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Looking For Laforgue: An Informal Biography
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Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis engaging literary biography chronicles the life of Jules Laforgue, the brilliant and tragically short-lived French Symbolist poet...
T. E. Hulme
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of literary and intellectual biography, Michael Roberts's T. E. Hulme chronicles the life and thought of one of...
The Commentary Reader: Two Decades Of Articles And Stories
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark anthology of American intellectual and cultural life, The Commentary Reader: Two Decades of Articles and Stories presents a...
The Vice-Consul
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsIn The Vice-Consul, Marguerite Duras crafts a haunting, atmospheric meditation on colonial malaise, displacement, and the crushing weight of suppressed...
The Collected Stories Of Elizabeth Bowen
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark collection in twentieth-century short fiction, The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen gathers seventy-nine stories that chronicle the quiet...
The Emperor's Clothes: An Attack On The Dogmatic Orthodoxy Of T. S. Eliot, Graham Greene, Dorothy Sayers, C. S. Lewis, And Others.
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA bold and incisive work of literary and philosophical criticism, The Emperor's Clothes mounts a rigorous intellectual assault...
The Cockatoos
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA masterwork of Australian literary fiction, The Cockatoos presents a collection of novellas and short stories by Nobel Prize-winning author...
The Moscow Symphony And Other Poems
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Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA landmark work of twentieth-century political poetry, The Moscow Symphony and Other Poems presents the...
Virginia Woolf
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Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Good Markings: No markingsA work of literary criticism and biography, Dorothy Brewster's Virginia...
The Importance Of Being A Wit: The Insults Of Oscar Wilde
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor nick.tear on front cover. Internally sound. A sparkling collection of wit and verbal weaponry, The Importance of Being a...
The Oxford Book Of Literary Anecdotes
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA rich and entertaining anthology, The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes presents a carefully curated collection of stories drawn from...
Joseph Furphy
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work of Australian literary criticism and biography, this study presents a thorough...
A Shakespeare Companion: 1564-1964
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA comprehensive and authoritative reference work, A Shakespeare Companion: 1564–1964 presents four centuries of...
Djuna: The Formidable Miss Barnes
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA richly detailed literary biography, Andrew Field's work chronicles the extraordinary and turbulent life...
The Sonnets Of Milton
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA scholarly work of literary criticism, The Sonnets of Milton by J. S. Smart...
Setting The World On Fire
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsA richly layered work of literary fiction, Setting the World on Fire chronicles the lives of two brothers...
Time Of Arrival And Other Essays
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Tears along folds of jacket. A rich collection of personal and literary essays, Time of Arrival...
The Oxford Book Of Seventeenth Century Verse
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Jacket protected by mylar sleeve. A landmark anthology of English poetry, The Oxford Book...
Teaching The Universe Of Discourse
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work in composition theory and English education, Teaching the Universe of Discourse...
The Life Of Henry Brulard
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerA landmark of autobiographical fiction, The Life of Henry Brulard chronicles the early years of its author through the thinly...
Amores, Medicamina Faciei Femineae, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: **LATIN TEXT ONLY**A cornerstone of classical Latin literature, this scholarly Oxford Classical Texts edition presents four...
Seven Plays By Bertolt Brecht
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA landmark collection of twentieth-century dramatic literature, Seven Plays by Bertolt Brecht presents some of the most influential works in the history...
Stories And Prose Poems
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA masterwork of compressed literary power, Stories and Prose Poems presents a collection of...
Glory: A Novel
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA luminous work of literary fiction, Glory chronicles the restless coming-of-age of Martin Edelweiss, a young...
Swift: The Man, His Works, And The Age; Volume One: Mr Swift And His Contemporaries
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThe first volume of Irvin Ehrenpreis's monumental biographical and critical study, Swift: The Man, His Works, and the Age; Volume...
The Feminist Aesthetics Of Virginia Woolf: Modernism, Post-Impressionism And The Politics Of The Visual
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Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Pencil annotations throughout. Mylar sleeve.A rigorous work of literary and cultural criticism, Jane Goldman's The Feminist...
