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Features Ian McEwan's first female protagonist since his critically acclaimed novel 'Atonement.' Cambridge student Serena Frome is recruited by MI5, Britain's intelligence agency, and is assigned to go undercover and find writers whose politics align with those of the government. She infiltrates young writer Tom Haley's literary circle, but the situation becomes complicated when she falls for the man. Can Serena keep her undercover life concealed...
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Containing excerpts from earlier tributes to Dahl's work and wit, this is an eclectic and funny collection of tidbits by and about the late author. It also features a missing chapter from "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Widely acknowledged as one of the most important English writers of the last century, Angela Carter's work stands out for its bawdiness and linguistic zest, its hospitality to the fantastical and the absurd, and its extraordinary inventiveness and range. Her life was as vigorously modern and unconventional as anything in her fiction. This is the story of how Angela Carter invented herself - as a new kind of woman and a new kind of writer - and how...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Six decades after Virginia Woolf's death, landscape designer Jo Bellamy has come to Sissinghurst Castle for two reasons: to study the celebrated White Garden created by Woolf's lover Vita Sackville-West and to recover from the terrible wound of her grandfather's unexplained suicide. In the shadow of one of England's most famous castles, Jo makes a shocking find that will lead her on a perilous journey into the tumultuous inner life of a literary icon....
11) My dog Tulip
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Publisher
New York Review Books
Language
English
Description
Now a Major Motion Picture. The distinguished British man of letters J. R. Ackerley hardly thought of himself as a dog lover when, well into middleage, he came into possession of a German shepherd. Tohis surprise, she turned out to be the love of his life, the“ideal friend” he had been searching for in vain for years. My Dog Tulip is a bittersweet retrospective account of theirsixteen-year companionship, as well as a profound andsubtle meditation...
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning Orwellian biographer and scholar, drawing on new sources available for the first time, shows how the way we look at a writer and his canon has changed over the course of the last two decades, presenting a fresh and relevant biography seenthrough a post-millennial prism.
"A fascinating exploration of George Orwell—and his body of work—by an award-winning Orwellian biographer and scholar, presenting the author anew to twenty-first-century...
14) Young Bloomsbury: the generation that redefined love, freedom, and self-expression in 1920s England
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Revealing an aspect of history not yet explored, this illuminating book brings to vibrant life the second generation of the iconic Bloomsbury Group who inspired their elders to new heights of creativity and passion while also pushing the boundaries of sexual freedom and gender norms in 1920s England.
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Series
Doubleday anchor books volume A123
Publisher
Doubleday Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1957.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Poet Robert Graves traces the monumental and universal loss of innocence that occurred as a result of the First World War. Written after the war and as he was leaving his birthplace, he thought, forever, Good-Bye to All That bids farewell not only to England and his English family and friends, but also to a way of life. Tracing his upbringing from his solidly middle-class Victorian childhood through his entry into the war at age twenty-one as a patriotic...
18) Going solo
Author
Pub. Date
1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
As a young man working in East Africa for the Shell Company, Roald Dahl recounts his adventures living in the jungle and later flying a fighter plane in World War II.
Author
Series
Dante Club novels (Matthew Pearl) volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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"The year is 1870. Five years after a series of Dante-inspired killings disrupted Boston, a man is found murdered in the public gardens of London with an enormous stone around his neck etched with a verse from the Divine Comedy. When more mysterious murders erupt across the city, all in the style of the punishments Dante memorialized in Purgatory, poet Christina Rossetti fears her brother, the Dante-obsessed artist and writer Gabriel Rossetti, will...
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Before they became legendary writers, Charlotte Brontèe, Emily Brontèe, and Anne Brontèe were detectors in this charming historical mystery... Yorkshire, 1845. A young wife and mother has gone missing from her home, leaving behind two small children and a large pool of blood. Just a few miles away, a humble parsons daughtersthe Brontèe sisterslearn of the crime. Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontèe are horrified and intrigued by the mysterious...
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