The Power of Language: Multilingualism, Self and Society by Viorica Marian
$45.00 AUD
Category: Books, Writing and Language
An acclaimed psycholinguist reveals how language shapes our brain - and moulds the way we look at the worldWhy should we learn more than one language?Can it change the way we think?Does it have the power to transform how we see the world? You may think you speak only one language. In fact, your mind is ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet: The Norton Centenary Edition by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Category: Books, Writing and Language
These letters from the poet and mystic Rainer Maria Rilke to a nineteen-year-old cadet and aspiring poet have inspired millions of readers since they were first published in English in 1934. The first, and most popular, translator of this work was Mary Dows Herter Norton-a polymath extraordinaire with e ...Show more
Gentle Writing Advice: How to Be a Writer Without Destroying Yourself by Chuck Wendig
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Category: Books, Writing and Language
Finally--a book of writing advice that accounts for all of the messy, perverse, practical, and inexplicable parts of being a human who writes The truth is that all of the writing rules you've learned are bullshit. Sure, they work for some people, but the likelihood that they'll work for you--unique ...Show more
On Peter Carey: Writers on Writers by Sarah Krasnostein
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Category: Books, Writing and Language
Award-winning writer Sarah Krasnostein shines new light on the impossibly vulnerable Ned Kelly of Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang. Carey, who moved from Australia to America, conjured Kelly after seeing Sidney Nolan's paintings of the bushranger at the Met. In this moving essay Krasnostein, ...Show more
Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare's First Tragic Heroine by Sophie Duncan
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Category: Books, Writing and Language
A cultural, historical and literary exploration of the birth, death and legacy of the ultimate romantic heroine - Shakespeare's Juliet Capulet'An astonishing tour-de-force... Juliet has found the biographer she deserves' Marion TurnerJuliet Capulet is the heartbeat of the world's most famous love story. ...Show more
The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway by Merve Emre, Virginia Woolf
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Category: Books, Writing and Language
"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." So begins Virginia Woolf's much-beloved fourth novel. First published in 1925, Mrs. Dalloway has long been considered Woolf's masterpiece. A pivotal work of literary modernism, its simple plot--centered on an upper-class Londoner preparing to give ...Show more
How to Tell a Story by The Moth, Meg Bowles, Catherine Burns, Jenifer Hixson, Sarah Austin Jenness, Kate Tellers
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Category: Books, Writing and Language
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The definitive guide to telling an unforgettable story in any setting, drawing on twenty-five years of experience from the storytelling experts at The MothYou are a multitude of stories. Every joy and heartbreak, every disappointment and dizzying high, has the makings of an u ...Show more
On Tim Winton: Writers on Writers by Geraldine Brooks
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Category: Books, Writing and Language
A gift of an essay that illuminates the literary talents of two of Australia's greatest writersIn this beautifully written personal essay, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks offers readers brilliant insights into the work of one of Australia's greatest living writers, Tim Winton. In the Wr ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Books by David Damrosch
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Category: Books, Writing and Language | Series: Pelican Books
A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them.Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's department of Comparative Literature and founder of ...Show more
Rooms of Their Own: Where Great Writers Write by Alex Johnson & James Oses
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Category: Books, Writing and Language
Rooms of Their Own travels around the world, examining the unique spaces in which famous writers created their most notable work. The perennial question asked of all authors is How do you write? What do they require of their room or desk? Do they have favourite pens, paper or typewriters? And have they ...Show more
On Helen Garner: Writers on Writers by Sean O'Beirne
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Category: Books, Writing and Language
In a brilliantly argued and very personal essay, Sean O'Beirne looks at the whole of Helen Garner's writing life so far - from Monkey Grip to the recently published Diaries - while trying to come to terms with the demands, and the rewards, of Garner's extraordinary, radical individualism and honesty. In ...Show more
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life) by George Saunders
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Category: Books, Writing and Language
From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a cl ...Show more