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An Experiment in Criticism

by C. S. Lewis ...

Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C. S. Lewis's classic An Experiment in Criticism springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He argues that "good reading," like moral action or religious experience, involves surrender to the work in hand and a process of entering fully into the ... Read more

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Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C. S. Lewis's classic An Experiment in Criticism springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He argues that "good reading," like moral action or religious experience, involves surrender to the work in hand and a process of entering fully into the
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How to Write Like a Writer

A Sharp and Subversive Guide to Ignoring Inhibitions, Inviting Inspiration, and Finding Your True Voice

by Thomas C. Foster ...

The New York Times bestselling author of the beloved classic How to Read Literature Like a Professor teaches you how to write everything from a report for your community association to a meaningful memoir in this masterful and engaging writing guide.Combing anecdotes and hard-won lessons from decades of teaching and writing—and invoking everyone from Hemingway to your third-grade teacher—retired ... Read more

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The New York Times bestselling author of the beloved classic How to Read Literature Like a Professor teaches you how to write everything from a report for your community association to a meaningful memoir in this masterful and engaging writing guide.Combing anecdotes and hard-won lessons from decades of teaching and writing—and invoking everyone from Hemingway to your third-grade teacher—retired
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised

A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

by Thomas C. Foster ...

Thoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest—a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range of writing and literary devices that enrich these works, including symbols, themes, and contexts—teaches you how to make your everyday reading experience richer and more rewarding.While books can be ... Read more

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Thoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest—a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range of writing and literary devices that enrich these works, including symbols, themes, and contexts—teaches you how to make your everyday reading experience richer and more rewarding.While books can be
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Nancy-Lou Patterson Reviews Books By and About Dorothy L. Sayers, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Others

by Nancy-Lou Patterson ...

Nancy-Lou Patterson taught at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, for thirty years. She was not only an active artist, poet, and fiction writer, she also published extensively on the Inklings and authors associated with them. Her book reviews provide an extraordinary history of mythopoeic scholarship from 1975 through 2001. ... Read more

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Nancy-Lou Patterson taught at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, for thirty years. She was not only an active artist, poet, and fiction writer, she also published extensively on the Inklings and authors associated with them. Her book reviews provide an extraordinary history of mythopoeic scholarship from 1975 through 2001.
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Collins Rhyming Dictionary

by Rosalind Fergusson ...

If it’s time for a rhyme, or you need a satiric lyric, the Collins Rhyming Dictionary is the fastest and easiest way to refine your line.The most accessible way to find the rhyme you need. Other rhyming dictionaries are characterised by the use of obscure words for padding, subsections for disyllabic and trisyllabic rhymes, and reverse phonetic order – but we avoid such complications and, as a ... Read more

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If it’s time for a rhyme, or you need a satiric lyric, the Collins Rhyming Dictionary is the fastest and easiest way to refine your line.The most accessible way to find the rhyme you need. Other rhyming dictionaries are characterised by the use of obscure words for padding, subsections for disyllabic and trisyllabic rhymes, and reverse phonetic order – but we avoid such complications and, as a
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The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms

by Chris Baldick ...

Series series Oxford Quick Reference
The bestselling Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms provides clear and concise definitions of the most troublesome literary terms, from abjection to zeugma. It is an essential reference tool for students of literature in any language. Now expanded and in its fourth edition, it includes increased coverage of new terms from modern critical and theoretical movements, such as feminism, schools of ... Read more

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The bestselling Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms provides clear and concise definitions of the most troublesome literary terms, from abjection to zeugma. It is an essential reference tool for students of literature in any language. Now expanded and in its fourth edition, it includes increased coverage of new terms from modern critical and theoretical movements, such as feminism, schools of
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Mémoire de fille d'Annie Ernaux

Les Fiches de Lecture d'Universalis

by Encyclopaedia Universalis ...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’UniversalisL’entreprise d’écrire d’Annie Ernaux a commencé il y a plus de quarante ans. Paru en 2011, Écrire la vie rassemblait, des Armoires vides (1974) aux Années (2008), l’essentiel d’une œuvre dont le territoire est « la vie telle que le temps et l’Histoire ne cessent de la ...Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour ... Read more

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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’UniversalisL’entreprise d’écrire d’Annie Ernaux a commencé il y a plus de quarante ans. Paru en 2011, Écrire la vie rassemblait, des Armoires vides (1974) aux Années (2008), l’essentiel d’une œuvre dont le territoire est « la vie telle que le temps et l’Histoire ne cessent de la ...Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour
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30-Second Literature

The 50 most important forms, genres and styles, each explained in half a minute

by Ella Berthoud ...

