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| By Hook or By Crook: A Journey in Search of English
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David Crystal.
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| Publisher: Overlook. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781590200612. Daedalus Item Code: 93645 |
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| The author of The Stories of English and How Language Works, David Crystal has been described by London's Times Higher Education Supplement as a "latter-day Samuel Johnson." Here ... (Read More)
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| C.S. Lewis: Memories and Reflections
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John Lawlor.
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| Publisher: Spence. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781890626082. Daedalus Item Code: 31147 |
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| From his rare vantage point as C.S. Lewis's student, friend, and professional colleague, John Lawlor recalls Lewis "in his habit as he lived." Here he gives us an unforgettable account of studying ... (Read More)
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| The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling
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Geoffrey Chaucer. A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd. Nick Bantock, illus.
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| Publisher: Viking. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780670021222. Daedalus Item Code: 23372 |
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| In this fresh prose retelling for modern readers, the author who gave us biographies of London and the Thames captures the vigorous and bawdy spirit of Geoffrey Chaucer's medieval stories. The ... (Read More)
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| Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic
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Henry David Thoreau. Scot Miller, photos.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780618758456. Daedalus Item Code: 23930 |
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| What better way to present Henry David Thoreau's classic treatise on Cape Cod than with beautiful color photographs of the places in question—many of them seen in ways Thoreau himself might have seen ... (Read More)
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| The Cats of Copenhagen
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James Joyce. Casey Sorrow, illus.
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| Publisher: Scribner. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781476708942. Daedalus Item Code: 29654 |
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| In 1936, while visiting Denmark, James Joyce wrote a letter to his young grandson Stephen James Joyce, playfully ruing that he could not send him a cat as he had done from northern France (a toy cat ... (Read More)
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| Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
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Zadie Smith.
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| Publisher: Penguin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781594202377. Daedalus Item Code: 20196 |
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| The author of novels like White Teeth and On Beauty, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction, Zadie Smith has also proven herself as a ... (Read More)
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| Charles Dickens: The Making of a Literary Giant
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Christopher Hibbert. Foreword by John Sutherland.
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| Publisher: Palgrave. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780230614260. Daedalus Item Code: 31987 |
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| The biographer of Disraeli, Edward VII, and George VI here gives us an energetic and witty portrait of Charles Dickens. Throwing a clear light on the creative process and sources of literary ... (Read More)
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| Cheever: A Life
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Blake Bailey.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781400043941. Daedalus Item Code: 13678 |
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| The author of a National Book Critics Circle Award–nominated biography of Richard Yates and the editor of the Library of America's two-volume collection of John Cheever's works, Blake Bailey offers ... (Read More)
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| A Child's Delight
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Noel Perrin.
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| Publisher: UPNE. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781584653523. Daedalus Item Code: 30148 |
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| In this collection of essays from his Washington Post column, National Book Award nominee Noel Perrin rescues from obscurity a broad range of 30 wonderful yet overlooked works for children. ... (Read More)
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| A Christmas Carol: and Other Christmas Books
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Charles Dickens. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, ed.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780199204748. Daedalus Item Code: 24135 |
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| Since it was first published in 1843, inspiring a renaissance of joyous Christmas celebration, "A Christmas Carol" has become an essential part of the holiday season. Charles Dickens also wrote four ... (Read More)
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