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The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in 'Beowulf'
Pettit, EdwardOpen Book PublishersThe image of a giant sword melting stands at the structural and thematic heart of the Old English heroic poem Beowulf. This meticulously researched book investigates the nature and...
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Wannabe a writer
Wenham-Jones, JaneAndrews UK 2007This eBook gives practical, personal and honest advice on how to get published with contributions from over a hundred authors, agents, publishers and journalists. Hear from the pro...
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The Wave in the Mind : Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
Le Guin, Ursula K.Shambhala 2004Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intell...
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Well-Read Black Girl : Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
Edim, GloryRandom House Publishing Group 2018NOMINATED FOR AN NAACP IMAGE AWARD • An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club Well-Read Black Girl, on the importan...
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Whose Book Is it Anyway? A View from Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity
Jefferiess, Janis; Kember, SarahOpen Book PublishersWhose Book is it Anyway? is a provocative collection of essays that opens out the copyright debate to questions of open access, ethics, and creativity. It includes views – such as...
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Why We Read : On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
Reed, ShannonHanover Square Press 2024*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* *A Good Housekeeping Reads pick*A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a "beloved and wonderful writer" (George Saunders), teacher,...
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Women´s language : an analysis of style and expression in letters before 1800
Nordic Academic Press”Overall, the book summarises an ambitious project that draws on corpora and stylistics to investigate the empirical validity of a theoretical cornerstone in feminist literary crit...
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Wonderbook : The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
Vandermeer, JeffABRAMS, Inc. 2018Now expanded: The definitive visual guide to writing science fiction and fantasy—with exercises, diagrams, essays by superstar authors, and more. From the New York Times-bestsel...
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Words Are My Matter : Writings on Life and Books
Le Guin, Ursula K.HarperCollins 2019A collection of essays on life and literature, from one of the most iconic authors and astute critics in contemporary letters. Words Are My Matter is essential reading: a collecti...
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Worlds Apart : Worldbuilding in Fantasy and Science Fiction
Luna Press Publishing 2021Worlds Apart: Worldbuilding in Fantasy and Science Fiction is the fifth Call for Papers of Academia Lunare, the non-fiction arm of Luna Press Publishing.The papers focus on the the...
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Wow, No Thank You.
Irby, SamanthaFaber & Faber 2020**QUIETLY HOSTILE - THE HILARIOUS NEW BOOK FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR - IS AVAILABE TO PRE-ORDER NOW** 'Irby might be our great bard of quarantine.' New York Tim...
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Write Yourself : Creative Writing and Personal Development
Bolton, GillieJessica Kingsley Publishers 2011Write Yourself is the ideal introduction to how to facilitate groups and individuals in finding inspiration for their creative personal writing voices. This book explains how and w...
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The Writing Life
Dillard, AnnieHarperCollins 2009"For nonwriters, it is a glimpse into the trials and satisfactions of a life spent with words. For writers, it is a warm, rambling, conversation with a stimulating and extraordinar...
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The Writing of Fiction
Wharton, EdithSaga EgmontAmong the many twentieth century treatises on the art of writing, there were few that attempted to analyze the development of form and style. But Edith Wharton's bestselling classi...
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The Wrong Way to Save Your Life : Essays
Stielstra, MeganHarperCollins 2017From an important new American writer comes this powerful collection of personal essays on fear, creativity, art, faith, academia, the Internet, and justice.In this poignant and in...
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Xiipúktan (First of All): Three Views of the Origins of the Quechan People
Bryant, George; Miller, AmyOpen Book PublishersThe Quechan people live along the lower part of the Colorado River in the United States. According to tradition, the Quechan and other Yuman people were created at the beginning of...
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Yeats's Legacies: Yeats Annual No. 21
Open Book PublishersThe two great Yeats Family Sales of 2017 and the legacy of the Yeats family’s 80-year tradition of generosity to Ireland’s great cultural institutions provide the kaleidoscope thro...