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  • 29 Sep 2016

    An interview with Dan Gunn on The Letters of Samuel Beckett (Part 1)

    In the first part of our interview with Dan Gunn, editor of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, we discuss his experiences working on the series, his favourite letters and what we now know about Beckett that we didn't know before.

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  • 21 Sep 2016
    Andrew Smith

    Some thoughts on assembling a creature: editing The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein.

    Assembling The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein raised some interesting questions at the developmental stage about the type of coverage that students would find helpful. Frankenstein is a novel that is taught in a variety of contexts and courses, including modules on Romanticism, the Gothic, science fiction and gender studies, amongst many others.  It is also […]

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  • 25 Aug 2016
    Daniel Blue

    Fascinating Nietzsche

    When I began my biography of Nietzsche’s youth, The Making of Friedrich Nietzsche, I expected eventually to dislike my subject. Biographers frequently start by admiring their protagonists, then become hostile. Why should I be different? My experience, however, was the opposite. I found a great deal repellent in Nietzsche at the beginning, then decided that […]

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  • 23 Aug 2016
    Daniel Blue

    Nietzsche’s early years in pictures

    1861 This photograph, taken for Confirmation, was probably the first portrait of himself that Nietzsche had ever seen. Fundamentally pleased with it, he nonetheless acknowledged its homelier aspects: “My stance is hunched, my feet somewhat crooked, and my hand looks like a dumpling.”   1862 In this image Nietzsche seems quite a different person from […]

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  • 27 Apr 2016

    Celebrating Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon

    Last weekend Shakespeare was certainly the most famous person on the planet, even more so than the Queen, Prince and President Obama.   If you got as far as 23rd April without realising it was the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, you deserve to be woken as I was in Stratford-upon-Avon at 6am that morning […]

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  • 12 Jan 2016
    Salle de lecture Bibliothèque Mazarine depuis galerie. Photo: Remi Mathis/Marie-Lan Nguyen via Creative Commons
    John D. Lyons

    How do you put 1,000 years of French Literature into one book?

    John D. Lyons, editor of The Cambridge Companion to French Literature (2016) explains how best to handle the 1,000 year rich history of French Literature.

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  • 6 Jan 2016
    Choanoflagellates

    Author Interview: Barry Leadbeater

    Barry S C Leadbeater, author of The Choanoflagellates: Evolution, Biology and Ecology (2015) tells about his early career and why he chose to write his latest book.

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  • 5 Jan 2016
    Top 10 fifteeneightyfour blog posts of 2015
    Andrew Martin

    Top 10 most read fifteeneightyfour blog posts of 2015

    As 2016 roars in, we take a look back at the most read blog posts of 2015.

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  • 20 Mar 2015

    Goodbyeee!

    From: Cambridge Library Collection Blog
    Alas, and thrice woe (from my point of view anyway), this is my last ever blog for the Cambridge Library Collection. I now slip away into the sunset, ...
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  • 16 Mar 2015

    Spring and Port Wine

    From: Cambridge Library Collection Blog
     … is the name of a play and then a film about Bolton, in northern England. However, I’m borrowing the title because I’ve just spent a few spri...
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