Literary Theory

Nancy Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, a great tease and an acute observer of upper-class British idiosyncrasies. With the publication of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a...

In this magnificent biography--a work that won three of the most prestigious literary prizes this country offers--W. Jackson Bate delves deep into the character that formed Johnsons awesome intellect and...

A distinguished writer and Smith College professor, Curtiss leaves for the City of Lights in 1947 to assemble a volume of Marcel Proust's letters. Incredibly, she manages to track down...

Arthur Conan Doyle is best remembered today as the creator of the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. But he was much more than that. Apart from being a popular...

From global bestseller and creator of Jack Reacher, comes Lee Child's first-ever autobiographical collection. From global bestseller and creator of Jack Reacher, comes Lee Child's first-ever autobiographical collection. On Monday...

The essential translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries - revealing the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers Dating from 1909 to 1923,...

Author: Alfred DayBinding: HardbackPublished: Bell & Daldy, 1870Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Damaged boards. Binding fragile. Cracked...

Author: Graham GreeneBinding: HardbackPublished: THE BODLEY HEAD, 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Light stain on book block. This volume...

Author: Benjamin Franklin V And Duane SchneiderBinding: PaperbackPublished: Ohio University Press., 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor discolouration to spine and front of cover, spine is...

Author: Fiona Pitt-KethleyBinding: PaperbackPublished: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1992Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Some moisture damageMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Cover has some general wear, creasing along spine. Moisture stain on title page and...

Author: Wallace FowlieBinding: HardbackPublished: Prentice-HallCondition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Dust jacket has general wear and tear, previous owner name inside, some previous owner marks...

Author: Quentin BellBinding: PaperbackPublished: Harvest/HBJ Book, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, cover has light wear and tanningThis definitive biography, Virginia Woolf:...

Author: Virginia Woolf, Michele Barrett Binding: PaperbackPublished: The Women's Press, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Cover has tanning along spineThis seminal work of literary criticism chronicles...

Author: -Binding: HardbackPublished: Sampson Low, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has tanning along spine, previous owner name inside first pageThis volume presents a comprehensive...

Author: None StatedBinding: HardbackPublished: Houlston and Wright, 1861Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Worn boards with bumping on corners. Moderate tanning...

Author: Christopher RobinsonBinding: HardbackPublished: David & Charles, 1980Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis academic work presents a comprehensive analysis of French literary movements and influential authors throughout the...

Author: J. Le Gay BreretonBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson Ltd, Australia, 1930Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis collection of verse, Knocking Round, presents the lyrical observations...

Author: Katherine BrégyBinding: HardbackPublished: HERBERT & DANIEL, 1912Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Light bumping on corners. Frontis loose. Clean...

Author: F. N. RobinsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis scholarly volume presents the complete literary output of the medieval English poet,...

Gerald Middleton is a sixty-year-old self-proclaimed failure. Worse than that, he's "a failure with a conscience." As a young man, he was involved in an archaeological dig that turned up...

'In a world in which we tend to look to what's new, to cutting-edge science and to medical breakthroughs for hope in better health, there's something marvellous in the realisation...

In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic....

A dazzling new biography of Vita Sackville-West, the 20th century aristocrat, literary celebrity, devoted wife, famous lover of Virginia Woolf, recluse, and iconoclast who defied categorization. In this stunning new...

This selection from the writings of C. S. Lewis gathers together forty book reviews, never before reprinted, as well as four major essays which have been unavailable for many decades....

Collected here, the Massey Lectures from legendary novelist Margaret Atwood investigate the highly topical subject of debt. She doesn't talk about high finance or managing money; instead, she goes far...

Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century.

Edited by Paul Auster, this four-volume set of Beckett's canon has been designed by award winner Laura Lindgren. Available individually, as well as in a boxed set, the four hardcover...

On March 13th, 1711, an article appeared in "The Spectator about Thomas Inkle, a young and aspiring English trader cast ashore in the Americas, who is saved from violenct death...

Josphine Cox returns to the land of her birth, the environment which provides so many settings for her novels, and in the company of her fictional characters rediscovers the influences...

'A lively, perceptive and on the whole sympathetic biography of this strange and complex figure. It is a wonderful story, as racy, tumultuous and sexy as anything by Dumas or...

Widely acclaimed for giving [an understanding of the connection between Nietzsche's personal experience and his most famous ideas[ (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times) in her biography of Nietzsche, Nietzsche in...

The snobbery and false values of the English country nobility are satirized in these two love stories involving the well-established Radlett and Hampton families.

This Companion provides a unique introduction and guide to the works and life of one of the key figures in English literary history. The source of endless familiar aphorisms, the...

A prose retelling of Shakespeare's play in which a jealous general is duped into thinking that his wife has been unfaithful, with tragic consequences.

Book VIII is one of the most attractive and important books of Virgil's Aeneid. It includes the visit of Aaneas to the site of the future Rome, the story of...

In The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde, Neil McKenna provides stunning new insight into the tumultuous sexual and psychological worlds of this brilliant and tormented figure. McKenna charts Wildes astonishing...

Mary Barton(1848),subtitled 'A Tale of Manchester Life',is the first novel by Mrs Gaskell(1810-65).The entirely working-class cast of characters in this novel was then an innovation.The background story is Manchester in...

These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader from the primal resistance of a captured partisan fighter to a middle-aged...

"Discovering Proust is like wandering through a totally unfamiliar land and finding it peopled with kindred spirits and sister souls and fellow countrymen . . . They speak our language,...

A collection of Bennett's diaries and essays, covering 2005 to 2015 Alan Bennett's third collection of prose, Keeping On Keeping On , follows in the footsteps of the phenomenally successful...

One of the most anticipated books of 2017: Boston Globe, New York Times Book Review , New York 's "Vulture", The Week , Bustle, BookRiot An NPR Best Book of...

The author describes his bizarre coming-of-age years after his adoption by his mother's psychiatrist, during which he witnessed such misadventures as a fake suicide attempt and front-lawn family/patient sleepovers.

Drawing on newly declassified government files, this is the dramatic story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between...

A lively intellectual history that explores how prominent midcentury public intellectuals approached Zionism and then the State of Israel itself and its conflicts with the Arab world In this lively...