Jacques Barzun

61 books

Burke and Hare, The Resurrection Men: A Collection of Contemporary Documents, Including Broadsides, Occasional Verses, Illustrations, Polemics and a complete Transcript of the Testimony at the Trial by Jacques Barzun

Burke and Hare, The Resurrection Men: A Collection of Contemporary Documents, Including Broadsides, Occasional Verses, Illustrations, Polemics and a complete Transcript of the Testimony at the Trial

Jacques Barzun

368 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

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A Catalogue of Crime by Jacques Barzun, Wendell Hertig Taylor
A Catalogue of Crime
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Jacques Barzun, Wendell Hertig Taylor

A Catalogue of Crime

Jacques Barzun, Wendell Hertig Taylor

831 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)

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A Catalogue of Crime: Being a Reader's Guide to the Literature of Mystery, Detection, and Related Genres by Jacques Barzun, Wendell Hertig Taylor
A Catalogue of Crime: Being a Reader's Guide to the Literature of Mystery, Detection, and Related Genres
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Jacques Barzun, Wendell Hertig Taylor

A Catalogue of Crime: Being a Reader's Guide to the Literature of Mystery, Detection, and Related Genres

Jacques Barzun, Wendell Hertig Taylor

952 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)

nonfiction mystery reference informative mysterious medium-paced
Chandler Before Marlowe: Early Prose and Poetry, 1908-1912 by Raymond Chandler
Chandler Before Marlowe: Early Prose and Poetry, 1908-1912
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Raymond Chandler

Chandler Before Marlowe: Early Prose and Poetry, 1908-1912

Raymond Chandler

110 pages • missing pub info (editions)

Classic Short Stories of Crime and Detection by Jacques Barzun, Wendell Hertig Taylor
Classic Short Stories of Crime and Detection
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Jacques Barzun, Wendell Hertig Taylor

Classic Short Stories of Crime and Detection

Jacques Barzun, Wendell Hertig Taylor

304 pages • first pub 1976 (editions)

informative slow-paced
Clio and the Doctors: History, Psycho-History and Quanto-History (Midway Reprints) by Jacques Barzun

Clio and the Doctors: History, Psycho-History and Quanto-History (Midway Reprints)

Jacques Barzun

181 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

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Clio and the Doctors: Psycho-History, Quanto-History & History by Jacques Barzun
Clio and the Doctors: Psycho-History, Quanto-History & History
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Jacques Barzun

Clio and the Doctors: Psycho-History, Quanto-History & History

Jacques Barzun

173 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

A Company of Readers by Arthur Krystal
A Company of Readers
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Arthur Krystal

A Company of Readers

Arthur Krystal

missing page info • first pub 2001 (editions)

A Company of Readers: Uncollected Writings of W.H. Auden, Jacques Barzun, and Lionel Trilling from the Reader's Subscription and Mid-Century Book Clubs by W.H. Auden, Lionel Trilling, Jacques Barzun, Arthur Krystal
A Company of Readers: Uncollected Writings of W.H. Auden, Jacques Barzun, and Lionel Trilling from the Reader's Subscription and Mid-Century Book Clubs
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W.H. Auden, Lionel Trilling, Jacques Barzun, Arthur Krystal

A Company of Readers: Uncollected Writings of W.H. Auden, Jacques Barzun, and Lionel Trilling from the Reader's Subscription and Mid-Century Book Clubs

W.H. Auden, Lionel Trilling, Jacques Barzun, Arthur Krystal

289 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction essays adventurous reflective medium-paced
Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980 by Jacques Barzun, Bea Friedland

Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980

Jacques Barzun, Bea Friedland

288 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

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