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literary critics who wrote fantasy
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Dale Peck
Dale Peck (born 1967)

literary critic, journalist

  • Drew University

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Drift House
Body surfing
Drift House (Drift House Chronicles)
Lost cities
Sprout
Martin and John
The Lost Cities
The law of enclosures
Hatchet Jobs
What we lost
Now it's time to say goodbye
Vital signs
Visions and revisions
Between Men
Over the Rainbow
The Soho Press book of 80s short fiction
Shift
Now It's Time to Say Goodbye
Drift House
The Garden of Lost and Found
Es Hora De Decir Adios/Now It's Time to Say Goodbye
Martin and John
Das Gesetz der Nähe
Night soil
Law of Enclosures
The garden of lost & found
Fucking Martin
Schwarz und weiß
Drift House
What Burns
Drift House: The First Voyage (Drift House Chronicles)
Greenville
Easter
La casa alla deriva
Candidates for the Slaughterhouse
Now It Time to Say Goodbye
Sprout
Jane Gardam
Jane Gardam (born 1928)

literary critic

  • Bedford College

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Through the dolls' house door
Crusoe's daughter
The flight of the maidens
Faith Fox
The hollow land
A long way from Verona
The Sidmouth letters
A few fair days
Bilgewater
The queen of the tambourine
Old Filth
The Sidmouth letters
The Man in the Wooden Hat
Missing the Midnight
Bilgewater
The queen of the tambourine
The summer after the funeral
A long way from Verona
Through the dolls' house door
Kit in Boots
The summer after the funeral
Black Faces, White Faces
God on the rocks
A few fair days
The people on Privilege Hill
The Sidmouth letters
Bridget and William
The Hollow Land
Going into a dark house
God on the rocks
The Pineapple Bay Hotel
God on the Rocks
The hollow land
Swan
Tufty Bear (Read Aloud)
The Green man
Trio
The Hollow Land
Black faces, white faces
Going into a dark house
The stories
Showing the Flag
Black Woolly Pony (Walker Doubles)
Showing the flag
Kit
UN Poney En LA Nieve/Bridget and William
SHOWING THE FLAG AND OTHER STORIES
The man in the wooden hat
Kit
Horse
The flight of the maidens
The pangs of love
The Hollow Land
The Pangs of Love
The Kit Stories (Storybooks)
Faith Fox
Crusoe's daughter
Missing the midnight
Bridget and William
Old Filth
The Bridport prize
The Stories
PEOPLE ON PRIVILEGE HILL: AND OTHER STORIES
Trio
Bridget and William (M-Books)
The iron coast
Old filth
OLD FILTH
The people on Privilege Hill and other stories
Horse
Tufty Bear
Last friends
La Dame aux cymbales
Bilgewater
The Iron Coast
Bridget and William
Le maître des apparences
P. H. Newby
P. H. Newby (1918-1997)

radio producer, literary critic, journalist

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The spirit of Jem
Coming in with the tide
Something about women
Radio, television and the arts
Phoenix
Saladin in His Time
Something to answer for
Broadcasting
Leaning in the wind
Maria Edgeworth
One of the founders
A season in England
Kith
Mariner dances
The retreat
The picnic at Sakkara
Warrior Pharaohs
Agents and witnesses
The uses of broadcasting
A guest and his going
Eternelle Egypte
The Egypt story
The Third programme
The Barbary light
Somthing to answer for
A lot to ask
Feelings have changed
The snow pasture
Ten miles from anywhere & other stories
The novel, 1945-1950
The young May moon
A step to silence
The loot runners
Revolution and roses
A journey to the interior
The novel, 1945-1950
John Cowper Powys
John Cowper Powys (1872-1963)

