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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to know something in a world where grand narratives have lost their...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodA landmark in Australian literary fiction, Early Promise by D. R. Burns is a work that captures the restless spirit...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom one of Britain's most exacting and influential postwar poets comes The Visit, a slim but devastating collection that announces Ian Hamilton...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhat does it mean for art, literature, or nature to possess an organic quality — and how did this deceptively simple idea...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the crossroads of art, literature, and cultural ambition, The Victorian Treasure-House presents a richly argued account of Victorian aesthetics, chronicling the extraordinary creative outpouring of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew works in the history of world literature have endured as triumphantly as Don Quixote of the Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes' towering masterpiece that chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodWhat elevates a work of art from mere craft to timeless masterpiece? In What is a Masterpiece?, Kenneth Clark — one of the twentieth century's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the crossroads of Restoration passion and feminine literary defiance stands Anne Wharton — niece of the Earl of Rochester, poet, and one of the...

Edition: ReprintCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the winter of 1618–1619, the great English playwright and poet Ben Jonson made an extraordinary journey on foot from London to Edinburgh,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodTwo of Lord Byron's most celebrated works — the brooding, autobiographical Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and the irreverent, satirical Don Juan — are brought together...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodA master of irony and human observation turns the lens inward in The Partial View, W. Somerset Maugham's...

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Edition: 5th impressionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Some tears along spine now repaired with non-acidic tape.Few novels in the twentieth century have provoked...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Some stains on interior front pages - not obscuring text. Small chips on spine.Few stories have...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew works in the history of textual scholarship have achieved the enduring authority of Ronald B. McKerrow's An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students — a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew figures in the history of human expression have cast as long a shadow as William Shakespeare, and Ivor Brown's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersGeorge Bernard Shaw — playwright, polemicist, and provocateur — remains one...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Light foxing on book block. What does it mean to live in the shadow of a hero...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA young man adrift between youth and adulthood, between the pull of the sea and the weight of the world — Tim...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Grey boards. Unpriced dj - export copy.Rooted in the windswept borderlands between England and Wales, On the Black...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. minor stains on page 236. Few novels in the twentieth century have dissected the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when comedy becomes a form of belief? In Comic Faith: The Great Tradition from Austen to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of modernity and theology stands Ernst Troeltsch, one of the most formidable religious...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of the most audacious intellectual challenges of the twentieth century, Alvin W. Gouldner argues...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to be a genius? Harold Bloom, one of the most celebrated and provocative literary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of domestic life and artistic ambition, The Heart's Ground: A Life of Anne Elder chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerBritish Poetry Since 1960: A Critical Survey is an indispensable scholarly companion for anyone seeking to understand the rich and often fractious...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the grey, tragicomic world of Samuel Beckett's first published novel, Murphy chronicles the misadventures of an idle,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore a single word is spoken, a thousand signals have already been exchanged — and Communication in Face...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Binding remains tight. Clean and bright copy. What if the true measure of a book's...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Binding poor. Internally sound. Plates intact. Few novels in the Western canon match...

Edition: ReprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind every well-organized book lies an invisible architecture — the index — and Indexing, The Art of by G. Norman Knight is the...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Clean and square boards. Light foxing on book block. Clean text. Few works in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Mixed format - Vol I & II HB; Vols II - SB. Few civilisations have commanded as much fascination — and as...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Vol I - hinges slightly cracked. Small tear on half title page. Light...

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Edition: First Edition Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Good–Fair, honest copy of the true first edition (Edward Arnold & Co., London,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in the history of English literature provoke as much fascination and scholarly debate as William Blake — poet, painter, and visionary mystic...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: dj repaired with tape. At the turbulent crossroads of art, politics, and modernity stands Farewell to an Idea, T.J. Clark's...

Edition: No 61 of 1000. Facsimile EditionCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the radical heart of the New York Dada movement, The Blind...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the heart of nineteenth-century Russian aristocratic society, Ivan Turgenev's A Nest of the Gentry chronicles the poignant and ill-fated love between Fyodor Lavretsky, a disillusioned...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: DJ: unclipped; slightly faded, in mylar. Pages: yellowed. Binding remains tight. Clean copy.In a world tilted off its axis...

A startling discovery. The originality and beguiling alchemy of the writing generate a plethora of profound insights into one's self that usually take years of expensive therapy to unlock -...

A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2023 * * THE FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS...

There are many issues raised when talking about Australia's literature. The main criterion for inclusion in these essays is not the canonical status of authors but their fruitful engagment ewith...

'Virtual Voyages' is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive 'great south land' told through the literature of 'imaginary voyages'. Written at the height of the era...

A thoughtful, nuanced look at Thomas Keneally's The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by award-winning journalist Stan Grant, which considers race, representation and Australian history. Stan Grant is drawn to Thomas...