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Jules Feiffer
Jules Feiffer (born 1929)

comics artist, journalist, playwright, drawer, actor

  • Pratt Institute

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Cousin Joseph
Cousin Joseph
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick
Meanwhile--
Ronald Reagan in Movie America
Kill My Mother
Passionella, and other stories
The explainers
Elliot Loves
I Lost My Bear
Knock, knock
Bark, George
A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears
Sick, sick, sick
Backing into forward
The great comic book heroes
I'm not Bobby!
The Man in the Ceiling (Michael Di Capua Books)
The house across the street
America, from Eisenhower to Reagan
The daddy mountain
By the Side of the Road
Birthday ball
Feiffer
Tantrum
Feiffer
A bad friend
Carnal knowledge
The man in the ceiling
The man in the ceiling
Little murders
Marriage is an invasion of privacy, and other dangerous views
I lost my bear
A room with a zoo
Feiffer's children
Boy, girl, boy, girl
Grown ups
The White House murder case
Backing into forward
Der Fluch des Lachens.
Feiffer
Hold me!
Ackroyd
Passionella and other stories
Room with a Zoo, A
Best American Plays. Seventh Series 1967-1973
Feiffer on Nixon
Harry, the rat with women
Aboie, Georges!
Backing into forward
Der Mann an der Decke
Meanwhile--
House Across the Street, The
Jules Feiffer's America
Feiffer on civil rights
The Comics journal
Daddy Mountain, The (Bccb Blue Ribbon Picture Book Awards (Awards))
Pictures at a prosecution
Matar a mi madre
Out of Line
Feiffer, The Collected Works, Vol. 1
El peatge màgic
Feiffer's album
Smart George
Feiffer, the collected works
Crawling Arnold
The unexpurgated memoirs of Bernard Mergendeiler
Rupert Can Dance
De r fluch des lachens
The Penguin Feiffer
Popeye, the movie novel
I'm Not Bobby!
The ghost script
Passionella
Feiffer's people
Bark, George
Ackroyd
Kitty Up!
God bless
Anthony Rose
Jules Feiffer papers
Zap! Pow! Bam! the superhero
Was getekend, Feiffer
By the Side of the Road
Knock knock
White House Murder Case
I Lost My Bear
Hold me
Sick, Sick, Sick
Passionella, and other stories
Feiffer's People
Smart George
A Room With a Zoo
Boy,girl,boy,girl
Crawling Arnold
Anthony Rose
Explainers
Little murders
Backing into forward
Pictures at a prosecution
The explainers
Man in the Ceiling
Passionella, and Other Stories
A bad friend
Hold me!
Sick, Sick, Sick (Fontana books)
I'm Not Bobby
Ghost Script
The White House murder case
Elliot loves
Little murders
The unexpurgated memoirs of Bernard Mergendeiler
Knock Knock. Playbill.
Carnal knowledge
Crawling Arnold
Kill My Mother
The great comic book heroes
Bark, George
Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears
Little Murders- London Playbill/Programme 1967- Aldwych Theatre
Kill my mother
The White House Murder Case & Dick and Jane
The Man in the Ceiling
Meanwhile...
Feiffer's people
THE WHITE HOUSE MURDER CASE & DICK AND JANE
Retsaḥ poh, retsaḥ sham
Grown ups
Sick, Sick, Sick
A bad friend
Feiffer's album
Dick and Jane
Against the Grain
A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears by Jules Feiffer (1998-03-07)
Harry, the rat with women, a novel
The Great Comic Book Heroes
BOY, GIRL. BOY, GIRL.
Amazing Grapes
Meanwhile..
Feiffer's marriage manual
Feiffer Picture Book
Ernest J. Gaines
Ernest J. Gaines (1933-2019)

  • Stanford University, San Francisco State University

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The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
A Gathering of Old Men
A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying (Five Star)
A Lesson Before Dying Vintage Contemporaries Turtleback
Bloodline
Porch talk with Ernest Gaines
Conversations with Ernest Gaines
In my father's house
Catherine Carmier
Of love and dust
Mozart and Leadbelly
The tragedy of Brady Sims
D'amour et de poussière
The Sky Is Gray
Ernest Gaines
A long day in November
Ernest Gaines, Interview
A Lesson Before Dying (Cliffs Notes)
Par la petite porte
Die Geschichte Der Jane Pittman Roman
Ti-Bonhomme
Colère en Louisiane
Vintage Ernest Gaines Assortment
Dites-leur que je suis un homme
Die geschichte der Jane Pittman
Miss Jane Pittman
Dites-leur que je suis un homme
4 heures du matin
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readings
The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
D'amour et de poussière
Sani ṿe-horaṿ
Une longue journée de novembre
Vintage Modern Classics
Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine Evaristo (born 1959)