poet, philosopher, literary critic

  • University of Cambridge, Sherborne School

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Porius
Three fantasies
A Glastonbury Romance
Wolf Solent
Owen Glendower
Maiden Castle
Weymouth Sands
The Meaning of Culture
Visions and revisions
The Brazen Head
Morwyn
Wood and Stone
After My Fashion
The Art of Happiness
The complex vision
Atlantis
Homer and the Aether
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Hal W. and Violet Trovillion
Autobiography
Rodmoor
Confessions of two brothers, John Cowper Powys [and] Llewellyn Powys
Suspended judgments
Mortal strife
One hundred Dante books
Samphire
Mandragora
Ducdame
Dostoevsky
Letters from John Cowper Powys to Glyn Hughes
Les sables de la mer
The pleasures of literature
The diary of John Cowper Powys 1931
Essays On De Gourmont And Byron
One hundred best books, with commentary and an essay on books and reading
John Cowper Powys letter, 1937-54
Odes and Other Poems
In defense of sensuality
Essays on de Maupassant, Anatole France, William Blake
Romer Mowl and other stories
Up and Out
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Ichiro Hara
The letters of John Cowper Powys to G.R. Wilson Knight
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Philippa Powys
La fosse aux chiens
The diary of John Cowper Powys, 1930
Rabelais, his life
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Frances Gregg
John Keats, or, Popular paganism
The art of growing old
The Dorset year
The diary of John Cowper Powys
Wolf's-Bane
Powys on Keats
The Inmates
All or Nothing
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Sven-Erik Täckmark
Les enchantements de Glastonbury
In spite of
The war and culture
Dorothy M. Richardson
Letters of John Cowper Powys to his brother Llewellyn
An Englishman up-state
Real Wraiths
Letters from John Cowper Powys to Clifford Tolchard
A philosophy of solitude
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Frank Warren
The letters of John Cowper Powys and Dorothy Richardson
Jobber Skald
Letters to Henry Miller
The religion of a sceptic
John Cowper Powys
Psychoanalysis and morality
The diary of John Cowper Powys for 1929
Granit
Obstinate Cymric
Paddock calls
Letters from John Cowper Powys to C. Benson Roberts
100 Best Books
Letters of John Cowper Powys to Louis Wilkinson, 1935-1956
Poems 1899
Rabelais : His life
Suspended judgments, essays on books and sensations
The pleasures of literature;
Owen Glendower T1 Les tours de Mathrafal
John Cowper Powys
Wolf's-Bane Rhymes
Den Otidsenlige och den aktuelle
Brazen Head
Letters to His Brother Llewellyn Volume I (1975)
Poems
John Cowper Powys Autobiography
LES ENCHANTEMENTS DE GLASTONBURY (DU MONDE ENTIER)
Samphire
Visions and Revisions; a Book of Literary Devotions
Powys and Lord Jim
V & a Style Calendar 2006
Complex Vision
John Cowper Powys on vivisection in "Autobiography."
Wolf Solent
Confessions of Two Brothers, John Cowper Powys [and] Llewellyn Powys
Syllabus of a course of six lectures on English novelists
Dostoievsky
John Cowper Powys on Thomas Hardy
Carmen Martín Gaite
Carmen Martín Gaite (1925-2000)

journalist, translator, essayist, poet, literary critic

  • University of Salamanca

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Dos relatos fantásticos
Farewell Angel
Conversaciones creadoras
Entre visillos
The Farewell Angel
Behind the curtains
El cuarto de atrás
Los mejores relatos españoles del siglo XX
Pido la palabra
Caperucita en Manhattan
El balneario
Las ataduras
Cuadernos de todo
Todos Los Cuentos / Complete Stories
El conde de Guadalhorce
Nubosidad variable
El cuarto de atrás
Ritmo lento
El Libro De La Fiebre/ The Book of Fever
El cuento de nunca acabar
Los parentescos
Cuentos completos
Macanaz, otro paciente de la inquisición
Esperando el porvenir
Desde la ventana
Fragmentos de interior
Easy Readers - Spanish
La búsqueda de interlocutor
Lo raro es vivir
Tirando del hilo / Pulling the Thread (Libros Del Tiempo / Books of the Time)
El proceso de Macanaz
Conversaciones Creadoras
Irse de casa
Caperucita en Manhattan. Texto original abreviado.
El castillo de las tres murallas
Lo que queda enterrado
Lo que queda enterrado
Cuentos completos
Cuadernos De Todo/ Notebooks for everyone (Contemporanea)
Caperucita an Manhatten
Cuéntame
Cuentos completos y un monólogo
Usos amorosos del dieciocho en España
Los Parentescos
La hermana pequeña
Caperucita en Manhattan
El conde de Guadalhorce, su época y su labor
Caperucita en Manhattan/ Little Red Riding Hood in Manhattan
Caperucita Roja En Manhatten (Las Tres edades)
Dos cuentos maravillosos
La reina de las nieves
Ocho siglos de poesía gallega
A rachas
Cuentos Completos (El Libro de Bolsillo ; 704 : Seccion Literatura)
Agua pasada
Retahílas
Traer a cuento
From fiction to metafiction
La Busqueda de Interlocutor y Otras Busquedas
Hilo a la cometa
Irse de casa
Ocho siglos de poesía gallega
Irse de casa
La búsqueda de interlocutor y otras búsquedas
El cuento de nunca acabar
El proceso de Macanaz
El pastel del diablo
El cuento de nunca acabar
Usos amorosos de la posguerra española
Las Ataduras B-Level
Cuentos completos
Caperucita en Manhatten
Las Atraduras (Spanish Easy Reader Library, Level B)
Poemas
La búsqueda de interlocutor
El castillo de las tres murallas
Tirando del hilo
El sistema periòdic
Lo Que Queda Enterrado (Texto Original Completo)
Carmen Martín Gaite
Irse De Casa
Kapturek na manhattanie
Ocho siglos de poesía gallega
The Art of Training Choir Boys
Todos los cuentos
El libro de la fiebre
Irse de casa
El pastel del diablo
Obras completas IV. Ensayos I
Las Salamancas para curiosos y viajeros
Obras completas
Ensayos II. O. C. Carmen Martín Gaite, vol.V
Correspondencia
Obras completas IV. Ensayos I
Irse de casa
ESPERANDO EL PORVENIR FG
Retahílas....DL
Todos los cuentos - El balneario y Las ataduras (Destinolibro)
Dos cuentos maravillosos
Le petit chaperon rouge à Manhattan (French Edition)
Easy Readers - Spanish - Level 2
Caperucita en Manhattan
Ensayos III. O. C. Carmen Martín Gaite, vol.VI
Obras completas
El cuadro del mes
Le Petit Chaperon rouge à Manhattan
Cuentos de Charles Perrault
Mimoun
Caperucita in Manhattan
SAIR DE CASA -(EURO 12.57)
Desde La Ventana
Todos los cuentos
Living's the Strange Thing
Obras completas
Farewell Angel
Lo Que Queda Enterado
Ensayos II. O. C. Carmen Martín Gaite, vol.V
Dos cuentos maravillosos
Philippe Le Guillou
Philippe Le Guillou (born 1959)

