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Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle (born 1958)

playwright, lecturer, teacher

  • University College Dublin

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Cigar Box Banjo A Life In Music And Words
Rory and Ita
Rory and Ita
The second half
Second Half
The Barrytown Trilogy
The Snapper
The Van
Paula Spencer
The woman who walked into doors
The Commitments
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
The Deportees and Other Stories
A star called Henry
Stories
The Meanwhile Adventures
The Giggler Treatment
Rover Saves Christmas
Brownbread and, War
The Dead Republic
The Guts
Bullfighting
Mad Weekend
Her mother's face
McSweeney's Issue 21 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
Synge
The Better of McSweeney's - Volume Two - Issues 11-20
Love
Wilderness
McSweeney's enchanted chamber of astonishing stories
A Greyhound of a Girl
Yeats Is Dead!
Not Just for Christmas
Two Pints
Brilliant
Oh, Play That Thing (Jack Crossman Adventures)
The Rover Adventures
Life Without Children
Two More Pints
Rover and the Big Fat Baby
Click
McSweeney's 12
Novels (Commitments / Snapper)
Smile
Charlie Savage
Rover Saves Christmas
Rover Adventures
Giggler Treatment / Rover Saves Christmas
Wilderness
Paula Spencer Export
Paula Spencer
Com un llebrer
Kellie
Jimmy Jazz
Barrytown Trilogy
Commitments
Gwiazda zwana Henry
Boga Guresi
Snapper
Roddy Doyle Boxed Set
Two for the Road
Van
Untitled Memoir
Smile
Life Without Children
The Giggler Treatment
Cigar Box Banjo
Complete Two Pints
War
Como un Galgo (a Greyhound of a Girl)
Barrytown Trilogy
Charlie Savage
The Woman Who Waliked Into Doors
Rory & Ita
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (a Format)
Bullfighting
Two for the Road
Dead Man Talking
A STAR CALLED HENRY
Bullfighting
Two More Pints
The Woman Who Walked into Doors
Paddy Clarke Wobblers Pack 25
Deportees
El Mètode Xof
Oh, Play That Thing (Signed)
Star Dogs
Star Called Henry
Ein Fest für Jimmy
Stierenvechten
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
The Commitments
Greyhound of a Girl
Meanwhile Adventures
PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA
Woman Who Walked into Doors
Les Mesaventures des Mac
Oh, Play That Thing
[Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha] [published
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Doyle, Roddy. (1993) Hardcover
Paula Spencer
Charlie Savage
Dead Republic
Two Pints
Not Just for Christmas
Love
Wilderness Signed Edition
El Método Chof
La venjança dels mofetes
Dead Republic
Oh, Play That Thing
Chicago Blues/ Oh, Play That Thing
Woman Who Walked Into
Dead man talking
Deportees
Commitments
Wilderness
Somewhere
OS BRINCALHÕES
Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)