Modern Critical Views: Thomas Carlyle
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA cornerstone of literary scholarship, this volume in Harold Bloom's acclaimed Modern Critical Views series presents a carefully curated collection...
In Praise Of Newspapers: And Other Essays On The Margin Of Literature
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Jacket protected by mylar sleeve. A sparkling collection of literary and cultural essays, In Praise of Newspapers: And...
Yeats: The Man And The Masks
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work of literary biography, Richard Ellmann's Yeats: The Man and the Masks...
Word Music And Word Magic: Children's Literature Methods
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA foundational text in the field of children's literature education, Word Music and Word Magic: Children's Literature Methods presents a comprehensive and...
The Shakespearean Quarterly
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Some pages removed otherwise pages in good condition despite foxing and usual aging. Binding tight. A rare and...
Figure And Abstraction In Contemporary Painting
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA rigorous work of art criticism and theory, Figure and Abstraction in Contemporary Painting presents Ronald Paulson's incisive examination of...
The Black American Writer (Two-Volume Set)
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Yellowed Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Slightly creased spine. Internally sound. "The Black American Writer" is a seminal two-volume...
The Life Of Charles Dickens: In Two Volumes
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed Markings: No markings"The Life of Charles Dickens" is a foundational literary biography in which John Forster, Dickens's closest...
Speaking To Each Other (Two-Volume Set)
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Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markings"Speaking to Each Other" is a landmark two-volume collection of essays in cultural criticism and literary...
Woolf Studies Annual
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA peer-reviewed academic journal published annually, dedicated to Virginia Woolf scholarship. The volumes present are: Vol. 5 1999. Vol. 8 2002. Vol....
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf (Four-Volume Set)
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Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Mrs. Dalloway; The Waves; The Years - very good with name penned on fep, otherwise internally sound. "Mrs....
Balzac
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA masterful work of literary biography and criticism, V.S. Pritchett's Balzac presents a vivid and authoritative portrait of one of...
The Genius Of Shaw: A Symposium
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA rich work of literary criticism and biography, The Genius of Shaw: A Symposium presents a multifaceted portrait...
The Writer's Voice
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A literary critic and the author of The Savage God advises aspiring writers on a range of questions related to voice, covering such topics as writing with authenticity, engaging a...
This Year: 365 songs annotated
Collected and annotated lyrics from one of music's most visionary bards, John Darnielle. A work of rapturous beauty, This Year- 365 songs annotated celebrates the creative life and the musical...
Virginia Woolf & Communities: Selected Papers from the Eighth Annual
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Thirty-five papers selected from the 1998 conference analyze and re-explore communities of which Virginia Woolf was a part -- for example, Female Modernists, artists, lesbian and gay, communities formed by...
Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison, and the Spirit of Modernist
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In a work that re-investigates archival materials and deploys an innovative theoretical framework, Jean Mills explores the intellectual and political relationship between Virginia Woolf and the Cambridge classicist Jane Ellen...
The Letters of Kingsley Amis
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In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one of the Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a public image of...
The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance
A lucid guide through the labyrinth of Lacanian theory This book provides an illuminating account of the theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan. Guiding readers through...
Chaucer: A European Life
One of The Times' Best Literary Non-Fiction Books of 2019 One of the Sunday Times' Best Literary Books of 2019 Finalist for the PROSE Award in Biography and Autobiography, Association...
Trains of Thought: Memories of a Stateless Youth
Paris in the 1930s-melancholy, erotic, intensely politicized-provides the poetic beginning for this remarkable autobiography by one of America's most renowned literary scholars. In Trains of Thought Victor Brombert recaptures the...
William Carlos Williams and the Diagnostics of Culture
Bremen's study examines the development of William Carlos Williams's poetics, focusing in particular on Williams's ongoing fascination with the effects of poetry and prose, and his life-long friendship with Kenneth...