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Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith (born 1975)

essayist, academic

  • University of Cambridge, Hampstead School

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Fraud
Fraud
On Beauty
NW
White Teeth
The library book
Swing Time
Grand Union Stories
Intimations
Feel free
Changing my mind
The Autograph Man
The Book of Other People
Embassy Of Cambodia
Busted in New York and Other Essays
Busted in New York and Other Essays
Nueva York
Stop What You're Doing and Read This!
Henry Taylor
Kara Walker
Martha and Hanwell
Penguin Readers Level 7
Toyin Ojih Odutola
Piece of Flesh
Wives' Tales
Deana Lawson
Von der Schönheit
Wife of Willesden
Wife of Willesden
Surprise
Crash
Indices
Weirdo 2
Biale zeby
Bugun Farkli Dusunuyorum
syllektis autografon / συλλέκτης αυτογράφων
Lost and Found Opowiadania
Yapacak Bir Şey
Flowering under Stress
O pięknie
Contemplaciones
Amerika'nin Yanik Cocuklari
Kambocya Elciligi
O Pięknie
Severo-Zapad
Cambiar de Idea
Weirdo
Von der Schönheit
Penguin Readers Level 7
Die Botschaft von Kambodscha / The Embassy of Cambodia
Indices
On Beauty : The Autograph Man : White Teeth
Best European Fiction 2010
İmza Toplayan Adam
El libro de los otros
Güzelliğe Dair
Zadie Smith introduces The burned children of America
Inci Gibi Disler
Surprise 8-Copy Floor Display with Riser and Signed Copies
Yazarlar Icin Dans Dersleri
Da belezapremio n.europea casino de santiago 2007
Two Men Arrive in a Village
Sinneswechsel
Lefko Hamogelo se Mavro Fonto
Białe zęby
The May Anthologies
Over schoonheid
Peter Carey
Peter Carey (born 1943)

  • Monash University

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True history of the Kelly gang
Jack Maggs
Oscar and Lucinda
Amnesia
Parrot and Olivier in America
Oscar & Lucinda
The chemistry of tears
A long way from home
Parrot & Olivier in America
Oscar and Lucinda
The Chemistry Of Tears A Novel
Parrot and Olivier in America
The chemistry of tears
Oscar and Lucinda
Theft
Illywhacker
Bliss
My life as a fake
30 days in Sydney
The Big Bazoohley
The tax inspector
His Illegal Self
Wrong About Japan
The fat man in history, and other stories
The unusual life of Tristan Smith
Oscar and Lucinda
Collected stories
The fat man in history
Illywhacker (Faber Library)
30 unter 40
The Big Bazoohley
A letter to our son
WRONG ABOUT JAPAN: A FATHER'S JOURNEY WITH HIS SON
Le jackpot
Collected stories / Peter Carey
Threebies
War crimes
Exotic pleasures
L' inspectrice
His Illegal Self
30 Days in Sydney (The Writer & the City)
Gebrauchsanweisung für Sydney
Bliss - the Screenplay
La Véritable Histoire du gang Kelly
Error Humano/ Human Mistake
Bookclub in a Box Discusses the Novel True History of the Kelly Gang, by Peter Carey (Bookclub-In-A-Box)
Die wahre Geschichte von Ned Kelly und seiner Gang
Le chemin du paradis
True History of of the Kelly Gang
Die geheimen Machenschaften des Jack Maggs
30 days in Sydney
El Supergordo
THEFT: A LOVE STORY
Illywhacker (Secrets and Lies)
Oscar and Lucinda Movie Tie-In Promotion Kit
Big Bazoohley, The
La Verdadera Historia de La Banda de Kelly
Prawdziwa historia Neda Kelly`ego
Parrot and Olivier in America
His illegal self
Bliss, the film
Supergordo, El
Is Britain's industrial decline inevitable?
Parrot and Olivier in America
Swallowing film
oscar and luscinda
My life as a fake
Illywhacker
A Long Way from Home
Parrot und Olivier in Amerika
Illywhacker
Amnesia
Towards industrial innovation
Illywhacker (Vintage International)
Theft
Jack Maggs Canadian Edition
Amnesie
L'inspectrice
True history of the Kelly gang
Historia pewnej mistyfikacji
Amnesie
Zijn verborgen bestaan
The chemistry of tears
La chimie des larmes
גנבה
The unusual life of Tristan Smith
Wrong about Japan
Is Britain's industrial decline inevitable?
La vie singulière de Tristan Smith
La naturaleza de las lágrimas
Diefstal
John Edward Williams
John Edward Williams (1922-1994)

poet

  • University of Denver, University of Missouri

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Augustus
Stoner
Butcher's Crossing
English Renaissance Poetry
Nothing but the night
Sea Stories
The broken landscape
Michael Pearson
Michael Pearson (born 1949)

