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Jane Austen & Charles Darwin

Naturalists and Novelists

By: Peter W. Graham

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Jane Austen & Charles Darwin

Naturalists and Novelists

By: Peter W. Graham

Are Jane Austen and Charles Darwin the two great English empiricists of the nineteenth century? Peter W. Graham poses this question as he brings these two icons of nineteenth-century British culture into intellectual conversation in his provocative new book. Graham shows that while the one is generally termed a naturalist (Darwin's preferred term for himself) and the other a novelist, these characterizations are at least partially interchangeable, as each author possessed skills that would serve well in either arena. Both Austen and Darwin are naturalists who look with a sharp, cold eye at the concrete particulars of the world around them. Both are in certain senses novelists who weave densely particularized and convincingly grounded narratives that convey their personal observations and perceptions to wide readerships. When taken seriously, the words and works of Austen and Darwin encourage their readers to look closely at the social and natural worlds around them and form opinions based on individual judgment rather than on transmitted opinion. Graham's four interlocked essays begin by situating Austen and Darwin in the English empirical tradition and focusing on the uncanny similarities in the two writers' respective circumstances and preoccupations. Both Austen and Darwin were fascinated by sibling relations. Both were acute observers and analysts of courtship rituals. Both understood constant change as the way of the world, whether the microcosm under consideration is geological, biological, social, or literary. Both grasped the importance of scale in making observations. Both discerned the connection between minute, particular causes and vast, general effects. Employing the trenchant analytical talents associated with his subjects and informed by a wealth of historical and biographical detail and the best of recent work by historians of science, Graham has given us a new entree into Austen's and Darwin's writings.

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Routledge

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1317111494

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9781317111498

Jane Austen and the Enlightenment

By: Peter Knox-Shaw

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Jane Austen and the Enlightenment

By: Peter Knox-Shaw

Jane Austen was received by her contemporaries as a new voice, but her late twentieth-century reputation as a nostalgic reactionary still lingers on. In this radical revision of her engagement with the culture and politics of her age, Peter Knox-Shaw argues that Austen was a writer steeped in the Enlightenment, and that her allegiance to a sceptical tradition within it, shaped by figures such as Adam Smith and David Hume, lasted throughout her career. Knox-Shaw draws on archival and other neglected sources to reconstruct the intellectual atmosphere of the Steventon Rectory where Austen wrote her juvenilia, and follows the course of her work through the 1790s and onwards, showing how minutely responsive it was to the many shifting movements of those turbulent years. Jane Austen and the Enlightenment is an important contribution to the study both of Jane Austen and of intellectual history at the turn of the nineteenth century.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139456679

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Jane Austen

A Literary Celebrity

By: Peter J. Leithart

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Jane Austen

A Literary Celebrity

By: Peter J. Leithart

Jane Austen is famous for such books as Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma. Now learn about the author’s journey through a life spent making up stories that touched the lives of millions. Jane Austen is now what she never was in life, and what she would have been horrified to become--a literary celebrity. “Janeia” is the author’s term for the mania for all things Austen. Dive into Jane Austen: A Literary Celebrity and discover: how it all began and Austen’s love of poetry her early masterpieces and the inspiration behind the stories her road to getting published and the health decline that led to her death In this updated edition, you’ll also find discussion questions that work well for book clubs and ELA lesson plans. This biography is perfect for: Jane Austen fans and collectors men and women who have enjoyed Austen-inspired films and TV series adaptations anyone interested in learning about the varied sides of Austen’s character and the characters she created Jane Austen: A Literary Celebrity is a fascinating look at a woman who never meant to be famous.

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HarperChristian + ORM

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1418555215

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Shakespeare Exhumed

The Bassano Chronicles

By: Peter D Matthews

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Shakespeare Exhumed

The Bassano Chronicles

By: Peter D Matthews

William Shakespeare is viewed today as the quintessential English writer who has continued to influence art, poetry, philosophy and even science for over four centuries. His graphic imagery of Venice, Padua and Verona carefully braided with poignant tragic wreckages of real life circumstances, shrewdly infused with the ancient Kabbalah and transcendent Platonism was nothing short of genius. That is, if he ever put pen to paper! These chronicles reveal documentary evidence to confirm who really penned the Shakespearean canon. For centuries these works have been accoladed as the very basis of English literature, yet the author might not have been English at all! Amidst the mischief, mayhem and murder, these chronicles answer all the questions, including one of the greatest discoveries of all time - who owned the finest collection of Venetian, Italian and Byzantinian jewellery in the world - The Cheapside Hoard.

