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| x Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English English-French |
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The Oxford-Hachette French-English/English-French Dictionary is one of the most comprehensive and recent bilingual French-English/English-French dictionaries. It was the first such dictionary to be written using a computerized corpus and it contains...
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| x George Bernard Shaw: His Plays |
George Bernard Shaw: His Plays (1905) is H. L. Mencken's interpretation of G. Bernard Shaw's plays, in which Mencken overwhelmingly embraced the man who was, at that time, his favourite playwright.
According to Mencken: "Through Shaw, I found my...
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| x A Book of Prefaces |
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A Book of Prefaces |
A Book of Prefaces is H. L. Mencken's 1917 collection of essays criticizing American culture, authors, and movements. Mencken describing this work as "[My] most important book in its effects upon my professional career." In fact, the book was...
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| x In Defense of Women |
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In defense of women |
In Defense of Women is H. L. Mencken's 1918 book on women and the relationship between the sexes. Some laud the book as progressive while others brand it as reactionary. While Mencken did not champion women's rights, he described women as wiser in...
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| x The American Language |
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The American Language |
The American Language, first published in 1919, is H. L. Mencken's book about the English language as spoken in the United States.
Mencken was inspired by "the argot of the colored waiters" in Washington, as well as one of his favorite authors, Mark...
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| x Libido for the Ugly |
The Libido for the Ugly is H. L. Mencken's 1927 essay, making use of Juvenalian satire, that criticises the architecture of the Pittsburgh area and praises that of Europe.
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| x Menckeneana: A Schimpflexikon |
Menckeneanea: A Schimpflexikon is a collection of articles and quotations denouncing H. L. Mencken, collected and arranged by Mencken himself.
The word “schimpflexikon” is from the German language, which Mencken spoke fluently; it means, roughly, a...
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| x Happy Days, 1880–1892 |
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Happy days, 1880-1892 |
Happy Days, 1880–1892 (1940) is the first of an autobiographical trilogy by H.L. Mencken, covering his days as a child in Baltimore, Maryland.
The book was received with some surprise by Mencken's readers, since, unlike his commentaries on current...
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| x The Art of Computer Programming |
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The art of computer programming |
The Art of Computer Programming is a comprehensive monograph written by Donald Knuth that covers many kinds of programming algorithms and their analysis. At the end of 1999, it was named among the best twelve physical-science monographs of the...
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| x Concrete Mathematics |
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Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik, is a perennial textbook in university computer science departments. It provides the mathematical background for computer science, especially...
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| x In The Garden of Iden |
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In The Garden of Iden | Science fiction |
In the Garden of Iden is a 1997 science fiction novel by Kage Baker. Although it is set entirely in the 16th century, in Spain and England, it is a science fiction story revolving around the activities of a group of immortal cyborgs, individuals who...
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| In the Garden of Iden | Romance novel | ||||
| In the Garden of Iden | Fantasy | ||||
| In the Garden of Iden (The Company) | Fiction | ||||
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| x Mendoza in Hollywood |
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Mendoza in Hollywood | Science fiction |
Mendoza in Hollywood is the third novel in the science fiction and time travel series by Kage Baker, concerning the activities of The Company.
The narrator is the botanist Mendoza. What we are reading is apparently her confession of why she deserted...
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| x The Graveyard Game |
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The Graveyard Game | Science fiction |
The Graveyard Game is the fourth installment in the series of science fiction time travel novels by Kage Baker concerning the exploits of The Company.
The protagonists of the series are mostly immortal cyborgs, specifically the botanist Mendoza, and...
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| x The Life of the World to Come |
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The Life of the World to Come | Science fiction |
The Life of the World to Come (2004) is the fifth installment in the series of science fiction time travel novels by Kage Baker concerning the exploits of The Company.
This novel is another chapter in the disastrous life of the cyborg botanist...
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| x The Children of the Company |
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The Children of the Company | Science fiction |
The Children of the Company is a science fiction novel by Kage Baker. It is another in the series concerned with the exploits of The Company, a 24th century cabal which exploits history for profit with the aid of immortal cyborgs living in the past....
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| x Black Projects, White Knights |
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Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers | Science fiction |
Black Projects, White Knights is a collection of short stories written by Kage Baker and published by small-press science fiction publisher Golden Gryphon Press, assembling various short stories set in the universe of The Company series, which...
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| x Mother Ægypt and Other Stories |
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Mother Aegypt and Other Stories | Speculative fiction | ||
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| x Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? |
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Dystopia | Rick Deckard |
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick first published in 1968. The main plot follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter of androids, while the secondary plot follows John Isidore, a man of sub-normal...
