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Rocky Wood
There are a multitude of interesting updates in the revised edition of the classic book about King's hidden work. Included in the new inform... (Source: Google Books API)
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Harold Bloom
At a time when faster and easier electronic media threaten to eclipse reading and literature, the author explores reasons for reading and de... (Source: Google Books API)
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George Beahm
The Stephen King Companion is an authoritative look at horror author King's personal life and professional career, from Carrie to The Bazaar... (Source: Google Books API)
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Harold Bloom
The book remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature. (Source: Google Books API)
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Dan Burstein
The first book to help you understand the mysteries and secret histories within the plot of Dan Brown's bestselling ANGELS AND DEMONS. SECRE... (Source: Google Books API)
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Julie Mullaney
This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introduct... (Source: Google Books API)
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Dan Burstein
Unauthorised (but authoritative) guide to the mysteries behind the phenomenal bestseller THE DA VINCI CODE Readers of Dan Brown's extraordin... (Source: Google Books API)
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Mary Beth Pringle
Examines the works of the novelist, describing his characters, narrative and strategies, plot development, literary devices, settings, and m... (Source: Google Books API)
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Claire Squires
Offers an accessible and informative introduction to the popular novel. (Source: Google Books API)
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Stanisław Lem
In The Lem Reader, Peter Swirski has assembled an in-depth and insightful collection of writings by and about, and interviews with, one of t... (Source: Google Books API)
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S. T. Joshi
John Dickson Carr is known as the master of the locked-room mystery ”the impossible crime. But Carr also wrote short stories, radio play... (Source: Google Books API)
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&. Kim McCann
Feminist Theory Reader is an anthology of classic and contemporary works of feminist theory, organized around the goal of providing both loc... (Source: Google Books API)
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Michelle Ann Abate
Given the long-standing belief that children ought to be shielded from disturbing life events, it is surprising to see how many stories for ... (Source: Google Books API)
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Dirk Sacré
Leading journal in the field of Renaissance and modern Latin As well as presenting articles on Neo-Latin topics, the annual journalHumanisti... (Source: Google Books API)
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Slavoj Zizek
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (Source: Google Books API)
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T.J. Carty
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (Source: Google Books API)
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Beverly Lyon Clark
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (Source: Google Books API)
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T. A. Shippey
Explores the sources of the inspiration, magic, and enchantment of Tolkien's Middle-earth books. (Source: Google Books API)
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Dr Rosemarie Morgan
Bringing together eminent Hardy scholars, The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy offers an overview of Hardy scholarship and suggest... (Source: Google Books API)
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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
From vampires and demons to ghosts and zombies, interest in monsters in literature, film, and popular culture has never been stronger. This ... (Source: Google Books API)
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Professor Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
This concise encyclopedia provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative A-Z of monsters throughout the ages. It is t... (Source: Google Books API)
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Dieter Mehl
With the publication of Brian Gibbons's Jacobean City Comedy thirty-five years ago, the urban satires by Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas... (Source: Google Books API)
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Catherine Delafield
Using private diary writing as her model, Catherine Delafield investigates the cultural significance of nineteenth-century women's writing a... (Source: Google Books API)
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John Rodden
The making of literary reputations is as much a reflection of a writer's surrounding culture and politics as it is of the intrinsic quality ... (Source: Google Books API)
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Megan Riley McGilchrist
The western American landscape has always had great significance in American thinking, requiring an unlikely union between frontier mytholog... (Source: Google Books API)
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Stephen Ingle
Stephen Ingle is Professor at the Politics Department, University of Stirling. His main academic interests are in the relationship between p... (Source: Google Books API)
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Bernfried Nugel
Aldous Huxley Annual is the official publication of the Aldous Huxley Society at the Center for Aldous Huxley Studies in MÃ (Source: Google Books API)
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Roger Lancelyn Green
This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete se... (Source: Google Books API)
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Sonia Massai
Drawing on debates around the global/local dimensions of cultural production, an international team of contributors explore the appropriatio... (Source: Google Books API)
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James D. Mardock
In this thought-provoking study Mardock looks at Ben Jonson's epigrams, prose, and verse satire in order to focus on Jonson's theatrical app... (Source: Google Books API)