  • Fordham University, University of San Francisco

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Dreaming of Columbus
Imagined places
A place that's known
Shohola Falls
Innocents abroad too
Tom Shippey
Tom Shippey (born 1943)

linguist, literary critic

  • University of Cambridge, King Edward's School

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J.R.R. Tolkien
The Oxford book of fantasy stories
The road to Middle-Earth
Roots and Branches
Magill's Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature
Old English verse
The Shadow-walkers
Poems of Wisdom & Learning in Old English
Beowulf
Medievalism in the Modern World
Fictional space
Leaves from the Tree
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories
J. R. R. Tolkien. Autor des Jahrhunderts
El Camino a la Tierra Media
Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories
Deborah Harkness
Deborah Harkness (born 1965)

historian, executive producer, blogger

  • Mount Holyoke College, Northwestern University

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Shadow of night
A Discovery of Witches
The Book of Life
The Jewel house
Time's convert
John Dee's conversations with angels
The Voynich Manuscript
El libro de la vida
Many Europes
All Souls Trilogy Boxed Set
SmartBook Access Card for Many Europes
La sombra de la noche
The world of All Souls
El hijo del tiempo
Wo die Nacht beginnt
Le Livre perdu des sortilèges
Many Europes with Connect Two-Term Access Card
Die Seelen der Nacht
Many Europes, Vol 2 w/ Connect Plus with LearnSmart History 1 Term Access Card
Księga wszystkich dusz
Lel kol ha-mekhashefot
Knjiga života
El descubrimiento de las brujas
W. G. Sebald
W. G. Sebald (1944-2001)

professor, photographer, literary scholar

  • University of Freiburg, University of Fribourg

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Ausgewanderten
Austerlitz
Austerlitz
Austerlitz
The Emigrants
Die Ausgewanderten
Austerlitz
Luftkrieg und Literatur
The rings of Saturn
Vertigo
Nach der Natur
Austerlitz
Across the land and the water
After Nature
Luftkrieg und Literatur
Die Ringe des Saturn
ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DESTRUCTION; TRANS. BY ANTHEA BELL
Love Stories
Vertigo
Die Beschreibung des Unglücks
Vertigo
Campo Santo
Across The Land And The Water Selected Poems 19642001
Unrecounted
Vertigo
Campo Santo
Die Ringe des Saturn. Eine englische Wallfahrt. Die Andere Bibliothek - Erfolgsausgabe
Vertigo
Außer Land. Drei Romane und ein Elementargedicht
Die Ausgewanderten. Vier lange Erzählungen. Die Andere Bibliothek - Erfolgsausgabe
Logis in einem Landhaus
Die Beschreibung des Unglücks
Schwindel. Gefühle. Die Andere Bibliothek - Erfolgsausgabe
Unheimliche Heimat
Young Austerlitz
The Rings of Saturn
UNRECOUNTED: 33 TEXTS AND 33 ETCHINGS. TRANS. BY MICHAEL HAMBURGER
Carl Sternheim
CAMPO SANTO; ED. BY SVEN MEYER
Rings of Saturn
A place in the country
For Years Now
Unheimliche Heimat. Essays zur österreichischen Literatur
Unrecounted
The emergence of memory
The Radical Stage
Campo Santo
Sobre La Historia Natural de La Destruccion
Putrida Patria
The Emigrants
After Nature
Place in the Country
Göcmenler
Les emigrants
Schwindel Gefuhle
Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems 1964-2001
A Place in the Country
Los Emigrados
Unerz ahlt: 33 Texte und 33 Radierungen
del Natural
Rings of Saturn
On the Natural History of Destruction
Across the Land and the Water
Os Emigrantes
Die Ringe des Saturn
De ringen van Saturnus
PierĹcienie Saturna. Angielska pielgrzymka - W.G. Sebald [KSIÄĹťKA]
Schwindel
Sin contar
Los anillos de Saturno
Campo Santo
Die Ringe des Saturn
Unrecounted
Ṭabaʻot Shabtai
Melancholische dwaalwegen
Los Anillos de Saturno
Luftkreig Und Literatur
Austerlitz
Am deutschen Ozean
Campo santo
Schwindel, Gefühle
Die Ausgewanderten
Austerlitz
La passejada ; Le promeneur solitaire
Vértigo
Les Anneaux de Saturne
Sin contar
Die Ausgewanderten
Three Book Sebald Set
Unrecounted
Los anillos de Saturno
De emigrés
Schwindel, Gefühle
Austerlic
"Auf ungeheuer dünnem Eis"
Ringe Des Saturn
For years now
Schwindle. Gefühle
al-Mughtaribūn
For Years Now
Unerzählt
Über das Land und das Wasser
Emigrants, The
Rings of Saturn
Vertigo
Schwindel
Nach der Natur Sebald
Saturn'un Halkalari
Kir Evinde Ikamet
Zerstreute Reminiszenzen
Ataque aéreo a Halberstadt, el 8 de abril de 1945
Unerzählt
Vertiges
Ein Jahr Literaturhaus
Emigrants
AFTER NATURE; TRANS. BY MICHAEL HAMBURGER
A Radical stage
Hava Savasi ve Edebiyat
Unheimliche Heimat
Der Mythus der Zerstörung im Werk Döblins
After Nature
Gocmenler
Išeiviai
Carl Sternheim
Czuje̜. Zawrót głowy
De la destruction
Wandernde Schatten
The revival of myth
Pensive images
Enéias Tavares
Enéias Tavares (born 1981)

translator, producer

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