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Product Description: Making connections between the Suez Canal War in 1949 and the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this novel about a British couple's disastrous marriage is told by their daughter, who has discovered her mother's diary written at the end of World War II...read more
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9781906998370 | Parthian Books, October 1, 2011, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Making connections between the Suez Canal War in 1949 and the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this novel about a British couple's disastrous marriage is told by their daughter, who has discovered her mother's diary written at the end of World War II.

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By Stevie Davies (editor)
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9781417817801 | Turtleback Books, August 15, 2006, cover price $18.45

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Product Description: Nobody at The Eyrie is quite like Red Dora—in her eighties, she's a Scots ex-Communist, ex-Trotskyite who fought in the Spanish Civil War. With her fiery brand of radical anticapitalism, she conjures plans of political sabotage and computer hacking...read more
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9780297851417 | Orion Pub Co, February 1, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An ex-Communist, a Welsh radical, and a mother on the run from domesticity - the new book from prize-winning novelist Stevie Davis will appeal to fans of Hilary Mantel and Ali Smith

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9780753823545 | Reprint edition (Phoenix, May 28, 2008), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Nobody at The Eyrie is quite like Red Dora—in her eighties, she's a Scots ex-Communist, ex-Trotskyite who fought in the Spanish Civil War.

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Product Description: Mara and Frankie are cousins and best friends, growing up in the stifling atmosphere of Swansea in the 1950s, amid a bickering yet close-knit extended family. But their passionate friendship comes under threat as they reach adolescence in the heady atmosphere of the Sixties—a decade in which the conventions of family and kinship are overturned...read more
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9780297847540 | Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, October 31, 2004, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Mara and Frankie are cousins and best friends, growing up in the stifling atmosphere of Swansea in the 1950s, amid a bickering yet close-knit extended family.

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9780753820186 | Phoenix, October 30, 2004, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: Mara and Frankie are cousins and best friends, growing up in the stifling atmosphere of Swansea in the 1950s, amid a bickering yet close-knit extended family.

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Product Description: Although the Brontës have long fascinated readers of fiction and biography, their poetry was all too little known until this pioneering selection by Stevie Davies, the novelist and critic. Charlotte (1816-1855) is certainly a competent poet, and Anne (1820-1849) developed a distinctive voice, while Emily (1818-1848) is one of the great women poets in English...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Stevie Davies (editor)
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9780415940900 | Routledge, April 1, 2002, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Although the Brontës have long fascinated readers of fiction and biography, their poetry was all too little known until this pioneering selection by Stevie Davies, the novelist and critic.

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9780704346598 | Womens Pr Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $13.99

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Product Description: In the tradition of many books reclaiming women's writing, the author turns her attention to the seldom-covered period of the seventeenth century and uncovers a magnificent and vibrant array of women insisting on their right to the written word.
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9780704344891 | Womens Pr Ltd, September 1, 1999, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: In the tradition of many books reclaiming women's writing, the author turns her attention to the seldom-covered period of the seventeenth century and uncovers a magnificent and vibrant array of women insisting on their right to the written word.

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Product Description: Subjecting biographical evidence to close examination, Stevie Davies' book questions the legibility of Emily Bronte's life-records, explores the symphonic qualities of Wuthering Heights and establishes Emily Bronte's intellectual stature by study of her works, journals, sheet-music and Brussels essays...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780253301055 | Indiana Univ Pr, November 1, 1988, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Subjecting biographical evidence to close examination, Stevie Davies' book questions the legibility of Emily Bronte's life-records, explores the symphonic qualities of Wuthering Heights and establishes Emily Bronte's intellectual stature by study of her works, journals, sheet-music and Brussels essays.

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9780746308349 | Northcote House Pub Ltd, January 1, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Subjecting biographical evidence to close examination, Stevie Davies' book questions the legibility of Emily Bronte's life-records, explores the symphonic qualities of Wuthering Heights and establishes Emily Bronte's intellectual stature by study of her works, journals, sheet-music and Brussels essays.

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An over-sixty, self-professed expert on the Brontes; an overworked wife, mother, and university lecturer; a widower sustained by nocturnal visits from Emily Bronte's ghost; and a waitress descend upon a conference about Emily Bronte and find themselves in a host of predicaments. 35,000 first printing.
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9780312168445 | St Martins Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: An over-sixty, self-professed expert on the Brontes; an overworked wife, mother, and university lecturer; a widower sustained by nocturnal visits from Emily Bronte's ghost; and a waitress descend upon a conference about Emily Bronte and find themselves in a host of predicaments

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Product Description: A powerfully written and accessible introduction to the full range of Donne's poetry which challenges the assumptions of traditional readings of his work. Raising a feminist challenge to the virility of his writing, Davies exposes the poet's misogyny and the emotional conflict and vulnerability which it reveals...read more
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9780746307380 | Northcote House Pub Ltd, September 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A powerfully written and accessible introduction to the full range of Donne's poetry which challenges the assumptions of traditional readings of his work.

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Product Description: There is no portrait of Metaphysical poet Henry Vaughan (1621-95), and little documentation of his life. However, at the tercentary of his death his writing remains influential and the writer continues to fascinate. Stevie Davies has produced a persuasive picture of a man beset by anxieties and challenges...read more
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9781854111425 | Seren Books/Poetry Wales Pr Ltd, April 1, 1996, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: There is no portrait of Metaphysical poet Henry Vaughan (1621-95), and little documentation of his life.

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9781854111432 | Seren Books/Poetry Wales Pr Ltd, April 1, 1996, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: There is no portrait of Metaphysical poet Henry Vaughan (1621-95), and little documentation of his life.

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Product Description: This is an analysis of William Shakespeare's play, "The Taming of the Shrew". It assesses the text of the folio in the light of recent theories, reassessing the play as problematic in terms of the dramatic interpretation of the language...read more
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9780140772715 | Penguin USA, November 1, 1995, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: This is an analysis of William Shakespeare's play, "The Taming of the Shrew".

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Product Description: A look at the life and times of one of Britain's most intriguing and exceptional women writers.
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9780704344013 | Womens Pr Ltd, September 1, 1994, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A look at the life and times of one of Britain's most intriguing and exceptional women writers.

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Product Description: From the award-winning author of Arms and the Girl, this novel concerns two female companions who face sudden change, calling into question both the future and history of their lives and love together.
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9780704343887 | Womens Pr Ltd, April 1, 1994, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: From the award-winning author of Arms and the Girl, this novel concerns two female companions who face sudden change, calling into question both the future and history of their lives and love together.

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Product Description: This is a reader and companion to Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night". An introduction to the dramatic action of the play's meaning is followed by chapters exploring the folly tradition, language and the liberating comedy of sexual ambiquity.
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9780140771336 | Penguin USA, August 1, 1993, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: This is a reader and companion to Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night".

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Hardcover:

9780312067694 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 1, 1991, cover price $39.95

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9780813115894 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, January 10, 1986, cover price $40.00

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Offers a brief profile of Bronte, examines the themes and style of her poetry, and provides a new interpretation of Wuthering Heights
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9780856354595 | Carcanet Pr, April 1, 1984, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Offers a brief profile of Bronte, examines the themes and style of her poetry, and provides a new interpretation of Wuthering Heights

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Hardcover:

9780826203922 | Univ of Missouri Pr, August 1, 1983, cover price $32.00

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Paperback:

9780719007262 | Manchester Univ Pr, June 1, 1978, cover price $16.95

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