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| A Field Full of Butterflies: Memories of a Romany Childhood
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Rosemary Penfold.
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| Publisher: Orion. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781407235370. Daedalus Item Code: 32518 |
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| Rosemary Penfold was born in 1938 in a traditional Gypsy wagon and grew up in the fields of the English countryside. In this evocative memoir, she provides a moving testament to a forgotten world, ... (Read More)
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| John Milton: A Hero for Our Time
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David Hawkes.
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| Publisher: Counterpoint. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781582437132. Daedalus Item Code: 32385 |
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| The poet, polemicist, public servant, and author of Paradise Lost, John Milton (16081674) is revered today as one of the greats of English literature and a historical advocate of free speech. ... (Read More)
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| Alexander the Great: Pocket Biographies
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E.E. Rice.
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| Publisher: Sutton. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780750937641. Daedalus Item Code: 32471 |
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| "It is a daunting task to write a biography of Alexander the Great," writes E.E. Rice in her introduction to this concise biography. (Not much is known, she adds, yet much scholarly information ... (Read More)
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| The End of Your Life Book Club
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Will Schwalbe.
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| Publisher: Vintage. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780307739780. Daedalus Item Code: 38644 |
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| "What are you reading?" That's the question Will Schwalbe asks his mother Mary Anne as they sit in the waiting room of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 2007, after Mary Anne returned ... (Read More)
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| Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
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Janet Malcolm.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300125511. Daedalus Item Code: 32362 |
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| "How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?" Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography and investigative journalism. The pair, of ... (Read More)
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| Memorable Days: The Selected Letters of James Salter and Robert Phelps
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John McIntyre, ed. Michael Dirda, foreword.
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| Publisher: Counterpoint. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781582436050. Daedalus Item Code: 32392 |
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| James Salter had written two novels, The Hunters and The Arm of Flesh, but it was his third, remarkable novel A Sport and a Pastime, together with his film Three and a ... (Read More)
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| Franz Kafka: The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head
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Louis Begley.
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| Publisher: Atlas & Co. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781934633236. Daedalus Item Code: 31377 |
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| After Kafka, it can be argued, literature was not the same; in the few novels and short stories he left behind, he distilled the horrors of the new age. Franz Kafka's is the voice of the outsider, ... (Read More)
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| City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s
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Edmund White.
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| Publisher: Bloomsbury. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781596914025. Daedalus Item Code: 31878 |
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| In the New York of the 1970s, in the wake of the Stonewall uprising and in the midst of economic collapse, you might find Jasper Johns or William Burroughs at the next cocktail party, and you were as ... (Read More)
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| Charlotte Bronte: A Writer's Life
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Rebecca Fraser.
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| Publisher: Pegasus. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781933648880. Daedalus Item Code: 32167 |
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| "If men could see us as we really are, they would be amazed," wrote Charlotte Brontė, the outwardly conventional parson's daughter who rarely met any men beyond those of the church of classroom, and ... (Read More)
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