even write." James is the award-winni ...Show more
Killing the Black Dog: Short Black 10 by Les Murray
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Short Blacks
'On the last day of 1985, I went home to live in Bunyah, the farming valley I had left some twenty-nine years earlier. My wife and our younger children followed two days later ...at last I was going home, to care for my father in his old age and to live in the place from which I'd always felt displaced. ...Show more
Where the Shoreline Used to be by Susan La Marca
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Category: Literary Studies
A diverse collection of poetry, short stories, song lyrics, novel extracts and illustrations from some of the most important creators today. This anthology for upper high school students follows on from the success of the collection Things a Map Won't Show You, which was aimed at younger readers. Susan ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream (No Fear Shakespeare) by SparkNotes
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: No Fear Shakespeare
No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of A Midsummer Night's Dream on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No Fear Shakespeare contains: The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday l ...Show more
Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust by Clive James
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Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: very good
Over a period of fifteen years Clive James learned French by almost no other method than reading #65533; la recherche du temps perdu. Then he spent half a century trying to get up to speed with Proust's great novel in two different languages. Gate of Lilacs is the unique product of James's love and enga ...Show more
Literary Theory: A very short introduction by Jonathan Culler
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it matter? These are some of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in this Very Short Introduction to literary theory. Often a controversial subject, said to have transformed the study ...Show more
Sex & Death Stories by Hall, Sarah
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Category: Literary Studies
A collection of short stories edited by Sarah Hall and Peter Hobbs featuring Ali Smith, Ben Marcus and Kevin Barry.
The Best Australian Essays 2016 by Geordie Williamson
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Category: Literary Studies
In The Best Australian Essays 2016, Geordie Williamsoncurates the year's best non-fiction writing from Australia's finest writers. The result is a collection that reads as a wake-up call- from Jo Chandler on the devastating bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef and Richard Flanagan on the Syrian exodus to ...Show more
Their Brilliant Careers: The Lives of Sixteen Remarkable Australian Writers by Ryan O'Neill
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Category: Literary Studies
Shortlisted for the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award Absurd, original and highly addictive . . . In Their Brilliant Careers, Ryan O'Neill has written a hilarious novel in the guise of sixteen biographies of (invented) Australian writers. Meet Rachel Deverall, who discovered the secret source of th ...Show more
The Art of the Affair: An Illustrated History of Love, Sex, and Artistic Influence by Catherine Lacey
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Category: Literary Studies
Poet Robert Lowell died of a heart attack, clutching a portrait of his lover, Caroline Blackwood, painted by her ex-husband, Lucian Freud. Lowell was on his way to see his own ex-wife, Elizabeth Hardwick, who was a longtime friend of Mary McCarthy. McCarthy left the father of her child to marry Edmund W ...Show more
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women by Siri Hustvedt
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Category: Literary Studies
A compelling and radical collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from prize-winning novelist Siri Hustvedt, the acclaimed author of "The Blazing World" and "What I Loved." Siri Husvedt has always been fascinated by biology and how human perception works. She is a ...Show more
The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature and the Dreyfus Case by Michael Rosen
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Category: Literary Studies
It is the evening of 18 July 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Emile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking on the highest powers in the land with his open letter 'J'accuse' and losing. Forced to leave Paris, with nothing but the clothes he is standing in and a nightshirt wrapped in newspaper, Zola fl ...Show more