playwright, poet, autobiographer, musician, teacher, photographer, diarist

  • Montclair State University, Columbia University

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Kerouac
The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice
Journals
The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems
Iron Curtain Journals
Allen Ginsberg
The essential Ginsberg
South American Journals
Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971
The visions of the great rememberer
Journals mid-fifties, 1954-1958
Best minds
Kanreki
Howl
White shroud
Howl, and Other Poems
Spontaneous Mind
Reality Sandwiches, 1953-60
Poems
Gay Day
Mind Breaths
Family Business
Deliberate prose
Plutonian ode
Indian journals, March 1962-May 1963
As ever
The letters of Allen Ginsberg
The Fall of America
Automatic refinement of expert system knowledge bases
Collected Poems 1947-1980
The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder
Allen verbatim: lectures on poetry, politics, consciousness
Allen Ginsberg CD Poetry Collection
Death & fame
Journals Mid-Fifties
Voice of the Poet
Illuminated Poems
Travels With Ginsberg
Cosmopolitan greetings
The Best Minds of My Generation
Planet News, 1961-1967 (Pocket Poets)
First blues
Straight hearts' delight
Wichita Vortex Sutra
Selected Poems
Howl Kaddish And Other Poems
Chicago trial testimony
Allen Ginsburg collected poems, 1947-1997
Allen Ginsberg : Holy Soul Jelly Roll
On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg
Wait till I'm dead
Kaddish and Other Poems, 1958-1960 (Pocket Poets Series)
Reality Sandwiches, 1953-1960 (Pocket Poets Series, No. 18)
Aullido y otros poemas
Souffles d'esprit
Indian Journals
Programming by questionnaire
Potpourri of Poetry
An application of decision theory to a medical diagnosis-treatment problem
Cartas
Illuminated Poems
Philip Glass
Journals Early Fifties Early Sixties
KADDISH (A Bengali translation by Malay Roychoudhury ) ক্যাডিশ
Empty mirror
Beat Culture
Aullido
Hints and Allegations
Notes after an evening with William Carlos Williams
Scenes along the road
As Ever, Collected Correspondence of Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady
Allen verbation
Cartas de Amor Ambiguo
First Thought Best Thought
Howl + Auw
Yage Letters
Best Minds of My Generation
Your reason & Blake's system
Poesia Beat
Kadish ve-shirim aherim
Composed on the tongue
To Eberhart from Ginsberg : a letter about Howl, 1956
Journal, 1952-1962
Allen Verbatim
Planet News
Snapshot poetics
Iron horse
La chute de l'Amérique
Muerte y Fama - Poemas 1993-1997
Luminous Dreams
Linceul blanc
The gates of wrath
Hao jiao =
Old love story
Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, 1956-1991
Cosmopolitan Greetings
Amerika'nin Düsüsü
Cosmopolitan Greetings (New Penguin Poetry)
Oda plutoniana
Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg 1894-1956
Uluma
Howl, Kaddish ve Öteki Siirler
Mind Writing Slogans
Uluma - Howl
Aullido - 1. ed.
Book of Martyrdom and Artifice : First Journals and Poems
Essential Ginsberg
Toplu Halusinasyon
Mostly Sitting Haiku
Collected Poems 1947-1997
Allen Ginsberg and Hiro Yamagata
Literary History of the Beats
Ankor wat
City Lights Journal
Azougue especial
Open head
T.V. baby
T.V. baby poems
Television Was a Baby Crawling Towards That Death Chamber
Maderia and Toasts for Basil Buntings Seventy-Fifth Birthday
Günlükler
Van Gogh's Ear
Reality Sandwiches (Pocket Poets Series, No. 18)
Letters of Allen Ginsberg
Reality Sandwiches Fotografien
Oda Plutoniana y Otros Poemas
Bibliography of Works by Allen Ginsberg
Diario indiano
Poems for the nation
Planet news, 1961-1967
Edebiyat Tarihi; Gördüm Kusagimin En Iyi Beyinlerini
Kaddish, and other poems
Ginsberg Esencial
Kaddish
Urlo & Kaddish
Uluma ve Oteki Siirler
Earthly Paradise
kaddish et autres poemes
Poems all over the place, mostly 'seventies
Yage Mektuplari
Beat Voices
Bixby Canyon ocean path word breeze. -
Antologii︠a︡ poėzii bitnikov
Una carta degli hippies
Diario Beat
Returning to the county for a brief visit
The complete songs of innocence and experience
Ginsberg at Evergreen
Wales visitation
Some mantras
Poetry
To Eberhart from Ginsberg
Wichita vortex sutra
New year blues
Take care of my ghost, ghost
La caduta dell'America
Ḳadish
Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg, 1894-1956
America today!
Kral Majales
Ankor wat
Howl
Plutonian ode
Moloch
Who be kind to
Scrap leaves
Improvised poetics
The Allen Ginsberg Audio Collection
Airplane dreams
Notes after an evening with William Carlos Williams
Iron horse
Skowyt i inne wirsze
Scrap leaves
Allen Ginsberg reads Kaddish
Testimonianza a Chicago
Minzey marijuana sacrament trial
Collected poems
A strange new cottage in Berkeley
Planet news, 1961-1967
Wales--a visitation, July 29, 1967
Documents on police bureaucracy's conspiracy against human rights of opiate addicts & constitutional rights of medical profession causing mass break-down of urban law & order
Wales - a visitation
Allen Ginsberg fotografier 1947-1987
Allen Ginsberg photographs
Rain-wet asphalt heat, garbage curbed cans overflowing
Howl, and other poems
Kaddish, and other poems 1958-1960
The rune
Sad dust glories
The moments return
Honorable courtship
T.V. baby poems
Pablo Neruda, 1904-1973
"The Fall of America" wins a prize
Howl
Entering Kansas City High
Wichita vortex sutra
Making it up
Allen Ginsberg on tour Feb. 16, 1983, with Peter Orlovsky & Steven Taylor
Honorable courtship
Careless love
Ginsberg's improvised poetics
Candace Fleming
Candace Fleming (born 1962)

