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Angus Wilson
Angus Wilson (1913-1991)

librarian

  • University of Oxford, Westminster School

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No laughing matter
Anglo-Saxon attitudes
Hemlock and After
The middle age of Mrs. Eliot
The old men at the zoo
Stories from the New Yorker, 1950-1960
Twice-Told Tales
As if by magic
The world of Charles Dickens
Reflections in a writer's eye
Setting the world on fire
The wrong set
The strange ride of Rudyard Kipling
Late call
Such darling dodos, and other stories
For whom the cloche tolls
The strange ride of Rudyard Kipling
Emile Zola
The collected stories of Angus Wilson
Understanding fiction -- Second Edition
Diversity and depth in fiction
Death dance
A bit off the map, and other stories
The wrong set, and other stories
ANGLO-SAXON ATTITUDES
The mulberry bush
As if by magic
Brüchiges Eis. Roman
Collected Stories
A bit off the map
Such darling dodos, andother stories
The wild garden; or Speaking of Writing
East Anglia in verse and prose
Such Darling Dodos
Seven Deadly Sins
Essays by Divers Hands
The small stage and its equipment
No laughing matter
The small stage and its equipment
The naughty nineties
Scenic equipment for the small stage
The wild garden, or, Speaking of writing
The world of Charles Dickens
Émile Zola
Emile Zola
No Laughing Matter
The wild garden
The wrong set
For whom the cloche tolls
The Mulberry Bush
Tempo
Émile Zola
Writers of East Anglia
Le monde de Charles Dickens
The wild garden, or, Speaking of writing
The mulberry bush
A bit off the map
The Seven deadly sins
Such darling dodos
Angus Wilson talks about his life and work to Malcom Bradbury
For Whom the Clock
Death dance
The wild garden
Stage lighting for the amateur producer
A bit off the map and other stories
The wrong set, and other stories
East Anglia in verse and prose
Home-made lighting apparatus for the amateur stage
THe impact of television on the arts
Angus Wilson in conversation with Malcolm Bradbury
Stage lighting for the amateur producer
Acting material for dramatic classes
Anglo-Saxon attitudes
Émile Zola, an introductory study of his novels
The middle age of Mrs. Eliot
Scenic equipment for the small stage
Emile Zola
Anglo-Saxon attitudes, a novel
As if by magic
Late call
Home-made lighting apparatus for the amateur stage
All about photographing shows with your camera
Dickens
The Wild garden
La Madurez De La Señora Eliot
Attitudes anglo-Saxonnes
Spectrum
The seven deadly sins
No laughing matter
A. D. 2500
England
The complete whale-watching handbook
For Whom the Cloche Tolls
The seven deadly sins
Late call
Anglo-Saxon attitudes
A bit off the map, and other stories
Ernest J. Gaines
Ernest J. Gaines (1933-2019)

  • Stanford University, San Francisco State University

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Catherine Carmier
A Gathering of Old Men
The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
A Lesson Before Dying
Bloodline
Porch talk with Ernest Gaines
Conversations with Ernest Gaines
In my father's house
Of love and dust
Mozart and Leadbelly
A Lesson Before Dying (Five Star)
The tragedy of Brady Sims
D'amour et de poussière
The Sky Is Gray
Ernest Gaines
A Lesson Before Dying Vintage Contemporaries Turtleback
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
Billy Collins
Billy Collins (born 1941)

