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John Ackerman
John Ackerman (born 1934)

literary critic

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Dylan Thomas
A Dylan Thomas companion
Welsh Dylan
The public work of rhetoric
The image and the dark
Dylan Thomas, his life and work
Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis (born 1947)

linguist, translator

  • Barnard College, The Putney School

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Two Former Students
Fibrils
Scraps
Scratches
HarperTrue Life - a Short Read - Raw
The Best American Short Stories 1997
Samuel Johnson Is Indignant
Essays One
Break it down
The collected stories of Lydia Davis
Almost No Memory
Almost no memory
Varieties of Disturbance
The end of the story
Break It Down (High Risk Books)
Samuel Johnson is indignant
Alfred Ollivant's Bob, son of Battle
Love Stories
Can't and Won't
Proust, Blanchot and a Woman in Red
Break It down
Can't and won't
The End of the Story (High Risk Books)
Story, and other stories
Inventario dei desideri
Letters to the Lady Upstairs
Varieties of Disturbance
End of the Story
The End of the Story
Creature nel giardino
A philosophical investigation into theodical debate in a post-holocaust era
Blind date
Can't and Won't
Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Samuel Johnson ist ungehalten
Letters to the Lady Upstairs
Poetry Pamphlets 112
Samuel Johnson Is Indignant
Essays
Letters to His Neighbor
The thirteenth woman and other stories
Kakerlakker om efteråret (in Danish)
Poetry Pamphlets 1-4
Two American Scenes
Samuel Johnson está indignado
Fantastic Photographs
EL FINAL DE LA HISTORIA
Samuel Johnson está indignado
Essays Two
Night Train
Alfred Ollivant's Bob, Son of Battle
Believer, Issue 133
Rahatsizlik Cesitleri
Our Strangers
Can't And Won't (Chinese Edition)
Almost No Memory
Max and Milo
KAFKA AUX FOURNEAUX
Break It Down
Break It Down
C'est fini
Yapamam ve Yapmayacagim
Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Neredeyse Hic Hatirlamiyor
Thyroid Diary
Charleigh Stays Faithful
Ni puc ni vull
Essays 2
De taal van dingen in huis en andere verhalen
Essays Two
Iggy Finds Peace
Ensayos I
Hikayenin Sonu
Sketches for a Life of Wassilly
Kinzerton Shows Kindness
The cows
Linda Wagner-Martin
Linda Wagner-Martin (born 1936)

scholar of English, literary scholar

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Sylvia Plath
The Oxford companion to women's writing in the United States
Favored strangers
Telling women's lives
ZELDA SAYRE FITZGERALD
Critical essays on Sylvia Plath
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Sylvia Plath--a literary life
Barbara Kingsolver
Ernest Hemingway A Literary Life
John Steinbeck
Telling Women's Lives
Maya Angelou
SYLVIA PLATH. A LITERARY LIFE.
Hemingway's Wars
Hemingway's Wars
Telling Women's Lives
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States
Ellen Glasgow
Barbara Kingsolver's World
Ernest Hemingway
Denise Levertov
Barbara Kingsolver's The poisonwood Bible
Sylvia Plath
Aspects de végétation des parcs nationaux du Congo Belge. Série I: Parc national Albert. (Institut des parcs nationaux du Congo Belge)
Dos Passos
Hemingway and Faulkner
American modern
The prose of William Carlos Williams.
Routledge Introduction to American Modernism
Phyllis McGinley
Toni Morrison and the Maternal
T.S. Eliot
Robert Frost
New essays on Go down, Moses
A historical guide to Ernest Hemingway
Maya Angelou
The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism
Ernest Hemingway's A farewell to arms
Dos Passos
Ernest Hemingway
The Modern American Novel, 1914-1945
The Modern American Novel, 1914-1945
New essays on The sun also rises
Sylvia Plath
William Faulkner
Sylvia Plath's Poetry (Reader's Guides)
William Faulkner
The poems of William Carlos Williams
History of American Literature
The Life of the Author
Introducing poems
Introduction to American Postmodernsm
The mid-century American novel, 1935-1965
Denise Levertov
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
The poems of William Carlos Williams, a critical study
Songs for Isadora
William Faulkner
Ernest Hemingway
Sylvia Plath
Phyllis McGinley
You Can Help Your Child Learn to Read
Barbara Kingsolver's World
Dos Passos
Steins
Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison
William Faulkner
Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism
Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises
Walt Whitman
Toni Morrison
New Essays on the Sun Also Rises
Critical essays on Joyce Carol Oates
Hemingway
A history of American literature
Ernest Hemingway
Sylvia Plath's poetry
Sylvia Plath
Denise Levertov, (Twayne's United States author series)
Sylvia Plath
SYLVIA PLATH
Ernest Hemingway's The sun also rises
Sylvia Plath, the critical heritage
The age of innocence
Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway, A. Historical Guides to American Authors
Denise Levertov
T. S. Eliot
Ernest Hemingway
Emily Dickinson
Denise Levertov
Toni Morrison and the Maternal
New Essays on Go down, Moses
The bell jar, a novel of the fifties
The prose of William Carlos Williams.
Critical essays on Anne Sexton
The poems of William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams
Hemingway and Faulkner
Phyllis McGinley
Jack Mapanje
Jack Mapanje (born 1944)

