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| Samuel Johnson: A Life
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David Nokes.
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| Publisher: Henry Holt. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780805086515. Daedalus Item Code: 11924 |
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| The James Tait Black Award–winning biographer of Jonathan Swift and Jane Austen here offers a clear-eyed portrait of the world's most famous lexicographer. Even after 300 years Samuel Johnson remains ... (Read More)
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| Samuel Johnson: A Personal History
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Christopher Hibbert. Foreword by Henry Hitchings.
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| Publisher: Palgrave. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780230614277. Daedalus Item Code: 31988 |
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| In his close-up biography of the Western world's most influential literary critic, Christopher Hibbert unearths little-known anecdotes to paint Samuel Johnson's time as a schoolboy, his ... (Read More)
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| Saul Bellow: Letters
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Benjamin Taylor, ed.
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| Publisher: Viking. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780670022212. Daedalus Item Code: 30347 |
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| Until just a couple of years before his death in 2005, Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow remained a dedicated correspondent, and these letters—intimate, ironical, richly observant, and funny—reveal the ... (Read More)
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| The Second Blush: Poems
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Molly Peacock.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780393337679. Daedalus Item Code: 21041 |
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| Again demonstrating the "luxuriantly sensual imagination" (Washington Post) last seen in Molly Peacock's Cornucopia, this sixth book of her poetry celebrates marriage and a two-track ... (Read More)
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| Secret Language
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Barry J. Blake.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780199579280. Daedalus Item Code: 24149 |
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| Ciphers and codes conceal messages and protect secrets; symbols and runes contain hidden or ancient meanings; and languages made to baffle and confuse the uninitiated let insiders talk openly without ... (Read More)
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| The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English
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Henry Hitchings.
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| Publisher: Picador. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780312428563. Daedalus Item Code: 21714 |
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| "This historical tour of the English lexicon considers words as etymological fossils of past dreams and traumas, revealing the preoccupations of the ages that produced them. The 19th century's cult ... (Read More)
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| The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation
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Geoffrey Chaucer. Sheila Fisher, trans.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393079456. Daedalus Item Code: 23893 |
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| In this poetically faithful and engaging translation of 14 selected episodes from The Canterbury Tales, Sheila Fisher presents a vivid and lively new version of Geoffrey Chaucer's lyric ... (Read More)
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| Selected Essays
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Robert Louis Stevenson. George Scott-Moncrieff, ed.
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| Publisher: Gateway. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780895267818. Daedalus Item Code: 31159 |
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| This book collects 16 of Robert Louis Stevenson's most charming and provocative essays, selected and introduced by George Scott-Moncrieff. The anthology includes studies of Henry David Thoreau and ... (Read More)
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| Selected Letters of Aldous Huxley
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Aldous Huxley. James Sexton, ed.
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| Publisher: Ivan R. Dee. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781566636292. Daedalus Item Code: 21972 |
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| The correspondence of Aldous Huxley reveals one of the 20th century's liveliest minds; of the ten thousand letters he wrote, only a fraction appeared in the collection published in 1969. James ... (Read More)
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