Literary Theory

Secondhand Espionage & High-Stakes Thriller Bargain Book Box (21 Books) This collection of twenty-one vintage thrillers spans the height of the espionage genre, featuring an extensive selection of Ian Fleming’s...

One-off Modern Literary & Historical Fiction Bargain Book Box (18 Books) This collection of eighteen volumes brings together a selection of award-winning literary fiction and historical narratives from across the...

A charming new paperback edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien's major pieces of short fiction, and his only finished work dating from after the publication of The Lord of the...

'Unprecedented in the breadth of what it offers from both the ancient and the recent literature of the country.' - Thomas Keneally Some of the best, most significant writing produced...

The dramatic life of a key Enlightenment figure, and France's greatest philosopher: Francois Marie Arouet (pen name Voltaire).

After William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde is the most quoted of writers. His epigrams turned conventions upside down and are part of our cultural inheritance. His personality defined an era. Wilde's...

More than a hundred years have passed since the creation of Sherlock Holmes, perhaps the most famous fictional character of all time. But while the legendary detective lives on in...

Although before him Charles Perrault in France and the Brothers Gimm in Germany had collected and retold folk-tales in ways which found wide popular audiences, it was only with the...

"Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous." - The Atlantic One of the great novelists and public intellectuals of our time gives a master class on the philosophy of fiction. Umberto Eco...

"A wondrously limpid testament to the pleasures of reading." -Steven Poole, The Guardian Six incandescent lectures on literature from the patron saint of mirrors, metafiction, and infinite libraries. For more...

Shakespeare's Sonnets of 1609 are as thrilling and persuasive today as they were when they were first published: perhaps no collection of verses before or since has captured the imagination...

The new Oxford edition of Shakespeare's complete works reconsiders every detail of their text and presentation in the light of modern scholarship. The nature and authority of the early documents...

This biography of beloved Scottish writer, Robert Louis Stevenson, provides an illuminating account of a sickly child, son of a Presbyterian lighthouse engineer, who became in turn a Bohemian dandy,...

Oscar Wilde once wrote "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train." This book is your opportunity to discover a compendium...

It should have been a beautiful moment between a man and his dog. Philip Womack made a quip about Cerberus, the three-headed hell-hound, but for Una, the beloved lurcher, it...

Seventeen novels spanning continents, decades, and the full sweep of human emotion — this is the kind of collection that keeps the bedside table stacked for months. From Jodi Picoult's...

Haiku features 80 classic poems from four poets Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa and Masaoka Shiki which range across more than 200 years of Japanese poetry. Each poem is...

GRAB A BUMPER, FORGET YOUR FANTEEGS, AND ROAM AT A FOOT-PACE THROUGH THE TWISTY ALLEYWAYS OF THE VICTORIAN VERNACULAR!What larks! Dive into the world of literature's ultimate wordsmith, Charles Dickens,...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: Remainder markThe scholarly work The Art Of French Fiction presents a comprehensive critical analysis of the French...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis authoritative volume, The Cambridge Guide To Women's Writing In English, presents a comprehensive...

Edition: War Standard EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. DJ within mylar....

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis insightful biography, Jane Austen: A Celebration Of Her Life And Work, chronicles the remarkable life and enduring literary legacy...

In 1935, while Virginia Woolf was alive and building her career as a woman writer, Ruth Gruber published a seminal essay on the novelist that is now seen as the...

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Deciding what to read next when you've just finished an unputdownable novel can be a daunting task. The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide features hundreds of authors and thousands of titles,...

'Magnificent.' Irish Times'Much to savour.' The Times'An event in Irish culture.' TLSThe collected letters of John McGahern, 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the most...

Every now and again I need to get down here, to get into the Diogenes tub, as it were, or the Colmcille beehive hut, or the Mossbawn scullery. At any...

How did Shakespeare go from being a talented writer of comedies and histories to become one of the greatest writers of tragedies who ever lived? In this one exhilarating year...

The enormous popular appeal of Philip Larkin's poetry has long been established; but oddly little is known to his admiring public about the personality behind the work.The Selected Letters will...

Frederick R. Karl's magisterial biography of George Eliot proves her to be one of the most fascinating and iconic individuals of her time. Born in 1819 as Mary Anne Evans,...

This annotated edition attempts to provide the background necessary for a fuller appreciation of Joseph Furphy's classic novel by illuminating social and historical details, by providing the context (often ironical)...

Metamorphoses--the best-known poem by one of the wittiest poets of classical antiquity--takes as its theme change and transformation, as illustrated by Greco-Roman myth and legend. Melville's new translation reproduces the...

Discover over 300 seasonal book recommendations in the ultimate reading list for book lovers everywhere. ----- 'I will be giving this book to everyone I know' - Elizabeth Day 'Francesca...

Throughout the ages, writers have created an astonishing diversity of imaginary places, worlds of enchantment, horror and delight. This guidebook takes the reader on a tour of more than 1200...

This tribute to Frank Moorhouse by the Friends of the National Library includes exerpts from his work and an oral history interview recorded some years ago. There are essays by...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis definitive biography, Oscar Wilde, chronicles the extraordinary life and tragic downfall of one of literature's most brilliant...

David Lan evokes a unique theatre of life. Sometimes hilarious, always deeply felt we travel with him to Peter Brook's Paris, to Chekhov's Yalta, to Lithuania in search of his...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerThis compelling biography illuminates the multifaceted life and enduring legacy of George Bernard Shaw, one of the twentieth century's most...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Small splotch on FEP, otherwise fineFrederick J. Stopp's Evelyn Waugh: Portrait Of An Artist presents a...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsWho's Who In George Eliot presents a comprehensive guide to the intricate world crafted by the celebrated Victorian novelist. This...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsThis compelling biography chronicles the tumultuous American tours of the celebrated Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas. John Malcolm Brinnin,...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsAustralasian Literary Criticism by Grahame Johnston presents a comprehensive analysis of the critical discourse surrounding Australian literature. This scholarly work...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerEnglish Novelists presents a discerning overview of the rich tradition of English fiction, offering incisive commentary on the...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsRoger Sherman Loomis's The Development Of Arthurian Romance presents a meticulous academic study of...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerStep into a richly layered portrait of upper-middle-class life, where ambition, tradition, and quiet rivalries shape generations of...