poet, linguist

  • University of London

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And Crocodiles Are Hungry At Night A Memoir
The chattering wagtails of Mikuyu Prison
Gathering Seaweed: African Prison Writing
The last of the sweet bananas
Of chameleons and gods
Of Chameleons and Gods
Skipping without ropes
Beasts of Nalunga
Ceri Davies
Ceri Davies (born 1945)

  • University of Oxford, University of Wales

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Dr. John Davies of Mallwyd
John (Llen y llenor)
Latin writers of the Renaissance
Welsh Literature and the Classical Tradition
The development of smocks and smocking over two hundred years
Rhagymadroddion a chyflwyniadau Lladin, 1551-1632
Orthodontics
Trem yn ol
The Renaissance and the Celtic countries
Percy Mansell Jones
Percy Mansell Jones (1889-1968)

romanist, literary scholar

  • Aberystwyth University, University of Oxford

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French introspectives, from Montaigne to André Gide
How they educated Jones
Baudelaire
French introspectives
French introspectives, from Montaigne to André Gide
The assault on French literature, and other essays
Verhaeren
The background of modern French poetry
A book of French verse
The background of modern French poetry
The assault on French literature, and other essays
Tradition and barbarism
Baudelaire
Emile Verhaeren
Whitman and Verhaeren
Modern French verse
The background of modern French poetry
Verhaeren
The assault on French literature, and other essays
The assault on French literature, and other essays
Maurice Cranston
Maurice Cranston (1920-1993)

philosopher, political scientist

  • University of London, University of Oxford

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Jean-Jacques
The noble savage
The solitary self
John Locke
Philosophers and pamphleteers
The New Left
Culture Et Politique/Culture and Politics (European University Institute, Series C
What are human rights?
The quintessence of Sartrism
A dialogue on anarchy
Western political philosophers
Freedom
The romantic movement
Jean-Paul Sartre
Human rights to-day
Hobbes and Rousseau
A glossary of political ideas
The mask of politics, and other essays
Non-violence and Germany
The right to privacy
Political dialogues
Philosophy and language
Politics and ethics
No Royalty A/C a Glossary of Political Terms
A glossary of political terms
Philosopher's hemlock
Locke
Introduction to Switzerland
Quintessence of Satrism
John Stuart Mill
The right to privacy
Ideology and Politics (Publications of the European University Institute =)
Locke
Langage et politique
Ideology and politics =
Peace and convictions
POLIT THEORY & POLIT PHIL OSO
Human rights
John Locke, a biography
Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier (born 1960)

computer scientist, composer, programmer, essayist, artificial intelligence researcher, businessperson, philosopher, pianist, visual artist

  • New Mexico State University

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Dawn of the new everything
Dawn of the New Everything
Dawn of the New Everything: A Journey Through Virtual Reality
Who Owns the Future?
You are not a gadget
Ten arguments for deleting your social media accounts right now
The Future of Public Space
Truth, Technology and the Visual/Virtual World
You are not a gadget
Diez razones para borrar tus redes sociales de inmediato
10 аргументов удалить все свои аккаунты в социальных сетях
Futuro Es Ahora / Dawn of the New Everything
Dez Argumentos Para Você Deletar Agora Suas Redes Sociais
¿Quién controla el futuro?
Dieci ragioni per cancellare subito i tuoi account social
You are not a gadget
Fate of Power and the Future of Dignity
¿Quién controla el futuro?
Information Is An Alienated Experience
Contra el rebaño digital