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| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Oxford Bookworms S.) | Science fiction | ||||
| Do androids dream of electric sheep? | Fiction | ||||
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| x The Man in the High Castle |
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The Man in the High Castle | Alternate history |
The Man in the High Castle (1962), by Philip K. Dick, is a science fiction novel of the alternative history sub-genre. The novel won a Hugo Award in 1963 and has since been translated into many languages.
The story of The Man in the High Castle,...
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| The man in the high castle | Dystopia | ||||
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| x The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch |
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The three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | Dystopia |
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is a 1965 novel by American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1965.
Like many of Dick's novels, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch utilizes an...
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| The three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | Science fiction | ||||
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| x Ubik |
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Ubik | Science fiction |
Ubik (pronounced /ˈjuːbɨk/ EW-bik) is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. In 2005, Time magazine named it one of the 100 greatest English-language novels published since 1923; critic Lev Grossman described it as "a deeply...
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| Ubik | Fiction | ||||
| Ubik | Fantasy | ||||
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| x Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said |
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Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said | Dystopia |
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said is a 1974 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick about a genetically enhanced pop singer and television star who loses his identity overnight. The story is set in a futuristic dystopia, where America has become a...
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| Flow my tears, the policeman said | Science fiction | ||||
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| x A Scanner Darkly |
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A Scanner Darkly | Dystopia |
A Scanner Darkly is a BSFA Award winning 1977 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. The semi-autobiographical story is set in a dystopian Orange County, California in the then-future of June 1994. It includes an extensive portrayal of drug...
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| A scanner darkly | Science fiction | ||||
| A Scanner Darkly (Millennium SF Masterworks S) | Roman à clef | ||||
| A Scanner Darkly (Gollancz) | Fiction | ||||
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| x VALIS |
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VALIS | Science fiction |
VALIS is a 1981 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. The title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, Dick's gnostic vision of one aspect of God.
VALIS is the first book in the VALIS Trilogy of novels including The Divine...
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| x Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb |
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Dr. Bloodmoney | Science fiction |
Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb is a 1965 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1965.
Dick wrote the novel in 1963 with working titles In Earth's Diurnal Course and A...
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| Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb | Speculative fiction | ||||
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| x The Transmigration of Timothy Archer |
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The Transmigration of Timothy Archer | Novel |
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer is a 1982 novel by Philip K. Dick. As his final work, the book was published shortly after his death in March 1982 following a series of strokes, although it was written the previous year. The book was originally...
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| The transmigration of Timothy Archer | Speculative fiction | ||||
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| x The Humane Interface |
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The Humane Interface |
The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems (ISBN 0-201-37937-6) is a book about user interface design written by Jef Raskin and published in 2000. It covers ergonomics, quantification, evaluation, and navigation.
The book...
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| x A Pattern Language |
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction is a 1977 book on architecture. It was authored by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein of the Center for Environmental Structure of Berkeley, California, with writing credits...
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| x Barrel Fever |
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Barrel fever | Essay |
Barrel Fever and Other Stories is a 1994 collection of short stories and essays by David Sedaris. The book is divided into two sections. The first section consists of short fiction and the second half contains autobiographical essays. The most...
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| Barrel Fever | Fiction | ||||
| Barrel Fever | Humour | ||||
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| x Goodbye, Chunky Rice |
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| x Japan Inc |
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| x Parliament of Whores |
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Parliament of whores | Humour | ||
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| x One Hundred Demons |
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One hundred demons | Comics | ||
| One Hundred Demons | Comic book | ||||
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| x More of the Straight Dope |
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| x Deeper Meaning of Liff |
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The deeper meaning of liff | Humour | ||
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| x Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them |
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Lies And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. | Fiction |
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them is a satirical book on American politics by comedian, political commentator and now Senator Al Franken, published in 2003 by Dutton, a subsidiary in the Penguin Group. Franken had a study group of fourteen...
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| Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them | Humour | ||||
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| x Darwin's Radio |
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Darwin's Radio | Science fiction |
Darwin's Radio is a 1999 science fiction novel by Greg Bear. It won the Nebula Award in 2000 for Best Novel and the 2000 Endeavour Award. It was also nominated for the Hugo Award, Locus and Campbell Awards the same year.
It was followed by a sequel,...
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| x The Forever War |
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The Forever War | Science fiction |
The Forever War (1974), by Joe Haldeman, is an action-laden science fiction novel telling the contemplative story of soldiers fighting an interstellar war between humanity and the enigmatic Tauran species. The pithy, insightful explorations of the...
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| The Forever War | Speculative fiction | ||||
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| x Forever Peace |
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Forever Peace | Science fiction |
Forever Peace is a 1997 science fiction novel by Joe Haldeman. It won the Nebula Award, Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1998.
