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| Introduction | |
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| Reading Beyond the Best-Seller List: A Polemic and a Plea | |
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| Old Masters | |
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| Herodotus: The Histories | |
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| The Bible Tells Us So | |
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| Tales from Ovid | |
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| The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000. Second Edition | |
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| The Arabian Nights: A Companion | |
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| The Name of the Rose | |
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| The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance | |
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| William Tyndale: A Biography | |
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| A Dead Man in Deptford | |
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| The Complete Works of Francois Rabelais | |
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| Professionals at Work | |
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| Vermeer: A View of Delft | |
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| Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self | |
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| Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson | |
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| Mason & Dixon | |
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| Blake | |
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| The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World | |
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| Romantic Dreamers | |
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| Pushkin: A Biography | |
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| The Manuscript Found in Saragossa | |
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| Victor Hugo | |
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| Les Fleurs du Mal | |
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| Crime and Punishment | |
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| The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1830-1857 | |
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| The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas | |
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| Dom Casmurro | |
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| Visionaries and Moralists | |
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| Emerson: The Mind on Fire | |
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| Lewis Carroll: A Biography | |
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| John Ruskin: The Early Years | |
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| John Ruskin: The Later Years | |
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| An Autobiography | |
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| William Morris: A Life for Our Time | |
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| Oscar Wilde | |
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| A. E. Housman: A Critical Biography | |
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| Bernard Shaw. Volume 2, 1898-1918: The Pursuit of Power | |
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| Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America | |
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| We Moderns | |
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| Marcel Proust: A Life | |
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| Marcel Proust: Selected Letters. Volume 4, 1918-1922 | |
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| Proust's Way: A Field Guide to "In Search of Lost Time." | |
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| Remembrance of Things Past | |
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| Memoir of Italo Svevo | |
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| The Letters of T. S. Eliot. Volume 1, 1898-1922 | |
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| Eliot's New Life | |
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| Ford Madox Ford | |
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| The Complete Short Stories | |
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| The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa | |
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| No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien | |
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| Collected Fictions | |
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| Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes | |
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| Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts | |
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| Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett | |
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| Serious Entertainers | |
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| Hauntings | |
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| Yours, Plum: The Letters of P. G. Wodehouse | |
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| Algernon Blackwood: An Extraordinary Life | |
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| Tarzan Forever: The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Creator of Tarzan | |
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| Cornell Woolrich: First You Dream, Then You Die | |
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| The Avram Davidson Treasury | |
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| The Wine-Dark Sea | |
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| Chester Himes: A Life | |
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| Suspects | |
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| Sergio Leone: Something to Do with Death | |
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| Grievance | |
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| Second Sight | |
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| Night Watch | |
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| Critical Observers | |
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| Theory of Prose | |
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| Kipling, Auden & Co.: Essays and Reviews, 1935-1964 | |
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| Lectures on Literature | |
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| The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages | |
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| Up in the Old Hotel | |
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| My Ears Are Bent | |
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| One Art: Letters | |
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| The Sixties: The Last Journal, 1960-1972 | |
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| United States: Essays, 1952-1992 | |
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| The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000 | |
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| Lovers, Poets, and Madmen | |
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| Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette | |
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| Robert Graves: The Years with Laura | |
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| Between Moon and Moon: Selected Correspondence (1946-1971) | |
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| The Locusts Have No King | |
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| The Golden Spur | |
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| Angels on Toast | |
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| A Howard Nemerov Reader | |
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| Possession: A Romance | |
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| The Complete Fiction of W. M. Spackman | |
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| Lost Property: Memoirs and Confessions of a Bad Boy | |
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| Licks of Love: Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered." | |
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| Magicians of the Word | |
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| Saint Glinglin | |
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| Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green | |
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| Loving / Living / Party Going | |
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| Nothing / Doting / Blindness | |
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| Georges Perec: A Life in Words | |
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| Mulligan Stew | |
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| Riddley Walker | |
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| Larva: Midsummer Night's Babel | |
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| Landor's Tower, or The Imaginary Conversations | |
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| Europeans | |
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| The Tale of the 1002nd Night | |
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| Life of a Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke | |
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| Uncollected Poems | |
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| Embers | |
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| The Complete Works of Isaac Babel | |
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| Mikhail Bulgakov: A Critical Biography | |
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| Regions of the Great Heresy: Bruno Schulz, A Biographical Portrait | |
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| The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa | |
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| Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew | |
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| That Mighty Sculptor, Time | |
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| Extinction | |
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| Austerlitz | |
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| Writers of Our Time | |
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| What's Bred in the Bone | |
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| Little Kingdoms: Three Novellas | |
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| The Famished Road | |
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| Accordion Crimes | |
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| Cities of the Plain. Volume 3 of the Border trilogy | |
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| Mrs. Ted Bliss | |
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| The Tunnel | |
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| Reader's Block | |
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| A Frolic of His Own | |
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| The Amber Spyglass. Book 3 of His Dark Materials | |
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| Underworld | |
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| Performing Selves | |
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| Ackerley: The Life of J. R. Ackerley | |
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| The Knox Brothers | |
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| The Means of Escape: Stories | |
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| Collected Tales and Fantasies | |
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| Cyril Connolly: A Life | |
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| The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh | |
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| Bruce Chatwin: A Biography | |
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| The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan | |
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| The Letters of Kingsley Amis | |
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| Coda | |
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| Classrooms and Their Discontents | |
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| The Dirda Dozen | |
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| A Renaissance Reading List | |
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| Journeying Toward God: Ten Classics of Faith and Doubt | |
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| A Science Fiction Reading List | |
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| Acknowledgments | |