poet, scholar of English

  • University of California, Riverside, College of the Holy Cross

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Prentice Hall Literature
The Best American Poetry 2006
Sailing alone around the room
Nine Horses
The Apple That Astonished Paris
The art of drowning
Aimless Love
Ballistics
Questions about angels
Picnic, lightning
The trouble with poetry and other poems
Poetry 180
The Rain in Portugal
Taking off Emily Dickinson's clothes
Bright Wings An Illustrated Anthology Of Poems About Birds
180 More
The Best American Poetry 2006
poetry I8o
The Best American Poetry 2006
The Best American Poetry 2006
Horoscopes for the dead
Whale Day
Daddy's little boy
The Maverick Poets
Pokerface
The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems
Linda Foard Roberts
The Best Cigarette
Bright wings
Golden Age
She Was Just Seventeen
Don't leave hungry
Horoscopes for the Dead
Video poems
The Spoken Word Revolution
Horoscopes for the Dead
Haiku in English
Monologue of a Dog
The Eye of the Poet
Bartlett's poems for occasions
Sailing Alone Around Room
Balistica. Testo inglese a fronte
African Svelte
Don't Leave Hungry
Musical Tables
The names
Musical table
Set elefants drets sota la pluja
Questions about Angels
Sailing Alone Around the Room
Siete elefantes de pie bajo la lluvia
Picnic, Lightning
Siete elefantes de pie bajo la lluvia
Best American Poetry 2006
180 more
Musical Tables
Nine Horses
The best teen writing of 2007
The flight of the reader
Best of Poetry in Motion
Ballistics
Lily the Learner - ESL - English as a Second Language
The Rain in Portugal
Poemas
Design =
Apple That Astonished Paris
Set elefants drets sota la pluja
Voyage
Questions about Angels
Billy Collins Live
Aimless Love
חוצה ברגל את האטלנטי
Trouble with Poetry
Poemas
While eating a pear
Picnic, Lightning
Colum McCann
Colum McCann (born 1965)

academic, journalist

  • University of Texas at Austin, Clonkeen College

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ZOLI
This Side of Brightness Edition U K
This side of brightness
Dancer
Let the great world spin
Zoli
Everything in this country must
Apeirogon
Fishing the Sloe-Black River
Songdogs
Work
Let the great world spin
Zoli
TransAtlantic
At the fights
Norman Mailer Moonfire The Epic Journey Of Apollo 11
Zoli
Apeirogon
Songdogs
The book of men
Let the great world spin
We fell like snow
Let the Great World Spin
Transatlantic
Best European Fiction 2011
Let the great world spin
Thirteen ways of looking
Dancer
Letters to a young writer
Apeirògon
Der Himmel unter der Stadt
Le Chant du coyote
365 Days in Ireland Calendar 2008 (A Picture-a-Day)
Gesang der Kojoten
Trece formas de mirar
Fischen im tiefschwarzen Fluß
365 Days in Ireland Calendar 2007
Der Tänzer
Les Saisons De La Nuit
Get Organized
Wie alles in diesem Land
Dancer
Untitled Novel
Ailleurs, en ce pays
365 Days in Ireland Calendar 2006
365 Days in Ireland Calendar 2004
Les Saisons de la nuit
365 Days in Ireland Calendar 2002
Un Pais Donde Todo Debe Morir (Modernos Y Clasicos)
La Rivière de l'exil
Perros Que Cantan
Treize façons de voir
Zoli
Let the great world spin
Laat de aarde draaien
Tant͡sovshchik
Danseur
Transatlántico
Être un homme
Ruth Ozeki
Ruth Ozeki (born 1956)

film director, bhikkhunī, television director, television producer

  • Smith College, Nara Women's University

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All over creation
My Year of Meats
A Tale for the Time Being
The face
The Book of Form and Emptiness
Beef
Click
Mon épouse américaine
Moi︠a︡ ryba budet zhitʹ
Inside and other short fiction
Timecode of a Face
Shi guang de bi an
Alles opnieuw
Geschichte für einen Augenblick
Il Libro della Forma e del Vuoto
Glimmer Train Stories, #66
Scrolling Forward, Second Edition
Benim Baligim Yasayacak
Francine Prose
Francine Prose (born 1947)

academic

  • Radcliffe College, Harvard University

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Lovers At The Chameleon Club Paris 1932 A Novel
Lovers At The Chameleon Club Paris 1932 A Novel
Reading Like a Writer
Anne Frank
Bigfoot dreams
Hunters and gatherers
Burn This Book
The peaceable kingdom
Guided tours of hell
Bullyville
A Changed Man
Touch
Household saints
Blue Angel
Primitive people
The Lives of the Muses
You never know
Leopold, the liar of Leipzig
After
Gluttony
Goldengrove
Dybbuk
The demons' mistake
Women and children first
On writing short stories
My new American life
Hungry hearts
Caravaggio
The Glorious Ones
The angel's mistake
A Changed Man CD
Word Court
Sicilian odyssey
Marie Laveau
Reading Like a Writer CD
Rhino, rhino, sweet potato
Lost in Seeing
Goldengrove
The turning
Anne Frank The Book The Life The Afterlife
Stories from Our Living Past
Caravaggio Painter Of Miracles
What to read and why
Animal magnetism
Primitive people
The Writers Notebook Ii Craft Essays From Tin House
Italy
Marie Laveau
Master breasts
Bullyville
Stories from Our Living Past (Stories from Our Living Past)
Blue angel
Dibuk
Les petits miracles
Gula / Gluttony (Los Siete Pecados Capitales / the Seven Deadly Sins)
Household saints
Terry Winters
Judah the Pious
Master Breasts
Durchtrieben
Peggy Guggenheim
Разве угадаешь--
Anne Frank
Des gens primitifs
After Reading Group Guide
Bigfoot et moi
(R)evolution
Un homme changé
Rudolfo Anaya
Rudolfo Anaya (1937-2020)