teacher

  • Eastern Illinois University

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Amelia lost
Ben Franklin's almanac
Our Eleanor
The Lincolns
Women of the Lights
Guys Read - True Stories
Ben Franklin's Almanac
The great and only Barnum
Presenting Buffalo Bill
Cubs in the Tub
Women of the Lights
Amelia lost
Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!
A big cheese for the White House
The hatmaker's sign
When Agnes Caws
Lowji Discovers America
Sunny Boy!
Boxes for Katje
Tippy-tippy-tippy-hide!
Imogene's last stand
The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School
Smile, Lily!
Westward ho, Carlotta!
Gabriella's Song
Honeybee
Family Romanov
Gator gumbo
Papas Mechanical Fish
Fatal Throne
Oh, no!
Who invited you?
This is the baby
Giant squid
Nam! Nam! Nam!/ Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!
The family Romanov
Untitled original fairy tale
The fabled fifth graders of Aesop Elementary School
On the day I died
Seven hungry babies
The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh
The fabled fourth graders of Aesop Elementary School
Madame LaGrande and her so high, to the sky, uproarious pompadour
Emma's Circus
Bulldozer's Christmas Dig
Bulldozer's big day
Eleanor Roosevelt's in My Garage! (History Pals)
Professor Fergus Fahrenheit and his wonderful weather machine
Tippy-tippy-tippy, splash!
Bulldozer helps out
Strongheart
Go sleep in your own bed!
Crash from Outer Space : Unraveling the Mystery of Flying Saucers, Alien Beings, and Roswell
Amelia Lost
Oh, No! Read and Listen Edition
Oh, No!
On the day I died
Oh, No!
Bulldozer's Big Day
Death in the Jungle
Bulldozer Helps Out
On the Day I Died
Polar Bear
Ben Franklin's in my bathroom!
The Curse of the Mummy
The amazing collection of Joey Cornell
Ben Franklin's Almanac
Tide Pool Waits
Ben Franklin's in My Bathroom!
Mine!
Mine!
Cubs in the Tub
Boxes for Katje
Westward Ho, Carlotta!
Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh
Murder Among Friends
The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School
Seven Hungry Babies
Muncha, Muncha, Muncha
Clever Jack Takes the Cake
What Isabella Wanted
Imogene's Last Stand
Amazing Collection of Joey Cornell
Murder among Friends
Penny and Pip
Gator Gumbo
Smile, Lily!
Lowji Discovers America
Tippy-Tippy-Tippy, Splash
Appa nŭn palmyŏngwang
Presenting Buffalo Bill
Go Sleep in Your Own Bed
Eleanor Roosevelt's in My Garage!
Curse of the Mummy
Tide Pool Waits
The Family Romanov
Tippy-Tippy-Tippy, Splash!
Strongheart
Bulldozer's Christmas Dig
What Isabella Wanted
Clever Jack takes the cake
Murder among Friends
Tippy-Tippy-Tippy, Hide!
Narwhal
Gabriella's Song
Penny and Pip
Enigma Girls
Big Cheese for the White House
G'eḳ ṿe-ʻugat ha-pele
Crash from Outer Space
Amelia Lost
Fabled Fifth Graders of Aesop Elementary School
Polar Bear
The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School
Imogene's Last Stand
Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!
Gabriella's Song
Great and Only Barnum, The
The Hatmaker's Sign
Jane Rogers
Jane Rogers (born 1952)

