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James Wood

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Arrow Bks.

"The Golovlyov Family" is one of the major, but unjustly neglected, 19th-century Russian novels, showing simply, but relentlessly, the decay of a family of provincial gentry.

The Golovlyov Family (Penguin Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Shchedrin

Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov

Natalie Duddington

Contemporary

NYRB Classics

When James Wood's first collection of essays, The Broken Estate, was published in 1999, the reviewers hailed a master critic. John Banville described Wood as a 'a close reader of genius-illuminating and exciting and compelling', and Malcolm Bradbury described him as 'a true critic: an urgent, impassioned reader of literature, a tireless interpreter, a live and learned intelligence'; Adam Begley, in the Financial Times, said that 'Wood is not just a keen critic, our best, but a superb writer'; Geoff Dyer admired the 'passionately sustained vigour of his writing' which 'towered above most of what passes for criticism'; Natasha Walter, in the Independent, described The Broken Estate as 'a book that makes you feel, having closed it, as if your mind has been oxygenated'. The common thread in Wood's latest collection of essays is what makes us laugh - and the book is an attempt to distinguish between the perhaps rather limited English comedy (as seen in Waugh, for example) and a 'continental' tragic-comedy, which he sees as real, universal and Quixotic. A particularly acerbic, and very funny, essay - which has been widely celebrated - deals with Zadie Smith, Rushdie, Pynchon and DeLillo,

The Irresponsible Self : Essays on Comedy and Fiction

Chatto Bodley Head & Cape

<p>In the tradition of E.M. Forster's 'Aspects of the Novel' and Milan Kundera's 'The Art of the Novel', 'How Fiction Works' is a scintillating and searching study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style.</p>

How Fiction Works

Essays & Correspondence

JONATHAN CAPE.

Speaking Effectively

History

Military

Random House]

In a series of long essays, James Wood examines the connection between literature and religious belief, in a startlingly wide group of writers. Wood re-appraises the writing of such figures as Thomas More, Jane Austen, Herman Melville, Anton Chekhov, Thomas Mann, Nikolai Gogol, Gustave Flaubert and Virginia Woolf, vigorously reading them against the grain of received opinion, and illuminatingly relating them to questions of religious and phiosophical belief. Contemporary writers, such as Martin Amis, Thomas Pynchon and George Steiner, are also discussed, with the boldness and attention to language that have made Wood such an influential and controversial figure. Writing here about his own childhood struggle to believe, Wood says that 'the child of evangelism, if he does not believe, inherits nevertheless a suspicion of indifference'. Wood brings that suspicion to bear on literature itself. The result is a unique book of criticism.

The Broken Estate : Essays on Literature and Belief

Pimlico

Specifically aimed at travellers on England's highest and most scenic main-line railway, connecting Leeds with Carlisle via Settle. Handy pocket size, with route maps and concise information on what is to be seen through the carriage window. The guide's innovative layout means it can be used with equal ease when travelling in either direction. Published to coincide with the line's 125th anniversary.

The Settle Line: Two Way Guide

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Great Northern Books

James Wood's "Apologia Pro Vita Sua"; Andrew Bujalski on the real truth of independent filmmaking; Mark Greif's "Radiohead, Or the Philosophy of Pop"; Benjamin Kunkel's "Or Things I Did Not Do or Say"; Marco Roth's "Torture and Parenting"; Elif Batuman on Franco Moretti; plus Walter Benn Michaels on diversity and the first of the new batch of stories from Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.

n+1, Number Three: Reality Principle

Marco Roth

Mark Greif

Benjamin Kunkel

Walter Benn Michaels

Elif Batuman

Meghan Falvey

J.D. Daniels

Michael T. Klare

Siddhartha, Deb

Pankaj, Mishra

Andrew Bujals

François Cusset

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya

Emily Votruba

n+1 Research

The Foragers' Cookbook: A Countryside Guide to Foraging and Cooking with Wild Food (Countryside Edition)

Totally Wild Publishing

Excerpt from The Principles of Mechanics: Designed for the Use of Students in the UniversityQ4.) Solidity is that property of matter by which it fills space; or, by which any portion of matter excludes every other portion from that part of space which it cc cupies; and thus it is capable of. Lesistance and protrusion.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Principles of Mechanics: Designed for the Use of Students in the University (Classic Reprint)

Science & Math

Physics

Forgotten Books

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