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The Vikings In Ireland
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The Vikings In IrelandThe publication of this book has presented an opportunity to study the exchange of ideas that took place in Viking Age Ireland in greater depth. Particular emphasis has been laid on the influences and resultant changes brought about by the meeting of the two cultures.
 
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How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard, Bloomsbury
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How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard, BloomsburyI never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so. —OSCAR WILDE
With so many important books out there, and thousands more being published each year, what are we supposed to do in those inevitable social situations where we’re forced to talk about books we haven’t read? Pierre Bayard argues that it doesn’t really matter if you’ve read a book or not. (In fact, in certain situations, reading the book is the worst thing you could do.)
 
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Reader’s Guide to Literature in English
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Reader’s Guide to Literature in EnglishReader’s Guides are not encyclopedias or dictionaries; they are guides to reading in particular subject. Their aim is to evaluate the secondary material in a broad area of study by means of comparative essays on hundreds of specific topics. Reader’s Guide Literature in EnglishN provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene.
 
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The Labyrinth (Bloom's Literary Themes)
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The Labyrinth (Bloom's Literary Themes)Discusses the role of the labyrinth in "The Garden of Forking Paths", "Great Expectations", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Paradise Lost", and other works of literature. This title unravels this theme for literature students through 20 essays and critical analyses.
 
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You die; I die - Love Poems, by Nikhil Parekh
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You die; I die - Love Poems, by Nikhil ParekhPoems symbolizing the immortality of love and at times its fickleness. Parekh takes the reader through a paradise naturally embellished with the ingredients of eternal romance and its sporadic failures. As they say life and death are two sides of the coin, similarly with every true anecdote of love there also comes fretful divorce--a thing which has been most sensitively described throughout this great collection of poems for the heart...

 
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