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| Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl
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Donald Sturrock.
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| Publisher: Simon & Schuster. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781416550822. Daedalus Item Code: 21338 |
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| The creator of outlandish characters and stories in such children's classics as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and Matilda, Roald Dahl himself ... (Read More)
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| Strong Is Your Hold
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Galway Kinnell.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: hardcover & CD.
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| ISBN: 9780618224975. Daedalus Item Code: 12203 |
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| "Throughout his long career, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner [Galway] Kinnell has returned to themes of death, love and the New England landscape and in this, his thoughtful and ... (Read More)
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| The Tainted Muse: Prejudice and Presumption in Shakespeare and His Time
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Robert Brustein.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300115765. Daedalus Item Code: 31836 |
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| Concentrating on six recurring prejudices that appear in Shakespeare’s plays—including misogyny, elitism, distrust of effeminacy, and racism—Robert Brustein examines how Shakespeare and his ... (Read More)
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| Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1954–2008
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Nadine Gordimer.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393066289. Daedalus Item Code: 23896 |
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| "Ours is the most solitary of occupations; the only comparison I can think of is keeper of a lighthouse. But the analogy mustn't go too far," insisted Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer. "We do not ... (Read More)
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| There's a Word for It: The Explosion of the American Language Since 1900
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Sol Steinmetz.
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| Publisher: Harmony. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780375426179. Daedalus Item Code: 21093 |
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| From the turn of the 20th century to today, our language has grown by some 500,000 new words—at least, that's today's best guesstimate (1936). What accounts for this quantum leap ... (Read More)
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| Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems
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Harold Bloom, ed.
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| Publisher: Harper. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780061923050. Daedalus Item Code: 22324 |
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| In this thoughtful anthology, Harold Bloom has meticulously curated the last poems of one hundred influential poets. These poems—sometimes the literal end and other times the imagined conclusion to a ... (Read More)
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| To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead. Margaret M. Caffrey & Patricia A. Francis, eds. Mary Catherine Bateson, foreword.
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| Publisher: Basic Books. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780465008155. Daedalus Item Code: 80204 |
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| A prolific letter-writer, often far from home and loved ones, Margaret Mead nearly always used her correspondence to hone her writing and her ideas and this collection presents 60 years of personal ... (Read More)
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| Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
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Janet Malcolm.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300125511. Daedalus Item Code: 32362 |
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| "How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?" Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography and investigative journalism. The pair, of ... (Read More)
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| Type and Typography: Highlights from Matrix, the Review for Printers and Bibliophiles
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John D. Berry & John Randle, intro.
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| Publisher: Mark Batty Publisher. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780971568761. Daedalus Item Code: 03659 |
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| This beautifully typeset and illustrated book offers a singular collection of 35 in-depth articles on typography and the printing arts, from the earliest type design techniques to the latest in ... (Read More)
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| Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce's Masterpiece
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Declan Kiberd.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393070996. Daedalus Item Code: 21117 |
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| A professor of Anglo-Irish literature at University College Dublin and Ireland's premier literary historian, Declan Kiberd offers this audacious new take on James Joyce's modernist masterpiece. ... (Read More)
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| Unlucky Stiffs: New Tales of the Weirdly Departed
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Cynthia Ceilan.
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| Publisher: Lyons Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781599219103. Daedalus Item Code: 22940 |
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| Nothing makes it quite so satisfying to embrace the loveliness of life's ordinary moments than the prospect of a spectacularly dumb death, says Cynthia Ceilán. In her follow-up to Thinning the ... (Read More)
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