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Bassano Publishing House

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0987365266

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Silver Cities

Photographing American Urbanization, 1839-1939

By: Peter Bacon Hales

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Silver Cities

Photographing American Urbanization, 1839-1939

By: Peter Bacon Hales

This vastly expanded edition presents a lively interdisciplinary history of the first century of urban photography in America.

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UNM Press

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0826331785

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The Image of Georgian Bath 1700-2000

Towns, Heritage, and History

By: Peter Borsay

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The Image of Georgian Bath 1700-2000

Towns, Heritage, and History

By: Peter Borsay

This interdisciplinary study explores the evolution, structure, and uses of the image of Georgian Bath, from its genesis in the eighteenth century to its renaissance in the twentieth century. In recent decades there has been both a popular resurgence of interest in heritage and tradition, and a growing academic awareness of the power of imagery in shaping the lives of individuals and societies. There is perhaps no city in Britain so saturated in history and layered with historic imagery as Bath. It therefore provides an ideal case-study to investigate the dynamic fusion and impact of the forces of past and representation. The dominant perception of Bath today is that of a classical and particularly Georgian city. In this stimulating and scholarly study, Peter Borsay examines the construction and development of this image. Its principal components, biography and architecture, are explored, together with the media through which it was constructed and transmitted, as well as its commercial, social, political, and psychological uses. Dr Borsay concludes by relating the findings for Bath to current debates on towns, heritage, and the nature of history.

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OUP Oxford

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0191542105

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Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity

Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture

By: Mark S. Micale,Robert L. Dietle,Peter Gay

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Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity

Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture

By: Mark S. Micale,Robert L. Dietle,Peter Gay

Enriched by the methods and insights of social history, the history of mentalites, linguistics, anthropology, literary theory, and art history, intellectual and cultural history are experiencing a renewed vitality. The far-ranging essays in this volume, by an internationally distinguished group of scholars, represent a generous sampling of these new studies.

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Stanford University Press

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0804731160

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The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud (The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud)

By: Peter Gay

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The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud (The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud)

By: Peter Gay

The author of the bestseller Freud presents a close examination of the aggression--and debate about aggression--that raged through the Victorian Age. Gay looks at the works of such figures as Theodore Roosevelt and Nietzsche to present penetrating new insights.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393312240

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9780393312249

Americans on Fiction, 1776-1900 Volume 2

By: Peter Rawlings

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Americans on Fiction, 1776-1900 Volume 2

By: Peter Rawlings

A collection of prefaces, reviews and articles by Americans on American and European fiction. Charted in these three volumes, which span 1776 to 1900, is the movement from anxious defences of the novel as a necessary vehicle of truth and morality to fully-fledged theoretical exfoliations.

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Routledge

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1351223410

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9781351223416

Probabilistic Voting Theory

By: Peter J. Coughlin

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Probabilistic Voting Theory

By: Peter J. Coughlin

Coughlin provides the most comprehensive and integrated analysis of probabilistic voting models available, also developing further his important contributions. Probabilistic voting theory is the mathematical theory of candidate behavior in or in anticipation of elections in which candidates are unsure what voters' preferences will be on all or most issues, which is true of most governmental elections. The theory asks first whether optimal candidate strategies can be determined, given uncertainty about voter preferences, and if so, what exactly those strategies are, given various circumstances. It allows the theorist to predict what public policies will be supported and what laws passed by elected officials when in office and what positions will be taken by them when running in elections. One of the leading contributors to this rapidly developing literature, which is at the leading edge of public choice theory, Coughlin both reviews the existing literature and presents new results that unify and extend developments in the theory that have been scattered in the literature.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521360528

