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Nick Tosches
Nick Tosches (1949-2019)

journalist, poet, biographer, music critic

Where Dead Voices Gather
Hellfire
Power on earth
Dino
King of the Jews
Dangerous dances
The Devil and Sonny Liston
Everything Is An Afterthought The Life And Writings Of Paul Nelson
Unsung heroes of rock 'n' roll
Night Train
KIng of the Jews
Where Dead Voices Gather
Country
In the hand of Dante
Trinities
Cut numbers
The Last Opium Den
Open City 13
The Nick Tosches reader
Me and the devil
In the hands of Dante
Trinities Uk Edition
Under Tiberius
Chaldea and I Dig Girls
Confessions d'un chasseur d'opium
More Rear Views
Never Trust A Loving God
Héros oubliés du rock'n roll
Dino. Rat- Pack, die Mafia und der große Traum vom Glück
Der Teufel und Sonny Liston. Aufstieg und Fall einer Boxlegende
Trinities
Me and the Devil: A Novel
Rear view
Les pièges de la nuit
Me and the Devil
Save the Last Dance for Satan
Night Train
Cut Numbers
Country
El callejón de las almas perdidas
El callejón de las almas perdidas
Trinities
Trinites
Moi et le diable
El callejón de las almas perdidas
Johnny's First Cigarette - La première cigarette de Johnny
Roi des Juifs (le)
Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll
Geschaefte Mit Dem Vatikan Die Affaere S
La main de Dante
Hellfire
I Married an Artist
La religion des ratés
Where the Dead Voices Gather Proof
El callejón de las almas perdidas
Johnny's First Cigarette - La première cigarette de Johnny
In the Hand of Dante
David Lodge
David Lodge (born 1935)

playwright, literary critic, literary theorist, teacher

  • University of Birmingham, University College London
Graham Greene
The practice of writing
The Year of Henry James
Writer's Luck
Lives in Writing
Quite a Good Time to Be Born
Year of Henry James
Quite a good time to be born
The modes of modern writing
Paradise News
Therapy
Home truths
Thinks...
Deaf sentence
Die allerneueste klassische Sau
Language of fiction
Small World
Author, author
How far can you go?
Consciousness and the Novel
The art of fiction
Nice work
Out of the shelter
A man of parts
After Bakhtin
Changing Places
Working with structuralism
Evelyn Waugh
The British Museum is falling down
Small world
Author, Author
Language of fiction: essays in criticism and verbal analysis of the English novel
The picturegoers
Modern criticism and theory
The novelist at the crossroads
Trapos sucios
Ginger, you're barmy
Nice Work
Nice Work
A David Lodge Trilogy
Author, Author
Jane Austen: Emma
Write on
A Man of Parts
Readers
The Writing Game
Modern criticism and theory
Out of the Shelter
Nouvelles du paradis
L'Homme qui ne voulait plus se lever et autres nouvelles
Das Handwerk des Schreibens. Wie man Geschichten erzählt
British Museum Is Falling Down
Hors de l'abri
Thérapie
Changing Places
Jane Austen's "Emma" (Casebook)
Pensées secrètes
Three novels
Nice work
Pensamientos Secretos
Therapy
The campus trilogy
Therapie
Noticias del Paraiso
Denkt
The Practice of Writing
La Chute du British Museum
Modern Criticism and Theory
Nice Work
THINKS..
Un tout petit monde
A Man of Parts
The novelist at the crossroads: and other essays on fiction and criticism
Trapos Sucios
British Museum Is Falling Down, the
Changing Places
Out of the Shelter
Working with structuralism
Adamstag
Saubere Arbeit. Roman. ( Ein Haffmans- Buch)
Ginger, You're Barmy
Language of Fiction
Neueste Paradies Nachrichten
20th century literary criticism
Changement de décor
La Conciencia Y La Novela (Atalaya)
Ins Freie
Ortswechsel. Ein satirischer Roman
Picturegoers
Catholic fiction since the Oxford Movement
El Mundo Es Un Panuelo
Finger weg
Changement de décor - Un tout petit monde - Jeu de société
Modern Literary Theory
Schnitzeljagd. Ein satirischer Roman
Jane Austen, Emma
Modern criticism and theory
Jeu de société
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism a Reader
20th century literary criticism
Les Quatre Vérités
Campus Trilogy
Scenes Of Academic Life
L'Art de la fiction
Jeux de maux
La Caida del Museo Britanico
Working with Structuralism
El Arte de La Ficcion
Tess, nature and the voices of Hardy
Almas y cuerpos
Man Who Wouldn't Get up and Other Stories
Dialogue in the modern novel
¡El autor, el autor!
The man who wouldn't get up
Working with stucturalism
Small World
Therapy (Isis (Audio))
How Far Can You Go?
Deaf Sentence
Terapia
The uses and abuses of omniscience
Modernism, antimodernism and postmodernism
Fuera del Cascaron
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism
DURAS VERDADES -(EURO 7.48)
La vie en sourdine
The British Museum is falling down
Paradise News
Modes of Modern Writing
Modern criticism and theory
Graham Greene (Essays on Modern Writers)
NOTÍCIAS DO PARAÍSO -(EURO 14.91)
Therapy : a novel
Deaf Sentence
Literary Papers
AUTHOR, AUTHOR: A NOVEL
Malcolm Bradbury
La vida en sordina
Okiyōto shinai otoko
Buen Trabajo!
Gânduri ascunse
La vérité toute nue
Intercambios
Conrads Victory and The tempest
Consciousness and the Novel
Art of Fiction
Dual vision
Novelist at the Crossroads
Graham Greene
Bittere Wahrheiten
La vérité toute nue
YEAR OF HENRY JAMES: OR, TIMING IS ALL: THE STORY OF A NOVEL: WITH OTHER ESSAYS ON THE GENESIS, COMPOSITION AND..
Graham Greene
Des vies à écrire
Language of fiction
A la réflexion
Pensées secrètes
Nouvelles du Paradis
Jeu de societé
El arte de la ficción
Changing places: a tale of two campuses
Thinks -
Autor, autor
La vie en sourdine
Changement de décor
Xiao shi jie
Jeux de maux (French Edition)
The picturegoers
The campus trilogy
Jane Austen
A vida em surdina
Un homme de tempérament
Secret thoughts
Humphrey Carpenter
Humphrey Carpenter (1946-2005)

