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Télécharger le livre :  Firstborn Girls
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Firstborn Girls


Bernice L. Mcfadden


'Riveting... one of America’s most creative and necessary writers' SAPPHIREA memoir about four generations of women whose lives illuminate a century of American history, by the author of Richard and Judy Book Club pick SugarOn her second birthday in 1967, Bernice...

Parution : 2025-03-06
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  A Coupe of Thorns and Rosé
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A Coupe of Thorns and Rosé


N.C.


*The perfect Valentine (or galentine) gift for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Rebecca Yarros and Raven Kennedy* Delicious drinks with a slow burnWith 60 toe-curling tipples and scrumptious spritzes inspired by your favourite romantic stories, realms and tropes, A Coupe of...

Parution : 2024-08-08
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Ebury Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  The Short Story of the Novel
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The Short Story of the Novel


Henry Russell


A fascinating and innovative introduction to the best works of fiction from the last 500 years. Simply constructed, the book explores 60 key novels from The Tale of Genji to My Brilliant Friend.In addition to enjoyable descriptions of the novels and concise explanations...

Parution : 2024-08-08
Format(s) : ePub
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Télécharger le livre :  Reading Miscellany in the Roman Empire
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Reading Miscellany in the Roman Empire


Scott J. Digiulio


Most classists have viewed Aulus Gellius' second-century text, the Noctes Atticae, as little more than a haphazard collection of short essays and excerpts by an amateur scholar. Often called a "miscellany," the Noctes Atticae collects vast amounts of otherwise lost...

Parution : 2024-05-21
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Télécharger le livre :  The Secret Lives of Booksellers & Librarians
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The Secret Lives of Booksellers & Librarians


James Patterson


Available now in paperback from the world's bestselling author - A collection of passionate, true stories about the power of reading.'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades.' LEE...

Parution : 2024-04-11
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop
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Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop


Alba Donati , Elena Pala


HOW A BOOKSELLER INSPIRED A NATIONThe diary of a publicist-turned bookseller who left Florence to open a tiny bookshop on a Tuscan hill. 'Like Chocolat meets Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop, set in the Tuscan hills... A celebration of writing, words and people:...

Parution : 2022-11-03
Format(s) : ePub
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Télécharger le livre :  A Very Nice Rejection Letter
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A Very Nice Rejection Letter


Chris Paling


'Like all good diarists Paling's musings are funny, tender and uncensored' Sunday Times6 April 2007Writing income for the year so far: minus £300'I feel that this might just be the year in which something happens. Then again it might not. But hope drives all writers...

Parution : 2021-06-17
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Constable
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Télécharger le livre :  Wastepaper Modernism
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Wastepaper Modernism


Joseph Elkanah Rosenberg


From Henry James' fascination with burnt manuscripts to destroyed books in the fiction of the Blitz; from junk mail in the work of Elizabeth Bowen to bureaucratic paperwork in Vladimir Nabokov; modern fiction is littered with images of tattered and useless paper that...

Parution : 2021-04-16
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
Offre spéciale 65,72€
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Télécharger le livre :  Wastepaper Modernism
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Wastepaper Modernism


Joseph Elkanah Rosenberg


From Henry James' fascination with burnt manuscripts to destroyed books in the fiction of the Blitz; from junk mail in the work of Elizabeth Bowen to bureaucratic paperwork in Vladimir Nabokov; modern fiction is littered with images of tattered and useless paper that...

Parution : 2021-04-16
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
Offre spéciale 65,72€
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Télécharger le livre :  How to Live. What To Do.
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How to Live. What To Do.


Josh Cohen


What can Alice in Wonderland teach us about childhood? Could reading Conversations with Friends guide us through first love? Does Esther Greenwood’s glittering success and subsequent collapse in The Bell Jar help us understand ambition? And, finally, what can we learn...

Parution : 2021-02-11
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Ebury Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  Book Ownership in Stuart England
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Book Ownership in Stuart England


David Pearson


This volume provides a wide-ranging account of the development and importance of private libraries and book ownership through the seventeenth century, based upon many kinds of evidence, including examination of thousands of books, and a list of over 1,300 known owners...

Parution : 2021-01-26
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
Offre spéciale 80,32€
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Télécharger le livre :  Book Ownership in Stuart England
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Book Ownership in Stuart England


David Pearson


This volume provides a wide-ranging account of the development and importance of private libraries and book ownership through the seventeenth century, based upon many kinds of evidence, including examination of thousands of books, and a list of over 1,300 known owners...

Parution : 2021-01-26
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
Offre spéciale 80,32€
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Télécharger le livre :  What to Read Next
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What to Read Next


Stig Abell


For a whole year on his train to work, Stig Abell read books from across genres and time periods. Then he wrote about them, and their impact on our culture and his own life.The result is a work of many things: a brisk guide to the canon of Western literature; an...

Parution : 2020-11-12
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : John Murray
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Télécharger le livre :  The Paper Chase
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The Paper Chase


Joseph Hone


Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown'A remarkable achievement' SpectatorIn the summer of 1705, a masked woman knocked on the door of a London printer's workshop. She did not leave her name, only a package and the promise of protection. Soon after, an anonymous...

Parution : 2020-11-05
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  The Bookseller's Tale
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The Bookseller's Tale


Martin Latham


A SPECTATOR AND EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'A joy. Each chapter instantly became my favourite' David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas'Wonderful' Lucy Mangan'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.'This is the story of our love...

Parution : 2020-09-03
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Why Women Read Fiction
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Why Women Read Fiction


Helen Taylor


Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary women readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. Female readers are key to the future of fiction and--as...

Parution : 2019-12-05
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
Offre spéciale 10,94€
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Télécharger le livre :  Why Women Read Fiction
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Why Women Read Fiction


Helen Taylor


Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary women readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. Female readers are key to the future of fiction and--as...

Parution : 2019-12-05
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
Offre spéciale 10,94€
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Télécharger le livre :  Passions Of The Mind
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Passions Of The Mind


A S Byatt


In Passions of the Mind, A.S. Byatt writes as an artist and scholar taking the reader on a journey of discovery as she explores the ideas, images and attitudes to language underpinning some of her own fiction, and also the work of Great Victorians and a varied range of...

Parution : 2018-10-26
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  On Histories And Stories
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On Histories And Stories


A S Byatt


In her powerful opening essays - 'Fathers', 'Forefathers' and 'Ancestors' - A. S. Byatt considers the renaissance of the historical novel and discusses particularly the novel of wartime experience; the surprising variety of distant pasts that British writers have...

Parution : 2018-10-22
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  The Humanities and Everyday Life
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The Humanities and Everyday Life


Michael Levenson


The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities.The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What...

Parution : 2017-11-08
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
Offre spéciale 15,81€
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