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The Raymond Chandler Papers

Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909–1959

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Selected letters and nonfiction of one of America's most beloved writers "reveals the occasionally softer side of the man behind the hard-boiled mysteries" ( Library Journal).The Raymond Chandler Papers brings together the correspondence and other previously uncollected writing of America's undisputed master of crime fiction and creator of the iconic private eye Philip Marlowe, revealing all ... Read more

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Selected letters and nonfiction of one of America's most beloved writers "reveals the occasionally softer side of the man behind the hard-boiled mysteries" ( Library Journal).The Raymond Chandler Papers brings together the correspondence and other previously uncollected writing of America's undisputed master of crime fiction and creator of the iconic private eye Philip Marlowe, revealing all
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La vida de Raymond Chandler

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Raymond Chandler fue, junto con Dashiell Hammett, el renovador y el maestro indiscutido del género policiaco. Sus siete novelas tienen una categoría literaria sorprendente en un campo en el que nadie, hasta aquel momento, esperaba calidad. Y es que Chandler era, ante todo, un escritor inteligente. Despedido de su empleo como ejecutivo de una compañía petrolera por su afición a la bebida, el hombre ... Read more

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Raymond Chandler fue, junto con Dashiell Hammett, el renovador y el maestro indiscutido del género policiaco. Sus siete novelas tienen una categoría literaria sorprendente en un campo en el que nadie, hasta aquel momento, esperaba calidad. Y es que Chandler era, ante todo, un escritor inteligente. Despedido de su empleo como ejecutivo de una compañía petrolera por su afición a la bebida, el hombre
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Ford Maddox Ford

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This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes.This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995. ... Read more

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This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes.This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.
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The Novel

A Biography

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The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa; influenced by great novelists working in other languages; and encompassing a range of genres, the story of the novel in English unfolds like a richly varied ... Read more

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The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa; influenced by great novelists working in other languages; and encompassing a range of genres, the story of the novel in English unfolds like a richly varied
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All Art Is Propaganda

Critical Essays

by George Orwell, Keith Gessen ...

The essential collection of critical essays from a twentieth-century master and author of 1984.As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous borders between essay and journalism, high art and low.A frequent commentator on literature, language, film, and drama throughout his career, Orwell turned ... Read more

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The essential collection of critical essays from a twentieth-century master and author of 1984.As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous borders between essay and journalism, high art and low.A frequent commentator on literature, language, film, and drama throughout his career, Orwell turned
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College of One

The Story of How F. Scott Fitzgerald Educated the Woman He Loved

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The moving story of how F. Scott Fitzgerald—washed up, alcoholic and ill—dedicated himself to devising a heartfelt course in literature for the woman he loved.In 1937, on the night of her engagement to the Marquess of Donegall, Sheilah Graham met F. Scott Fitzgerald at a party in Hollywood. Graham, a British-born journalist, broke off her engagement, and until Fitzgerald had a fatal heart attack ... Read more

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The Lost Childhood

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From Dickens to Wilde—literary criticism and personal reflections by a master "unmatched . . . in his uncanny psychological insights" ( The New York Times ).Graham Greene shares his love affair with reading in this collection of essays, memories, and critical considerations, both affectionate and tart, "[that] could have come from no other source than the author of Brighton Rock and The Power and ... Read more

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Richard Schickel's text, combining critical analysis and a re-interpretation of all the available biographical information, masterfully maps the intersections where a great star's personal history and his screen personality met in a style as elegant, graceful and witty as the actor himself. ... Read more

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Careless People

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"Churchwell... has written an excellent book... she’s earned the right to play on [Fitzgerald's] court. Prodigious research and fierce affection illumine every remarkable page.”—Kirkus (STARRED review)The autumn of 1922 found F. Scott Fitzgerald at the height of his fame, days from turning twenty-six years old, and returning to New York for the publication of his fourth book, Tales of the Jazz Age ... Read more

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"Churchwell... has written an excellent book... she’s earned the right to play on [Fitzgerald's] court. Prodigious research and fierce affection illumine every remarkable page.”—Kirkus (STARRED review)The autumn of 1922 found F. Scott Fitzgerald at the height of his fame, days from turning twenty-six years old, and returning to New York for the publication of his fourth book, Tales of the Jazz Age
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Humorists

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Coleridge

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Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes’s classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets.Richard Holmes’s biography of Coleridge transforms our view of the poet of ‘Kubla Khan’ forever. Holmes’s Coleridge leaps out of these pages as the brilliant, animated and endlessly provoking poet of genius that he was.This second volume covers the last 30 years of Coleridge’s career (1804 ... Read more

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