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The Opposite of Fate
Penguin Group US 2003; US$ 16.00Amy Tan has touched millions of readers with haunting and sympathetic novels of cultural complexity and profound empathy. With the same spirit and humor that characterize her acclaimed novels, she now shares her insight into her own life and how she escaped the curses of her past to make a future of her own. She takes us on a journey from her childhood... more...
Jane Austen
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 9.99Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical... more...
The Outlandish Companion
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 35.00New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon has captured the hearts of millions with her critically acclaimed novels, Outlander . Dragonfly In Amber , Voyager , and Drums Of Autumn . From the moment Claire Randall accidentally steps through a magical stone that transports her back in time more than 200 years to 1743, and into the arms of... more...
Time Bites
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99In this collection of the very best of Doris Lessing's essays, we are treated to the wisdom and keen insight of a writer who has learned, over the course of a brilliant career spanning more than half a century, to read the world differently. From imagining the secret sex life of Tolstoy to the secrets of Sufism, from reviews of classic books to commentaries... more...
Anne Rice Reader
Random House Publishing Group 2010; US$ 19.00A collection of the most fascinating essays, articles, and interpretations of bestselling author Anne Rice's complete works, by a variety of journalists and scholars. It includes a history of vampire literature, a professional dominatrix's examination of Rice's erotica, and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film version of Interview with... more...
Bluestockings
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 29.00This study argues that female networks of conversation, correspondence and patronage formed the foundation for women's work in the 'higher' realms of Shakespeare criticism and poetry. Eger traces the transition between Enlightenment and Romantic culture, arguing for the relevance of rational argument in the history of women's writing. more...
Virginia Woolf
Random House 2010; US$ 20.00Hermione Lee sees Virginia Woolf afresh, in her historical setting and as a vital figure for our times. Her book moves freely between a richly detailed life-story and new attempts to understand crucial questions - the impact of her childhood, the cause and nature of her madness and suicide, the truth about her marriage, her feelings for women, her... more...
Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875
Amsterdam University Press 2010; US$ 39.50This landmark bilingual Dutch-English anthology introduces women's writing in the Low Countries from 1200 to 1875 through a variety of texts characterised by the religious, social, political and feminist engagement of their authors, as well as their extraordinary artistic achievement. Dutch and Flemish female writers produced work of ardent religious... more...
Burying The Bones
Profile 2011; US$ 14.38Pearl Buck was raised in China by her American parents, Presbyterian missionaries from Virginia. Blonde and blue-eyed she looked startlingly foreign, but felt as at home as her Chinese companions. She ran free on the grave-littered grasslands behind her house, often stumbling across the tiny bones of baby girls who had been suffocated at birth. Buck's... more...
Women Constructing Men
Lexington Books 2009; US$ 34.99Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in constructing their male characters as in envisioning their female. The collected articles in
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