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  • Paul Scott: The Raj Quartet and Staying On

    de John Lennard ...
    A historically informed and informing study guide to of Scott's four great novels of British India - The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence, A Division of the Spoils - and of the popular coda, Staying On. The book covers Paul Scott's Life and works, the British Raj, imperial decay, civil and military India, the Indian independence movement, the birth of India and ... Leer más

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  • Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita

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    An illuminating study of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel with special attention to its film versions. From its first publication in 1955 Nabokov's Lolita has been denounced as immoral filth, hailed as a moral masterpiece, and both praised and damned for stylistic excess. In this fresh appraisal John Lennard provides convenient overviews of Nabokov's life and of the novel (including both ... Leer más

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  • Reading Octavia E. Butler: Xenogenesis / Liliths Brood

    de John Lennard ...
    Octavia Butler's premature and sudden death in 2006 has been very widely lamented, unhappily confirming her influence as a vital African-American and female pioneer in SF. Xenogenesis (retitled Lilith's Brood in 2000) is one of Butler's most important works, and comprises the novels Dawn (1987), Adulthood Rites (1988), and Imago (1989). The Notes cover Octavia Butler's life and work; the ... Leer más

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  • The Poetry Handbook

    de John Lennard ...
    The Poetry Handbook is a lucid and entertaining guide to the poet's craft and an invaluable introduction to practical criticism for students. Chapters on each element of poetry from metre to gender offer a wide-ranging general account and end by looking at two or three poems from a small group (including works by Donne Elizabeth Bishop Geoffrey Hill and Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott) to build up ... Leer más

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  • The Alexandria Quartet

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    The New York Times –bestselling author's four-part story of passion and betrayal—voted one of the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the twentieth century.The Alexandria Quartet is a striking and sensuous masterpiece, breathing vivid life into each of its unforgettable characters and the dusty Mediterranean city in which they live. Set in Alexandria, Egypt, in the years before, during, and after ... Leer más

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  • Getting It Right

    A London hairdresser's life begins to change dramatically when he meets two very different women at a party in this delightful social comedy.Thirty-one-year-old Gavin Lamb is a shy hairdresser in London's West End. Self-educated, he likes Mozart and can quote Tolstoy, but being something of a late bloomer, he still lives at home with his parents. Although he's a master of the styling chair, he ... Leer más

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    From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination.Born in early twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, more than twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London society; yet the investigative ... Leer más

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