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Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy
Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden’s provoca...
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Virgil (Understanding Classics)
The works of Virgil (70–19 BCE) define the 'golden age' of Latin poetry and have inspired a long tra...
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Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor
'Masterly, hilarious, truly insightful.' - Philip Hensher, The SpectatorA Times Literary Supplement...
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Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless Language
Virgil gave us the Aeneid, and Ovid the Metamorphoses; Lucretius analysed the material world and Cae...
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Lectures on Shakespeare
“W. H. Auden, poet and critic, will conduct a course on Shakespeare at the New School for Social Res...
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The Edges of Fiction
What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of ration...
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Oscar: A Life
'The Book of the Year, perhaps of the decade, has to be Matthew Sturgis's Oscar' TLS, Books of the Y...
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The Perils of the One
From the earliest times, societies have been seduced by the temptation of unitary thinking. Recogniz...
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How to Read Literature
A literary master’s entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and gre...
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
'A father...is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in UlyssesIn Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toib...
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Achilles Unbound: Multiformity and Tradition in the Homeric Epics
Though Achilles the character is bound by fate and by narrative tradition, Achilles’s poem, the Ilia...
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Collected Ancient Greek Novels
Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, flourished in the early Roma...
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Talk on the Wild Side: Why Language Won't Do as it's Told
Language is a wild animal: rough, ambiguous, inconsistent in countless ways. But that just makes it...
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Allegory and Ideology
This major new work by Fredric Jameson is not a book about “method,” but it does propose a dialectic...
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Euripides and the Gods
Modern readers find it hard to come to terms with the gods in Euripides' dramas. Readers try to dism...
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