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  • Agatha Christie Under the Magnifying Glass
    Margaret Boe Birns / Nicholas Birns
    Fifty years after her death, Agatha Christie remains one of the most popular writers worldwide, as adaptations and new modes of appreciation have made her work a permanent part of literature and culture. This is the first book to closely read a representative range of Agatha Christie’s detective novels. Treating Christie’s murder mysteries as serious examples of literary art...
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    57,45 €

  • The Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien
    Nicholas Birns
    This volume analyzes the literary role played by history in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. It argues that the events of The Lord of the Rings are placed against the background of an already-existing history, both in reality and in the fictional worlds of the books. ...
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    82,82 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel
    Louis Klee / Nicholas Birns
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    37,87 €

  • Anthony Trollope
    John F Wirenius / John F. Wirenius / Nicholas Birns
    Anthony Trollope’s novels and stories entertain while vividly bringing the Victorian era to life. His deep empathy for the underdog led him to subvert conventions, exploring the lives of women, as well as men, and choosing as heroes and heroines outsiders who would be viewed with suspicion by his readers. Trollope’s profound insight to human nature made him the first novelis...
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    73,20 €

  • Contemporary Australian Literature
    Nicholas Birns
    Australia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire. Twentieth-century writers left Australia to see the world; now Australia’s distance no longer provides sanctuary. But today the global perspective has arrived with a vengeance.In Contempor...
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    31,67 €