Literary studies: general

A fresh new feel for this international bestselling guide to how the Hay Diet (food combining) can improve health and vitality.

A story of love and grief.

Sunday Times bestselling author Ann Patchett's first work of nonfiction, chronicling her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed author, Lucy Grealy.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'March' and 'People of the Book'.

Shakespeare in Love for the sonnets: a fictional tale of how Shakespeare wrote his most famous poems.

Breakfast may be the most important meal of the day, but only if we skip it.

The diet that will help you lose up to two inches around your waist in just 2 weeks, devised by the authors of million-copy bestseller 'YOU: The Owner's Manual', Drs Michael F.

Unique, transgressive and as funny as its subject, A Life Discarded has all the suspense of a murder mystery.

On the same day that his wife gave birth to twins, Anthony Doerr received the Rome Prize, an award that gave him a year-long stipend and studio in Rome.

'No need to count calories, go hungry or diet ever again' The TimesThis revolutionary book reveals:Ten reasons why eating a low-fat, calorie controlled diet makes sustained weight loss virtually impossible.

Brilliant and original, 'A Thousand Years of Good Prayers' introduces a remarkable first collection of stories about China from an author set to become a major literary talent.

'Like Lorna Sage's Bad Blood .

From the internationally renowned expert on celiac disease and director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University, here is the definitive book on gluten, uncovering the truth and explaining the science behind the current gluten-free craze.

An 365-day anthology of readings from one of the most influential writers of all time, George MacDonald, compiled by CS Lewis himselfMacDonald was a major Christian writer of the late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries.

The new novel from the bestselling author of THE SIXTH WIFE.

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'Now the sport begins!

This book presents a set of approaches that work with a systematic critical focus on a number of Arab novels, with the aim of highlighting their qualitative characteristics, within the framework of variations of form and discourse, and the resulting work of many Arab novels on textual productions that produce new narrative forms that would establish a shift in The aesthetic sensitivity of the Arab novel, and in the Arab novelists' understanding of the meaning of the Arabic novel preserving its local specificity in terms of facts, expectations, details and spaces, but at the same time it celebrates its being a work of fiction that falls within the contexts of writing and its bets on modernizing forms and renewing contents.

`I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child.

The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is a vivid psychological account of a young man's experience of fighting in the American Civil War, based on Crane's reading of popular descriptions of battle.

'Would this misery go on forever?

En busca del tiempo perdido (y especialmente El tiempo recobrado), de Marcel Proust, El encanto de Lol V.

La humanidad ha llegado a ser la más poderosa fuerza trasformadora del planeta, con lo cual ha creado un nuevo periodo: el Antropoceno o la "era humana".

'Would this misery go on forever?

Una nueva entrega del encuentro entre la ciencia y la cocina, donde se develan, tenedor en mano, los secretos de los platos que preparamos a diario y las técnicas que la ciencia aporta a nuestras recetas.

Esta extraordinaria historia fue publicada en abril de 1868 –tres años después del asesinato del presidente Lincoln– y se proyecta en múltiples campos, puesto que, además de ser una autobiografía de la propia autora, Elizabeth Keckley, es una biografía aparentemente reparadora de la dañada reputación de Mary Todd Lincoln, una memoria de la Guerra Civil desde el centro neurálgico de la Casa Blanca y una biografía de la vida privada y familiar de Lincoln dentro de ese espacio doméstico y político.

Garcés se manifiesta maduro y certero desde su primer libro y muestra la decidida certidumbre de una continuidad.

Sollte es einmal einen Preis für den widerlichsten Protagonisten eines Romans geben, würde Diederich Heßling ohne Zweifel weit vorne landen.

Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth-century Paris.

The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - A new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings - Extensive introduction gives full attention to the play's bold treatment of racial themes, gender, and social relations - Detailed performance history designed to meet the needs of theatre professionals - On-page commentary and notes explain language, word-play, and staging - Appendices on music in the play and a full translation of the Italian novella from which the story derives - Illustrated with production photographs and related art - Full index to introduction and commentary - Durable sewn binding for lasting use 'not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare.

Having assured the members of London's exclusive Reform Club that he will circumnavigate the world in 80 days, Fogg - stiff, repressed, English - starts by joining forces with an irrepressible Frenchman, Passepartout, and then with a ravishing Indian beauty, Aouda.

Las obras teatrales recopiladas en este volumen muestran la faceta más vanguardista y clarividente de la dramaturga estadounidense Susan Glaspell.

'For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination' Thomas De Quincey's three essays 'On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts' centre on the notorious career of the murderer John Williams, who in 1811 brutally killed seven people in London's East End.

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (commonly known as Fanny Hill), the most famous erotic novel in English, was denounced by its author as 'a Book I disdain to defend, and wish, from my soul, buried and forgot'.

Usch Kiausch lernte in ihrer langen Karriere als Journalistin, Autorin und Übersetzerin viele bedeutende Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller sowie Kolleginnen und Kollegen kennen und führte zahllose Interviews.

In his early childhood, Khalil Hawi lived an experience of loss, as he lost his little sister, Olivia, who died of a fever.

In Iraq, government is parliamentary, and if you dialogue with any citizen there, the word "parliament" will not be dropped from your conversation, as it is people's preoccupation, and this book is an important and indispensable guide in the hands of every politician or person interested in the new Iraq and its parliament is the subject of controversy.

Der zum Protestantismus konvertierte Jude Paul Joachimsen studierte an den Universitäten Heidelberg, Leipzig und München.

Thomas More: Utopia/ Francis Bacon: New Atlantis/Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines With the publication of Utopia (1516), Thomas More introduced into the English language not only a new word, but a new way of thinking about the gulf between what ought to be and what is.

Der erste Band der drei Bände umfassenden Reihe präsentiert achtzehn der fast sechzig Essays, die auf Charles Platts Gesprächen mit bedeutenden SF-Persönlich­keiten basieren.

In a landmark essay, Virginia Woolf rescued George Eliot from almost four decades of indifference and scorn when she wrote of the 'searching power and reflective richness' of Eliot's fiction.

There are many modern trends in building educational curricula in general, and geography curricula in particular, including the introduction of interdisciplinary studies, scientific and technical innovations, integrating modern technologies into curricula, highlighting the cultural and civilizational dimension of society, and achieving sustainable development goals.

'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge?

'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge?

A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare's plays.

'he looked up wistfully in my face, and gravely asked - "e;Mamma, why are you so wicked?

This book is not research and theory, nor is it a guide to creating literature.

'As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea.

'unless you know everything, you really know nothing'Diderot's brilliant and witty dialogue begins with a chance encounter in a Paris cafe between two acquaintances.

Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth-century Paris.