Literary Theory

What little we know of the life of William Shakespeare is at odds with what would be expected of the greatest humanitarian writer of the Renaissance. Is Shakespeare a pseudonym?...

A 'beginning', especially as embodied in much modern thought, is its own method, Edward Said argues in this classic treatise on the role of the intellectual and the goal of...

Everything you need to know about A Doll's House to succeed in your A Level or undergraduate studies. Whether you're an A Level student or an undergraduate, York Notes Advanced...

Around 2000, people began to believe that books were on verge of extinction. Their obsolescence, in turn, was expected to doom the habits of mind that longform print had once...

Everyone has heard of the Dark-Age hero Arthur, but who was he? Stories about him and his Round Table have been told and retold in numerous languages. Interest in him...

Clarissa is one of the grand masterpieces of European literature Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing...

This is an essential book for everyone who wants to write clearly about any subject and use writing as a means of learning.

J. G. Ballard was, for over fifty years, one of this country's most significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic novel, 'Empire of the Sun', this revelatory...

Author: D. H. LawrenceBinding: HardbackPublished: William Heinemann Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: mildew marks on top of spineA seminal work of...

Author: C. E. M. JoadBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1943Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis collection, Pieces of Mind, presents a...

Author: D.H. LawrenceBinding: HardbackPublished: William Heinemann Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: some chipping at back of coverSet against the backdrop of...

Author: Jean-Albert Bédé And William B. Edgerton (General Editors)Binding: HardbackPublished: Columbia University Press, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis comprehensive reference work, Columbia Dictionary Of Modern European Literature:...

Author: Robert Manson MyersBinding: HardbackPublished: WERNER LAURIE, 1111Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis captivating literary history chronicles the vast expanse...

Author: Adrian Stokes. John Piper (Illustrator)Binding: HardbackPublished: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling volume, Venice, presents a profound meditation on...

Everything you need to know about A Streetcar Named Desire to succeed in your A Level or undergraduate studies. Whether you're an A Level student or an undergraduate, York Notes...

The new novel from first winner of International Man Booker, inspired by three minutes in June 1934 when Joseph Stalin allegedly called Boris Pasternak. A fascinating meditation on Soviet Russia,...

In the winter of 1966, at sixty-nine years of age, Lady Joan Lindsay sat down and wrote a short novel about a group of upper-class schoolgirls from a prestigious ladies'...

A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: THE TIMES / SUNDAY TIMES , GUARDIAN , TELEGRAPH , TLS , FINANCIAL TIMES , ECONOMIST , NEW STATESMAN , LONDON STANDARD AND WASHINGTON...

'Do not rush to bid farewell to eastern Europe until reading this book. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this very personal story of the place that one can't find on...

The book titled Kinsman by the author Ben Bova. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Based on her access to J.G. Farrell's family and friends, as well as his notebooks and personal correspondence, Lavinia Greacen's biography disentangles not only the full circumstances of the novelist's...

Nobody writes travelogues about Germany. The country spurs many anxious volumes of investigative reporting--books that worry away at the "German problem," World War II, the legacy of the Holocaust, the...

Following on from Osborne's first autobiographical book, "A Better Class of Person", this book looks at the period 1955 to 1966. It covers the foundation of the English Stage Company...

In a work of scholarship both erudite and funny, Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organising his...

These essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena of sound and image. The...

A vital guide to poetry from ancient times to the present "[A] fizzing, exhilarating book."-Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London "Delightful.'"- New York Times Book Review Poetry is language made special,...

Bad writing can't be blamed on the Internet, or on 'the kids today'. Good writing has always been hard: a performance requiring pretense, empathy, and a drive for coherence. In...

The book titled Penny Pollard's Passport by the author Robin Klein. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Britain possesses a literary heritage which is almost unrivalled in the Western world. In this illustrated volume the richness, diversity and continuity of that tradition from Anglo-Saxon times to the...

In this brilliant account of the literary war within the Cold War, novelists and poets become embroiled in a dangerous game of betrayal, espionage, and conspiracy at the heart of...

The second volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. 'Walking in the Shade' begins in 1949, as Doris Lessing arrives in London with...

Author: Anke GleberBinding: HardbackPublished: Princeton University Press, 1999Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsGleber's The Art Of Taking A Walk presents a...

Author: AddisonBinding: HardbackPublished: William Tegg & Co., 1877Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerEssays From The Spectator presents a collection...

Author: Paddy KitchenBinding: HardbackPublished: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1970Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerA Fleshly School presents a sharp, witty critique of the London art scene and...

Author: John FowlesBinding: HardbackPublished: Jonathan Cape. , 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA provocative work of metafiction, Mantissa plunges into the tumultuous creative process of a novelist grappling with...

Author: John SimonBinding: HardbackPublished: Clarkson N. Potter; Crown Publishers, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: rubbing of cloth cover edges; some wear of dust jacketThis incisive collection,...

Author: Deborah CameronBinding: PaperbackPublished: MACMILLANCondition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, pencil underlining throughout This seminal work in sociolinguistics and feminist theory critically...

Author: Antonia FraserBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: cover worn, rubbed on edges and marked...

Author: Peter QuennellBinding: HardbackPublished: G & C Merriam Company, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: mildew spotting on spine; plastic laminate is worn and has some dirt...

Author: J. B. PriestleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron Books, London, 1960Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsJ.B. Priestley's Literature And Western Man offers a sweeping intellectual history, charting the evolution of Western thought...

Author: Herman MelvilleBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1963Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA sweeping journey through obsession, deception, and moral ambiguity, where the sea becomes a mirror for the human...

Author: Lisa AppignanesiBinding: HardbackPublished: Vision, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: stain on first three pages, lots of pencil underlining throughoutThis academic study, Femininity &...

Welcome to The Empire Theatre. 'It's the jewel of the north, The Empire. Lord Lassiter bought it for his second wife, Lady Lillian and she supervised every detail of the...

A boldly illustrated celebration of literary history's most revolutionary, talented women writers Women have written some of our most extraordinary literary works while living in societies and cultures that tried...

This collection of essays includes some of the most recent work of a master critic at the height of his powers. Of the fourteen essays, written from the late 1970's...

The book titled Proud Empires by the author Austin Clarke. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In Winter Journal, Auster presents the abandonment of the family by his father from his mother's point of view: her struggle as a single mother; love found again late in...

For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British history....