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Steve Almond
Steve Almond (born 1966)

journalist, literary critic

  • Wesleyan University

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It's alive!
My life in heavy metal
The Evil B.B. Chow and other stories
Candyfreak
Which brings me to you
God bless America
Candy Freak
(Not That You Asked)
Against football
The Best American Erotica 2005
Astoria to Zion
Best of the web 2008
Do Me
Notes from the underground
Bad stories
Rock and roll will save your life
Rock and roll will save your life
Mad Ducks and Bears
Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life
All the Secrets of the World
Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow
Körper in Extremsituationen
Pangyrus Five
Untitled Novel
John Williams' Stoner
My Life in Heavy Metal Proof
Untitled - Cancelled
Masterplans
Which Brings Me to You
John Williams' Stoner : William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life : Bookmarked
Peter Swirski
Peter Swirski (born 1966)

literary critic, journalist

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The Art And Science Of Stanislaw Lem
Between literature and science
From Literature To Biterature Lem Turing Darwin And Explorations In Computer Literature Philosophy Of Mind And Cultural Evolution
A Stanislaw Lem Reader
All Roads Lead to the American City
Of Literature and Knowledge
From Lowbrow to Nobrow
ARS Americana ARS Politica
Of literature and knowledge
American political fictions
The art and science of Stanislaw Lem
Literature, analytically speaking
When Highbrow Meets Lowbrow
Art And Science of Stanislaw Lem
Russell Kirk
Russell Kirk (1918-1994)

political scientist, philosopher, literary critic, historian, journalist, peace activist

  • University of St Andrews, Duke University

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The Color of Evil
Ghosts
The American cause
The conservative mind, from Burke to Santayana
The Essential Russell Kirk
Beyond the dreams of avarice
The roots of American order
The Portable conservative reader
The conservative mind : from Burke to Eliot / Russell Kirk
Enemies of the Permanent Things: Observations of Abnormity in Literature and Politics
Objections to conservatism
The Dark Descent
Dark Forces
The Surly Sullen Bell
Eliot and His Age
Academic freedom
The Sword of Imagination
Old House of Fear
Lord of the hollow dark
Edmund Burke
A program for conservatives
Ancestral shadows
The Politics of Prudence
America's British culture
John Randolph of Roanoke
The Century's Best Horror Fiction. Volume 2
The political principles of Robert A. Taft
Decadence and Renewal in the Higher Learning
The princess of all lands
Watchers at the strait gate
Redeeming the Time
The wise men know what wicked things are written on the sky
Prospects for conservatives
The intemperate professor
The conservative Constitution
The Assault on religion
Rights and duties
Economics
Gateway to the Stoics
St. Andrews
What Shadows We Pursue
A creature of the twilight: his memorials
Randolph of Roanoke
Confessions of a bohemian Tory
The intelligent woman's guide to conservatism
Orestes Brownson
What Is Conservatism?
Fiction # 169
Off the Sand Road
Modern age
Lord Acton on revolution
保守主义思想
Muhafazakar Anlayış
Collected Letters of John Randolph to Dr. John Brockenbrough
Government's role in solving societal problems
Russell Kirk's Concise Guide to Conservatism
Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Frank Cottrell-Boyce (born 1959)