Series series 30-Second
Whether you're looking for a new author or genre to explore, 30-Second Literature provides you with summaries of the major literary genres, styles and histories.Part of the 30-Second series, this introductory guide to literature is split into 7 chapters that cover:The History of Literature – from Sanskrit to ModernismThe Novel – in all its glorious genresLiterary Prose – n... ... Read more

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Whether you're looking for a new author or genre to explore, 30-Second Literature provides you with summaries of the major literary genres, styles and histories.Part of the 30-Second series, this introductory guide to literature is split into 7 chapters that cover:The History of Literature – from Sanskrit to ModernismThe Novel – in all its glorious genresLiterary Prose – n...
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De la grammatologie de Jacques Derrida

Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis

by Encyclopaedia Universalis ...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’UniversalisCinq ans après son introduction-traduction de L’Origine de la géométrie de Husserl, Jacques Derrida publie, en 1967, trois livres étrangement différents, paradoxalement proches.Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur De la grammatologie de Jacques DerridaChaque fiche de lecture présente une ... Read more

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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’UniversalisCinq ans après son introduction-traduction de L’Origine de la géométrie de Husserl, Jacques Derrida publie, en 1967, trois livres étrangement différents, paradoxalement proches.Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur De la grammatologie de Jacques DerridaChaque fiche de lecture présente une
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Anthony Trollope

A Companion

by Nicholas Birns, John F. Wirenius, Laurence W. Mazzeno ...

Series series McFarland Companions to 19th Century Literature
Anthony Trollope's novels and stories entertain while vividly bringing the Victorian era to life. His deep empathy for the underdog led him to subvert conventions, exploring the lives of women, as well as men, and choosing as heroes and heroines outsiders who would be viewed with suspicion by his readers. Trollope's profound insight to human nature made him the first novelist in English to develop ... Read more

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Anthony Trollope's novels and stories entertain while vividly bringing the Victorian era to life. His deep empathy for the underdog led him to subvert conventions, exploring the lives of women, as well as men, and choosing as heroes and heroines outsiders who would be viewed with suspicion by his readers. Trollope's profound insight to human nature made him the first novelist in English to develop
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Le père Goriot de Balzac (Fiche de lecture)

Analyse complète de l'oeuvre

by Matthieu Durel, fichesdelecture ...

Cette fiche de lecture sur Le père Goriot de Balzac propose une analyse complète :• un résumé du roman• une analyse des personnages principaux• une analyse des axes de lectureÀ propos de FichesDeLecture.com :FichesdeLecture.com propose plus 2500 analyses complètes de livres sur toute la littérature classique et contemporaine : des résumés, des analyses de livres, des questionnaires et des ... Read more

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Cette fiche de lecture sur Le père Goriot de Balzac propose une analyse complète :• un résumé du roman• une analyse des personnages principaux• une analyse des axes de lectureÀ propos de FichesDeLecture.com :FichesdeLecture.com propose plus 2500 analyses complètes de livres sur toute la littérature classique et contemporaine : des résumés, des analyses de livres, des questionnaires et des
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Liddell and Scott

The History, Methodology, and Languages of the World's Leading Lexicon of Ancient Greek

Edited by Christopher Stray, Michael Clarke, Joshua T. Katz ...

The Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott is one of the most famous dictionaries in the world, and for the past century-and-a-half has been a constant and indispensable presence in teaching, learning, and research on ancient Greek throughout the English-speaking world and beyond. Despite continuous modification and updating, it is still recognizably a Victorian creation; at the same time, ... Read more

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The Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott is one of the most famous dictionaries in the world, and for the past century-and-a-half has been a constant and indispensable presence in teaching, learning, and research on ancient Greek throughout the English-speaking world and beyond. Despite continuous modification and updating, it is still recognizably a Victorian creation; at the same time,
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The Vonnegut Encyclopedia

Revised and updated edition

by Marc Leeds ...

Now expanded and updated, this authorized compendium to Kurt Vonnegut’s novels, stories, essays, and plays is the most comprehensive and definitive edition to date.Over the course of five decades, Kurt Vonnegut created a complex and interconnected web of characters, settings, and concepts. The Vonnegut Encyclopedia is an exhaustive guide to this beloved author’s world, organized in a handy A-to-Z ... Read more

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Now expanded and updated, this authorized compendium to Kurt Vonnegut’s novels, stories, essays, and plays is the most comprehensive and definitive edition to date.Over the course of five decades, Kurt Vonnegut created a complex and interconnected web of characters, settings, and concepts. The Vonnegut Encyclopedia is an exhaustive guide to this beloved author’s world, organized in a handy A-to-Z
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The Poetry Reader

An Anthology

Edited by Professor Mark Yakich ...

You have picked up this book because you are a poetry reader. Or you are about to be one. Because as soon as you read a poem, that's what you are.Filled with the profound, the lyrical, the consoling, and the curious, The Poetry Reader: An Anthology is the book you would hope to find if you washed up alone on a deserted island: this companionable collection shows how poetry itself is a discussion, ... Read more

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You have picked up this book because you are a poetry reader. Or you are about to be one. Because as soon as you read a poem, that's what you are.Filled with the profound, the lyrical, the consoling, and the curious, The Poetry Reader: An Anthology is the book you would hope to find if you washed up alone on a deserted island: this companionable collection shows how poetry itself is a discussion,
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Le Parti pris des choses de Francis Ponge (Analyse de l'œuvre)

Analyse complète et résumé détaillé de l'oeuvre

by Brume, Paola Livinal, lePetitLitteraire ...

Series series Fiche de lecture
Décryptez Le Parti pris des choses de Francis Ponge avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !Que faut-il retenir du Parti pris des choses, ce recueil de poèmes en prose qui s'intéresse aux objets du quotidien ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée.Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche :• Des éclairages complets• Une analyse des spécif... ... Read more

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Décryptez Le Parti pris des choses de Francis Ponge avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !Que faut-il retenir du Parti pris des choses, ce recueil de poèmes en prose qui s'intéresse aux objets du quotidien ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée.Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche :• Des éclairages complets• Une analyse des spécif...
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Shakespeare

The World as Stage

by Bill Bryson ...

Series Book 63 - Eminent Lives
Bill Bryson’s bestselling and brilliantly witty biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship—updated with a new introduction by the author to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s deathWilliam Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a ... Read more

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Bill Bryson’s bestselling and brilliantly witty biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship—updated with a new introduction by the author to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s deathWilliam Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a
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The Joy of Reading

A Passionate Guide to 189 of the World's Best Authors and Their Works

by Charles Van Doren ...

"Charles Van Doren has laid a feast before all of us that is irresistible."—Mortimer J. AdlerThis engaging love letter to reading follows the great authors and classics that transformed the world: from Aristotle and Herodotus in ancient Greece to Salinger and Heinlein in 20th century America. Like a professor whose enthusiasm enwraps his students, Van Doren explains what's wonderful in the books ... Read more

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"Charles Van Doren has laid a feast before all of us that is irresistible."—Mortimer J. AdlerThis engaging love letter to reading follows the great authors and classics that transformed the world: from Aristotle and Herodotus in ancient Greece to Salinger and Heinlein in 20th century America. Like a professor whose enthusiasm enwraps his students, Van Doren explains what's wonderful in the books
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As They Say In Zanzibar

by David Crystal ...

