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The Critic Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: Late-Georgian Churches: Anglican Architecture, Patronage and Churchgoing in England 1790-1840, Christopher Webster

Late-Georgian Churches: Anglican Architecture, Patronage and Churchgoing in England 1790-1840

Christopher Webster
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The Church of England offered a necessary bulwark against the tempests of change. James Stevens Curl revels in the Gothic churches on display in Christopher Webster’s Late-Georgian Churches https://t.co/QLtXjpqajR

Hardcover, 2022

$115.00$90.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto, Zachary Zane

Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto

Zachary Zane
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“Sex positivity” drains the erotic of existential meaning. @JarrydBartle unpacks the philosophy behind Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto https://t.co/Xq1AMfZQkN

Hardcover, 2023

$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars, Frances Spalding

The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars

Frances Spalding
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Hugh St Clair surveys British art between the wars in Frances Spalding’s The Real and the Romantic https://t.co/g4UVLskNBX

Hardcover, 2023

$50.00$25.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Yoga, Emmanuel Carrère

Yoga

Emmanuel Carrère
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Henri Astier on how Emmanuel Carrère admits that he has made up details in his memoir Yoga: “The breach of the reader’s trust is venial: a fault confessed is half redressed, as the French say” https://t.co/7IBKnPGQaW

Paperback, 2023

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Jack Absolute Flies Again, Richard Bean

Jack Absolute Flies Again

Richard Bean
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"Bean relishes teasing progressive opinion" — @annemcelvoy on Richard Bean's new production: Jack Absolute Flies Again https://t.co/WiM33bVDMT

Paperback, 2022

$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver

Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver
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Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver calls to mind Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield in both title and theme. @john_self finds much to like in this angry book. https://t.co/fNY1wgfIK9

Paperback, 2024

$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Isaiah Berlin: An Interpretation of His Thought, John Gray

Isaiah Berlin: An Interpretation of His Thought

John Gray
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.@DavidMarkHerman offers a homage to the maverick writing of John Gray: “It was at Oxford that he encountered Isaiah Berlin whose darker, more agonistic kind of liberalism influenced him enormously” https://t.co/q33FpSJKBi

Paperback, 2013

$28.95$14.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Gustav Mahler, Bruno Walter

Gustav Mahler

Bruno Walter
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“Ernst Krenek was married at the time to Gustav Mahler’s daughter and seeking a voice of his own” — @NLebrecht enjoys three a cappella pieces for mixed choir that locate Krenek among the tone-breakers https://t.co/TOZ5btnchp

Paperback, 2014

$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque

All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque
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.@DanBJohnson reveals what happened next to the man who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front: In 1943, the Nazis took revenge on Remarque. His sister was denounced, tried and executed for the “crime” of undermining morale https://t.co/FJBNTAFI71

Paperback, Mass Market, 1987

$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: France: A Short History, Jeremy Black

France: A Short History

Jeremy Black
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.@Critic_GStewart and Jeremy Black ask how the railways developed in France and Germany https://t.co/z55iFANS48

Hardcover, 2021

$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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