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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew Victorian novelists have been as persistently underestimated—and as richly rewarding upon reappraisal—as Anthony Trollope, and A. O. J. Cockshut's landmark critical study sets out to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew anthologies have shaped the English-speaking world's relationship with poetry as profoundly as The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900 — a landmark collection that chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of intellectual tradition and an uncertain future, Zukunftsaspekte der Geisteswissenschaften presents four incisive lectures that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingA landmark of literary curation, Great Short Novels of the World presents a masterfully assembled...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedFew anthologies have stood the test of time as triumphantly as Library of World Poetry, a sweeping collection that gathers the finest verse from across centuries...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the crossroads of nationalism and artistic vision, Poetry and Ireland brings together two of the most vital literary voices of the Irish Literary Revival...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in the history of Western thought cut as sharp and prescient a silhouette as Charles Baudelaire,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBen Jonson stands as one of the towering figures of the English Renaissance, a contemporary and rival of Shakespeare whose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the smoky haze of post-war London and Oxford, a remarkable cast of literary figures drank, argued, and burned with...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the rich intersection of two literary giants, R.S. White's Keats as a Reader of Shakespeare presents a meticulous and illuminating study of how...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedA fever dream set along the dark corridors of the River Thames, Iain Sinclair's Downriver is a visionary and hallucinatory...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in world literature have been as simultaneously condemned and mythologised as the prostitute, and Khalid Kishtainy's The Prostitute in Progressive Literature presents a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the annals of Romantic poetry, few lives burned as brightly — or as briefly — as that of John Keats, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the grand tradition of English letters, few stories are as richly layered as the rise and decline of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingFor every reader who has ever wondered where Hardy walked, where Keats found his inspiration, or where Shakespeare's world truly began, The Oxford...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the scandalous heart of the Restoration court stood John Wilmot, the Second Earl of Rochester — rake, libertine, and one of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the glittering, dangerous world of the Restoration court, poetry was as much a weapon as a rapier...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodLong before style guides became an industry, H.W. Fowler and F.G. Fowler delivered a definitive verdict on the English language with The King's English — a...

Edition: Second EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew voices in Victorian England rang with such passionate authority on art, architecture,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of scholarship and criticism lies a discipline that demands both rigorous precision and imaginative insight — and The Scholar-Critic is its...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in English literary history are as electrifying — or as scandalous — as John Wilmot, the Second Earl of Rochester, the Restoration court...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedOne of the twentieth century's most luminous literary minds steps beyond verse to speak directly to the reader in Essays...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFrançois-René de Chateaubriand — soldier, exile, diplomat, and one of the founding fathers of French Romanticism — lived a life so turbulent and grand...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodTo mark one hundred years of one of Britain's most distinguished publishing houses, A Century of Writers: 1855–1955 presents a rich and carefully curated centenary volume...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedSet against the opulent and treacherous courts of Mughal India during the reign of Emperor Akbar, The Root and the Flower is a sweeping...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew poets in the English literary canon have burned as brightly — or as scandalously — as John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, whose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingRobert Francis, one of New England's most quietly subversive literary voices, turns his sharp wit and finely honed poetic sensibility...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew literary biographies have so masterfully illuminated the inner life of a genius as Aileen Ward's John Keats:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Remainder markAt the turbulent crossroads of art, literature, and revolution, Modern and Modernism: The Sovereignty of the Artist 1885–1925 chronicles one...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Price clipped, chipping and spotting to DJ, minor foxing to page edges.In the...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Sticker remnant on fep. Otherwise internally sound. In the tradition of great literary biography,...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: unclipped dj with small tears. Name penned on fep, small ink tick on verso of half-title...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the cloistered world of a small Queensland town, where conformity is currency and difference is punished with devastating precision, Thea Astley's A Descant...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the sun-scorched landscape of rural Queensland, Thea Astley's Reaching Tin River chronicles the restless inner journey of Belle, a woman consumed by an...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Light foxing on book block. Clean text. From the pre-Islamic odes of the desert to the ornate...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the heart of one of the most turbulent and creatively fertile periods in literary history lies the private...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew figures in the history of modernism provoked as much controversy, or possessed as much brilliance, as Wyndham Lewis — painter, polemicist,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionFew scholars of the twentieth century commanded the breadth and authority of Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra, and In General...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerRaymond Williams's Second Generation is a quietly powerful novel of class, identity, and the painful friction between where...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Appears unread. What does it take to forge a literary identity in a land that has...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. In the grimy industrial heartland of post-war northern England, Christina Stead's Cotters' England presents a world...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodGraham Greene's Collected Essays assembles one of the twentieth century's most penetrating literary minds into a single, essential volume — a...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: faded dj. A searing portrait of suburban dysfunction, The Tax Inspector plunges the reader into the decaying world of the...

Edition: 1st aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Light foxing on book block. Few writers of the twentieth century command the raw narrative power of Christina...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Slipcase missing. Creased spine and corners. In the fractured, electrifying world of early twentieth-century avant-garde, four voices...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of linguistics, psychology, and social behavior lies the rich and complex world of nonverbal communication...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew literary lives of the twentieth century were as turbulent, brilliant, and consequential as that of Robert Lowell, and Ian Hamilton's Robert Lowell: A...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew poets of the English Restoration have provoked as much fascination, scandal, and scholarly debate as John Wilmot, the second...