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Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)

journalist, translator, poet, composer, autobiographer, literary critic, literary scholar, librettist, dramaturge, pedagogue, teacher, man of letters

  • Xaverian College, Victoria University of Manchester

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The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Honey for the Bears
The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories
Tremor of Intent
The Kingdom of the Wicked
Nothing like the sun
Earthly Powers
A Clockwork Orange
One Hand Clapping
A Dead Man in Deptford
1985
Napoleon symphony
Cyrano de Bergerac
Any old iron
The Wanting Seed
Byrne
The Pianoplayers
Literature--An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Writing--Eleventh Edition
The end of the world news
You've Had Your Time
The complete Enderby
Man of Nazareth
Little Wilson and Big God
One Man's Chorus
The Eve of St Venus
99 Novels
Beard's Roman Women
Joysprick
Ernest Hemingway and His World
Ernest Hemingway
Literature--Third Compact Edition
A Mouthful of Air
New York
Malayan trilogy
On Mozart
The Language of Literature
A long trip to teatime
The devil's mode
Literature--Eighth Edition
English literature
Conversations with Anthony Burgess
Hommage a qwert yuiop
Moses
Here comes everbody
This man and music
Revolutionary Sonnets and Other Poems
Urgent Copy
Enderby's Dark Lady
Flame Into Being
The land where the ice cream grows
Mozart and the wolf gang
The Right to an Answer
Shakespeare
Time for a Tiger
Language made plain
Clockwork Orange / Wanting Seed
Literature--Twelfth Edition
Devil of a State
Abba Abba
M/F
The Novel Now
The light fantastic
Enderby outside
The End of the World News
Moses
Oberon old and new
Oedipus the King
Literature--An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama--Sixth Edition
A Vision of Battlements
The clockwork testament, or, Enderby's end
But do blondes prefer gentlemen?
The enemy in the blanket
Obscenity and the arts
The Doctor Is Sick
The Norton Reader -- Seventh Edition, Shorter
Future imperfect
On going to bed
Long Day Wanes a Malayan Trilogy
Beds in the East
Enderby
The worm and the ring
Grocyt
Inside Mister Enderby
Coaching days of England... comprehending the years 1750 until 1850
One flew over the cuckoos nest and a clockwork orange 2 books collection set
Literature, For English 1020 at the Cuyahoga Community College
A Clockwork Orange and Honey for the Bears
The novel to-day
Cyrano de Bergerac and related readings
Der Rosenkavalier
Blooms of Dublin
Will and testament
Rencontre au sommet
Anthony Burgess reads from The eve of St. Venus and Nothing like the sun
Enderby (Enderby Outside / Inside Mr. Enderby)
Black Prince
The Norton Reader -- Seventh Edition
A Clockwork Orange - A play with music
Literature -- CUSTOM EDITION FOR TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE, NORTHWEST CAMPUS
Studies in the short story -- Fifth Edition
Drama -- Twelfth Edition
Splinters - Stories of The Macabre
The Norton Reader -- Ninth Edition
Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard
Otomatik portakal
The age of the Grand Tour
A Christmas recipe
Literature--An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama--Fourth Compact Edition
A vision of battelments
The Norton reader -- Shorter Tenth Edition
Selections from A Clockwork Orange (Single Cassette)
Collected Poems
Bir Elin Sesi Var
Murder to music
Literature -- Part 3. Drama -- Custom Edition for Anne Arundel Community College
Childhood
Drama--Tenth Edition
Literature -- Tenth Edition
D. H. Lawrence and Italy
Otomatik Portakal ; Modern Klasikler Dizisi - 3
Mozart ve Deyyuslar
Mais les blondes préfèrent-elles les hommes ?
Literature -- Ninth Edition
Chatsky and Miser, Miser! Two Plays by Anthony Burgess
Bir elin sesi vier
Doktor Hastalandi
The long day wanes
Orange Mecanique
The Novel Now; A Student's Guide to Contemporary Fiction
The ink trade
Language Maid Plane
Novel Now a Guide To Contemporary Fiction
The Norton reader -- Shorter Eleventh Edition
Vindiciae Legis
Journal of the Plague Year
Cartas ao Planeta Brasil
20th Century Earthly Powers
Les Puissances des ténèbres -- Tome II
Literature -- Part 3. Drama -- Second Custom Edition for Anne Arundel Community College
Two Tales of the Future
L'homme de Nazareth
Piano Players
Clockwork Orange (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Devil's Mode
The Norton Reader -- Fourth Edition
Viajes De Gulliver
Poderes terrenales
Monsieur Enderby
Paul's last farewel, or, A sermon, preached at the funerall of ... Mr. Thomas Blake
Rome Sous La Pluie
The Norton reader -- thirteenth edition
A Clockwork Orange
Ink Trade
Anthony Burgess Reads From A Clockwork Orange and Enderby
Earthly Powers
The Norton reader -- Shorter Eighth Edition
The Maltese Islands and the Sea
Modus diaboli
1985
The Norton Reader -- Third Edition
ha-Tapuz ha-mekhani
Mekhanicheskiĭ apelʹsin
Urgent copy
Siri Hustvedt
Siri Hustvedt (born 1955)

