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A Thousand Yards of Sea
The book titled A Thousand Yards of Sea by the author Laura Cecil. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Lyrical Ballads: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This is a comprehensively revised second edition of a classic student text with the 1798 and 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads reprinted together. It contains the complete text of one...
The Written Poem: Semiotic Conventions from Old to Modern English
This text discusses the visual and graphic conventions in contemporary poetry in English. It defines contemporary poetry and its historical construction as a "seen object" and uses literary and social...
No Gifts from Chance: Biography of Edith Wharton
Offers a new approach to the life and work of Edith Wharton (1862-1937). Drawing on the recent discovery of many of her letters, the book examines the intricate network of...
Crazy Alphabet
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The book titled Crazy Alphabet by the author Lynn/Mcrae Cox. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
King Lear
The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. As well as the complete and unabridged text, each play in this series has...
Loose Canons
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on the politics of multiculturalism. These essays touch upon the political, social and cultural dimensions of the "canon issue", and illustrate how its ramifications extend far...
The Oxford Nursery Book
A classic anthology for the nursery, which draws upon the rich tradition of nursery rhymes, riddles, songs and lullabies. Poems by William Blake, Christina Rossetti and Robert Louis Stevenson complete...
All Change
The book titled All Change by the author Libby Houston. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
This Little Puffin...
No parent, teacher or nursery group should be without this classic treasury. There are songs, rhymes and games for every occasion, all chosen for their proven popularity with young children....
Language of the Heart
The book titled Language of the Heart by the author Anthony James. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Wings of Angels: A Memoir of Madness
Not since Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton has anyone written so candidly about madness. Sandy Jeffs' poetry has a stark dignity, capable of conveying "shudders of intense fear". Yet in...
Introducing Shakespeare: A Graphic Guide
Shakespeare's pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with blockbuster scripts; his works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism every year. He has given us many...
Lobster Quadrille
The book titled Lobster Quadrille by the author Lewis Carroll. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Henry Handel Richardson Vol 2: 1917-1933
Volume 2 of a three volume set containing Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence in its entirety. The publication of Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence will be a major event in Australian scholarly...
Wordsworth Now and Then: Romanticism and Contemporary Culture
Conventional criticism discusses Wordsworth's poetry in terms of what his writing might have meant then, around 1800. Antony Easthope writes about how we can read that poetry now, nearly 200...
Critical Terms for Literary Study
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The book titled Critical Terms for Literary Study by the author Frank Lentricchia. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Children's Literature
Of all types of literature, children's literature is perhaps the best loved, most varied, and most subtly influential. Its history is not merely a footnote to social history, but a...
Writing Our Lives: Reflections on Dialogue Journal Writing with Adults
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The book titled Writing Our Lives: Reflections on Dialogue Journal Writing with Adults by the author Joy Kreeft Peyton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Reading and Writing
I was eleven, no more, when the wish came to me to be a writer; and then very soon it was a settled ambition. But for the young V. S....
Dancing on Hot Macadam: Peter Carey's Fiction
The book titled Dancing on Hot Macadam: Peter Carey's Fiction by the author A.J. Hassall. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Linguistic Moment: From Wordsworth to Stevens
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This series of readings, explores the functioning of moments in poems when the medium--language--becomes an issue. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to...
Enough is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell
A brief and humorous 500-year history of the Simplified Spelling Movement from advocates like Ben Franklin, C. S. Lewis, and Mark Twain to texts and Twitter. Why does the G...
101 Ways to Win at SCRABBLE (TM): Top tips for SCRABBLE (TM) success
"Top Scrabble tips revealed so you never have to lose again", The Telegraph. Inside this little book one of Britain's top Scrabble players reveals his best tips for all day,...
Shaw Neilson: Selected Poems
This collection of poems is from one of Australia's best-loved lyric poets, John Shaw Neilson, selected and introduced by the poet Robert Gray.
Italian Dictionary Complete and Unabridged: For advanced learners and
The home of trusted Italian dictionaries for everyday language learning. Comprehensive and authoritative, this dictionary is the ideal Italian to English and English to Italian bilingual dictionary for advanced students...
English Gem Dictionary and Thesaurus: The world's favourite mini
The ultimate mini English dictionary and thesaurus to support you at work, at school and at home. This is an indispensable guide to the English language. Part of the Collins...
Collins German (Collins Dictionary and Grammar)
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The Collins German Dictionary & Grammar is an up-to-date dictionary and a user-friendly grammar guide in one handy volume. Colour headwords, cultural notes, a section on translation problems and now...
The New Geography of Innovation: The global contest for breakthrough
The US is the source of just about all the technologies that define modern life: personal computers, operating systems, smartphones, e-commerce, web browsers, email, search engines, social networks, electric cars...
Secret Agent Jack Stalwart: Book 7: the Puzzle of the Missing Panda:
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Deep inside China's famous Wolong Nature Reserve, an endangered Giant Panda named Ling has disappeared, and for his seventh mission, Jack is paired with a surly, sixteen-year-old park assistant named...
The Oxford Shakespeare
Coriolanus is perhaps the most brilliant political play ever written. Set in Ancient Rome, it remains a gripping psychological study of the relationship between personality and politics. The introduction to...
French School Dictionary: Trusted support for learning (Collins School
The must-have Back to School French dictionary for Year 7. This pocket-sized Collins French School Dictionary is the perfect French dictionary for secondary school students looking for a dictionary that...
BRITSLANG
Slang is an integral part of the English language and has been so for the best part of 200 years. The most popular belief is that it began as a...
VIRGINIA WOOLF MARRIAGE HEAVEN HELL
In this haunting book, eminent psychiatrist Peter Dally explores the darker side of Virginia Woolf. Brin ging together his knowledge as a doctor and his fascination, he sheds light on...
The Da Vinci Quiz Book: 501 Questions to Crack the Code
The phenomenal worldwide success of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code has led to enormous interest in the many mysteries - some genuine, some fictional or altered through 'author's licence'...
Getting Away with Murder: My Unexpected Life on Page, Stage and Screen
' Screamingly funny and deliciously candid, full of wisdom and joie de vivre, this is memoir with the grip of a thriller ' ERIN KELLY Lynda La Plante has lived...
Charles Dickens in Love
When Charles Dickens died in 1870 he was the best-known man in the English-speaking world-the pre-eminent Victorian celebrity. Yet when the first person named in his will turned out to...
Rest in the Mourning
The calm before and after the storm. Rest in the Mourning is a steady and profound stream of conscious thoughts and emotion. Documenting unhealthy relationships and why the heart ends...
Bloomsbury Dictionary of Idioms
From credit crunch to golden parachute , barking up the wrong tree to storm in a tea cup in this book, Gordon Jarvie explains all you need to know about...
Fathers and Sons
The Waugh family has been writing books since the nineteenth century. Evelyn's father, brother and son were all writers and now his grandson has taken up the baton. Based on...
Arthur Miller
The first full biography of America's greatest living playwright Arthur Miller's life spans more than four decades and includes three marriages - famously to America's enduring icon, Marilyn Monroe -...
Rolf Boldrewood
Rolf Boldrewood was one of the best-known novelists of 19th-century Australia, and the first to present specifically Australian characters. "Robbery Under Arms" became a household name and is still in...