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
Granta 137: Animalia by Sigrid Rausing
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Granta: The Magazine of New Writing
When does a movement become a cult? How do you distinguish between a religion and a sect? In this issue we focus on faith, on the appeal of surrendering oneself to a higher power, becoming a follower. What's the difference between conviction, groupthink and madness? What is it like to grow up in a sect, ...Show more
Fiction Writing Master Class: Emulating the Work of Great Novelists to Master the Fundamentals of Craft by William Cane
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Category: Literary Studies
Want to find your voice? Learn from the best! In your development as a writer, you've likely been told to develop your own unique writing style, as if it were as simple as pulling it out of thin air. But finding your voice isn't easy--it requires time, practice, and a thorough understanding of how great ...Show more
On Kate Jennings : Writers on Writers by Erik Jensen
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Category: Literary Studies
Award-winning writer Erik Jensen plunges the reader into the world of acclaimed novelist, poet and pioneering feminist Kate Jennings. Weaving in his interviews with Jennings in New York, he shows how poetry, politics and family were transmuted into her first novel, Snake- a work of art that depicts rura ...Show more
Outsiders - Five Women Writers who Changed the World - Virginia Woolf, Olive Schreiner,George Eliot, Emily Bronte, Mary Shelley by Lyndall Gordon
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Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: very good
Outsiders tells the stories of five novelists - Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf - and their famous novels. We have long known their individual greatness but in linking their creativity to their lives as outsiders, this group biography throws new light on the ...Show more
50 Women Artists You Should Know by Christiane Weidemann
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Category: Literary Studies
Now available in a new edition, this book offers more than 500 years of achievements in art by women. This beautifully produced, richly detailed, and comprehensive survey of fifty influential women artists from the Renaissance to the Post-Modern era details their vast contributions to the art world. Fro ...Show more
Guide to Literary Agents 2018 by Chuck Freese
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Guide to Literary Agents
Writing & Selling Short Stories & Personal Essays: The Essential Guide to Getting Your Work Published by Windy Lynn Harris
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Category: Literary Studies
Write It Short, Sell It Now Short stories and personal essays have never been hotter--or more crucial for a successful writing career. Earning bylines in magazines and literary journals is a terrific way to get noticed and earn future opportunities in both short- and long-form writing. Writing & Sel ...Show more
Books that Changed History by Dk; James Naughtie (Foreword by)
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Category: Literary Studies
With a foreword by James Naughtie (British radio and news presenter for the BBC).Turn the pages of the most famous books of all time and marvel at the stories behind them. Over 75 of the world's most celebrated, rare, and seminal books are examined and explained in this stunning treasury.Books That Chan ...Show more
The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities by Paul Anthony Jones
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Category: Literary Studies
'Brilliant for anyone interested in the effervescent oddness of English' --Stig Abell on Word DropsThis is the perfect language gift book: a surprising or obscure word for every day of the year. Paul Anthony Jones has unearthed a wealth of wonderful and strange words: dip into this beautifully designed ...Show more
Jacob's Room is Full of Books - A Year of Reading by Susan Hill
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Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: very good
When we spend so much of our time immersed in books, who's to say where reading ends and living begins? The two are impossibly and gloriously wedded, as Hill shows in Jacob's Room Is Full of Books. Considering everything from Edith Wharton's novels through to Alan Bennett's diaries, Virginia Woolf and t ...Show more