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'I read a book one day and my whole life was changed' ... So confesses the narrator of Orhan Pamuk's novel The New Life . But what can we learn...
Feel Free: Essays
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Winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Notable Book From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a...
Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship
An insightful exploration that unveils the lesser-known dimensions of this legendary writer and her legacy, revealing the cultural icon's profound impact as a visionary editor who helped define an important...
Wit And The Writing Of History: The Rhetoric Of Historiography In Imperial Rome
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of laughter and legacy, Wit and the Writing of History: The Rhetoric of Historiography...
Short Stories
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodFew writers possessed the cool, unsentimental eye for human frailty that W. Somerset Maugham brought to the short story form, and this Folio Society collection...
The Citizen Of The World: Or Letters From A Chinese Philosopher Residing In London To His Friends In The East
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodWhat if the sharpest critic of Georgian England were not a native son, but a fictional Chinese philosopher writing home with bemused, devastating wit? First...
The Canterbury Tales
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodFew works in the English literary canon can claim the enduring power and vivid humanity of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales — a magnificent collection...
Plato's Dialogue On Friendship: An Interpretation Of The Lysis, With A New Translation
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it truly mean to love another person — and can philosophy answer what the heart...
No Idle Words
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingLanguage is alive — it breathes, shifts, and surprises — and few writers have championed...
Having The Last Word
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingLanguage is alive — restless, evolving, and endlessly surprising — and Ivor Brown, one of...
The Meaning Of Art
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat is art, and why does it matter? Herbert Read's The Meaning of Art stands as...
The Alchemist
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFirst performed in 1610, Ben Jonson's The Alchemist stands as one of the most brilliantly constructed comedies in...
A Boy's Own Story
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark of American literature, A Boy's Own Story is a luminous and achingly honest coming-of-age narrative set...
D. H. Lawrence / Novelist
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt a time when D. H. Lawrence's reputation remained fiercely contested, F. R. Leavis mounted one...
The Complete Poetry & Selected Prose Of John Milton
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew voices in the English literary canon resonate with the grandeur and moral gravity of John...
Richard Ii
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA king undone by his own pride — Shakespeare's Richard II stands as one of the...
Girls In Their Married Bliss
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe final, devastating installment of Edna O'Brien's celebrated Country Girls trilogy, Girls in their Married Bliss chronicles the...
The Vintage Mencken
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew voices in American letters have ever cut as sharply, or laughed as loudly, as that of H.L....
The Love Object
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the quiet devastation of ordinary lives, Edna O'Brien's The Love Object presents a masterful collection of short...
Keats
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew lives in English literary history burn as brightly—or as briefly—as that of John Keats, and Sidney Colvin's...
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA masterwork of post-war British fiction, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes thrusts the reader into the morally tangled life...
Euripides: Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, The Bacchae
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the sunlit theatres of ancient Athens comes the electrifying dramatic genius of Euripides, the most...
Mansfield Park
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of Jane Austen's most morally complex novel stands Fanny Price — a timid, impoverished girl...
Christopher & His Kind
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of the twentieth century's most candid and revelatory memoirs, Christopher Isherwood chronicles his own life with...
Sense And Sensibility
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the rolling countryside of Regency England, two sisters stand at the crossroads of love, loss,...
Sandel
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the quiet, sun-dappled world of an Oxford summer, Sandel tells the story of Anthony, a jazz musician...
The Collected Poems Of A. E. Housman
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew poets have captured the bittersweet ache of youth, mortality, and the English...
Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: Or, System Of Universal Knowledge; On A Methodical Plan Projected By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Second Edition, Revised. First Division. Pure Sciences. Moral And Metaphysical Philosophy
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Edition: 2nd ed., rev. Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: front board nearly detach; binding fragile; At...
Poems
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: DJ: yellowed; unclipped with some stains. Binding: boards remain clean, binding tight. Pages: light...
The Philosophical Works Of John Locke
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Some moisture damageCondition remarks: worn and discoloured boards; frayed and rubbed edges; binding fragile; some moisture damage on the prelims; no loose pages; Few thinkers have...
The Ginger Man
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the rain-soaked, grey backdrop of 1950s Dublin, The Ginger Man unleashes Sebastian Dangerfield — a wild,...
Modern Short Stories
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the classrooms of Melbourne's Church of England Grammar School to the wider world of literary appreciation, Modern...
Fern-Seed And Elephants: And Other Essays On Christianity
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Minor markings to back of cover, tanned edges.What happens when one of the twentieth century's greatest literary minds turns his...
New Testament Introduction
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFor scholars, students, and serious readers of Scripture alike, Donald Guthrie's New Testament Introduction stands as one of the most authoritative and comprehensive reference works...
François Mauriac: A Study Of The Writer And The Man
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of faith, politics, and literary genius stands François Mauriac — Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Catholic moralist, and one of the most towering...
The World And Other Places
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFrom one of Britain's most daring and lyrical voices comes The World and Other Places, a spellbinding collection of short stories that traverse the boundaries between...
The Two Fires
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the shadow of the atomic age and the ever-present threat of annihilation, Judith Wright's The Two Fires burns with a fierce...
Becoming A Heroine: Reading About Women In Novels
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat does it mean to dream of becoming a heroine — not just in life, but through the pages of a novel? Rachel M....
Christopher And His Kind
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA candid and courageous self-portrait, Christopher and His Kind chronicles the decade between 1929 and 1939, when a young Christopher...
The Decameron
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodIn the shadow of the Black Death that devastated fourteenth-century Florence, ten young Florentines flee the plague-ridden city...
Treasury Of World Masterpieces: Tess Of The D'Urbervilles; The Mayor Of Casterbridge; Far From The Madding Crowd
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedFew names in English literature carry the weight of Thomas Hardy, whose unflinching portraits of rural life, tragic fate,...
Looking At Life: 'New Statesman' View
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: small markings on contents pages, text remain clean; dj chipped and torn with some...
The Art Of Fiction
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat separates a great novel from a merely good one? In The Art of Fiction, celebrated novelist and...
Studies In Iconology: Humanistic Themes In The Art Of The Renaissance
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most formidable intellects of the twentieth century, Erwin Panofsky permanently transformed...
The Existential Imagination: From De Sade To Sartre
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when the darkest recesses of the human condition are given literary form? The Existential Imagination: From...
Sons And Lovers
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew novels have so unflinchingly anatomised the suffocating grip of maternal love as D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers....
Collected Poems
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAmong the most dazzling intellects of the English Augustan Age, Alexander Pope crafted verse of such precision, wit, and satirical force that...
Selected Poems
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew voices in the English literary canon carry the raw, sensory power of D. H. Lawrence, and Selected...