The Curtain by Milan Kundera
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Category: Literary Studies
In this entertaining and always stimulating collection of seven essays, Kundera deftly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel. Too often, he suggests, a novel is thought about only within the confines of the nation of its origin, when in fact the novel's development has alw ...Show more
Boyer Lectures 2014: the Promise of Science - A Vision of Hope by Suzanne Cory
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Boyer Lectures
Professor Cory is not just a scientist: she is a humanist, an environmentalist, and an unremitting optimist. Cory's Boyer Lecture series reflects her hope for a bright future. In The Promise of Science: A vision of hope, Professor Cory explores what Australian science has given the nation and the world, ...Show more
The Crucible sparksnotes by SparkNotes
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: SparkNotes Literature Guide
When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols, a review quiz and essay topics. Lively and ac ...Show more
In Their Branches: Stories from ABC Radio National's Trees Project by MILLER, GRETCHEN
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Category: Literary Studies
A very special collection of over one hundred stories, memories, and reflections on trees that have had a special meaning in the lives of Australians, from ABC RN. We all have a favourite tree. We scaled their trunks in childhood, planted their saplings in memory of someone we loved, and carried their s ...Show more
101 Best Sex Scenes Ever Written by Barnaby Conrad
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Category: Literary Studies
Making the provocative purposeful, this analysis spotlights the most exciting—or potentially embarrassing—story element: the obligatory sex scene. This sensibly suggestive guide demonstrates how to advance plots and reveal truths about characters through their romantic tableaus. Each scene is accompanie ...Show more
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk
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Category: Literary Studies
What happens within us when we read a novel? And how does a novel create its unique effects, so distinct from those of a painting, a film, or a poem? In this inspired, thoughtful, deeply personal book, Orhan Pamuk takes us into the worlds of the writer and the reader, revealing their intimate connection ...Show more
Beatific Soul - Jack Kerouac on the Road by Isaac Gewirtz
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Category: Literary Studies
In Beatific Soul : Jack Kerouac on the Road, the writer's evolution is traced through material never before seen by the general public, from the Jack Herouac Archive of the New York Public Library's Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and Americal Literature.
The Grand Canyon Reader by Lance Newman
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Category: Literary Studies
An anthology that brings together writing about the Grand Canyon - stories, essays, and poems written across five centuries by people inhabiting, surviving, and attempting to understand what one explorer called the 'Great Unknown'.
McSweeney's Quartery Concern Issue 41 by Dave Eggers
$27.00 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Each issue of this quarterly is completely redesigned. There have been hardcovers and paperbacks, an issue with two spines, an issue with a magnetic binding, an issue that looked like a bundle of junk mail, and an issue that looked like a sweaty human head. McSweeney's has won multiple literary awards, ...Show more
Lost Art: Two Essays on Cultural Dysfunction by Davies Julian and Day Phil
$15.00 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: very good
The Memoir Book
$24.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
A clear, engaging and practical 'how-to' guide to writing a memoir, by Australia's foremost teacher and practitioner of memoir and life writing, Patti Miller.