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Shakespearian Production: With Especial Reference To The Tragedies
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Author: G. Wilson KnightBinding: HardbackPublished: FABER AND FABER LTD, 1964Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerG. Wilson Knight's Shakespearean Production presents a comprehensive analysis of the challenges...
The Oxford Companion To English Literature
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Author: Sir Paul Harvey; Revised By Dorothy EagleBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford at The Clarendon Press, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis monumental reference work, The Oxford Companion...
A New Life Of Anton Chekhov
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Author: Ronald HingleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA New Life Of Anton Chekhov presents a comprehensive...
Gladiators and Caesars: The Power of Spectacle in Ancient Rome
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Bread and circuses were what the Romans demanded of their emperors, and for more than 500 years spectacular events in amphitheaters, circuses, and theaters were the most important leisure activities...
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Essential reading and reference for all mystery writers and fans of the genre.
The Stranger from Melbourne: Frank Hardy - A Literary Biography
Frank Hardy is perhaps Australia's most famous Communist writer. In his literary biography on Frank Hardy, author Paul Adams traces the relationship between Hardy's writings, his political activism and the...
Writers and Their Journals
Great writers reveal their minds and creative processes in the journals and notebooks they keep throughout their lives. This work features fascinating extracts from the collections of Henry Handel Richardson,...
The Case Of Walter Pater
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Author: Michael LeveyBinding: HardbackPublished: THAMES AND HUDSON, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work presents a compelling examination of the life and influence of Victorian critic Walter...
The Look Of Things: Essays By John Berger
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Author: John BergerBinding: HardbackPublished: The Viking Press, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThe collection The Look of Things presents John Berger's incisive observations on art, photography, and the...
Walter Pater's Renaissance
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Author: Paul BarolskyBinding: HardbackPublished: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work presents a compelling re-evaluation of Walter Pater's seminal text, The Renaissance. It...
Elizabeth Harrower
'At last I read her books, reminding myself to breathe, wondering if her characters could extricate themselves from her finely spun web of psychological torment. I seized my chance to...
The Oxford Companion To Australian Literature
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Author: William H. Wilde, Joy Hooton, Barry AndrewsBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis authoritative reference work presents a comprehensive overview of Australian literary history, detailing...
Tales from Shakespeare
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These tales have been adapted for the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare. Most of Shakespeare's classics are found here including MacBeth, Othello, King Lear, Romeo...
The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami
Fervently acclaimed worldwide, Haruki Murakami'swildly imaginative work in many ways remains a mystery, its worlds withinworlds uncharted territory. Finally in The Forbidden Worlds of HarukiMurakami readers will find a map...
Who's Who in Enid Blyton
For over seventy years, Enid Blyton's books have delighted her readers. Enid Blyton wrote more than 700 books. Fully revised edition of this comprehensive and light-hearted A-Z of Enid Blyton...
Elegy for Iris
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With remarkable tenderness, John Bayley recreates his passionate love affair with Iris Murdoch--world-renowned writer and philosopher, and his wife of forty-two years--and poignantly describes the dimming of her brilliance due...
The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life
'Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it', writes Harold Bloom in "The Anatomy of Influence", 'is in the first place literary, that is to say, personal and passionate'. For...
The Complete Sonnets and Poems: The Oxford Shakespeare
The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the works for modern readers - a...
My Guru and His Disciple
First published in 1980, Isherwood's overlooked last book is central to an understanding of his life and work. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOW In 1939, as Europe approaches...
Edith Wharton: An Extraordinary Life
A detailed, illustrated examination of Edith Wharton's life provides a look at the social and political atmosphere in which she lived, offering insights into how her personal history affected her...
P.G. Wodehouse: A Literary Biography
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Author: Benny GreenBinding: HardbackPublished: Michael Joseph., 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsP.G. Wodehouse: A Literary Biography by Benny Green offers an insightful look into the life and comedic artistry...
The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders
The Library- A Catalogue of Wonders is a love letter to libraries not just as mere collections of books, but as magical, fabled places. Libraries are filled with magic. From...
Indigenous Transnationalism: Essays on Carpentaria
After Aboriginal author Alexis Wright's novel, Carpentaria , won the Miles Franklin Award in 2007, it rapidly achieved the status of a classic. The novel is widely read and studied...
Tolkien's Gown
In Tolkien's Gown, a book based loosely on that hugely successful radio series, Rick Gekoski discusses twenty great works of modern literature as both texts and objects. At once erudite...
The Story of Black
As a colour, black is a single hue. It comes in no other shades. It is pure darkness, absorber of all light. But despite its commonly accepted role as one...
Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books
Michael Dirda has been hailed as "the best-read person in America" (The Paris Review) and "the best book critic in America" (The New York Observer). In addition to the Pulitzer...
Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Metre
Examines the departure from meter and rhyme in modern poetry and the increased use of free verse
Meditations On Middle Earth
In 1954 one of the most seminal books in English literature was published and caused barely a ripple. It wasn't until the 'flower-power' generation of the 1960's that LORD OF...
Well Remembered Friends: Eulogies on Celebrated Lives
A fascinating collection of memorial addresses on celebrated lives including WH Auden by Stephen Spender, Peter Cook by Alan Bennett, Kingsley Amis by Martin Amis, Stanley Matthews by Jimmy Armfield,...
Violet to Vita: Letters of Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West
Henry James: The Young Master
Describes James's childhood in New York in the mid-nineteenth century, his illnesses, sexual encounters, and early loves, and follows his development as a writer culminating with his masterpiece The Portrait...
A Reader on Reading
In this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called 'the Casanova of reading', argues that the activity of reading, in its broadest sense, defines our...
The Oxford Companion to French Literature
A reference book to the writers and genres of French literature from about 400 AD until the Second World War. It also ranges beyond the strictly literary sphere to cover...
The Elements of Life: Biography and Portrait-Painting in Stuart and
In this ambitious study, Richard Wendorf establishes the grounds of comparison between two arts that have often been linked in a casual way but whose historical interrelations remain almost completely...
Boswell's Presumptuous Task
James Boswell died a disappointed man, considered by his contemporaries to be a "foolish failure". Yet today his "Life of Johnson" is esteemed as the template for modern biography and...
Rosamond Lehmann: A Life
'Mischief, gossip, acuity and admiration - not to be missed' Sunday Times The life of Rosamond Lehmann was as romantic and harrowing as that of any of her fictional heroines....
The Other Side of Me
A brilliant, highly spirited memoir of Sidney Sheldon's early life that provides as compulsively readable and racy a narrative as any of his bestselling novels. Growing up in 1930s America,...
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the legendary friendship - and quarrel - between Wordsworth and Coleridge, two giants of English Romanticism. Wordsworth and Coleridge's passionate intimacy,...
Secondhand Fiction Bargain Book Box DSH1094
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Secondhand Fiction Bargain Book Box Explore the cutting-edge of contemporary literature with this spectacular value Secondhand Fiction Bargain Book Box, a diverse collection of sixteen gripping and thought-provoking titles. This...
Orwell's Cough: Diagnosing the Medical Maladies and Last Gasps of the
"The doctor suddenly appeared beside Will, startling him. Though he smiled reassuringly, the poet noticed that he kept a safe distance. In a soothing, urbane voice, he explained the treatment:...
The Poet's Pen
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Author: A. K. Thomson And Judith WrightBinding: HardbackPublished: The Jacaranda Press, 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous owner'The Poet's Pen presents an...