  • Goldsmiths, University of London, Rose Bruford College

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The emperor's babe
Soul Tourists
Emperor's Babe
Blonde Roots
Blonde Roots
The Emperor's Babe
Soul Tourists
Girl, Woman, Other
Minty Alley
Blonde roots
Mr. Loverman
Manifesto
Island of Abraham
Hello Mum
Ten
Hello Mum
Feminism
Lara
Bernardine Evaristo Collection 3 Books Set
Island of Abraham
Girl, Woman, Other
Sequins for a Ragged Hem
Raíces rubias
Niña, mujer, otras
How Much the Heart Can Hold
Without Prejudice : Black Britain
Incomparable World : Black Britain
Mr Loverman
Dancing Face
Kiz, Kadin, Öteki
Penguin Readers Level 7
Black Boy at Eton
SOUL TOURISTS
Dancing Face : Black Britain
Lara
Without Prejudice
Bernard and the Cloth Monkey : Black Britain
Dziewczyna, kobieta, inna
Radici bionde
Wild imperfections
Javier Sierra
Javier Sierra (born 1971)

journalist, television presenter, researcher

  • Complutense University of Madrid

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The lost angel
Cena secreta
The Lady in Blue
La Dama Azul
The Master of the Prado
La Cena Secreta
El ángel perdido
El secreto egipcio de Napoleón
La España extraña
Roswell
La cena secreta
La Dama Azul/the Blue Lady
Las Puertas Templarias / the Templar Gates
La cena secreta
el angel perdido
En busca de la Edad de Oro
En Busca De La Edad De Oro/ In Search of the Golden Age
El Secreto Egipcio De Napoleon/The Egypcian Secret of Napoleon
La cena secreta/The Secret Dinner
De dame in blauw
La Dama Azul, El Vaticano Nunca Conto Toda La Verdad (Mr Novela Historica)
Las puertas templarias
La Cena Secreta/ the Secret Supper
El fuego invisible
La Dama azul (The Lady in Blue)
La dama azul
Napoleonova egipatska tajna
Izgubljeni andeo
El maestro del Prado y las pinturas proféticas
La Cena Secreta (Exitos)
Las puertas templarias
Le Secret égyptien de Napoléon
La cena secreta
Libro La ruta prohibida y otros enigmas de la Historia
El mensaje de Pandora
La dame en bleu
La pirámide inmortal: el secreto egipcio de Napoleón
El quinto mundo
La dama azul
La dama azul
El Secreto Egipcio De Napoleon/ The Secret Egypt of Napoleon
Cena Secreta, La
La dama azul
L'àngel perdut
La Dama azul
La dama azul
La dama azul
Ölümsüz piramit
La España extraña
En busca de la edad de oro
La pyramide immortelle
Das geheime abendmahl
En busca de la Edad de Oro
Die rache der engel
Nevidimiyat ogün
Las puertas templarias
El fuego invisible
La dama azul
El maestro del Prado y las pinturas proféticas
La cène secrète
Las Puertas Templarias.que Se Esconde Tras La Ultima Puerta (Mr Dimensiones)
Las puertas templarias
Seis años de desarrollo rural en la comarca
O anjo perdido
The Secret Supper
La cena segreta
La cena secreta
Dama u plavom
La Cène secrète
O anjo perdido
El ángel perdido
Egiptietiskoji Napoleono paslaptis
Paslaptingoji vakariené
A kék dáma titka
La dama azul
La cena secreta
Die pforten der templer
La pirámide inmortal
Mélynoji dama
La pirámide inmortal
El ángel perdido
Taynata becheria
La cena secreta
Napoleonovo egyptské tajemství
Il memoriale della signora in blu
Das geheimnis der spanischen nonne
A ceia secreta
O chamenos aNgelos
La dama azul
El hilo dorado
La Cena Secreta (Best Selle)
El ángel perdido
Nattvardens hemlighet
L'angelo perduto
Los guías del cosmos
A dama azul
La ruta prohibida i altres enigmes de la història
Leynda kvöldmáltíðin
Doamna în albastru
Blekitna dama
La Pirámide Inmortal
Le porte dei templari
La cena secreta
Modrá dáma
El secret de la Santa Cena
A rota proibida o outros enigmas da história
El secreto egipcio de Napoleon (Best Seller) (Spanish Edition)
En busca de la edad de oro
La dama azul
A ceia secreta
Gospa v modrem
¿Qué se oculta tras los expedientes X?
Egipetskata taina Napoleon
La cena secreta
El ángel perdido
Alan Gratz
Alan Gratz (born 1972)

