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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the depths of nineteenth-century Russia, Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov crafts a portrait of human nature at...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most consequential works of cultural criticism produced in the twentieth century, Raymond Williams's Culture and...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA man returns from the brink of death only to find that survival has shattered everything he once...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark in the critical appreciation of a young nation's literary identity, The Literature of Australia is an...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the smouldering backdrop of a Caribbean island teetering on the edge of political collapse, Guerrillas is...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of two vibrant literary traditions, Radical Cousins: Nineteenth Century American & Australian Writers presents a compelling comparative study of the writers...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom one of the twentieth century's most unflinching literary voices comes The Mimic Men, a searing portrait of displacement, political disillusionment, and the fractured...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt just twenty-six years old, David Hume produced one of the most ambitious and daring works in the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat happens when the revolutionary becomes routine, when the avant-garde loses its power to shock, subvert, and inspire? Decline of the New is Irving Howe's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew literary lives burn as brightly — or as controversially — as that of D. H. Lawrence, and Richard Aldington's...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingWhat happens when one of the twentieth century's most celebrated novelists turns her penetrating gaze upon one of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersAt sixty, one of America's most formidable literary minds...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhat does it truly mean to be a master of the dramatic craft? Nevill Coghill, Merton Professor of English Literature...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn a South Africa torn apart by civil war and authoritarian collapse, a quiet, disfigured man named Michael K sets out on an extraordinary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFor any lover of literature who has ever stood on a rain-swept moor and felt the ghost of Heathcliff at their shoulder, or walked the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the suffocating atmosphere of provincial Bordeaux, François Mauriac's The Unknown Sea charts the moral and spiritual disintegration of a bourgeois family consumed by...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew critics of the twentieth century commanded the literary landscape with as much authority and wit as Edmund...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of literature and philosophy, Modern French Criticism: From Proust and Valéry to Structuralism presents a...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the sun-scorched, famine-ravaged nation of Kush — a fictional sub-Saharan African state — Colonel Hakim Félix Ellelloû, a devout Muslim and fiercely anti-American head...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the crossroads of philosophy, aesthetics, and poetry, English Romantic Irony presents a rigorous and illuminating study of one of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedByron's Don Juan is one of the most audacious and virtuosic poems in the English language, and Jerome J. McGann's Don Juan in Context is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the heart of English literature lies a tension so deeply embedded in the culture it is rarely questioned —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodA towering figure in mid-twentieth-century literary criticism, L. C. Knights — King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the crossroads of literary history and critical thought, L. G. Knights' Explorations stands as one of the twentieth century's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century Oxford cut as distinctive a silhouette as Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra — classicist, wit, Warden of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew writers captured the soul of nineteenth-century Russia with the raw, vivid intensity of Nikolai Leskov, and The Enchanted Wanderer...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingIn the riotous and anarchic world of J.P. Donleavy's Leila, the irrepressible Darcy Dancer finds himself once again entangled in the magnificent chaos...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the intersection of artistic revolution and intellectual inquiry stands Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics, a landmark anthology that presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the intersection of art and craft, Aspects of the Novel stands as one of the most illuminating and enduring...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodA titan of twentieth-century American letters, Edmund Wilson presents in The Shores of Light a brilliant and panoramic survey of the literary landscape that defined two...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingBeneath the gilded surface of post-Napoleonic French society, obsession and ruin lurk in the most respectable drawing rooms — and Honoré de Balzac knew...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhat does it mean to live a life devoted entirely to the power of ideas? Lewis A. Coser's Men of...