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Batman is one of the most compelling and enduring characters to come from the Golden Age of Comics, and interest in his story has only increased through countless incarnations since his first appea

"A big biography of John Campbell, the genius magazine editor who created a mass market for science fiction, couldn't be timelier.

Augustine of Hippo's masterpiece The City of God is one of the greatest books ever written, yet its size - nearly 1,000 pages - too often intimidates even serious readers.

Compiled centuries before the birth of Jesus, the Analects of Confucius is anything but dry ancient philosophy. Many of its passages hold the same power as any great Socratic dialogue.

The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with a viciously funny collection of literary essays on love, family, and friendship among grown-ass women.

Cet enregistrement, issu de l'adaptation de l'émission de France Inter "Ça peut pas faire de mal", est consacré à la poésie.

For years, Capote attempted to write what he believed would have been his magnum opus, Answered PrayersEsquire, the thinly fictionalized lives (and scandals) of his closest female confidantes were

The Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of All the President's Men - the chronicle of the investigative report about the Watergate break-in and resultant political scandal which led to President

Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperamental autobiography," comprised of visceral, intimate fragments that fuse criticism and mem

Presents a concise account of Dostoevsky's life and ideas and of his influence on the world.

Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is a classic of science fiction.

Collected here are the stories, poems, and religious writings that preceded and helped form the science fiction and fantasy genres.

Stephen Fry hosts four programmes on the joys of the English language - as heard on BBC Radio 4. Current Puns Why does our language groan with the weight of puns? What exactly is a pun?

A second BBC Radio 4 series of Stephen Fry's witty and incisive programmes looking at the oddities of the English language.

Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in these four programmes, as heard on BBC Radio 4.