poet, essayist

  • St. Olaf College, Columbia University

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The Sorrows of an American
The Blazing World
The shaking woman, or, a history of my nerves
The Summer Without Men
Memories of the Future
The Blindfold
Mysteries of the Rectangle
Living, thinking, looking
A plea for Eros
Yonder
A woman looking at men looking at women
What I Loved
Richard Allen Morris
The Enchantment of Lily Dahl
Almodor's Gaze
Women: Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmann, Willem de Kooning
JON KESSLER
Nicht hier, nicht dort
Margaret Bowland Excerpts From The Great American Songbook
Reading to You
Freud : the Origin of Psychoanalysis
The Delusions of Certainty
Embodied Visions
Coffret siri hustvedt 3vols novembre 2005
Mothers, Fathers, and Others
Figures of dust
Moth to a Flame
En vivant, en pensant, en regardant
Being a man
Gilbert Adair
Gilbert Adair (1944-2011)

journalist, translator, film critic, poet

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A mysterious affair style
The Act of Roger Murgatroyd
A Mysterious Affair Of Style
Act of Roger Murgatroyd
Love and death on Long Island
Alice through the needle's eye
Buenas noches, Buenos Aires
Flickers
Hollywood's Vietnam
A Closed Book
The real Tadzio
Buenas noches Buenos Aires
Myths & memories
The key of the tower
The death of the author
A closed book
Surfing the Zeitgeist
Alice through the Needle
Alice
Inspiration for Death in Venice-The Real Tadzio 1900-1962 (Short Lives)
And then there was no one
The holy innocents
Der Schlüssel zum Turm
Letters
A night at the pictures
Liebestod auf Long Island
Wenn die Postmoderne zweimal klingelt. Variationen ohne Thema
The dreamers
Holy Innocents, The
Peter Pan and Children
Peter Pan and the Only Children
Der Tod des Autors
Vietnam on film
Michael Jackson
The postmodernist always rings twice
Movies
Jizzrim
Jizzrim 2
The death of the authors
Frogboks
Wonder tales
Signs of - (sic)
Void
Closed Book
Adzio und Tadzio
Real Tadzio
Liebestod auf Long Island
Steakweasel
Hitchcock Re-Viewed
Mord auf ffolkes Manor
Key of the Tower (0436204290)
Sognando =
Blindband
La nouvelle poésie française
Surfing the Zeitgeist
Millenium
Dreamers
Eleanor Farjeon
Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965)