  • University of New Mexico

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Alburquerque
Bless Me, Ultima
Curse of the ChupaCabra
First Tortilla
Jemez Spring (Sonny Baca Mysteries)
My Land Sings
Heart of Aztlan
The Santero's Miracle
Zia Summer
Jalamanta
Querencia
Rudolfo Anaya
Aztlán
Lord of the Dawn
Bénissez-moi, Ultima
Sonnenzeichen
Owl in a Straw Hat
Farolitos of Christmas, The
New Mexico Christmas Story
Tortuga
Jemez Spring
Sous le soleil de Zia
Randy Lopez Goes Home
ChupaCabra Meets Billy the Kid
Essays
Sorrows of Young Alfonso
Serafina's Stories
Sonny Baca Novels
Bendíceme, Ultima
How Hollyhocks Came to New Mexico
Rio Grande Fall
The Blue Mesa Review 1492-1992 (Number 4)
Shaman Winter
Jalamanta
Alburquerque
Zia Summer
The First Tortilla
Autobiography
No More Bullies!/¡No Más Bullies : Owl in a Straw Hat 2
Tortuga
Man Who Could Fly and Other Stories
Anaya Reader
My Land Sings
Max Aub
Max Aub (1903-1972)

playwright, poet, literary critic

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Los tiempos mexicanos de Max Aub
Great Short Stories of the World
Field of honour
Las buenas intenciones
Campo abierto
Campo francés
Campo de sangre
Los mejores relatos españoles del siglo XX
Campo del moro
La calle de Valverde
Campo cerrado
San Juan
Conversaciones con Buñuel
Jusep Torres Campalans
La gallina ciega
Max Aub y la vanguardia teatral
Enero sin nombre
Ultimos cuentos de la guerra de España
Escribir lo que imagino
Campo de los almendros
Crimenes ejemplares
Diario de Djelfa
El zopilote
Tres monólogos y uno solo verdadero
Morir por cerrar los ojos
Guía de narradores de la Revolución Mexicana
Das Magische Labyrinth, Audio-CDs, Die Stunde des Verrats
La Calle de Valverde/ Valverde's Road
Geografía
Obras completas
Teatro completo
Algunas prosas
Cuaderno verde de Jusep Torres Campalans
Das magische Labyrinth 3. Blutiges Spiel. Roman
El desconfiado prodigioso
Escribo Lo Que Imagino - Cuentos Fantasticos
Das Magische Labyrinth, 6 Bde., Ln, Bd.6, Bittere Mandeln
Retrato de un general, visto de medio cuerpo y vuelto hacia la izquierda
Das magische Labyrinth 4. Die Stunde des Verrats
Das Magische Labyrinth, 6 Bde., Ln, Bd.1, Nichts geht mehr
Die besten Absichten
Das Magische Labyrinth, 6 Bde., Ln, Bd.5, Am Ende der Flucht
Discurso de la novela española contempora?nea
Lamentos del Sinaí
Aforismos en el laberinto
Poesía mexicana, 1950-1960
Obras en un acto
La prosa española del siglo 19
La verdadera historia de la muerte de Francisco Franco
Pruebas
La vida conyugal
Max Aub, historiador de la prosa contemporánea
Manual de historia de la literatura española
Crimes exemplaires
Das Magische Labyrinth, 6 Bde., Ln, Bd.3, Blutiges Spiel
Diarios, 1967-1972
Ciertos cuentos
Mis páginas mejores
Das Magische Labyrinth, 6 Bde., Ln, Bd.4, Die Stunde des Verrats
El rapto de Europa
Antología de relatos y prosas breves de Max Aub
"San Juan" (1942)
Nichts geht mehr. Das Magische Labyrinth 1
Imposible Sinaí
Das Magische Labyrinth, 6 Bde., Ln, Bd.2, Theater der Hoffnung
Retrato de un general
Manuscrito cuervo. Historia de Jacobo
La Véritable Histoire de la mort de Francisco Franco
No
Espejo de avaricia
Primer teatro
Escritos sobre el exilio
Die Erotik und andere Gespenster