literary critic

  • Lycée Chateaubriand, University of Rennes 2 – Upper Brittany

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Bernard Louédin
Chateaubriand à Combourg
Douze années dans l'enfance du monde
L' inventeur de royaumes
Stèles à De Gaulle
Jesus (Tras los pasos de . . . Series)
Les proximités éternelles
Le dieu noir
Le donjon de Lonveigh
Livres des guerriers d'or
Les marées du Faou
Julien Gracq
L'escalier des brumes
Sur les traces de... Jésus
Le déjeuner des bords de Loire
Le dernier veilleur de Bretagne
Le songe royal
Le Roi dort
Les portes de l'Apocalypse
La consolation
Jésus
Le bateau brume
Déambulations
L' inventaire du vitrail
Le passage de l'Aulne
Richard Texier
Les années insulaires
Les sept noms du peintre
Fleurs de tempête
Philippe Le Guillou parle des Éditions Gallimard
Le testament breton
Le passeur
La route de la mer
Le dépaysement
L'intimité de la rivière
À Argol, il n'y a pas de château
Le pont des anges
Le chemin des livres
Figures et rituels initiatiques dans le roman et le récit français entre 1970 et 1980
Le mystère Richelieu
Géographies de la mémoire
La rumeur du soleil
La main a plume
Après l'équinoxe
Novembre
Le roman inépuisable
Paris intérieur
Fleurs De Tempete (FOLIO)
Max Beerbohm
Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)

caricaturist, poet, essayist, watercolorist, painter, literary critic, illustrator, journalist, comedian, drawer

