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The Angels and Devils of Dickens

Dickens

by Peter Ackroyd

The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens

by Claire Tomalin

Mark Twain's Aquarium: The Samuel Clemens 'Angelfish' Correspondence, 1905–1910

edited by John Cooley

Victorian Subjects

by J. Hillis Miller

Dickens and the 1830s

by Kathryn Chittick


The White World of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

by William S. McFeely


The Reality Game

Patrimony: A True Story

by Philip Roth


That Old Chinese Black Magic

Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768

by Philip A. Kuhn


A Star is Born

You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again

by Julia Phillips

How Green Was My Valley: The Screenplay for the Darryl F. Zanuck Film Production Directed by John Ford

by Philip Dunne


‘The Final Secret of the Universe’?

Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe

by Dennis Overbye

The Big Bang Never Happened: A Startling Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the Universe

by Eric J. Lerner

Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists

by Alan Lightman and Roberta Brawer


How to Read a Fresco

The Place of Narrative: Mural Decoration in Italian Churches, 431–1600

by Marilyn Aronberg Lavin


Decadence Revisited

Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age

by Peter Green

The Hellenistic Aesthetic

by Barbara Hughes Fowler

Hellenistic Poetry: An Anthology

selected and translated by Barbara Hughes Fowler

Hellenism in Late Antiquity

by G.W. Bowersock

Greek Sculpture

by Andrew Stewart


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