teacher, production designer

  • University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

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Promised lands
Her Living Image
Good fiction guide
Mr. Wroe's virgins
The voyage home / Jane Rogers
Food
2001
Island
Separate tracks
The voyage home
Ellipsis
Conrad & Eleanor
Which MBA?
The testament of Jessie Lamb
Meiner Mutter Haus
Good fiction guide
The ice is singing
Breaking Free; Transforming Your Life Through the Magic of Affirmations
Her living image
Breaking Free
Northern stories
Good fiction guide
Helping Your Child with Spelling
The testament of Jessie Lamb
Vowel Crowd Stage 1 Teachers
The testament of Jessie Lamb
New writing 12
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1894-1950)

poet, teacher

  • University of Calcutta, Surendranath College

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Ghāṭaśilāẏa Bibhūtibhūshaṇa
Antaraṅga dinalipi
Araṇya pathika
Pather Panchali
Dinera pare dina
Bibhūtibhūshaṇera aprakāśita dinalipi, 1933, '34, o '41
A strange attachment and other stories
Aranyak
Moon mountain
Making a Mango whistle
Bibhūtibhūshaṇera aprakāśita racanā
Aparajito =
Fascinating stories
Pather panchali = Song of the road
Pather Panchali, song of the road
Pather panchali: Song of the road
Stories
Chander Pahar
Śrīarabinda, śrīmā o Paṇdicerī Āśrama
Alaukika
Araṇya-marmara
Anubartan
Sahaja mānusha Bibhūtibhūshaṇa
Bibhūti-bicitrā
Aśani-saṃketa
Āma ān̐ṭira bhem̐pu
Ichhamati
Ashani-sanket
Aparajito
Athai jala
Bacchai galpa
Bir yoldur uzar gider =
Dui Kanya
Āro ekaṭi
Anaśvara
Bibhūtibhūshaṇa galpasamagra
Anubartana
Pathera pān̐cālī
Ichāmatī
Bibhūti bīthikā
Sulocanā
Hirāmānika jvale
Shreshtha premer galpa
Aranya manush bhalobasa
Debjan
Nīlagañjera Phālaman sāheba
Niśipadma
Aranyaka
Pather Panchali, song of the road
Bipinera saṃsāra
Hīrāmānika jvale
Upanyāsa samagra
Pather Panchali: Song of the Road (A Bengali Novel: UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, Indian Series)
Mountain of the Moon (Katha Bangla Library)
Kala chand
Harriet L. Keeler
Harriet L. Keeler (1844-1921)

teacher, botanist, suffragist

  • Oberlin College

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The life of Adelia A. Field Johnston ...
Our native trees and how to identify them
Our northern shrubs and how to identify them
Our Northern Shrubs and how to Identify Them: A Handbook for the Nature-lover
Our Native Trees and how to Identify Them: A Popular Study of Their Habits ..
High school English
Studies in English composition
Our early wild flowers
Our early wild flowers
The wayside flowers of summer
The life of Adelia A. Field Johnston who served Oberlin College for thirty-seven years ..
Our native trees and how to identify them
Ethical readings from the Bible
Our Native Trees and How to Identify Them
Our Northern Shrubs and how to Identify Them; a Handbook for the Nature-lover
Our Garden Flowers
Our Early Wild Flowers
Our Northern Shrubs and how to Identify Them; a Handbook for the Nature-lover
Our Northern Shrubs and How to Identify Them
Our Native Trees and how to Identify Them; a Popular Study of Their Habits and Their Peculiarities
Our Early Wild Flowers
Our Northern Shrubs and how to Identify Them
Our early wild flowers
Our Northern Shrubs and how to Identify Them; a Handbook for the Nature-lover
Our garden flowers
Our native trees and how to identify them
Our native trees and how to identify them
Our garden flowers
The life of Adelia A. Field Johnston who served Oberlin College for thirty-seven years ...
The wild flowers of early spring
Nima Yushij
Nima Yushij (1895-1960)

