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Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections Since Antiquity

By J. Raven

Alice to the Lighthouse: Children's Books and Radical Experiments in Art

By Juliet Dusinberre

Literary and Cultural Relations between Brazil and Mexico: Deep Undercurrents

By P. da Luz Moreira

Storytelling in the Digital Age

By W. Penn

British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

By S. Schmid

T.S. Eliot Materialized: Literal Meaning and Embodied Truth

By G. Atkins

Reading Across Worlds: Transnational Book Groups and the Reception of Difference

By J. Procter, B. Benwell

The Riddles of The Hobbit

By Adam Roberts

Latest Readings

By Clive James

Why Victorian Literature Still Matters

By Philip Davis (University of Liverpool, UK)

Searching For The Secret River: The Story Behind the Bestselling Novel

By Kate Grenville

Around the World in 80 Books

By David Damrosch

Power of Reading: From Socrates to Twitter

By Professor Frank Furedi (Professor of Sociology, university of kent, UK)

Writer and Public in France: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day

By John Lough

CliffsNotes on Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By Robert Bruce

The Riddles of Harry Potter: Secret Passages and Interpretive Quests

By Shira Wolosky

How to Read a Book

By Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren

New Critical Essays on James Agee and Walker Evans: Perspectives on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

By C. Blinder

Inner Workings of the Novel: Studying a Genre

By A. Pasco

Royal Romances: Sex, Scandal, and Monarchy in Print, 1780-1821

By K. Samuelian

Sensation and Sublimation in Charles Dickens

By J. Gordon

Novel Minds: Philosophers and Romance Readers, 1680-1740

By R. Tierney-Hynes

Teaching Adaptations

By D. Cartmell, I. Whelehan

Teaching Adaptations

By D. Cartmell, I. Whelehan

Fetishism and Its Discontents in Post-1960 American Fiction

By C. Kocela

Neo-Victorian Fiction and Historical Narrative: The Victorians and Us

By L. Hadley

Necromanticism: Traveling to Meet the Dead, 1750-1860

By P. Westover

CliffsNotes on Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

By Eva Fitzwater

Bestsellers: Popular Fiction since 1900

By C. Bloom

Why Read the Classics?

By Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin