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Literary Landscapes: Dublin: Explore the city's vibrant legacy, where
A bibliophile's journey through Dublin's rich heritage, storied lore, and lively craic: exploring bookshops, museums, and authors' watering holes, offering an experience for literature students, Irish natives, and tourists alike....
The World According to Joan Didion
An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices...
Tartan Noir
Celebrated for his incisive interviews, an acclaimed critic of crime writing delivers a fascinating study of Scotland's Tartan Noir movementFascinating, scholarly, yet highly accessible, this study of the Tartan Noir...
Life Lessons from Literature
'I read a book one day and my whole life was changed' ... So confesses the narrator of Orhan Pamuk's novel The New Life . But what can we learn...
Feel Free: Essays
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Winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Notable Book From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a...
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Celebrate the genius, passion, and poetry of William Shakespeare with this beautifully bound deluxe edition, featuring his complete plays and poems in one timeless collector's volume. No writer has shaped...
How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic
Ireland played the central role in maintaining European culture when the dark ages settled on Europe in the fifth century: as Rome was sacked by Visigoths and its empire collapsed,...
Steppenwolf Tpb
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With its blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, Nobel Prize-winning author Hermann Hesse's best-known and most autobiographical work is one of literature's most poetic evocations of the soul's journey...
Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship
An insightful exploration that unveils the lesser-known dimensions of this legendary writer and her legacy, revealing the cultural icon's profound impact as a visionary editor who helped define an important...
The Worlds of Jane Austen: The Influences and Inspiration Behind the
The Worlds of Jane Austen invites readers to see one of Britain's most beloved authors in a completely new light. Far from the quiet world of country houses and tea...
William Wordsworth
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their...
Wit And The Writing Of History: The Rhetoric Of Historiography In Imperial Rome
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of laughter and legacy, Wit and the Writing of History: The Rhetoric of Historiography...
Short Stories
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodFew writers possessed the cool, unsentimental eye for human frailty that W. Somerset Maugham brought to the short story form, and this Folio Society collection...
The Citizen Of The World: Or Letters From A Chinese Philosopher Residing In London To His Friends In The East
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodWhat if the sharpest critic of Georgian England were not a native son, but a fictional Chinese philosopher writing home with bemused, devastating wit? First...
The Canterbury Tales
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodFew works in the English literary canon can claim the enduring power and vivid humanity of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales — a magnificent collection...
Plato's Dialogue On Friendship: An Interpretation Of The Lysis, With A New Translation
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it truly mean to love another person — and can philosophy answer what the heart...
No Idle Words
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingLanguage is alive — it breathes, shifts, and surprises — and few writers have championed...
Having The Last Word
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingLanguage is alive — restless, evolving, and endlessly surprising — and Ivor Brown, one of...
The Meaning Of Art
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat is art, and why does it matter? Herbert Read's The Meaning of Art stands as...
The Alchemist
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFirst performed in 1610, Ben Jonson's The Alchemist stands as one of the most brilliantly constructed comedies in...
A Boy's Own Story
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark of American literature, A Boy's Own Story is a luminous and achingly honest coming-of-age narrative set...
D. H. Lawrence / Novelist
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt a time when D. H. Lawrence's reputation remained fiercely contested, F. R. Leavis mounted one...
The Complete Poetry & Selected Prose Of John Milton
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew voices in the English literary canon resonate with the grandeur and moral gravity of John...
Richard Ii
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA king undone by his own pride — Shakespeare's Richard II stands as one of the...
Girls In Their Married Bliss
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe final, devastating installment of Edna O'Brien's celebrated Country Girls trilogy, Girls in their Married Bliss chronicles the...
The Vintage Mencken
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew voices in American letters have ever cut as sharply, or laughed as loudly, as that of H.L....
The Love Object
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the quiet devastation of ordinary lives, Edna O'Brien's The Love Object presents a masterful collection of short...
Keats
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew lives in English literary history burn as brightly—or as briefly—as that of John Keats, and Sidney Colvin's...
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA masterwork of post-war British fiction, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes thrusts the reader into the morally tangled life...
Euripides: Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, The Bacchae
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the sunlit theatres of ancient Athens comes the electrifying dramatic genius of Euripides, the most...
Mansfield Park
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of Jane Austen's most morally complex novel stands Fanny Price — a timid, impoverished girl...
A Single Man
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn a single, grief-saturated day in 1962 Los Angeles, a middle-aged British professor named George Falconer moves through...
Christopher & His Kind
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of the twentieth century's most candid and revelatory memoirs, Christopher Isherwood chronicles his own life with...
Sense And Sensibility
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the rolling countryside of Regency England, two sisters stand at the crossroads of love, loss,...
Sandel
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the quiet, sun-dappled world of an Oxford summer, Sandel tells the story of Anthony, a jazz musician...
The Collected Poems Of A. E. Housman
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew poets have captured the bittersweet ache of youth, mortality, and the English...
Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: Or, System Of Universal Knowledge; On A Methodical Plan Projected By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Second Edition, Revised. First Division. Pure Sciences. Moral And Metaphysical Philosophy
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Edition: 2nd ed., rev. Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: front board nearly detach; binding fragile; At...
Poems
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: DJ: yellowed; unclipped with some stains. Binding: boards remain clean, binding tight. Pages: light...
The Philosophical Works Of John Locke
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Some moisture damageCondition remarks: worn and discoloured boards; frayed and rubbed edges; binding fragile; some moisture damage on the prelims; no loose pages; Few thinkers have...
The Ginger Man
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the rain-soaked, grey backdrop of 1950s Dublin, The Ginger Man unleashes Sebastian Dangerfield — a wild,...
Modern Short Stories
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the classrooms of Melbourne's Church of England Grammar School to the wider world of literary appreciation, Modern...
Fern-Seed And Elephants: And Other Essays On Christianity
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Minor markings to back of cover, tanned edges.What happens when one of the twentieth century's greatest literary minds turns his...
New Testament Introduction
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFor scholars, students, and serious readers of Scripture alike, Donald Guthrie's New Testament Introduction stands as one of the most authoritative and comprehensive reference works...
François Mauriac: A Study Of The Writer And The Man
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of faith, politics, and literary genius stands François Mauriac — Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Catholic moralist, and one of the most towering...
The World And Other Places
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFrom one of Britain's most daring and lyrical voices comes The World and Other Places, a spellbinding collection of short stories that traverse the boundaries between...
The Two Fires
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the shadow of the atomic age and the ever-present threat of annihilation, Judith Wright's The Two Fires burns with a fierce...
Becoming A Heroine: Reading About Women In Novels
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat does it mean to dream of becoming a heroine — not just in life, but through the pages of a novel? Rachel M....
Christopher And His Kind
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA candid and courageous self-portrait, Christopher and His Kind chronicles the decade between 1929 and 1939, when a young Christopher...