poet, biographer, playwright

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Mystery Stories
Pearson Literature - California - Reading and Language
The Poetry of Cats
Junior Great Books -- Series 4, Book 2
The glass slipper
LONDON TALES OF TERROR
The little bookroom
Elsie Piddock skips in her sleep
Edward Thomas
Kings and queens
Jim at the corner
A nursery in the nineties
Nursery rhymes of London town
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
Around the seasons
Martin Pippin in the daisy-field
Cats Sleep Anywhere
Heroes & Heroines
The new book of days
The silver curlew
The old nurse's stocking-basket
Morning has broken
Trees
The children's bells
Blackbird Has Spoken
Kaleidoscope
Elizabeth Myers
Faithful Jenny Dove
Italian peepshow
Ten saints
Dream-songs for the beloved
Eleanor Farjeon's book
The Hamish Hamilton book of queens
Mighty men
Something I remember
Eleanor Farjeon's Poems for Children
Sonnets and poems
Come Christmas
Grannie Gray's down the well
One foot in Fairyland
Cavalcade of Queens
The Little Dressmaker
Mrs. Malone
Grannie Gray
Gypsy and Ginger
Poems for children
Cavalcade of Kings
The country child's alphabet
The ABC of the B.B.C.
Tales from Chaucer
Portrait of a family ..
Mr. Garden
Jim and the Pirates (Early Bird Books)
The town child's alphabet
Italian peepshow and other tales
Cherrystones
Invitation to a mouse and other poems
First & second love, sonnets
Between the Earth and Sun
The memoirs of Eleanor Farjeon
The Hamish Hamilton book of Kings
The fair of St. James
The two bouquets
Cats
Then there were three
Sing for your supper
Dark world of animals
The starry floor
Golden Coney
All the year round
Pan-worship
Perkin the pedlar
The tale of Tom Tiddler
Four Comedies
Humming bird
Magic casements
And I dance mine own child
A room at the inn
Singing games from Arcady
Jim at the corner and other stories
The soul of Kol Nikon
The Eleanor Farjeon book
Westwoods
Young folk and old
ג׳ים מקרן הרחוב
A Sussex alphabet
A bad day for Martha
The King's daughter cries for the moon
Ameliaranne's prize packet
Ameliaranne's washing-day
The two bouquets
Sandal ha-zekhukhit
Tunes of a penny piper
Faithful Jenny Dove and other illusions
The glass slipper, from the play of the same name
Like sorrow or a tune
Ḥermeshanit ha-kesef
Ladybrook
Memoirs
Arthur Rackham
The wonderful knight
The fair Venetian
Songs for music & lyrical poems
A collection of poems
Love affair
The mulberry bush
Proud Rosalind and the hart-royal, or Jane's tale
Miss Granby's secret
Tomfooleries
The wonders of Herodotus
A second chap-book of rounds
Joan's door
Paladins in Spain
Eleanor Farjeon's Book of Receipts
Over the garden wall
A prayer for little things
Singing games for children
Waves
Silver-sand and snow
All the way to Alfriston
More nursery rhymes of London town
Tom Cobble
The perfect zoo
The cock
Ariadne and the bull
Moonshine
The White House at Flansham, its roots and its branches
The old sailor's yarn box
Pannychis
An alphabet of magic
Brave old woman
Oskar Maria Graf
Oskar Maria Graf (1894-1967)

