Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The walker and the city	Alfred Kazin	The acclaimed story of a soul awakening to the ecstasy of the senses, the power of language, and the meaning of existence. Kazin's memorable description of his life as a young man as he makes the jou…	OL1730360W
Contemporary theatre, film and television	Thomas Riggs	Biographical reference providing information on individuals active in the theatre, film, and television industries. Covers not only performers, directors, writers, and producers, but also behind-the-…	OL19837578W
Edmund Wilson	Jeffrey Meyers	Wilson, a heavy drinker, certainly had a melancholy streak, a contentious character and a frightening demeanor. All this helps make him a fascinating man. But Wilson also had extraordinarily wide int…	OL2009404W
Uncommon Reader	Helen Smith	440 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 25 cm	OL21023000W
Théophile Gautier dans son cadre	Véronique Magnol-Malhache	229 p. : 24 cm	OL2117085W
De val	August Willemsen	Dagboek over een door alcoholisme beheerst leven.	OL2157762W
Urida pañju	Ec. El Kēśavamūrti,Ḍi. Es Nāgabhūṣaṇa	Commemoration volume of Ke. Ramadas, 1941-2007, Critic, Kannada intellectual author, and social activist; includes contributed articles on his life and achievements.	OL22343652W
Fest	Mark McCrum	At the start of the Mold-on-Wold literary festival, eminent critic Bryce Peabody is found dead in his hotel bed. Natural causes - or something more sinister, involving one of the writers he has insul…	OL24264754W
Iris Origo	Caroline Moorehead	"Iris Origo was one of those rare characters who, despite being born with a platinum spoon in her mouth, went on to accomplish great things. In Origo's case, she managed to add light and colour to ev…	OL2821560W
Irving Howe	Gerald Sorin	"By the time he died in 1993 at the age of seventy-three, Irving Howe was one of the twentieth century's most important public thinkers. Deeply passionate, committed to social reform and secular Jewi…	OL3284622W
I'll tell you what	Annibel Jenkins	"On April 10, 1772, eighteen-year-old Elizabeth Simpson packed up her possessions, wrote her mother a note, and struck out alone to find fame and fortune as an actress. Late-eighteenth-century London…	OL5954586W
Interviews with Northrop Frye (Collected Works of Northrop Frye)	Jean O'Grady	"Although Northrop Frye's first book, Fearful Symmetry (1947), elevated the reputation of William Blake from the status of a minor eccentric to that of a major Romantic poet, Frye in fact saw Blake a…	OL5995098W
Edward Thomas	Jan Marsh	A well written book about the poet Edward Thomas that includes many extracts from his poetry and prose. Unlike the books on Thomas by his wife, Helen, and his friend Eleanor Farjeon, both of whom ado…	OL803956W
Mein Leben	Marcel Reich-Ranicki	"Marcel Reich-Ranicki was born of Polish Jewish parents in the Polish town of Wloclawek in 1920. At the age of nine he moved to Berlin and it was at school there that he discovered his deep passion f…	OL988589W