poet, teacher, literary critic

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Yādʹdāshtʹhā-yi rūzānah-i Nīmā Yūshīj
Yād dāsht'ha
Turā man chashm dar rāham
When the elephants came =
The neighbor says
Āb dar khvābgah-i mūrchagān
Namahha-yi Nima
Khānahʹam abrī ast
Numūnah'hā-yi az shʻir-i Nīmā Yushīj
Dunyā khānah-yi man ast
Kandū'hā-yi Shikastah
Arzish-i iḥsāsāt va panj maqālah dar shiʻir va numāyish
Ta'rīf va tabṣirah va yāddāsht'hā-yi dīgar
Āhū va parandahʹhā
The bird of Sadness
Faryād'hā-yi dīgar va 'ankabūt-i rang
Marqad-i āqā
Manilī va Khānah-i Sarivaylī
Ḥikāyāt va khānvādah-i sarbāz
Mākh'awlā'
Dū safarnāmah az Nīmā Yūshīj
When the elephants came
Kashtī va tūfān
Majmūʻah-ʾi kāmil-i ashʻār-i Nīmā Yūshīj
Majmūʻah-ʼi ashʻār-i Nīmā Yūshīj
Dīvān-i rubāʻīyāt-i Nīmā Yūshīj
Nāmahʹhā-yi Nīmā
Majmūʻah-ʾi ās̲ār-i Nīmā Yūshīj
Khanaham abrist
Nāmahʹhā-yi Nīmā bih hamsarash, ʻĀliyah
Nīmā Yūshīj, zindagānī va āsār-i ū
Majmūʻah-yi kāmil-i ashʻār-i Nīmā Yūshīj
Nāqūs
Afsānah-ʾi Nīmā
Muzhdahʹgū-yi rūz-i bārān
Afsānah va rubāʻiyāt
Āb
Mānlī
Khānahʹam abrīst
Shahr-i shab, Shahr-i Ṣubḥ
Qalam andāz
Shahr-i shab va shahr-i ṣubḥ
Nāmahʹhā-yi Nīmā Yūshīj
Majmūʻah-ʼi ās̲ār-i Nīmā Yūshīj
Nāqūs
Mānlī va Khānah-yi Sarīvīlī
Nāmahʹhā
Barguzīdah-ʼi ashʻār-i Nīmā Yūshīj
Ḥarfʹhā-yi hamsāyah
Jules Quicherat
Jules Quicherat (1814-1882)

archaeologist, historian, art historian, philologist, teacher

  • École des chartes, Lycée Louis-le-Grand

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Rodrigue de Villandrando
Aperçus nouveaux sur l'histoire de Jeanne d'Arc
Mélanges d'archéologie et d'histoire
Histoire du costume en France depuis les tempsles plus reculés jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIe siècle
Histoire de Sainte-Barbe
Histoire de Sainte-Barbe
Aperçus nouveaux sur l'histoire de Jeanne d'Arc
New aspects of the case history of Jeanne d'Arc
De la formation française des anciens noms de lieu
Rodrigue de Villandrando, l'un des combattants pour l'indépendence française au quinzième siècle
New aspects of the case history of Jeanne d'Arc
Histoire de Sainte-Barbe
Histoire de Sainte-Barbe
Histoire de Sainte-Barbe