critic, jazz musician, radio personality, biographer, historian, journalist

  • University of Oxford, Dragon School
Geniuses together
The Brideshead Generation
A serious character
W.H. Auden, a biography
Inklings
The brideshead generation
Benjamin Britten
Jesus
W.H. Auden
Tolkien
Geniuses together
Spike Milligan
Founders of faith
Robert Runcie
Dennis Potter a Biography
Founders of faith
Founders of faith
Secret gardens
A Great, Silly Grin
The envy of the world
Secret gardens
Shakespeare without the boring bits
Shakespeare Without the Boring Bits
More Shakespeare Without the Boring Bits
The Oxford companion to children's literature
The Angry Young Men
The Captain Hook affair
A great, silly grin
THAT WAS SATIRE, THAT WAS
OUDS
The Joshers
That was satire that was
The Puffin book of classic children's stories
W. H. Auden
Secret gardens
[Daniel Day Lewis as Hamlet at the National Theatre]
SPIKE MILLIGAN: THE BIOGRAPHY
Jesus (Past Masters)
Oxford Children's A-Z of Music
Makers of Christianity (Past Masters)
J.R.R. Tolkien. Uma Biografia
Benjamin Britten a Biography
Oxford Children's A-Z of Music
Shakespeare with a Difference
The Seven Lives of John Murray
W.H.Auden
Wellington and Boot
The Captain Hook Affair
Oxford Companion to Children's Literature
Charlie Crazee's teevee
The Oxford Children's A to Z of Music
Het leven van J.R.R. Tolkien
The Joshers: Or, London To Birmingham with Albert and Victoria
W.H.Auden (Oxford Lives)
Philippe Besson
Philippe Besson (born 1967)

radio personality, literary critic, lawyer

  • Rouen Business School
Un personnage de roman
En l'absence des hommes
His Brother
Un certain Paul Darrigrand
Arrête avec tes mensonges
Un garçon d'Italie
L'Arrière-saison
La trahison de Thomas Spencer
L'enfant d'octobre
Un instant d'abandon
Un homme accidentel
Un tango en bord de mer
Se résoudre aux adieux
Le dernier enfant
Vivre vite
De là, on voit la mer
Une bonne raison de se tuer
Son frère
Les jours fragiles
Un homme accidentel
Retour parmi les hommes
Un Chico Italiano/an Italina Guy
Dîner à Montréal
Le-haḥliṭ le-hipared
La maison atlantique
Rudolf von Gottschall
Rudolf von Gottschall (1823-1909)

chess player, autobiographer, literary historian, literary critic, poet lawyer

  • University of Königsberg, Humboldt University of Berlin
Der neue Plutarch
Literarische Charakterköpfe
Porträts und Studien
Die deutsche Nationallitteratur des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts
Die Deutsche Nationalliteratur in der ersten Hälfte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts
Dramatische Werke
Amy Robsart
Die deutsche Nationalliteratur des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts
Das Fräulein V. ST. Amaranthe: Roman
Die deutsche Nationalliteratur des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, literararhistorisch und kritisch dargestellt
Censur-flüchtlinge: Zwölf Freiheitslieder
Zur Kritik des modernen Dramas
Die deutsche Nationalliteratur des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts
Novellen-Album für Bojanowo
Carlo Zeno: Ein Dichtung
Nikolaus Lenau ...
Censur-Flüchtlinge
Neue gedichte
Poetik
Janus
Der Nabob
Franz Grillparzer
Withered leaves, from the Germ. by B. Ness
Lieder der Gegenwart
Blütenkranz neuer Deutscher Dichtung
Christian Dietrich Grabbe
Gedichte
Poetik
Friedrich von Schiller
Gutenberg
Moderne Rothäute
Paris unter dem zweiten Kaiserreich
Literarische Todtenklänge und Lebensfragen
Aus meiner Jugend: Erinnerungen von Rudolf von Gottschall
Literarische Todtenklänge und Lebensfragen
Das Theater und Drama der Chinesen
Aus meiner Jugend
Der neue Plutarch
Kriegslieder
Studien zur neuen deutschen Litteratur
Georg Ebers
Censur-Flüchtlinge
Literarische Totenklaenge und Lebensfragen
Deutsche Lyrik des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts bis zur modernen Aera
Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich (1939-2022)

actor, film director, film producer, camera operator, film editor, journalist, film critic, film actor, television actor, film historian, director, producer

  • Collegiate School, Stella Adler Studio of Acting
D. J. Taylor
D. J. Taylor (born 1960)

literary critic, biographer, essayist, critic, historian

  • University of Oxford, Norwich School
Susanne Saygin
Susanne Saygin (born 1966)

historian, literary critic

  • University of Cologne, University of Cambridge