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The God of Small Things
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Arundhati Roy |
The God of Small Things is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay down … |
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A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
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Dave Eggers |
From Wikipedia: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (ISBN 0-330-48455-9) is a memoir by Dave Eggers released in 2000. It chronicles his stewardship of younger brother Christopher "Toph" Eggers … |
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L’étranger
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Albert Camus |
*L'Étranger* est le premier roman publié d’Albert Camus, paru en 1942. Il prend place dans la tétralogie que Camus nommera « cycle de l’absurde » qui décrit les fondements de la philosophie camusienn… |
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Rhyming reason
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Michelle Faubert |
During the Romantic era, psychology and literature enjoyed a fluid relationship. Faubert focuses on a hitherto little -known group of psychologist-poets who grew out of the liberal literary-medical c… |
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Marker
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Robin Cook |
nvestigating a series of bizarre deaths that have taken place among seemingly healthy young people after routine surgeries, doctors Montgomery and Stapleton confront institutional politics that hampe… |
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Liberating medicine, 1720-1835
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Tristanne J. Connolly,Clark, S. H. |
"During the eighteenth century medicine became an autonomous discipline and practice. Surgeons justified themselves as skilled practitioners and set themselves apart from the unspecialized, hack 'bar… |
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Melancholy experience in literature of the long eighteenth century
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Allan Ingram |
"Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of att… |
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The age of hypochondria
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George C. Grinnell |
"Examining the ways in which hypochondria forms both a malady and a metaphor for a range of British Romantic writers, Grinnell contends that this is not one illness amongst many, but a disorder of th… |
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Reconstructing illness
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Anne Hunsaker Hawkins |
xxii, 289 pages ; 22 cm |
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Don't Call Us Dead
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Danez Smith |
Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an a… |
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A is for arsenic
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Kathryn Harkup |
Investigates the poisons Christie employs in fourteen of her mysteries, discussing why the poisons kill, how they interact, obtainability of such poisons, and which cases may have inspired Christie's… |
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Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726-1832
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David E. Shuttleton |
Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726?1832 examines the ramifications of Scottish medicine for literary culture within Scotland, throughout Britain, and across the transatlantic world. The con… |
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Anita and me
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Meera Syal |
This novel is based on the author's own childhood, growing up in the '60s as part of the only coloured family living in a Wolverhampton mining village. As in her films, it is filled with warmth, good… |
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Heart of Darkness
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Joseph Conrad |
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Charles Ma… |
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Madhouse of Language
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Allan Ingram |
In The Madhouse of Language, the history of writing about madness is seen in terms of a suppression of mad language by an increasingly confident medical profession, in which orthodox attitudes toward… |
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Nervous acts
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G. S. Rousseau |
"Between 1965 and 2000 George Rousseau wrote a series of landmark essays about the role of the nervous system in the rise of literature and sensibility that altered the landscape of eighteenth-centur… |
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The Essential Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway |
The Essential Hemingway
containing one complete novel “Fiesta” (aka “The Sun Also Rises”), extracts from three others, twenty-five short stories, and a chapter from 'Death in the Afternoon' |
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Boswell's clap and other essays
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William B. Ober |
The ten essays selected for this volume range from an investigation of Boswell's repeated infection with gonorrhea to a critical examination of Plato's account of Socrates's death in the Phaedo, subj… |
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Enemies within
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Jacqueline Foertsch |
"Enemies Within presents the literature and film of the cold war and AIDS eras as evidence, manifestation, and symptom of the recurring ills of our postnuclear time: global threat, buried fears, and … |
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Creative Healers
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Edward Day Harris Jr. |
xii, 532 p. : 24 cm |
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