  • University of Oxford, Charterhouse School

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Antología de la literatura fantástica
Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford love story
Rossetti and his circle
A Christmas garland
The happy hypocrite
The works of Max Beerbohm
Seven men and two others
Seven men
Yet again
Max in verse
Max Beerbohm 1872-1956
And Even Now
Around theatres
Lytton Strachey
Letters of Max Beerbohm, 1892-1956
Last theatres, 1904-1910
Caricatures of twenty-five gentlemen
The incomparable Max
Max and Will
Beerbohm's literary caricatures
Mainly on the air
Cyrano de Bergerac and related readings
Zulieka Dobson
A survey
Max's nineties
Around Theaters 1898 1903
The Early Works
Prince of Minor Writers
A peep into the past
A defence of cosmetics
More
The incomparable Max;
A peep into the past, and other prose pieces
Fifty caricatures
Laravel
Watercolors and drawings by "the incomparable Max"
More theatres
Catalogue of a memorial exhibition of drawings by Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)
The Bodley Head Max Beerbohm
Arduino Programming
Herbert Beerbohm Tree, some memories of him and of his art
Heroes and heroines of Bitter sweet
More theatres, 1898-1903
Max Beerbohm
The poet's corner
Collected Works of Max Beerbohm
Happy Hypocrite and Other Pieces
Dressing Gowns and Glue
Works and More
A. V. Laider
Sept personnages
A book of caricatures
The Importance of Being Earnest, an Authoritative Text Edition of a Great Play (Avon Theater Library)
Short Works
React
Optitles Woolf Triad Titles
Cartoons
Things new and old
Enoch Soames
Letters to Reggie Turner
Catalogue of caricatures by Max Beerbohm
Max in retrospect
A Stranger in Venice
Feasibility Study and Business Plan
A variety of things
James Pethel
Mainly on the air
Arduino Programming
Around theatres
MAINLY ON THE AIR A NEW BOOK OF ESSAYS AND BROADCASTS BY THE AUTHOR OF SEVEN MEN, AROUND THEATRES, ZULEIKA DOBSON, AND CHRISTMAS GARLAND
More
WordPress
Mainly on the air
Rossetti and his circle
Magento
Crimen y Otros Textos Seleccionados
Works of Max Beerbohm
More
Around Theatres, Vol. 1
A. V. Laider
Selected Prose
Ruby on Rails
T. Fenning Dodworth
MAINLY ON THE AIR/MAX BEERBOHM
Cartoons, "The second childhood of John Bull"
The fetish of speed
And even now
Go for Beginners
Flask Programming
Works of Max Beerbohm
Leaves from the garland
Catalogue of another exhibition of caricatures
Max's nineties
Fifty caricatures
And even now ; and, A Christmas garland
The mote in the middle distance
Tableau Public
Arduino Language Reference
Modern Essays
Bootstrap 4
Even Now (Essay Index Rep. Series)
More
Suleika Dobson
Fifty Caricatures
C# in Unity
Selected Essays
Works of Max Beerbohm
A luncheon
Collected Works of Max Beerbohm
Two glimpses of Andrew Lang
A selection from Around Theatres
Max's Nineties, Drawings 1892-1899
Defence of Cosmetics
Defence of Cosmetics
Refactoring
Asp. net
Max Beerbohm's letters to Reggie Turner
Fifty Caricatures
A variety of things [microform]
Max in verse
Python Programming
TypeScript
Fifty Caricatures
Selected prose
Enoch Soames
Catalogue of an exhibition entitled "Ghosts."
Hipocrita Feliz, El
A book of caricature
Around Theatres
Works and More
A Defence of Cosmetics
More Theatres 1898-1930
The Modern Theater (Volume 6)
Aubrey Beardsley
Mainly on the Air
The Incomparable Max
Express. js
Xamarin
Max Beerbohm and Arthur Conan Doyle
Works of Max Beerbohm
First meetings
A Morris for May-Day
Visual C#. NET
The works of Max Beerbohm,
Letters, 1892-1956 (Oxford Letters & Memoirs)
Django
The Works of Max Beerbohm
Roots of Brexit
A peep into the past
Collected verse
The guerdon
The incomparable Max
The guerdon
Mainly on the Air
Rossetti and his Circle
Mainly on the air
Around theatres
Bash Scripting
Catalogue of another exhibition of caricatures by Max Beerbohm
Letters, 1892-1956
And even now, and A Christmas garland (A Dutton Everyman paperback)
Catalogue of the Philip Guedalla collection of caricatures by Sir Max Beerbohm ... Leicester Galleries ... London, September-October, 1945
The Incomparable Max
Cordova 9 Programming
Dickens and Christmas, as George Moore might well have described them
Kipling's entire
Caricatures by Max
Understanding JQuery
Works and More by Max Beerbohm (1952-12-05)
More Theatres
Max Beerbohm's letters to Reggie Turner
Observations
Alan Parsons' book
Triumph of Feminism
Before Buying
And Even Now and a Christmas Garland
Kotlin for Android Developers
R for Data Science
The dreadful dragon of Hay Hill
Six stories
Not that I would boast
Works
A variety of things
"In homes unblest"
The happy byprocrite
Last theatres
An introduction
"Savonarola" Brown
Max Beerbohm and H. Crouch Batchelor
Selected essays
Fifty caricatures
Leaves from the garland
Gianni Celati
Gianni Celati (1937-2022)

translator, literary critic, painter, sculptor

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Alice disambientata
Voices from the Plains
Adventures in Africa
Appearances
Avventure in Africa
Narratori delle pianure
La banda dei sospiri
La banda dei sospiri
Costumi degli italiani
L' Orlando innamorato raccontato in prosa
Il chiodo in testa
Recita Dell Attore (I Narratori/Feltrinelli)
Parlamenti buffi
Cinema Naturale
Fata morgana
Verso la foce
Quattro novelle sulle apparenze
Le avventure di Guizzardi
Finzioni occidentali
Vite di pascolanti
Recita dell'attore Vecchiatto nel teatro di Rio Saliceto
Lunario del paradiso
Luigi Ghirri
Le avventure di Guizzardi
Mondphasen im Paradies
Erzahler der ebenen
Robinson, personaggio e immagini da Picart a Pericoli
Comiche
Lunario del paraíso
Animazioni e incantamenti
Narratori delle riserve
The celebrated art of US short-story writing
Conversazioni del vento volatore
Fellini on the Italian male
Der wahre Schein
Conversazioni del vento volatore
Documentari imprevedibili come i sogni
Selve d'amore
Studi d'affezione per amici e altri
Passar la vita a Diol Kadd
Aventures en Afrique
Romanzi, cronache e racconti
Sonetti del Badalucco nell'Italia odierna
Ulisse