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Strong women : life, text, and territory, 1347-1645
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ISBN: 9780199541713 019954171X 0191730920 9780199661343 Year: 2011 Volume: 2007 Publisher: Oxford New York : Oxford University Press,

Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron
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ISBN: 0521381827 0521388511 1139166360 9781139166362 Year: 1991 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In Boccaccio's innovative text, ten young people leave Florence to escape the Black Death of 1348, and organize their collective life in the countryside through the pleasure and discipline of story-telling. David Wallace guides the reader through their one hundred novelle, which explore both new and familiar conflicts from private and public spheres of life with unprecedented subtlety, urgency and humour. He emphasises the relationship between Decameron and the precocious vitality of Florentine culture in Boccaccio's time. He also discusses gender issues and the influence of the text particularly on Chaucer and the novel.


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Consider the lobster and other essays
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ISBN: 0349119511 Year: 2005 Publisher: London : Abacus,

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Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humour? What is John Updike’s deal anyway? And who won the Adult Video News’ Female Performer of the Year Award the same year Gwyneth Paltrow won her Oscar? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in his new book of hilarious non-fiction. For this collection, David Foster Wallace immerses himself in the three-ring circus that is the presidential race in order to document one of the most vicious campaigns in recent history. Later he strolls from booth to booth at a lobster festival in Maine and risks life and limb to get to the bottom of the lobster question. Then he wheedles his way into an L.A. radio studio, armed with tubs of chicken, to get the behind-the-scenes view of a conservative talk show featuring a host with an unnatural penchant for clothing that only looks good on the radio. In what is sure to be a much-talked-about exploration of distinctly modern subjects, one of the sharpest minds of our time delves into some of life’s most delicious topics.


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The pale king : an unfinished novel
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ISBN: 9780141046730 9780241962114 Year: 2011 Publisher: London : Penguin Books,

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The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. Here the minutaie of a million daily lives are totted up, audited and accounted for. Here the workers fight a never-ending war against the urgency of their own boredom. Here then, squeezed between the trivial and the quotidian, lies all human life. And this is David Foster Wallace's towering, brilliant, hilarious and deeply moving final novel.


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Infinite jest : a novel
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ISBN: 9780349121086 Year: 2014 Publisher: London Abacus

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Girl with curious hair
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ISBN: 9780349111025 Year: 2014 Publisher: London Abacus

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The Cambridge companion to medieval women's writing
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ISBN: 9780521796385 9780521791885 9780511999123 Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The broom of the system
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ISBN: 9780143129448 9780670812301 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Penguin Books

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Brief interviews with hideous men
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ISBN: 9780349111889 Year: 2001 Publisher: London Abacus

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A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again : essays and arguments
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ISBN: 9780349110011 Year: 1998 Publisher: London Abacus

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