Crímenes ejemplares
Cara y cruz
Los pies por delante y otros cuentos
Luis Alvarez Petreña
Der Mann aus Stroh. Erzählungen
La prosa española del siglo XIX
Ensayos mexicanos
Mis pa ginas mejores
Obra poética completa
Jusep Torres Campalans/Joseph Torres Campalans
El desconfiado prodigioso; Ja cara del Avaro; Discurso de la Plaza de la Concordia; Los excelentes varones; Entreme s de 'El director'; La madre
Das magische Labyrinth 1 - 6
Últimos cuentos de la Guerra de España
No son cuentos
Gallina Ciega, La
Cuentos mexicanos, con Pilón
Una nueva poesía española (1950-1955)
Dernières nouvelles de la guerre d'Espagne
Geografia
Del amor
Guía de narradores de la Revolución Mexicana
Max Aub, Dario Puccini
Cuentos De Damas Fantasticas/ Stories of Fantastic Ladies (Narrativa Breve)
Las vueltas
Das magische Labyrinth 6. Bittere Mandeln. CD
Hablo como hombre
Der Mann aus Stroh
Crimenes Ejemplares (Archivos de Arquitectura)
Vida y obra de Luis Álvarez Petreña
El cerco
El Laberinto mágico
Antología traducida
Fábula verde
De Max Aub a Cervantes
"San Juan," tragedia
La poesía española contemporánea
El desconfiado prodigioso. Jacara del Avaro. Discurso de la plaza de la Concordia. Los excelentes varones. Extremes de El director La Madre
Mis Pginas Mejores
Sala e espera
Yo vivo
Crimes Exemplares
Vida y obra de Luis Alvarez Petren?a
Luis Buñuel, novela
Ch & T
La uña y otras narraciones
Cuentos ciertos
Sala de espera
Max Aub en el laberinto del siglo xx
Subversiones
Antología traducida
Destierro y destiempo
Deseada
Diarios, 1939-1972
Crímenes ejemplares y otros
La una y otras narraciones
Historias de mala muerte
Pequeña y vieja historia marroquí
El Rapto De Europa O Siempre Se Puede Hacer Algo
Los muertos
La uña
Enero en Cuba
Novelas escogidas
Poemario de Un Liberal (Coleccion Jano)
Poesía española contemporánea
Versiones y subversiones
Nuevos diarios inéditos
Imposible Sinaí
Diarios
Discurso de la novela española contemporanea
Vueltas sin regreso
El rapto de Europa; o, Siempre se puede hacer algo, drama real en tres actos
Historias de mala muerte
No son cuentos
La vida conyugal
Antología traducida
Teatro español actual
Crímenes ejemplares
Deseada
Obras en un acto
Campo del moro
Campo del moro
Campo de sangre
Retrato de un general visto de medio cuerpo y vuelto hacía la izquierda (fechada en 1968)
Homenaje a Max Aub
Dos vidas imaginarias
La calle de Valverde
Los muertos
Cuerpos presentes
La prosa española del siglo XIX
Cuentos mexicanos (con pilo n)
Poesía mexicana, 1950-1960
Geografia
Deseada
No son cuentos
Antología traducida
Historias del 36
Campo francés
Hablo como hombre
Morir por cerrar los ojos
Los cuentos mexicanos
La vida conyugal
Campo del moro
Imposible Sinaí
No
Epistolario 1929-1971
Hablo como hombre
De Max Aub a Cervantes
Max Aub, Francisco Ayala
Geografia
Epistolario entre Max Aub y Vicente Aleixandre
Poesía mexicana, 1950-1960
Enero en Cuba
Buñuel, todas las conversaciones
Teatro completo
Ensayos mexicanos
Discurso de la novela española contemporánea
Trampas
Tres monólogos y uno solo verdadero
El cerco
De Max Aub a Cervantes
Crímenes ejemplares
Crímenes ejemplares
No
El rapto de Europa
El laberinto mágico: Campo de almendros
La cachette d'Harpagon