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Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)

journalist, essayist, autobiographer, literary critic, political scientist

  • University of Oxford, The Leys School

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The Missionary Position
Thomas Jefferson
The trial of Henry Kissinger
Hitch-22
Mortality
Hitch-22
Hitch-22
Thomas Jefferson Author Of America
God Is Not Great
No one left to lie to
Arguably
Unacknowledged legislation
A Long Short War
The Elgin Marbles
For the Sake of Argument
Love, Poverty, and Wer
Imperial spoils
Why Orwell matters
Letters to a young contrarian
Prepared for the worst
The Quotable Hitchens
Thomas Paine's Rights of man
Blood, class and nostalgia
Is Christianity good for the world?
Arguably
Love, poverty, and war
The Portable Atheist
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man (Books That Changed the World)
The Parthenon marbles
Blood, class, and empire
Hostage to History
The portable atheist
"Vanity Fair's" Hollywood
Letters to a Young Contrarian (Art of Mentoring)
Prepared for the worst
The monarchy
THOMAS PAINE'S RIGHTS OF MAN: A BIOGRAPHY
Cyprus
The General
Orwell's victory
The Best American Essays 2010
The monarchy
Ta Elgíneia mármara
Left Hooks, Right Crosses
Mortality
The Three Hostages
Regime change
Letters to a Young Contrarian (Letters to a Young...)
The Elgin marbles
Widerwort. Eine Verteidigung der kritischen Vernunft
Inequalities in Zimbabwe
Blood, class, and nostalgia
Lettres à un jeune rebelle
Inequalities in Zimbabwe
Juicio a Kissinger
GOD IS NOT GREAT: THE CASE AGAINST RELIGION
Safe Area Gorazde
Les crimes de Monsieur Kissinger
American Presidents Eminent Lives Boxed Set
Dieu n'est pas grand
Armanda Guiducci
Armanda Guiducci (1923-1992)

literary critic, translator

  • University of Milan

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La donna non è gente
Del realismo socialista al estructuralismo
Il Grande Sepik
A colpi di silenzio
Donna e serva
Perdute nella storia
Medioevo inquieto
Dallo zdanovismo allo strutturalismo
La mela e il serpente
Due donne da buttare
A testa in giù
All'ombra di Kali
Il mito Pavese
Invito alla lettura di Cesare Pavese
Vincenzo Cardarelli
Vincenzo Cardarelli (1887-1959)

poet, journalist, literary critic

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Villa Tarantola e altri scritti
Lettere a Corrado Pavolini
Lettere a una adolescente
Prologhi, viaggi, favole
Viaggi nel tempo
Assediato dal silenzio
Pagine sparse (1904-1912)
Autunno, sei vecchio, rassegnati
Waiting
Opere com plete
Parole all'orecchio
Poesie
Così non si fece l'Italia
La poltrona vuota
Viaggi nel tempo
Opere complete
Pagine sparse (1904-1912)
Lettere d'amore a Sibilla Aleramo
Prologhi
Opere
Lettera ad un vecchio amico ed altri scritti
Incontro con Roma
Solitario in Arcadia
Favole e memorie
Il cielo sulle cittá
Lettera ad un vecchio amico ed altri scritti
Il sole a picco
Parliamo dell'Italia
Viaggio d'un poeta in Russia
Il sole a picco
Lettere non spedite
Opere
Il viaggiatore insocievole
Poesie nuove
Lettere e poesie a una giovane donna
Poemas
Così non si feci l'Italia
Il sole a picco
Poesía Italiana Moderna
Poesie
Epistolario
Potopa
Prologhi, viaggi, favole
Craig Brown
Craig Brown (born 1957)

literary critic, journalist

  • Eton College, University of Bristol

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The book of royal lists
The Game of My Life
Craig Brown
The game of my life
This Is Craig Brown
The Illustrated History of Canada
A Generation of Excellence
Debrief
The Little Book of Chaos
Working in the Voluntary Sector (How to)
Working in the Voluntary Sector
Insurance law in Canada
The hounding of John Thomas
The Tony Years
Introduction to Canadian insurance law
1966 and All That
Craig Brown's 'Imaginary Friends' (Private Eye)
Canadian insurance contracts law in a nutshell
An Air That Kills
Optimum Healing
Rear Columns
No-fault automobile insurance in Canada
The Tony Years CD
The Craig Brown's Omnibus
Le petit livre de la vraie tête à claques
Cases on the Canadian Law of Insurance
Book of Sports Lists
Year Inside
The Patchwork Farmer
The Marsh Marlowe Letters: The Correspondence of Gerald Marsh and Sir Harvey Marlowe
Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery
Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery
Insurance Law in Canada
Karl Hans Strobl
Karl Hans Strobl (1877-1946)

