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Price: Rs 1,089FREE Shipping Imported Edition, Delivered in more than 14 business days This book recalls an era when criticism could change the way we look at the world. In the tradition of Matthew Arnold and Edmund Wilson, James Wood reads literature expansively, always pursuing its role and destiny in our lives. In a series of essays about such figures as Melville, Flaubert, read more... |
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Price: Rs 1,433FREE Shipping Imported Edition, Delivered in more than 14 business days Celebrated as one of America's great prose stylists, John Updike astonishes us here with the range of subjects he considers. Shrewdly admiring essays on American past masters such as Edith Wharton, Herman Melville, Edmund Wilson, and Dawn Powell take their place beside penetrating assessments of read more... |
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Price: Rs 2,006FREE Shipping Imported Edition, Delivered in more than 14 business days John Updike's fiftieth book and fifth collection of assorted prose, most of it first published in The New Yorker, brings together eight years' worth of essays, criticism, addresses, introductions, humorous feuilletons, and-in a concluding section, "Personal Matters"-paragraphs on himself and his read more... |
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Price: Rs 971Eligible for FREE Shipping on orders over Rs 999 Imported Edition, Delivered in more than 14 business days The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s read more... |
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Price: Rs 1,198FREE Shipping Imported Edition, Delivered in more than 14 business days Fresh from his acclaimed exploration of mortality in the genre-defying, bestselling "The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead," Shields issues an open call for new literary and other art forms to match the complexities of the 21st century. |
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Price: Rs 768Eligible for FREE Shipping on orders over Rs 999 Imported Edition, Delivered in more than 14 business days As Carolyn See says, writing guides are like preachers on Sunday—there may be a lot of them, but you can’t have too many, and there’s always an audience of the faithful. And while Making a Literary Life is ostensibly a book that teaches you how to write, it really teaches you how to make your read more... |
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Price: Rs 720Eligible for FREE Shipping on orders over Rs 999 Imported Edition, Delivered in more than 14 business days |
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Price: Rs 1,547FREE Shipping Imported Edition, Delivered in more than 14 business days William Shawn once called The Talk of the Town the soul of the magazine. The section began in the first issue, in 1925. But it wasn't until a couple of years later, when E. B. White and James Thurber arrived, that the Talk of the Town story became what it is today: a precise piece of journalism read more... |
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Price: Rs 745Eligible for FREE Shipping on orders over Rs 999 Imported Edition, Delivered in more than 14 business days Quarrel & Quandary showcases the manifold talents of one of our leading and award-winning critics and essayists.In nineteen opulent essays, Cynthia Ozick probes Dostoevsky for insights into the Unabomber, questions the role of the public intellectual, and dares to wonder what poetry is. She roams read more... |
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Price: Rs 2,149FREE Shipping Imported Edition, Delivered in more than 14 business days (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)A generous and varied selection–the only hardcover edition available–of the literary and political writings of one of the greatest essayists of the twentieth century.Although best known as the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four, George Orwell left an even read more... |
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