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Shakespeare in Hate

Emotions, Passions, Selfhood

By: Peter Kishore Saval

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Shakespeare in Hate

Emotions, Passions, Selfhood

By: Peter Kishore Saval

Hate, malice, rage, and enmity: what would Shakespeare’s plays be without these demonic, unruly passions? This book studies how the tirades and unrestrained villainy of Shakespeare’s art explode the decorum and safety of our sanitized lives and challenge the limits of our selfhood. Everyone knows Shakespeare to be the exemplary poet of love, but how many celebrate his clarifying expressions of hatred? How many of us do not at some time feel that we have come away from his plays transformed by hate and washed clean by savage indignation? Saval fills the great gap in the interpretation of Shakespeare’s unsocial feelings. The book asserts that emotions, as Aristotle claims in the Rhetoric, are connected to judgments. Under such a view, hatred and rage in Shakespeare cease to be a "blinding" of judgment or a loss of reason, but become claims upon the world that can be evaluated and interpreted. The literary criticism of anger and hate provides an alternative vision of the experience of Shakespeare’s theater as an intensification of human experience that takes us far beyond criticism’s traditional contexts of character, culture, and ethics. The volume, which is alive to the judgmental character of emotions, transforms the way we see the rancorous passions and the disorderly and disobedient demands of anger and hatred. Above all, it reminds us why Shakespeare is the exemplary creator of that rare yet pleasurable thing: a good hater.

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1317531159

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Romantic Adaptations

Essays in Mediation and Remediation

By: Cian Duffy,Peter Howell

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Romantic Adaptations

Essays in Mediation and Remediation

By: Cian Duffy,Peter Howell

How did romanticism define its relationship with its sources? How has romanticism since been understood and misunderstood across a range of cultural activities? These are among the questions taken up in this reexamination of the place of adaptation within romanticism. Renegotiating the cultural topography of the period and the place of romanticism in subsequent cultural history, the volume focuses on the adaptation of source material by romantic writers and the adaptation in subsequent periods of the tropes and ideologies associated with romanticism. In place of a hierarchical distinction between source and text, between ’romanticism’ and its contexts, the collection identifies distinct but overlapping and mutually constitutive genres such as the Gothic and romance. Whether their essays deal with early nineteenth-century periodical reviews, affordable editions of Pride and Prejudice aimed at the late nineteenth-century mass audience, or the ongoing cultural presence of romanticism in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century debates about embryology and stem cell research, the contributors remain cognizant of the tension between the processes of adaptation and the apparent ideology of romantic originality.

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Routledge

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1317061659

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The Essential Guide to English Studies

By: Peter Childs

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The Essential Guide to English Studies

By: Peter Childs

Focusing on what it means to study English in higher education, this book guides students through key aspects of English Studies including major topics and approaches, subject-specific study skills and assessment, including seminar presentations, assignments, and exams. Peter Childs offers down-to-earth practical guidance on developing the skills needed to succeed and includes coverage of literature, language and creative writing. This is an essential introduction to English Studies for students beginning their studies at university or college and anyone considering taking a degree in English.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441107096

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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

You Must Read Before You Die

By: Peter Boxall

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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

You Must Read Before You Die

By: Peter Boxall

Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of writers, critics, academics, and journalists, provides a new take on world classics and a reliable guide to what's hot in contemporary fiction. Featuring more than 700 illustrations and photographs, presenting quotes from individual novels and authors, and completely revised for 2012, this is the ideal book for everybody who loves reading.

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Cassell

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1844037193

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9781844037193

Joseph Chamberlain

Entrepreneur in Politics

By: Peter T. Marsh

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Joseph Chamberlain

Entrepreneur in Politics

By: Peter T. Marsh

Biografie van de Engelse politicus (1836-1914)

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Yale University Press

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0300058012

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9780300058017

Bayesian Nonparametric Data Analysis

By: Peter Müller,Fernando Andres Quintana,Alejandro Jara,Tim Hanson

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Bayesian Nonparametric Data Analysis

By: Peter Müller,Fernando Andres Quintana,Alejandro Jara,Tim Hanson

This book reviews nonparametric Bayesian methods and models that have proven useful in the context of data analysis. Rather than providing an encyclopedic review of probability models, the book’s structure follows a data analysis perspective. As such, the chapters are organized by traditional data analysis problems. In selecting specific nonparametric models, simpler and more traditional models are favored over specialized ones. The discussed methods are illustrated with a wealth of examples, including applications ranging from stylized examples to case studies from recent literature. The book also includes an extensive discussion of computational methods and details on their implementation. R code for many examples is included in online software pages.

