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“john munro webster”

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  • The Rime of the Asian Highway

    The overland route to India - the trek that loomed large in a generation's consciousness.John Webster, with his indomitable girlfriend, was one of those who made the trip in the early 1970s. He now brings it to life in an easy-going verse narrative that opens windows onto, and create understandings of a series of cultures, some now out of reach. The reader is immersed in the sights and sounds, the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Closest Thing in History

    The Fab Four and the Younger Romantics

    'The Closest Thing in History' brings the eras of the Romantics and The Beatles together, arguing that The Beatles were a kind of exploded version of the quartet Keats, Byron, Leigh Hunt and Shelley. Opening by laying lout some broad similarities between them, John Webster first examines how the two groups' early mentors, William Wordsworth and Elvis Presley and William Wordsworth firstly ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies

    How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

    An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be.The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horrible, unspeakable subject in the history of English ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • William Shakespeare: History in an Hour

    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.In a writing career that spanned over twenty years during the explosion of poetic and theatrical creativity of late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods, William Shakespeare produced a body of work that has become the bedrock of human thought, literature and language in English. His poetry and plays have endured for almost 450 years, such is ... Read more

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  • The Inheritance of Loss

    by Kiran Desai ...
    In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge's cook watches over her distractedly, for his thoughts are often on his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another. Kiran Desai's brilliant novel, ... Read more

    $3.16 USD

  • Young Romantics

    The Shelleys, Byron, and Other Tangled Lives

    by Daisy Hay ...
    "[An] eminently readable account of the interconnected lives of Leigh Hunt, Percy and Mary Shelley, Mary's stepsister Claire Clairmont, Lord Byron and Keats." — IndependentYoung Romantics tells the story of the interlinked lives of the young English Romantic poets from an entirely fresh perspective—celebrating their extreme youth and outsize yearning for friendship as well as their individuality ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Christopher Marlowe : Poet & Spy

    Poet & Spy

    by Park Honan ...
    Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy is the most thorough and detailed life of Marlowe since John Bakeless's in 1942. It has new material on Marlowe in relation to Canterbury, also on his home life, schooling, and six and a half years at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and includes fresh data on his reading, teachers, and early achievements, including a new letter with a new date for the famous ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown

    by Vaseem Khan ...
    Series series A Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation
    In the second instalment of a charming mystery series, a Mumbai-based investigator and his elephant partner are on the hunt for the Queen of England's stolen Crown Jewels.For centuries, the Koh-i-Noor diamond has set man against man and king against king.Now part of the British Crown Jewels, the priceless gem is a prize that many have killed to possess.So when the Crown Jewels go on display in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Half Known Life

    In Search of Paradise

    by Pico Iyer ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, TIME MAGAZINE & MORE“Masterful . . . A book of inner journeys told through extraordinary exteriors . . . One of his very best.” —Washington Post“Dazzling.” —Time Magazine, Best Books of 2023From “one of the most soulful and perceptive writers of our time” (Brain Pickings): a journey through competing ideas ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • William Shakespeare

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stanley Wells ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In this new offering from Stanley Wells, the pre-eminent Shakespearian scholar, comes a Very Short Introduction to the life and writings of the world's greatest and best-known dramatists: William Shakespeare. Looking at his early life and education, Wells explores Shakespeare's social and intellectual background and the literary traditions on which Shakespeare drew. Examining the theatres and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Himalaya

    by Michael Palin ...
    Michael Palin tackles the full length of the Himalaya in this terrific number one bestseller.Having risen to the challenge of seas, poles, dhows and deserts, the highest mountains in the world were a natural target for Michael Palin. In a journey rarely, if ever, attempted before, in 6 months of hard travelling Palin takes on the full length of the Himalaya including the Khyber Pass, the hidden ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Monsters

    Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein

    The authors of the award-winning In Darkness, Death share the remarkable true story of Frankenstein's origins and the curse on its creators. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD