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This volume of essays encompasses Christopher Hitchens' writing over the past decade on politics, literature and religion. His fresh perceptions of figures as diverse as Dickens, Karl Marx, Rebecca West and Philip Larkin are matched by his acerbic discussions and intrepid observations, gathered over a lifetime of travelling and reporting from destinations such as Iran, China and Pakistan.

Atlantic Books, 2011; 789 pp.; EN; index; hb

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Illustrated with photographic reproductions of manuscript pages and notebook entries, this book traces Kerouac's achievement as both a literary and cultural figure including his innovations in narrative techniques and in character development. The book also explores his relationships with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and other Beats, as well as the Beat movement in general.

Scala. 2007; 207 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hb

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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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Situated between classical rhetoric and the novel, the English periodical essay emerged in the 18th century, challenging the borders between fiction and nonfiction prose and helping to forge the tastes and values of the rising middle classes. This authoritative anthology is the first to gather in one volume the consummate periodical essays of the period.

Yale, 2008; 427 pp.; EN; pb

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Like many other British households, Virginia Woolf's relied on live-in domestics for the most intimate of daily tasks. In Mrs. Woolf and the Servants, the author gives depth and dignity to the long-overlooked servants who worked for the Bloomsbury set. Light adds revealing nuances to our picture of Virginia Woolf. Despite the liberal outlook of the Bloomsbury set and their conscious efforts to leave their Victorian past behind, their homes were nevertheless divided into worlds of us and them.

Bloomsbury, 2008; 376 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Bernard Malamud -the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such acclaimed works as The Fixer, The Natural, and The Assistant, peer to Philip Roth and Saul Bellow- was a very private man. In this candid, loving, and beautifully written memoir, Malamud's daughter explores her renowned father's life and literary legacy.

Mariner Books, 2007; 292 pp.; EN; pb

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This gripping new account offers an ideal introduction to both the life and work of Virginia Woolf. It considers each of Woolf's novels in context, traces the contentious course of her afterlife, and shows why. 70 years after her death, Virginia Woolf continues to haunt and inspire us.

Thames and Hudson, 2011; 191 pp.; NL; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Writing has not always been considered a suitable career for a woman. It was common for women authors to adopt a masculine pseudonym in order to be taken seriously. Portraits of inspirational women writers from the Middle Ages to the present.

Merrell, 2007; 152 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; hb

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