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  • He used his advantage to produce a definitive (if marred by a too-easy Freudianism) five-volume biography of James (1953-72)—which brought him a Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the Henry James Professorship at New York University—and to edit a four-volume edition of James's letters.

    The Afterlife of the Lion Joseph Epstein 2012

  • His most recent novel is The Age Of Ra (Solaris), and he has a further three novels in the pipeline (BetterLife, The Age Of Zeus and The Age Of Odin), a second short-story collection (Diversifications), and a five-volume series for young reluctant readers (The 5 Lords Of Pain).

    MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves 2009

  • Not only that, I needed some time to compose myself after being made nearly physically ill yet again by new revelations of the obscene behaviour of the Church, this time detailed in a five-volume report on its depredations in Ireland.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • In a brief interview with IGN. com, Morrison describes the title "as the next book in what will be a five-volume series beginning [with] 'Batman & Son'," the 2006 Batman story arc that introduced Damian Wayne as the son of Bruce Wayne and Talia al Ghul.

    Batman & Robin is ‘like David Lynch doing the Batman TV show’ | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • Paradise Kiss is a five-volume treasure about young fashion designers and their gawky, ambivalent muse.

    License request day: More Ai Yazawa 2009

  • 'Jihad is the Way' is the last of a five-volume work, 'The Laws of Da'wa,' by Mustafa Mashhur, who headed the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt from 1996-2002.

    Morning Bits Jennifer Rubin 2011

  •  He was secretary of the US legation in London (1829–32), and later returned to Spain as the US ambassador (1842–6), but he spent most of the rest of his life at his estate, ‘Sunnyside’, near Tarrytown, NY, turning out a succession of mainly historical and biographical works, including a five-volume life of George Washington.

    Five People Born on April 3 | myFiveBest 2010

  • Paradise Kiss is a five-volume treasure about young fashion designers and their gawky, ambivalent muse.

    14 « August « 2009 « The Manga Curmudgeon 2009

  • The Desert Spear is the second volume of the five-volume Demon Cycle, following up 2008's The Painted Man (aka The Warded Man in the USA), one of the stronger fantasy debuts of recent years (although the amusing fact the novel was almost entirely written on a Blackberry on the author's morning commute seemed to attract more attention).

    The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett Adam Whitehead 2010

  • Lamentation is the first novel in The Psalms of Issak series, a five-volume sequence.

    Lamentation by Ken Scholes Adam Whitehead 2010

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