The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
$25.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Steven Pinker, the best-selling author of The Language Instinct, deploys his gift for explaining big ideas in The Sense of Style - an entertaining writing guide for the 21st century. What is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age of instant communication? Should we care? In th ...Show more
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
$32.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
A best-selling, Pulizer Prize-winning author looks at her craft and, in a series of illuminating metaphors and anecdotes, paints a picture of a demanding, unpredictable, and sometimes absurd existence. "Anne Dilliard is a wonderful writer and The Writing Life is full of joys." - New York Times Book Revi ...Show more
Reading Lessons: The books we read at school, the conversations they spark and why they matter by Carol Atherton
$43.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
An English teacher's love letter to reading and teaching- an eye-opening journey through the books we read at school, the impact they made on us then and what we can take from them now. How can a Victorian poem help teenagers understand YouTube misogyny? Can Jane Eyre encourage us to speak out? What can ...Show more
A History of the Irish Novel by Derek Hand
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Category: On Writing
Derek Hand's A History of the Irish Novel is a major work of criticism on some of the greatest and most globally recognisable writers of the novel form. Writers such as Laurence Sterne, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett and John McGahern have demonstrated the extraordinary intellectual range, ...Show more
Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner by Henry James
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Category: On Writing | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
Surrounded by the artists, writers and musicians who made up her court in Boston as they did in Venice, Isabella Stewart Gardner, a passionate art collector, was as revered and sought after as royalty. Henry James was inspired by the rich and powerful Gardner, as well as by the Palazzo Barbaro in Venice ...Show more
Henry James' Travel: Fiction and Non-Fiction
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Category: On Writing
Henry James’ Travel: Fiction and Non-Fiction offers a multifaceted approach to Henry James’s idea and practice of travel from the perspective of the globalized world today. Henry James’ Travel: Fiction and Non-Fiction offers a multifaceted approach to Henry James’ idea and practice of travel from the pe ...Show more
The Life of Henry James: A Critical Biography by Peter Collister
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Category: On Writing
Discover anew the life and influence of Henry James, part of the acclaimed Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies series. In The Life of Henry James: A Critical Biography, Peter Collister, an established critic and authority on Henry James, offers an original and fully documented account of one of America ...Show more
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith
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Category: On Writing
Bestselling novelist Alexander McCall Smith's charming account of how the poet W. H. Auden has helped guide his life — and how he might guide yours tooWhen facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie — Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling autho ...Show more
Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare by Will Tosh
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Category: On Writing
'Magisterial and saucy . . . This fresh account kickstarts the queer canon of English literature: Shakespeare won't go back in the closet again'EMMA SMITH, author of This Is ShakespeareWas Shakespeare gay? The answer is both simpler and more complex than you might think . . .Shakespeare's work was profo ...Show more
She played and sang: Jane Austen and music by Gillian Dooley
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Category: On Writing
Jane Austen, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest English novelists, possessed another talent that enriched her life and work – music. She played and sang draws on the newly digitised music books of the Austen family, granting us a deeper understanding of the writer's artistic prowess and the influen ...Show more
Marlow's Dream - Joseph Conrad in Antipodean Ports by Martin Edmond
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Category: On Writing
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) is a major figure in modern literature. Before his writing career was established in 1899 with the serialised publication of Heart of Darkness, Conrad was a merchant seafarer and eventually a shipmaster of vessels that regularly sailed between Europe and its antipodes, with sev ...Show more
How Fiction Works by James Wood
$38.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic of fiction--an analysis of its main elements and a celebration of its lasting power. Here one of the most prominent and stylish critics of our time l ...Show more