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An entirely new kind of biography, Built of Books explores the mind and personality of Oscar Wilde through his taste in books. Wilde's library, which Thomas Wright spent 20 years reading, provides the intellectual and emotional climate at the core of this deeply engaging portrait.

Henry Holt, 2009; 370 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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The Burlington Magazine has maintained a high, international reputation for publishing authoritative writing on all aspects of art history since its foundation in 1903 by a group of distinguished scholars headed by Roger Fry, Bernard Berenson, and Herbert Horne.

Yale, 2003; 256 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; hb

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The evolution and reception of the Renaissance was mediated by developments in various other spheres of early modern life and culture. This book discusses religious and cultural developments, science, natural philosophy, Galileo a.o.

Yale, 2000; 418 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; pb

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Collaboration and Resistance gathers for the first time more than 650 archival documents, illustrating the extreme challenges faced by French writers and intellectuals during the dark years of the Nazi occupation.

Consortium, 2009; 446 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hb

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At its best Creators effortlessly mixes flavoursome biographical considerations with a committed historicism that makes one reach immediately for the work of the creator in question.

Weidenfeld amd Nicholson, 2006; 310 pp.; EN; hb

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The concerns of F.R. Leavis in this collection of essays and papers are with the problems and predicaments of contemporary civilization, of the idea of the university as a creative centre for an educated public, and the nature of thought as it occursand operates in creative writing.

Ivan R. Dee; 211 pp.; EN; pb

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Today, Cyrano de Bergerac is remembered as the lovelorn eccentric with a big nose from Edmund Rostrand's play. The real Cyrano was sharper, funnier and more modern than the romantic hero he inspired. Addyman's biographical investigation.

Simon and Schuster, 2008; 307 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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This volume offers many insights into Japanese poetry, drama, and criticism - including studies of important trends and developments such as the traditional poetic forms of tanka and haiku, modern poetry in the Meji period, and more.

Columbia; 687 pp.; EN; index; pb

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Fanny Wollstonecraft was the first daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and elder half-sister of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley. Todd draws Fanny out of the shadows of her mother and sister and gives fascinating insight to the Shelley-Byron world.

Counterpoint, 2007; 297 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Kuhn explores the ways in which Decameron's sexual themes lead into philosophical inquiry, moral argument, and aesthetic and literary criticism. Stories and storytelling are to be interpreted in terms of a wider cultural context.

Columbia, 2005; 177 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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In this collection of essays, Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsession, from Westerns and comic books to the music of Pink Floyd and the New York subway. It is a series of windows onto the collisions of art, landscape, and personal history.

Doubleday, 2005; 149 pp.; EN; hb

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When the celebrated Welsh poet Dylan Thomas arrived in New York on his first visit, in 1950, for a tour of poetry readings around the country, America didn't know what had hit it. Angelic, devilish, immoral, charming, self-destructive, given to alcoholic binges. Students loved him and he made quick friends with writers, journalists, and barflies, instantly creating a pop-culture mythology of the doomed artist. Brinnin bears witness to Dylan Thomas' slow descent into hell.

Prion, 2000; 251 pp.; EN; pb

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