Though its title is similar to The Forever War and both novels deal with soldiers in the future, Forever...
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| Forever Peace | Novel | ||||
| Forever Peace | Speculative fiction | ||||
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| x More Dykes to Watch Out For |
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| x Dykes to Watch out For |
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Dykes to watch out for |
Dykes to Watch Out For (sometimes DTWOF) is a comic strip by Alison Bechdel. The strip, which began in 1983, was one of the earliest ongoing representations of lesbians in popular culture and has been called "as important to new generations of...
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| x Fun Home |
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic | Graphic novel |
Fun Home (subtitled A Family Tragicomic) is a graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel, author of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. It chronicles the author's childhood and youth in rural Pennsylvania, USA, focusing on her complex relationship with...
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| Fun home | Memoir | ||||
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| x The Structure of Evolutionary Theory |
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The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. | Non-fiction |
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory (2002) is a technical book on macroevolutionary theory by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, published only two months before his death. The volume is divided into two parts. The first is a historical...
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| x The Mismeasure of Man |
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The Mismeasure of Man | Non-fiction |
The Mismeasure of Man is a 1981 book written by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002). The book is a history and critique of the methods and motivations underlying biological determinism, the belief that "the social and economic...
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| x Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle |
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Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures) |
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle is a history of geology by Stephen Jay Gould offering a revised historical account of the conceptualization of Deep Time and uniformitarianism using the works of Thomas Burnet, James Hutton, and Charles Lyell.
Gould ranks...
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| x Full House: The Spread of Excellence From Plato to Darwin |
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Full House: The Spread of Excellence From Plato to Darwin | Non-fiction |
Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin is a book by evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, published in 1996. It was released in the UK as Life's Grandeur, with the same subtitle.
In Full House, Gould demonstrates how one type...
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| x Bully for Brontosaurus |
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Bully For Brontosaurus | Non-fiction |
Bully for Brontosaurus (1991) is the fifth volume of collected essays by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The essays were culled from his monthly column "The View of Life" in Natural History magazine, to which Gould contributed for 27...
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| Bully for brontosaurus | Science | ||||
| Bully for Brontosaurus | Nature | ||||
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| x The Pleasure of My Company | The Pleasure of My Company | Fiction |
The Pleasure of My Company is a novel by Steve Martin, first published in 2003, which tells the story of the life of an obsessive compulsive and introverted young man named Daniel Cambridge. The novel revolves around Daniel, his obsessions, and his...
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| x Batman: The Dark Knight Returns |
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Batman |
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is a four-issue comic book limited series written and drawn by Frank Miller, originally published by DC Comics in 1986. The Dark Knight Returns tells the story of an elderly Batman who comes out of retirement to fight...
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| x Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again |
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Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again (also referred to as DK2) is a Batman mini-series by Frank Miller with Lynn Varley. It is a sequel to Miller's 1986 miniseries, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.
The series was originally published as a three...
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| x Elektra Lives Again | Elektra Lives Again | Fiction | |||
| Elektra lives again | Fantasy | ||||
| Elektra Lives Again | Science fiction | ||||
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| x Elektra: Assassin |
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Elektra: Assassin is a seminal eight-issue miniseries published by Epic Comics, an imprint of Marvel Comics, between 1986 and 87. It was written by Frank Miller and illustrated by Bill Sienkiewicz. This series is part of the mainstream Earth-616...
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| x Down and Out in Paris and London |
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Down and Out in Paris and London | Autobiography |
Down and Out in Paris and London, published in 1933, is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell. It is a story in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities. The first part is a picaresque account of living on the...
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| Down and Out in Paris and London (Essential.penguin) | Autobiographical novel | ||||
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| x Burmese Days |
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Burmese days | Novel |
Burmese Days is a novel by British writer George Orwell. It was first published in the USA in 1934. It is a tale about the waning days of British imperialism after World War I.
Orwell spent five years from 1922 to 1927 as a police officer in the...
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| x A Clergyman's Daughter |
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A clergyman's daughter | Novel |
A Clergyman's Daughter is a 1935 novel by English author George Orwell. It tells the story of Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter of the title, whose life is turned upside-down when she suffers an attack of amnesia. It is Orwell's most formally...
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| x Keep the Aspidistra Flying |
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying | Novel |
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published 1936, is a grimly comic novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is the protagonist's romantic ambition to give up money and status, and the dismal life that results.
Orwell wrote...
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| x The Road to Wigan Pier |
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The road to Wigan Pier | Autobiography |
The Road to Wigan Pier was written by George Orwell and published in 1937. The first half of this work documents his sociological investigations of Lancashire and Yorkshire in the industrial north of England before World War II. The second half is a...
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