lecturer

  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Refugee
Something wicked
Samurai shortstop
Starfleet Academy - The Assassination Game
Prisoner B-3087
The Brooklyn nine
Something Rotten
Allies
Ground Zero
Grenade
Fantasy baseball
Projekt 1065
Code of honor
Projekt 1065
Ban this book
The dragon lantern
The monster war
The League of Seven
Resist
A. J. Hartley
A. J. Hartley (born 1964)

theatrical director, dramaturge

  • University of Durham

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Steeplejack: Book 1 in the Steeplejack series
Macbeth
Steeplejack Series
Act of Will
Will power
Steeplejack
Guardian
What time devours
Firebrand
Darwen Arkwright & the school of shadows
Firebrand: Book 2 in the Steeplejack series
Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact
Guardian: Book 3 in the Steeplejack series
Steeplejack: Book 1 in the Steeplejack series
Instinct
Tertiary Deep-Marine Reservoirs of the North Sea Region
Act of Will
Firebrand: Book 2 in the Steeplejack series
Chains
Burning Shakespeare
Trinity
Written Stone Lane
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Prozhorlivoe vremi͡a
Mirrors Shattered
Mirroculist Mission
Impervious
Tears of the Jaguar
Hideki Smith, Demon Queller
Hideki Smith
Will Power
Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark
A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt (1936-2023)

poet, literary critic

  • University of Oxford, Bryn Mawr College

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Possession
The Matisse Stories
The virgin in the garden
On histories and stories
On Histories and Stories
Angels & insects
The Children's Book
The virgin in the garden ; and Still life
Angels & Instincts
Angels and Insects
Angeles E Insectos
Babel Tower
Passions of the mind
A whistling woman
Imagining characters
Ghostly
Still life
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
The tragedy of King Lear with related readings
Sugar and other stories
The biographer's tale
The Game
Elementals
Little black book of stories
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror--Ninth Annual Collection
The Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009
Iris Murdoch
Deadly Sins
The Virago Book Of Ghost Stories
Degrees of freedom
Selected Essays, Poems, and Other Writings
Peacock & vine
Unruly Times
Medusa's Ankles
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories
Vintage Byatt
Writers on Artists
Ragnarok
Wordsworth and Coleridge in their time
Grimm Reader
The Pocket Canons Bible
Memory
Portraits in fiction
New Writings 4 (Special Sale)
Geschichten von Feuer und Eis
Die Verwandlung des Schmetterlings
Konzernrecht und Kapitalmarktrecht
Des anges et des insectes
Besessen
Bülbül'ün Gözündeki Cin
Bp Portrait Award 2003
Geisterbeschwörung
Die Jungfrau im Garten
Shadow of a sun
Jack Milroy
New Writing
Posesion
Medusa’s Ankles
Der verliebte Dschinn
Das Geheimnis des Biographen
Nature morte
Medusa's Ankles
Elaine Feinstein with A.S. Byatt
Quartet
Posesion
Angels & Insects: Two Novellas (Vintage International)
X 10 Djinn & the Nightingale Counterpack
Collected Stories
Kees Fens finding the place
Raw Material (Storycuts)
Stone Woman (Storycuts)
Still Life
Possessione / Posession
On Histories and Stories
Ángeles e insectos
Pocket Canons
Pink Ribbon (Storycuts)
Küçük Kara Hikayeler Kitabı
Thing in the Forest (Storycuts)
El libro de los niños
Future House
Untitled Novel 2 (Byatt)
Untitled Novel
Petits Contes noirs
English and German Cultural Encounters
Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings
Stern- und Geisterstunden
The Song of Solomon
Natura morta
Song of Solomon
Angels and Insects
On the Conjugial Angel
El libro de los niños
Untitled A. S. Byatt
Obsessie
Posesion
Le mal de peau
X5 Possession Reading Guide Exp
Zucker
Rituals
Naturaleza muerta
Sahipler
A. S. Byatt Boxed Set
Portraits in Fiction
A. S. Byatt Airport Pack
Das Buch der Kinder
Body Art (Storycuts)
Memory
Il libro dei bambini
Angels & Insects-Film Tie-In E
Middlemarch; Possession
Untitled Stories
Naturaleza muerta
Detskai͡a kniga
New writing
Le livre des enfants
Cesm-i bulbulun icindeki cin
George Saintsbury
George Saintsbury (1845-1933)