playwright, literary critic, actor

  • University of Oxford, University of Oxford

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Cosmic
The astounding broccoli boy
Cosmic
Framed
Millions
Everywhere
Millions
Millions CD
Over The Moon
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang And The Race Against Time
Framed CD
The Unforgotten Coat
The unforgotten coat
Cosmic
Welcome to Sarajevo
Radioactive Rory
Millions CD Low Price
Millions
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang flies again
Framed
Rollercoasters
Sputnik's guide to life on Earth
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang And The Race Against Time
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang over the moon
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again
Millions
El mundo del Valle de los Mumin
Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth
Cosmic
The Astounding broccoli boy
Runaway Robot
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Over the Moon
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again!. by Frank Cottrell Boyce
The Claim
Litmus
Desirable
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Over the Moon
The Unforgotten Coat. Frank Cottrell Boyce
New Longman Literature New Titles Pack
Ten Years on the Parish
Noah's Gold
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 3
Ted Rules the World
Galánta
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time
Millions
Der unvergessene Mantel
Kozmik
Triple Word Score
Fframio
Forgiveness
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again
Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth Lib/E
Ucan Araba Pirpir Havalaniyor
The Great Rocket Robbery
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again
Wonder Brothers
Le crime parfait
Süper Brokoli Cocuk
Ucan Araba Pirpir Yarista
Robot a la fuga
Framed
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang et la course contre le temps
Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth
Manual de la vida terrícola
Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth
Watership Down
Manual de la vida terrícola
Desirable
Quadri e ladri. Un colpo da ragazzi
Doctor Who
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang over the Moon
Meisterwerk
A cuadros
Cosmic
Millones
Idealʹnoe prestuplenie
Broccoli-Boy rettet die Welt
The Astounding Broccoli Boy
John Cowper Powys
John Cowper Powys (1872-1963)

poet, philosopher, literary critic

  • University of Cambridge, Sherborne School

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Three fantasies
A Glastonbury Romance
Wolf Solent
Owen Glendower
Porius
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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Le Petit Chaperon rouge à Manhattan
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
Dos relatos fantásticos
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
Farewell Angel
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
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
Raymond Federman
Raymond Federman (1928-2009)

poet, translator, literary critic

  • Columbia University, Columbia University School of General Studies

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The twofold vibration
Twofold Vibration
Samuel Beckett: his works and his critics
Mon corps en neuf parties
Journey to chaos
The voice in the closet
Return to Manure
Take It or Leave It
Critifiction
Take it or leave it
To whom it may concern
Smiles on Washington Square
Double or nothing
Aunt Rachel's fur
Shhh
Amer Eldorado, 2/001
Here and Elsewhere
The precipice and other catastrophes =
Surfiction
Samuel Beckett, the critical heritage
La fourrure de ma tante Rachel
Der Pelz meiner Tante Rachel. Ein improvisierter Roman..
Samuel Beckett
À la queue leu leu
The rigmarole of contrariety
La Flèche du temps
Journey into chaos
Take it or leave it
Surfiction
Cinq nouvelles nouvelles
A qui de droit
More Loose Shoes and Smelly Socks
The Supreme Indecision of the Writer
Shhh
Federman hors limites
Eine Version meines Lebens
Surfiction
Double or Nothing
Le livre de Sam, ou, Des pierres à sucer plein les poches
Double or Nothing Novel
Journey to chaos
Les carcasses
Me too
La fourrure de ma tante Rachel
Mon corps en neuf parties
Twilight of the Bums
Surfiction,fiction now...and tomorrow
Coups de pompes
My Body in Nine Parts
Samuel Beckett, his works and his critics
Chut
Pssst!
Chut
Shhh
The Sam book
Edmund Crispin
Edmund Crispin (1921-1978)

composer, literary critic, film score composer

  • University of Oxford

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Best SF
Best SF two
The stars and under
Best SF seven
Murder Most Foul
Fen Country
Holy Disorders
Glimpses of the Moon
The long divorce
The Moving Toyshop
Love Lies Bleeding
Swan song
Beware of the Trains
Frequent Hearses
Buried for Pleasure
Bodies from the Library 4
The Case of the Gilded Fly (Gervase Fen #1)
Black ivory : Being the story of Ralph Rudd
Best SF Six
'We Know You're Busy Writing... '
OUTWARDS FROM EARTH
Best tales of terror
El canto del cisne
Complete Gervase Fen Volume 1
Best Science Fiction: v. 5
Best science fiction
Best SF two
Obsequies at Oxford
Complete Gervase Fen Volume 2
Best murder stories 2
Best Detective Stories. Edited with an introduction by Edmund Crispin
Complete Gervase Fen Volume 3