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The Forty-Nine Steps
The Forty-Nine Steps
    In books lauded as
    brilliant, exhilarating
    and profound, Roberto
    Calasso has revealed the
    unexpected intersections
    of ancient and modern
    through topics ranging
    from Greek and Indian
    mythology to what a
    legendary African kingdom
    can tell us about the
    French Revolution. In
    this first translation of
    his most important
    essays, Calasso brings
    his powerful intellect
    and elegant prose style
    to bear on the essential
    thinkers of our time,
    providing a sweeping
    analysis of the current
    state of Western
    culture.'Forty-nine
    steps' refers to the
    Talmudic doctrine that
    there are forty-nine
    steps to meaning in every
    passage of the Torah.
    Employing this
    interpretative approach,
    Calasso offers a 'secret
    history' of European
    literature and philosophy
    in the wake of Nietzsche,
    Marx and Freud. Calasso
    analyses how figures
    ranging from Gustav
    Flaubert, Gottfried
    Benn, Karl Kraus and
    Martin Heidegger to
    Walter Benjamin, Franz
    Kafka, Bertolt Brecht
    and Theodor Adorno have
    contributed to, or been
    emblematic of, the
    current state of Western
    thought. This book's
    theme, writ large, is
    the power of the fable -
    specifically, its
    persistence in art and
    literature despite its
    exclusion from orthodox
    philosophy. In its
    breadth and the nature of
    its concerns, The
    Forty-nine Steps is a
    philosophical and
    literary twin to the
    widely praised Marriage
    of Cadmus and Harmony.
    Combining erudition with
    engaging prose and
    original insights,
    Calasso contributes a
    daring new interpretation
    of some of the most
    challenging writers of
    the past 150 years.
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The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand: Flaubert - Sand
The Correspondence Of Gustave
Flaubert & George Sand:
Flaubert - Sand
    Translated, this
    correspondence, from
    1863-76, is unique in
    the history of French
    literature. Never have
    two great writers set
    down their ideas so
    candidly and over so long
    a period on the most
    varied topics, including
    the genesis of their own
    writings, a commentary
    on the Paris theatre,
    gossip from the literary
    world and their own
    domestic lives.
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Coming Home
Coming Home
    From 1930 until shortly
    before his death he
    shared with countless
    readers, listeners and
    viewers his remarkably
    catholic passions for
    books, people and
    places. COMING HOME
    gathers together a
    selection from over four
    decades of his writings
    about buildings,
    townscape and landscape,
    together with
    appreciations of writers,
    artists and archi-tects,
    ranging from Evelyn
    Waugh, Pugin and T. S.
    Eliot to R. S. Thomas,
    Frederick Etchells and
    Jacob Epstein. Candida
    Lycett Green's prefaces
    to each section of this
    book provide invaluable
    insight into the con-text
    in which these pieces
    were written by one of
    the century's most
    eloquent champions of
    beautiful, unusual and
    often unloved places and
    buildings.
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Orwell: The Life
Orwell: The Life
    Orwell has become one of
    the most potent and
    symbolic figures in
    western political
    thought. Even the
    adjective 'Orwellian' is
    now a byword for a
    particular way of
    thinking about life,
    literature and language
    yet, despite this iconic
    status, the man who was
    born Eric Blair in 1903
    remains an enigma.
    Drawing on a mass of
    previously unseen
    material, D J Taylor
    offers a strikingly human
    portrait of the writer
    too often embalmed as a
    secular saint. Here is a
    man who, for all his
    outward unworldliness,
    effectively stage-managed
    his own life; who
    combined chilling
    detachment with warmth
    and gentleness,
    disillusionment with
    hope; who battled through
    illness to produce two of
    the greatest masterpieces
    of the twentieth century.
    Moving and revealing,
    Taylor's Orwell is the
    biography we have all
    been waiting for, as
    vibrant, powerful and
    resonant as its
    extraordinary hero.
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The Vagrant Mood
The Vagrant Mood
    The Vagrant Mood is a
    brilliantly varied and
    colourful collection of
    essays. From Kant to
    Raymond Chandler; from
    the legend of Zurbaran to
    the art of the detective
    story; from Burke to
    Augustus Hare, Somerset
    Maugham brings his
    inimitable mastery of the
    incisive character sketch
    to the genre of literary
    criticism
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The Common Reader: Volume 2
The Common Reader: Volume 2
    So Virginia Woolf
    described the 'common
    reader' for whom she
    wrote. This is her second
    series of essays, first
    published in 1932. Here
    she turns her brilliant
    eye on Lord
    Chesterfield's letters,
    the novels of George
    Gissing, the poetry of
    Donne: we meet Dr Burney
    and Beau Brummell,
    Christina Rossetti,
    Geraldine Jewsbury, Jane
    Carlyle, Mary
    Wollstonecraft and many
    others. This is an
    informal, informative
    and witty celebration of
    our literary and social
    heritage by a writer of
    genius.
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Points Of View
Points Of View
    Eclectic and
    illuminating, these
    essays are the last that
    Maugham published.
    Ranging from an
    appreciation of Goethe's
    novels, to an encounter
    with an Indian holy man,
    with a considered
    analysis of the form at
    which Maugham himself
    excelled - the short
    story - they present the
    enduring views and
    opinions of this eminent
    writer.
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Dr Johnson
Dr Johnson's Women
    Dr Johnson's friendships
    with the leading women
    writers of the day was an
    important feature of his
    life and theirs. He was
    willing to treat women as
    intellectual equals and
    to promote their careers:
    something ignored by his
    main biographer, James
    Boswell. Dr Johnson's
    Women investigates the
    lives and writings of six
    leading female authors
    Johnson knew well:
    Elizabeth Carter,
    Charlotte Lennox,
    Elizabeth Montagu,
    Hester Thrale, Hannah
    More and Fanny Burney. It
    explores their
    relationships with
    Johnson, with each other
    and with the world of
    letters. It shows what it
    was like to be a woman
    writer in the 'Age of
    Johnson'. It is often
    assumed that women
    writers in the eighteenth
    century suffered the same
    restrictions and
    obstacles that confronted
    their Victorian
    successors. Norma Clarke
    shows that this was by no
    means the case.
    Highlighting the
    opportunities available
    to women of talent in the
    eighteenth century, Dr
    Johnson's Women makes
    clear just how impressive
    and varied their
    achievements were.
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The Literature Machine: Essays
The Literature Machine: Essays
    'This brilliant
    collection of essays
    should be a feast for his
    admirers, as well as for
    those who approach his
    dazzling oeuvre for the
    first time-Calvino is not
    only constantly and
    supremely intelligent; he
    is constantly and
    supremely faithful to his
    narrative imagination'
    Guardian
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The Vagrant Mood
The Vagrant Mood
    The Vagrant Mood is a
    brilliantly varied and
    colourful collection of
    essays. From Kant to
    Raymond Chandler; from
    the legend of Zurbaran to
    the art of the detective
    story; from Burke to
    Augustus Hare, Somerset
    Maugham brings his
    inimitable mastery of the
    incisive character sketch
    to the genre of literary
    criticism
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