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The Alcestis Of Euripides; Translated Into English Prose With Introduction And Notes
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Author: D. W. LucasBinding: HardbackPublished: Cohen & West Ltd, 1951Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis academic text presents D. W. Lucas's meticulous...
The Remarkable Case Of Dorothy L. Sayers
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Author: Catherine KenneyBinding: PaperbackPublished: Kent State University Press, 1991Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCatherine Kenney's "The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers" is a compelling biography that...
The Oxford Companion To Children's Literature
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Author: Humphrey Carpenter And Mari PrichardBinding: PaperbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature...
John Keats: His Life And Poetry, His Friends, Critics, And After-Fame
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Author: Sidney ColvinBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1920Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis scholarly biography chronicles the life and literary contributions of the revered Romantic poet, John...
The Works Of Christopher Marlowe: Including His Translations
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Author: Christopher MarloweBinding: HardbackPublished: Chatto & Windus, 1912Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis comprehensive collection presents the complete dramatic and poetic works of Christopher Marlowe, a...
J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography
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Author: Humphrey CarpenterBinding: HardbackPublished: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis definitive biography chronicles the extraordinary life of J. R. R. Tolkien, the visionary creator...
In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece
Mixing cultural criticism, literary history, biography, and memoir in an exploration of Alice Walker's critically acclaimed and controversial novel, The Color Purple Alice Walker made history in 1982 when she...
Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books
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A critical evaluation of Philip Roth--the first of its kind--that takes on the man, the myth, and the work Philip Roth is one of the most renowned writers of our...
Why Read Marx Today?
In recent years we could be forgiven for assuming that Marx has nothing left to say to us. Marxist regimes have failed miserably, and with them, it seemed, all reason...
Small World: Ireland, 1798-2018
Seamus Deane was one of the most vital and versatile authors of our time. Small World presents an unmatched survey of Irish writing, and of writing about Irish issues, from...
Aboriginal Writers and Popular Fiction: The Literature of Anita Heiss
Wiradjuri woman, Anita Heiss, is arguably one of the first Aboriginal Australian authors of popular fiction. A focus on the political characterises her chick lit; and her identity as an...
The Cambridge History of World Literature
World Literature is a vital part of twentieth-first century critical and comparative literary studies. As a field that engages seriously with function of literary studies in our global era, the...
Surrealism
This book examines the salient ideas and practices that have shaped Surrealism as a protean intellectual and cultural concept that fundamentally shifted our understanding of the nexus between art, culture,...
The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human, and How to
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'If you want to write a novel or a script, read this book' Sunday Times ' The best book on the craft of storytelling I've ever read'...
Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine
'An army of bitchy, backstabbing, rivalrous literary greats inhabit this energetic history... Loxley's voice is energetic and enthused' The Times 'I enjoyed being transported, through Loxley's vignettes, to various corners...
Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty's works are treasures of American literature. When her first short-story collection was published in 1941, it heralded the arrival of a genuinely original writer who over the decades...
The Gutenberg Elegies: Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
Discussing in personal and cultural terms the values of reading, and examining what may be lost as society turns towards CD-ROM, hypertext and audio books, the critic Sven Birkerts, whose...
The New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics
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Brook Thomas explores the new historicism and the challenges posed to it by a postmodern world that questions the very possibility of newness. He considers new historicism's engagement with poststructuralism...
Mao's Last Dancer
Before you can fly, you have to be free. A new edition of the phenomenal international bestseller. From bitter poverty to the stardom of the West - this is the...
Secondhand Poetry Bargain Book Box DSH951
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Secondhand Poetic Treasures Bargain Book Box Dive deep into the rich tapestry of human experience and imagination with our Secondhand Poetry Bargain Book Box. This carefully curated collection brings together a...
Everywhere: A Little Book about Reading
During several months of cancer treatment, the writer decides to turn a necessary evil into an opportunity: the luxury of reading whatever takes her fancy. 'An Everywhere: A Little Book...
How to Read a Novelist
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Pocket Guide to Poets and Poetry
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Graham Greene
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Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction
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The Great Modern Poets: An Anthology of the Best Poets and Poetry Since 1900
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Books that Made Us: The companion to the ABC TV series
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Sejanus, His Fall: By Ben Jonson
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The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson
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Poetics
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The Book of Lost Books
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The Secret Life of Books: Why They Mean More Than Words
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Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays
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Ibsen Cycle: The Design of the Plays from Pillars of Society to When We Dead Awaken
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Moral of the Story: Reflections on Religion and Literature
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The Circle of Reason
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Becoming Shakespeare
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Wilder Shores: Women's Travel Stories of Australia and beyond
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Tragedy
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Secondhand Literary Biography & Criticism Bargain Book Box DSH785
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Secondhand Literary Biography & Criticism Bargain Book Box Explore the lives and works of literary giants with this curated collection of secondhand biographies and critical analyses. These pre-loved books offer...
Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine
As the streetlamps flickered out and lights were obscured behind brown-paper screens, a subdued atmosphere took hold of London in 1939. Cloistered in pubs and gloomy sitting rooms, London's young...
Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine
As the streetlamps flickered out and lights were obscured behind brown-paper screens, a subdued atmosphere took hold of London in 1939. Cloistered in pubs and gloomy sitting rooms, London's young...
"Romeo and Juliet"
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BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE
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Nervous System: The Story of a Novelist Who Lost His Mind
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A Midsummer Night's Dream: No Fear Shakespeare Side-by-Side Plain English
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Measure for Measure
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