poet lawyer, editing staff, poet, theatre critic, dramaturge

  • Charles University

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Bettina von Arnim
Bismarck
Bettina von Arnim
Der krieg im Alpenrot
Das Geheimnis der blauen Schwerter
Dorf im Kaukasus
Der zauberkäfer
Od
Bismarck
Unheimliche Geschichten
Der brennende Berg
Attentäter
Die Wunderlaube
Eleagabal Kuperus
Arno Holz und die jüngst-deutsche bewegung
Tschechen
Prozess Borowska
Rex, geschichte eines hundes und zweier menschen
Ein gute Wehr und Waffen
Heerkönig Ariovist
Die Flamänder von Prag
Gespenster im sumpf
Prag
Der betrogene Tod
Goya und das löwengesicht
Zwei Saltzenbrod
Totenhorn-Südwand
Alfred Mombert
Die Madonna mit der Armbanduhr
Bismarck
Franz Ferdinands Lebensroman
Das Frauenhaus von Brescia
Heimat im frühen Licht
Die knöcherne hand und anderes
Die weltgeschichte und das igelhaus
Die Starken
Das wirtshaus "Zum könig Przemysl"
Glückhafte Wanderschaft
Kaiser Rotbart
Die vier Ehen des Matthias Merenus
Bismarck
Feuer im Nachbarhaus
Ludwig Anzengruber
Pierre Gamarra
Pierre Gamarra (1919-2009)

poet, essayist, literary critic, French resistance fighter, critic, translator

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Notre ami Jules Verne
La vie prodigieuse de Victor Hugo
Notre amie George Sand
Les lèvres de l'été
Mes lectures pour tous
Pouchkine
Le maître d'école ; suivi de, La femme de Simon
Cantilène occitane
Les nuits de la Bastille
Rosalie Brousse
Des mots pour une maman
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa
Vie et prodiges du grand amiral Zheng He
Chitai︠a︡ i perechityvai︠a︡
L' Énigme du Capitole
Chantepierre et Gras-Gras-Gras
Le Mystère de la Berlurette
Peluchon et ses amis
La vie est belle
50000 dollars de chewing-gum
Romances de Garonne
L' or et le sang
Oc
La maisson de feu
L' Aventure du serpent à plumes
La fabuleuse aventure de Cristobal Colon
Six colonnes à la une
Le Fête chez Peluchette
Les jardins d'allah
La femme et le fleuve
Solo
Les mystères de Toulouse
La lecture pour quoi faire?
La maison de feu
Les lilas de saint Lazare
72 soleils
Le fleuve palimpseste
Le sorbier des oiseaux
Les enfants du pain noir
Les coqs de minuit. Rosalie Brousse
On a mangé l'alphabet!
Solo
L'empreinte de l'ours
La maison de feu
John Erskine
John Erskine (1879-1951)

composer, pianist, musicologist, literary critic, biographer, music critic

  • Columbia University, Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School

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Leading American novelists
The complete life
My life in music
The human life of Jesus
My life as a teacher
George Edward Woodberry, 1855-1930
The influence of women and its cure
The kinds of poetry
Song without words
The Elizabethan lyric
Written English
The kinds of poetry, and other essays
The moral obligation to be intelligent, and other essays
A pageant of the thirteenth century
The shadowed hour
A musical companion
The moral obligation to be intelligent
Contemporary war poems
A pageant of the thirteenth century, for the seven hundredth anniversary of Roger Bacon
The memory of certain persons
The private life of Helen of Troy
American character and other essays
Democracy and ideals
Prohibition and Christianity
The delight of great books
Venus, the lonely goddess
The literary discipline
Tristan and Isolde restoring Palamede
What is music?
The Philharmonic-symphony society of New York, its first hundred years
The Philharmonic-symphony society of New York
Actaeon
Collected poems
Cinderella's daughter
Penelope's man
The start of the road
Amateur music and recreation leadership
Casanova's women
The President's mystery story
Universal training for national defense
Solomon, my son!
Collected poems, 1907-1922
Jack and the beanstalk
Forget if you can
The brief hour of François Villon
Actæon
Unfinished business
The Elizabethan lyric; a study
Hélène, retour de Troie
Young love
Sonata
Adam and Eve
Das privatleben der schönen Helena
The enchanted garden
Mrs. Doratt
The voyage of Captain Bart
The Cambridge history of American literature
Why study?
Cinderella's daughter and other sequels and consequences
Bachelor-of arts
Sincerity
Galahad
The Golden Treasury: Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and ...
The Cambridge history of American literature
The delight of great books
Uncle Sam in the eyes of his family
Adam and Eve, though he knew better
The Cambridge history of American literature
A musical companion
Written English
Democracy and idealism
Walt Whitman
Leading American novelists
Give me liberty
American character and other essays, selected from the writings of John Erskine
The delight of great books
The Cambridge history of Amrican literature
Hearts enduring
The Cambridge history of American literature
Adam and Eve
Prohibition and Christianity
Galahad
An experiment in sincerity
The moral obligation to be intelligent, and other essays
The complete life
The Elizabethan lyric
Peter kills the bear
The Cambridge history of American literature
The Cambridge history of Amrican literature
Davide Lajolo
Davide Lajolo (1912-1984)

journalist, politician, art critic, critic, partisan

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An absurd vice
Il "vizio assurdo."
Pavese
Il merlo di campagna e il merlo di città
Fenoglio
Ventiquattro anni
Il volto umano di un rivoluzionario
A conquistare la rossa primavera
Conversazione in una stanza chiusa con Mario Soldati
I mè
Cesare Pavese
IL VIZIO ASSURDO. STORIA DI CESARE PAVESE
I rossi
Il "visio assurdo"
Di Vittorio
Il voltagabbana
Finestre aperte a Botteghe Oscure
Pavese e Fenoglio
Il "vizio assurdo." Storia di Cesare Pavese
Parole con Piero Chiara
Poesia come pane
I mè
Il merlo di campagna e il merlo di citta
Veder l'erba dalla parte delle radici
I mè
A conquistare la rossa primavera
Come e perchè