From the Heart Women of Letters by Marieke Hardy
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Category: Literature/Quotations
'Letters, we have witnessed firsthand, stir some unusually beautiful things in people,' write Women of Letters curators Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire. In From the Heart, the full power of letter-writing is on display. Rock star Amanda Palmer thanks a song for reminding her of the importance of musi ...Show more
Dear Stranger by VARIOUS
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literature/Quotations
Dear Stranger is a collection of inspirational, honest and heartfelt letters from authors, bloggers and Mind ambassadors to an imagined stranger. Insightful and uplifting, Dear Stranger is a humbling glimpse into different interpretations of happiness, and how despite sometimes seeming unobtainable happ ...Show more
Latest Readings by Clive James
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Category: Literature/Quotations | Reading Level: very good
In 2010 Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that "if you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do," James moved his library to his house in Cambridge, where he would "live, read, and perhaps even write." James is the award-winni ...Show more
Books That Changed the World: The 50 Most Influential Books in Human History by Andrew Taylor
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Category: Literature/Quotations
Books That Changed the World tells the fascinating stories behind 50 books that, in ways great and small, have changed the course of human history. Andrew Taylor sets each text in its historical context and explores its wider influence and legacy. Whether he's discussing the incandescent effect of The Q ...Show more
Love Letters of the Great War by Mandy Kirkby
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Category: Literature/Quotations | Reading Level: 16
From the private papers of Winston Churchill to the tender notes of an unknown Tommy in the trenches, Love Letters of the Great War brings together some of the most romantic correspondence ever written. Some of the letters collected here are eloquent declarations of love and longing; others contain wren ...Show more
The Elements of Eloquence - How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase by Mark Forsyth
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Category: Literature/Quotations | Series: Penguin Lives | Reading Level: very good
In an age unhealthily obsessed with substance, this is a book on the importance of pure style. From classic poetry to pop lyrics and from the King James Bible to advertising slogans, Mark Forsyth explains the secrets that make a phrase - such as 'Tiger, Tiger, burning bright', or 'To be or not to be' - ...Show more
Dedicated to ... The Forgotten Friendships, Hidden Stories and Lost Loves Found in Second-hand Books by W B Gooderham
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Category: Literature/Quotations | Reading Level: very good
Books are amongst the most personal of gifts. The book we choose to give a loved one is informed by our intimate knowledge of their personal histories and their tastes. Often, when we gift books, we love to explain the meaning behind our present by writing an inscription within its pages. Ordinarily, we ...Show more
The Kraus Project by Jonathan Franzen
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Category: Literature/Quotations | Reading Level: very good
A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic - a personal and intellectual awakening. A hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and prophetic writers in Europe: a relentless critic of the popular media's manipulation of reality, the dehu ...Show more
Zibaldone: The Notebooks of Leopardi by Giacomo Leopardi
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Category: Literature/Quotations
Giacomo Leopardi was the greatest Italian poet of the nineteenth century and was recognized by readers from Nietzsche to Beckett as one of the towering literary figures in Italian history. To many, he is the finest Italian poet after Dante. Leopardi was also a prodigious scholar of classical literature ...Show more
The Novel Cure: An A-Z of Literary Remedies by Ella Berthoud
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Category: Literature/Quotations
Sick? Tired? Lost your job? Take one dose of literature and repeat until better. The Novel Cure is an A-Z of literary remedies that offers a cure in the form of a novel for all kinds of ailments of the mind and body, and life's general ups and downs. Whether you have stomach flu, low self esteem or are ...Show more
How Shakespeare Changed Everything by Stephen Marche
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Category: Literature/Quotations
Did you know the name Jessica was first used in "The Merchant of Venice"? Or that Freud's idea of a healthy sex life came from Shakespeake? Nearly four hundred years after his death, Shakespeare permeates our everyday lives: from the words we speak to the teenage heartthrobs we worship to the political ...Show more