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Springer

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3319189689

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Imperial nostalgia

How the British conquered themselves

By: Peter Mitchell

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Imperial nostalgia

How the British conquered themselves

By: Peter Mitchell

A strong emotional attachment to the memory of empire runs deep in British culture. In recent years, that memory has become a battleground in a long-drawn ideological war, inflecting debates on race, class, gender, culture, the UK’s future and its place in the world. This provocative and passionate book surveys the scene of the imperial memory wars in contemporary Britain, exploring how the myths that structure our views of empire came to be, and how they inform the present. Taking in such diverse subjects as Rory Stewart and inter-war adventure fiction, man’s facial hair and Kipling, the Alt-right and the Red Wall, Imperial Nostalgia asks how our relationship with our national past has gone wrong, and how it might be improved.

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Manchester University Press

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1526146193

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9781526146199

New York Times Essential Library: Children's Movies

A Critic's Guide to the Best Films Available on Video and DVD

By: Peter M. Nichols

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New York Times Essential Library: Children's Movies

A Critic's Guide to the Best Films Available on Video and DVD

By: Peter M. Nichols

An indispensable guide for parents from a leading expert on children's film For years Peter M. Nichols has been offering vital advice and information for parents about current movies in his regular "Taking the Children" column. But parents need the same kind of guidance when renting or buying videos and DVDs for their family. They may know that movies such as Toy Story and Chicken Run are good choices for their children, but Nichols helps parents go beyond the obvious choices to more unconventional movies like The African Queen and Some Like It Hot. From the classics of animation to a host of great comedies and dramas, Nichols provides a knowing and illuminating guide to one hundred great cinematic works. Each brief original essay not only explains why the children will enjoy the film but also allows Nichols to offer timely bits of film history and to discuss certain films in a larger cultural context. Nichols's knowledge and understanding of films is broad and deep, and many of his choices-especially of films that we might not have thought of as "children's films"-will surprise and delight readers.

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Macmillan

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1429934735

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9781429934732

The Last Detective

By: Peter Lovesey

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The Last Detective

By: Peter Lovesey

A nude female corpse has been found floating in a large reservoir just south of Bristol. Detective Peter Diamond must solve the mystery of the "lady in the lake", locate two missing letters attributed to Jane Austen, and save a woman unjustly accused of murder.

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386

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Soho Press

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1569472092

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9781569472095

Pagan Virtue

An Essay in Ethics

By: John Casey,John Peter Anthony Casey

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Pagan Virtue

An Essay in Ethics

By: John Casey,John Peter Anthony Casey

Dr Casey argues that the classical virtues of courage, temperance, practical wisdom, and justice, which are largely ignored in modern moral philosophy, centrally define the good for Man. The values of success, pride, and worldliness remain alive, if insufficiently acknowledged, part of ourmoral thinking. The conflict between these values and our equally important Christian inheritance leads to tensions and contradictions in our understanding of the moral life.

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Oxford University Press

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0198240031

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9780198240037

50 Gems of Hampshire

The History & Heritage of the Most Iconic Places

By: Peter Kilby

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50 Gems of Hampshire

The History & Heritage of the Most Iconic Places

By: Peter Kilby

This beautifully photographed selection of fifty of the Hampshire’s most precious assets shows what makes it such a popular destination.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445684926

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9781445684925

The Summons

By: Peter Lovesey

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The Summons

By: Peter Lovesey

“The Summons is a classic.” —The Economist John Mountjoy has escaped from prison and kidnapped the chief constable’s daughter. The only person he’ll parley with is Detective Peter Diamond, who arrested him four years earlier for the murder of a young journalist. Mountjoy, who still maintains his innocence, has a simple request for Diamond. All the detective has to do is find the real killer and clear Mountjoy’s name, and the hostage will be free to go. But in the intervening four years, the trail has gone cold and memories have turned hazy, making the hunt for the killer even more complicated the second time around. Will Diamond get to the bottom of the cold case before another life is lost?

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Soho Press

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1569478120

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9781569478127

Understanding Penelope Fitzgerald

By: Peter Wolfe

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Understanding Penelope Fitzgerald

By: Peter Wolfe

Peter Wolfe's study of Penelope Fitzgerald's canon illuminates writings he characterizes as possessing unerring dramatic judgment, a friendly and fluid style, and lyrical and precise descriptive passages. In this survey of Fitzgerald's life and career, Wolfe explains how the British novelist brings resources of talent and craft, thought and feeling, courage and vulnerability, to the biographies and novels that have earned her renown.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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157003561X

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