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A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'History that reads like biography that reads like a novel - a fluid narrative that defies expectations and plays against type' New York Times 'Brilliant and savage' Philip Hensher An unprecedented history of the perso...

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Literature departments are staffed by, and tend to be focused on turning out, "good" readers attentive to nuance, aware of history, interested in literary texts as self-contained works. But the vast majority of readers are, to use Merve Emre's ton...

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Literature departments are staffed by, and tend to be focused on turning out, "good" readers attentive to nuance, aware of history, interested in literary texts as self-contained works. But the vast majority of readers are, to use Merve Emre's ton...

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An enlarged edition to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of John Guillory's formative text on the literary canon. Since its publication in 1993, John Guillory's Cultural Capital has been a signal text for understanding the codification and uses ...

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Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels found an audience of passionate and engaged readers around the world. Inspired by Ferrante's intense depiction of female friendship and women's intellectual lives,...

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Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels found an audience of passionate and engaged readers around the world. Inspired by Ferrante's intense depiction of female friendship and women's intellectual lives,...

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*A New York Times Critics' Best Book of 2018**An Economist Best Book of 2018**A Spectator Best Book of 2018**A Mental Floss Best Book of 2018*An unprecedented history of the personality test conceived a century ago by a mother and her da...

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"Mrs. Dalloway is a novel that thinks with extraordinary precision and virtuosity about what modern novelists mean when they talk about character: how characters are born; how they age and grow; . . . how they reach for one another in moments of t...

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"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." So begins Virginia Woolf's beloved fourth novel. First published in 1925, Mrs. Dalloway has long been considered Woolf's masterpiece. A pivotal work of literary modernism, its simple plot-cen...

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A contemporary classic from award-winning author Carmen Boullosa, in the tradition of Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges and Csar Aira, now available in a special Tenth Anniversary Edition.Loosely based on the little-known 1859 Mexican invasion of the ...

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More so than any other art form, film relies on collaboration. The essays in this collection, Film and the Art of Adaptation, consider a range of contemporary films inspired by celebrated works of American literature, including Baz Luhrmann's spec...

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In Once and Future Feminist, editor and lead essayist Merve Emre turns a critical eye on the role of technology in feminism both past and present. With her starting point the "fertility benefits¿ offered by Silicon Valley tech companies, Emre...

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What can technology do for feminism?Almost fifty years ago, Shulamith Firestone imagined it could liberate women from the work of reproductionso long as it was conceived as part of a cultural revolution. This collection casts a critical eye on the...

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Von Frauen wird Tröstung verlangt. Deborah Nelson nÿhert sich sechs beeindruckenden Denkerinnen, die sich weigerten, die harte Realitÿt im Meer der Gefühle untergehen zu lassen.Diane Arbus, Hannah Arendt, Joan Didion, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sont...

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Vad är det som gör dig, till dig? Under 1920-talet försökte Katherine Briggs och Isabel Briggs Myers, mor och dotter, att svara på den frågan. De var uttråkade hemmafruar och amatör-psykoanalytiker, som ville tillgängliggöra Carl Jungs doktrin om ...

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