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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedFew reference works have achieved the status of a literary institution, yet H. W. Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage accomplished precisely that from the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew voices in English literature possess the warmth, wit, and tender eccentricity of Charles Lamb, and The Essays of Elia stands as the supreme...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the winter of 1849–1850, Gustave Flaubert — not yet the celebrated author of Madame Bovary — embarked on an extraordinary journey through Egypt, a land...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the biting wit of Aristophanes to the savage irony of Jonathan Swift, Satire by Matthew Hodgart presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before satire became the wit of the civilised page, it was a weapon of terrifying power —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFirst published in 1929, Practical Criticism stands as one of the most groundbreaking and influential works in the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFirst staged in 1728 to thunderous applause at Lincoln's Inn Fields, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera remains one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of the most incisive works of literary criticism to emerge from the twentieth century, Vivian Mercier...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of poetry and theatre stands W.B. Yeats, one of the most enigmatic and visionary dramatists...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the cramped, suffocating confines of a Midlands bedsit, Look Back in Anger unleashes Jimmy Porter...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor over a millennium, the towering edifice of Greco-Roman civilisation cast its long shadow across the intellectual and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of history and literature stands a body of writing that shaped Western civilisation's understanding of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew myths in Western culture have proven as enduringly provocative as the story of Lucretia — the Roman noblewoman whose violation by Tarquinius Superbus and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBetween the wars, a generation of Australian women put pen to paper and carved out literary identities in a cultural landscape that was rarely welcoming...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew Australian writers lived as richly contradictory a life as Martin Boyd — Anglo-Australian novelist, failed monk, restless expatriate, and one of the most sophisticated...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedFew writers have captured the rugged beauty and quiet tragedy of rural England with as much power and precision as Thomas Hardy, and this magnificent omnibus...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingWhat does it mean to sacrifice everything — love, morality, human connection — on the altar of art?...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhat does it truly mean to feel the power of a symphony, to be arrested by a painting, or to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the tumultuous decades between the assassination of Henri IV and the dawn of the Fronde, a remarkable literary battle...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the crossroads of sensation, mortality, and sublime artistic vision stands John Keats — and John Keats's Dream of Truth...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew literary figures cast as long a shadow over the twentieth century as William Butler Yeats, and Memoirs offers an...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedBefore Jane Austen gifted the world with Pride and Prejudice and Emma, she was already a writer of remarkable wit...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the turbulent literary world of Elizabethan and Jacobean England, satire was not a gentle art — it was a...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingWhat does it mean to stand apart from society, to see too clearly, to feel too deeply, and to be utterly unable to pretend...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew poets shatter the conventions of language with such radical precision as Tom Raworth, and...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the twilight of a crumbling English estate on a single summer's day, Concluding presents one of twentieth-century literature's most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingWhat does it truly mean to write with mastery, and what secrets can the greatest European literary minds...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingLong before the Romantics reshaped English verse, William Cowper was quietly revolutionising poetry from his modest retreat in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedAt the crossroads of biography and literary criticism stands The Egotistical Sublime, a landmark scholarly work that traces the inner...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhen the Roman stage rang with laughter, it was Plautus and Terence who held the crowd — and...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew voices in Australian literature resonate with the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of philosophy, linguistics, and cultural criticism, The Structural Allegory: Reconstructive Encounters with the New French...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Minor bumps to spine. Yellowed cover.At the crossroads of philosophy, history, and political theory stands one of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew names in the English language carry the weight and wonder of William Shakespeare, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew poets have captured the American spirit with such deceptive simplicity and piercing depth as Robert Frost, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew literary biographies have achieved the monumental depth...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew writers have left behind a literary legacy as towering — and as tormented — as Gustave Flaubert, and John Charles Tarver's Gustave Flaubert: As Seen...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew literary figures in the English-speaking world command the stage with the same ferocious wit...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew figures in English literary history are as brilliantly contradictory as John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester — a Restoration court wit, libertine poet, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew voices in the English literary canon ring...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of linguistics, philosophy, and literary criticism stands Structuralist Poetics, a landmark work that forever changed...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew poets have shaped the English literary imagination as profoundly as William Wordsworth, and Mary Moorman's landmark biography...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA towering intellectual of the twentieth century, Edward W. Said — born November 1, 1935, and lost on...