poet, journalist, publisher

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Der Mord aus Zufall
Das Leben meiner Mutter
Unruhe um einen Friedfertigen
Der Abgrund
Wir sind Gefangene
Reise in die Sowjetunion 1934
Anton Sittinger
Das bayrische Dekameron
Reise nach Sowjetrussland 1934
Gelächter von aussen
Briefe aus New York
Beschreibung eines Volksschriftstellers
Gelächter von außen
Reden und Aufsätze aus dem Exil
Gelächter von Außen
Die Erben des Untergangs. Roman einer Zukunft
Ich schwebe von Dingen geschaukelt und lebe mich wund
Werkausgabe, Bd.11/2, Kalendergeschichten
Georg Schrimpf
Bayrische Dorfgeschichten aus früheren und heutigen Zeiten
Reise in die Sowjetunion 1934
Bayrischer Bauernspiegel
Werkausgabe, Bd.9, Er nannte sich Banscho
Werkausgabe, Bd.10, Gelächter von außen
Wunderbare Menschen
Werkausgabe, Bd.8, Die Flucht ins Mittelmäßige
Wir sind Gefangene
Werkausgabe, Bd.11/3, Kalendergeschichten
Werkausgabe, Bd.1, Wir sind Gefangene
Werkausgabe, Bd.13, Autobiographische Schriften
Die Ehe des Herrn Bolwieser
Werkausgabe, Bd.11/1, Erzählungen aus der Weimarer Republik
Werkausgabe
An manchen Tagen
Werkausgabe, Bd.11/4, Erzählungen aus dem Exil
Der harte Handel
Die Heimsuchung
Das bayerische Dekameron
Die Erben des Untergangs. Roman einer Zukunft
Der grosse Bauernspiegel
Grobtenteils Schimpflich Erlebnisse Aus
Der harte Handel
Gelächter von aussen
Einer gegen Alle
Bayrisches Lesebücherl
Die Chronik Von Flechting (German Edition)
Wunderbare Menschen Heitere Chronik einer Arbeiterbu hne nebst meinen drolligen und traurigen Erlebnissen dortselbst
Bayrische Dorfgeschichten
Bolwieser
Oskar Maria Graf in seinen Briefen
The station master
Die Flucht ins Mittelmässige
Werkausgabe, Bd.2, Der harte Handel
Maria Uhden
Notizbuch des Provinzschriftstellers Oskar Maria Graf 1932.
Der Quasterl und andere erzählungen
Die Erben des Untergangs
Grösstenteils schimpflich
Gelachter Von Aussen (German Edition)
Kalendergeschichten
Die Chronik von Flechting
Dorfbanditen
Grössenteils schimpflich
Im Winkel des Lebens
Cassetten (Tonträger), Tod eines Zauberers, 1 Cassette
Die Flucht ins Mittelmässige
Anpassung und Utopie
Altmodische Gedichte eines Dutzendmenschen
Die heimsuchung
Die revolutionäre
Das bayrische Dekameron
Jedermanns Geschichten
Notizbuch des Provinzschriftstellers
Im Winkel des Lebens
"Manchmal kommt es, dass wir Mörder sein müssen-- "
Einer gegen alle
El abismo
Der Quasterl
Wunderbare Menschen
El abismo
Die Erben des Untergangs
Er nannte sich Banscho
Wir sind Gefangene
Die Eroberung der Welt
Der Abgrund
Oskar Maria Graf
Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)