David Crystal, one of the world’s leading commentators on language, tackles the proverbs of the world. In this anthology of global proverbs Crystal brings his customary keen eye and linguistic expertise to this wonderfully rich topic.Proverbs are fascinating in what they tell us about a culture's view of everyday life: whether it be the importance of animals or the significance of the weather, ... Read more

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David Crystal, one of the world’s leading commentators on language, tackles the proverbs of the world. In this anthology of global proverbs Crystal brings his customary keen eye and linguistic expertise to this wonderfully rich topic.Proverbs are fascinating in what they tell us about a culture's view of everyday life: whether it be the importance of animals or the significance of the weather,
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Little Book Of Tips For Descriptive Writing

by Patti Roberts ...

This book is a gem, if only for the list of creative words Patti had generously put together, to save the budding writer the time and effort of having to do so.Thanks Patti. Jeremy Poole.Includes Bonus reading includes Writing Tips from Authors.Participating Authors.David Bishop - The WomanSuzy Turner - The Ghost Of Josiah GrimshawElla Medler - Blood Is Power.Kenneth Hoss - Deadly Storm.Patricia ... Read more

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This book is a gem, if only for the list of creative words Patti had generously put together, to save the budding writer the time and effort of having to do so.Thanks Patti. Jeremy Poole.Includes Bonus reading includes Writing Tips from Authors.Participating Authors.David Bishop - The WomanSuzy Turner - The Ghost Of Josiah GrimshawElla Medler - Blood Is Power.Kenneth Hoss - Deadly Storm.Patricia
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The Wheel of Time Companion

The People, Places, and History of the Bestselling Series

by Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, Maria Simons ...

Series series Wheel of Time
The Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine!Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. The definitive encyclopedia of the series, the companion sheds light on some of the most intriguing aspects of the world, including ... Read more

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The Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine!Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. The definitive encyclopedia of the series, the companion sheds light on some of the most intriguing aspects of the world, including
... Read more
The Art of Memoir

by Mary Karr ...

Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well.For thirty years Karr has also taught the form, winning teaching prizes at Syracuse. (The writing program there produced such acclaimed authors as Cheryl Strayed ... Read more

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Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well.For thirty years Karr has also taught the form, winning teaching prizes at Syracuse. (The writing program there produced such acclaimed authors as Cheryl Strayed
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The History of the Hobbit

Mr Baggins and Return to Bag-End

by John D. Rateliff, J. R. R. Tolkien ...

This revised and updated examination of how J.R.R.Tolkien came to write his original masterpiece The Hobbit includes his complete unpublished draft version of the story, together with notes and illustrations by Tolkien himself.The Hobbit was first published on 21 September 1937. Like its sequel, The Lord of the Rings, it is a story that ‘grew in the telling’, and many characters and plot threads ... Read more

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This revised and updated examination of how J.R.R.Tolkien came to write his original masterpiece The Hobbit includes his complete unpublished draft version of the story, together with notes and illustrations by Tolkien himself.The Hobbit was first published on 21 September 1937. Like its sequel, The Lord of the Rings, it is a story that ‘grew in the telling’, and many characters and plot threads
... Read more
The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton ...

Series series Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.'I want – I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that – categories like that – won't exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who are the whole of life to each other; and nothing else on earth will matter.’Newland Archer, a successful and charming young lawyer conducts ... Read more

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HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.'I want – I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that – categories like that – won't exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who are the whole of life to each other; and nothing else on earth will matter.’Newland Archer, a successful and charming young lawyer conducts
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Stephen King's The Dark Tower Concordance

by Robin Furth, Stephen King ...

Series series The Dark Tower
The Complete Concordance by Robin Furth is an entertaining and incredibly useful guide to Stephen King’s epic Dark Tower series and features a foreword by Stephen King himself.The Dark Tower series is the backbone of Stephen King's legendary career. Eight books and more than three thousand pages make up this bestselling fantasy epic. The Complete Concordance covers books I-VII and The Wind Through ... Read more

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The Complete Concordance by Robin Furth is an entertaining and incredibly useful guide to Stephen King’s epic Dark Tower series and features a foreword by Stephen King himself.The Dark Tower series is the backbone of Stephen King's legendary career. Eight books and more than three thousand pages make up this bestselling fantasy epic. The Complete Concordance covers books I-VII and The Wind Through
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