literary critic

  • University of Oxford, King's College School

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The historical novel
A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day
A history of Elizabethan literature
A history of English prose rhythm
The earlier Renaissance
Miscellaneous essays
The flourishing of romance and the rise of allegory
Dryden
A short history of French literature
The peace of the Augustans
Essays in English literature, 1780-1860
A history of English criticism
Corrected impressions
A consideration of Thackeray
Prefaces and essays
George Saintsbury : the memorial volume
A history of nineteenth century literature (1780-1895)
Marlborough
Seventeenth century lyrics
Specimens of English prose style
Elizabethan & Jacobean pamphlets
The English novel
Loci critici
A letter book
Political pamphlets ..
Sir Walter Scott
Historical manual of English prosody
A first book of English literature
Minor poets of the Caroline period
A history of the French novel (to the close of the 19th century)
Primer of French literature
Notes on a cellar-book
A short history of English literature
Specimens of French literature from Villon to Hugo
Matthew Arnold
Essays on French novelists
A history of nineteenth century literature (1780-1900)
A short history of French literature (from the earliest texts to the close of the nineteenth century)
The historical character of English lyric
Political verse
A history of English prosody from the twelfth century to the present day
The later nineteenth century
The Earl of Derby
George Saintsbury
A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe
Essays on French novelists
A history of English prosody
A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day
Some recent studies in English prosody
Collected essays and papers, 1875-1920
Jonathan Swift
A letter book, selected with an introduction on the history and art of letterwriting
The Song of Roland
French lyrics
A history of the French novel
Alexander Pope
The flourishing of Romance and rise of allegory
French lyrics selected and annotated by George Saintsbury
A short history of English literature
A Saintsbury miscellany
French lyrics, selected and annotated by George Saintsbury, with illus. by A. Gérardin
Historical manual of English prosody
A scrap book
French literature and its masters
Shakespeare
The collected essays and papers of George Saintsbury
The collected essays and papers of George Saintsbury, 1875-1920
Alain René Le Sage, 1668-1747
A history of nineteenth century literature, 1780-1900
A second scrap book
A short history of English literature
Dryden
A history of English criticism, being the English chapters of A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe
A history of Elizabethan literature
The Grouse
The memorial volume
Manchester
Tales of mystery
History of 19th century literature, 1780-1900
Noci critici
The historical character of the English lyric
Essays in English literature, 1780-1860
The English novel
A last vintage
A history of ninetheenth century literature (1780-1900)
A golden book
The Song of Roland
Laurence Sterne
French lyrics selected and annotated by George Saintsbury
Essays in English literature, 1780-1860
Minor poets of the Caroline period ...
French lyrics
A history of European literature
Minor poets of the Caroline period
History of criticism, and literary taste in Europe
Seventeenth century lyrics
A history of Elizabethan literature
The song of Roland
Essays in English literature, 1780-1860. --
Political verse...
Historical manual of English prosody
Dryden
French lyrics
A last scrap book
A short history of French literature (from the earliest texts to the close of the nineteenth century)
Essays in english literature
The English novel
Seventeenth century lyrics
The song of Roland
The historical character of English lyric
A history of English prosody from the twelth century to the present day
A history of English criticism
Seventeenth century lyrics
Political pamphlets ...
The English novel, by George Saintsbury ...
National rhymes of the nursery
A history of the French novel (to the close of the nineteenth century)
The Song of Roland
A short history of English literature
Matthew Arnold
A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe form the earliest texts to the present day
Notes on a cellar-book
A short history of French literature
A History of the French novel. ...