poet, playwright

  • University of Oxford

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Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror
Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Bronze Level
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Bronze
Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Reader's Companion -- Bronze Level
Prentice Hall Literature--Bronze
Prentice Hall Literature--Bronze
Reader's Companion--Bronze Level
The highwayman
Sightlines 9
Collected poems
Tales of the Mermaid Tavern
The torch-bearers
Poems
The wine-press
The magic casement
Sherwood
William Morris
Watchers of the Sky
Forty Singing Seamen
Drake, an English epic, books I-XII
The unknown God
The Highwayman (Visions in Poetry)
The avenue of the allies and Victory
Open boats
...The last voyage
Beyond the desert
A Belgian Christmas eve
The minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
The edge of the abyss
Prentice Hall Literature--Sample Selections--Bronze
The lord of misrule
Two worlds for memory
Rada
A poet's anthology of poems
Mystery ships
Horace
Poems of the new world
What is England doing?
A salute from the fleet
Orchard's bay
A Belgian Christmas eve, being "Rada" rewitten and enlarged as an episode of the great war
Walking shadows
The secret of Pooduck Island
A letter to Lucian, and other poems
The opalescent parrot
The New morning
No other man
The Golden Hynde
Daddy fell into the pond, and other poems for children
Le sort du sous-marin allemand
...The book of earth
Sherwood; or, Robin Hood and the three kings
Forty singing seamen
The secret of Pooduck Island
Portrait of Horace
A Book of Princeton Verse 1916
A tale of old Japan
Pageant of Letters
The Enchanted Island
Voltaire
The flower of old Japan
Drake
Pageant of letters
The secret of Pooduck Island
The poems of Alfred Noyes
If judgement comes
Shadows on the down and other poems
The Wine Press a Tale of War
Collected poems in one volume
The secret of Pooduck island
The loom of years
Nine selections from Alfred Noyes
The elfin artist and other poems
The Golden hynde, and other poems
Some aspects of modern poetry
The Magic Casement - An Anthology of Fairy Poetry
Selected verse
If judgment comes
Shadows on the down and other poems
The enchanted island, and other poems
The golden book of Catholic poetry
Shadows on the down
Collected Poems of Alfred Noyes
Robin Hood
Tennyson
The Forest of Wild Thyme: A Tale for Children Under Ninety
The accusing ghost of Roger Casement
Walking shadows
The New Morning, and Rada
Drake, an English epic
New essays and American impressions
Drake, an English epic, books 1-12
The devil takes a holiday
The forest of wild thyme
Open boats
Dick Turpin's ride
The return of the scare-crow
The edge of the abyss
The Lord Of Misrule And Other Poems
Ballads and poems
Youth and memory
IF judgment Comes Collected poems
Wizards
The hidden player
A book of Princeton verse, 1916
The accusing ghost, or, Justice for Casement
The flower of old Japan, and other poems
Collected Poems of Alfred Noyes V1
Walking shadows
Songs of shadow-of-a-leafand other poems
The edge of the abyss
The torch-bearers
The avenue of the allies and Victory
Collected poems
The avenue of the allies and Victory
A salute from the fleet and other poems
Some aspects of modern poetry
The wine press
Alfred Noyes
The magic casement
A salute from the Fleet, and other poems
Rada
Songs of Shadow-of-a-leaf and other poems
The wine press
Some aspects of modern poetry
Horace
The flower of old Japan
The unknown God
The incompleat gardener
Collected poems by Alfred Noyes
The opulescent parrot
Voltaire
Pageant of letters
Selected verse including A victory dance and other poems old and new
The return of the scare-crow
The golden book of Catholic poetry
Collected poems
The torch-bearers ...
Le sort du sous-marin allemand
The strong city
The new morning
The elfin artists and other poems
The prayer for peace
Open boats
The wine press
Mystery ships
The wine press
The last voyage
The strong city
The sun cure
The accusing ghost
The last man
Poems
The avenue of the allies and Victory
Dick Turpin's ride, and other poems
Open boats
The avenue of the allies and Victory
Rada
The golden hynde, and other poems
The torch-bearers
The New morning
The unknown God
Two Christmas poems
Mystery ship (trapping the "U" boat)
Selected verse including A victory dance and other poems old and new
The carol of the fir tree
Marcus Clarke
Marcus Clarke (1846-1881)

poet, librarian, playwright, journalist

  • Highgate School

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His natural life
Old tales of a young country
Stories of Australia in the early days
Marcus Clarke
Reverses
Long odds
The Marcus Clarke memorial volume
A colonial city
A Marcus Clarke reader, containing selections from his lesser known writings
For the term of his natural life
Marcus Clarke
A colonial city
Chidiock Tichbourne
'Twixt shadow and shine
Stories
His natural life
Reverses, a comedy drama
Men in chains
Civilization without delusion
Mark Forrester's trial
A daughter of Eve, or, A lesson in love
For the term of his natural life
Carmine Abate
Carmine Abate (born 1954)

poet

  • University of Bari

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Between Two Seas
The Homecoming Party
Il mosaico del tempo grande
Il muro dei muri
La moto di Scanderbeg
La Ronde de Costantino
Der Geschmack wilder Feigen. Roman
La festa del ritorno
La moto di Scanderbeg
Der Hochzeitstanz. Roman
Terre d'andata
Tra due mari
Il ballo tondo
Gli anni veloci
Terre di andata
Annäherungen
Le rughe del sorriso
Vivere per addizione e altri viaggi
Il cercatore di luce
De stedenverzamelaar
La collina del vento
Permesso di soggiorno
Raccontare la legalità
Il banchetto di nozze e altri sapori
Terra
La felicità dell'attesa
Il bacio del pane