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This annotated collection of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's previously unpublished private correspondence offers unique insight into one of the world's most popular authors. He emerges from the shadow of Sherlock Holmes, revealing a man whose character and exploits rival that of his famous creation.

Penguin, 2007; 706 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Famous Detective
The Bedside Companion to Sherlock Holmes is packed with fascinating facts, unexpected insights, and fresh observations about Conan Doyle, Watson and everything that has anything to do with the world's greatest detective.

Barnes and Noble, 2005; 216 pp.; EN; ills. b/w; hb

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Dante is a towering figure in world literature, and yet many mysteries about his life and work persist. This first full biography of him in more than 20 year, offers provocative new ideas throughout.

Shoemaker and Hoard, 2006; 466 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; pb

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Behind every great man are his objects and possessions, defined as much by the minutiae of domesticity as by the great works of the man himself. From the mantlepieces of FDR Roosevelt to the skirting boards at Churchill's Chartwell.

Rizzoli, 2007; 208 pp.; EN; ills. col; hb slipca.

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Even a brief selection from the manuscripts included in this book reads like a roll-call of the most famous works in English literature -Beowulf, Jane Eyre, Pygmalion a.o.-. Illustrated with autograph fair copies, drafts, letters, proofs.

British Library; 80 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; pb

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Gore Vidal -novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, political commentator, and controversialist- is America's premier man of letters. This volume comprises some 24 of his forays into criticism, reviewing, portraiture, memoir a.o.

Doubleday, 2008; 458 pp.; EN; hb

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In this second volume of Henry James' life, Novick completes his superb account of one of the world's most gifted and least understood authors, and reanimates a vanished world of aristocrats and commoners with vivid portraits of Wilde, Wharton a.o.

Random House, 2007; 616 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Inspired by his family's long tradition of storytelling -We have this gift says his father, Protect it and it will protect you-, Shah frames his search for identity with traditional Arabian tales, but also with the stories of the men who tell them.

Bantam, 2008; 388 pp.; EN; ills. b/w; hb

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When they met in 1947 historian Hugh Trevor Roper was 33 and Bernard Berenson, a world-famous critic was 82, but still intensely curious about the world. Here are sublime examples of letter-writing on post-war Europe, journalism, books, travel a.o.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2006; 326 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Gross presents this smorgasbord of 700 literary chestnuts, offering striking insight into some of the most important writers in the English language. These funny, touching, even weird anecdotes show writers form Chaucer to Bob Dylan.
You can read which great historian's face was once mistaken for a baby's bottom, which film star experienced a haunting encounter with Virginia Woolf, and what Agatha Christie really thought of Hercule Poirot.

Oxford, 2008; 385 pp.; EN; index; pb

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Some of the most illustrious writers have tried their best to sink their fellow authors, using all the weapons at their command, such as wit, hmour, sarcasm, and invective. This book presents 8 profiles of quarrels between famous scribes.

Anthony Arthur, 2002; 240 pp.; EN; index; hb

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Inspired by walks through her beloved city. This lovely edition includes specially commissioned pen and ink wash illustrations by Suzanne Barton, as well as the rediscovered Portrait of a Londoner.

Ecco, 2006; 77 pp.; EN; ills. b/w; hb

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Four hundred years after John Milton's birth, biographer and Oxford lecturer Beer presents a loving tribute, a portrait of the poet in all his humanity; from his precocious childhood to his mature religious and political writings.

Bloomsbury, 2008; 458 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hb

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Containing some of the illustrations from the original manuscripts, this gift book tells the story of Charles Dodgson's lifelong devotion to Alice, and traces the stages through which the manuscripts progressed
as it was expanded, given new illustrations by John Tenniel, and finally published under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.

The British Library; 64 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; S; hb

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More than two thousand jokes and folktales are presented, covering such topics as The Female Fool, The Fortunate Fart, Mutual Mismatching, and The Sex Machine. These folk texts are authentically transcribed in their innocent and sometimes violent entirety. Legman studies each for its historical and socioanalytic significance, revealing what these jokes mean to the people who tell them and to the people who listen and laugh.

Simon and Schuster, 2006; 816 pp.; EN; pb

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Breaking with tradition, Rene Weis draws upon a lifetime of research to reveal that it is the plays and poems that contain the richest seam of clues about the details of Shakespeare's personal and professional life.

Henry Holt, 2007; 477 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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The story of the god Bacchus, also known by his Greek name Dionysos, was passed down through generations of dramatists, poets, story-tellers and historians. Pieced together in this book, they bring Bacchus to life as never before.

British Museum, 2003; 166 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; pb

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This anthology features of powerful and often surprising diary entries from war fronts throughout history, from Che Guevara, Virginia Woolf, Davy Crockett and anonymous soldiers in the trenches. Here too are contributions from Pepys, Kafka, Sartre a.o.

Canongate, 2004; 676 pp.; EN; index; pb

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