Literary Theory

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Hamlet on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No Fear Shakespeare contains: The complete text...

For over twenty years, people turned to A. A. Gill's columns every Sunday - for his fearlessness, his perception, and the laughter-and-tear-provoking one-liners - but mostly because he was the...

Add some drama to your card games with Aphrodite, Artemis, Medusa and more! This beautifully illustrated deck of traditional playing cards features the women of Greek myths as you've never...

Compiled from GL Apperson's original research of nearly three thousand works dating as far back as the 12th century and earlier, and built upon the foundations of the great Oxford...

Following on from the phenomenally successful The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, Dan Brown's next thriller, The Lost Symbol, is set to feature Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon once...

Blanch, writer, artist and adventuress, followed her own compass in everything she did. She called herself a romantic traveller; her appetite for the exotic colours all her books. The first,...

This is an account of the life of the eccentric Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Born in 1900 of impoverished aristocracy, he swiftly developed a mania for aviation, despite his chaotic mind...

The book titled Edward Lear: A Biography by the author Peter Levi. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers who defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. In the Letters , we discover the art of Plath's correspondence. Most has never before...

In The Soul of London (1905) Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) gives a vivid impression of the excitement and challenge of the greatest city of modern times.In its evocation of the...

Their aim: absolute control of the medical profession. Their method: destruction of the mind ...Hard-up student Jason Schonberg abandoned his scruples to join Arolen, undisputed giant of the pharmaceuticals industry....

Although the Woolf and Bloomsbury "industry" has examined Woolf's work from virtually every angle, there has never been any full consideration of either how she was influenced by drama and...

Virginia Woolf and Her Influences presents papers from the Seventh Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf at Plymouth State College in New Hampshire June 12-15, 1997. These papers fall under the...

Virginia Woolf and the Arts, a provocative collection of papers culled from the sixth annual conference on Virginia Woolf at Clemson University, explores new ground in Woolf studies. Papers in...

"A passionate, political and provocative study" Patricia Clements, Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, and founding director of The Orlando Project Times Higher Education Magazine "The distillation of many years of...

After Virginia Woolf's death most of the manuscript of "Women and Fiction" was given by Leonard Woolf to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, where, until its rediscovery by the author, it...

I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, crossed love and unrequited love, success and failure, fame and slaughter, to have read...

Shakespeare's Sonnets are as important and vital today as they were when first published four hundred years ago. Perhaps no collection of verse before or since has so captured the...

How are we to think about nature and the environment? The idea of nature as it relates to culture, society and humans has always been in constant flux and highly...

Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere relates Woolf's literary reviews and essays to early twentieth-century debates about the value of 'highbrow' culture, the methods of instruction in universities...

Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned...

The book titled Transformers: Retribution by the author David J. Williams. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Transformers: Retribution by the author David J. Williams. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Rainer Maria Rilke developed one of the most singular poetic styles of the twentieth century. Visionary yet always anchored in the real world, his poems give profound expression to fundamental...

89 Words, published in 1985, is an expanded version of the dictionary of sorts that readers encountered in The Art of the Novel, and comprises a fascinating and rigorous interrogation...

Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many...

1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, The Chronicle History...

Over her 20 year career, Jane Smiley has written many kinds of novels - mystery, comedy, historical fiction, epic. But when her impulse to write faltered after 9/11, she decided...

In this new selection from the poetry of Lawrence Durrell (the first for thirty years), Peter Porter has drawn on the full range of the published work, from A Private...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their...

This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published fifty years ago, was the outcome of Graves's vast reading and curious research into strange territories of folklore, mythology, religion and magic. Erudite...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding: Firm and intact. No stickers or labels visible. A scholarly...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: wear and tear - light tearing around spine. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A cornerstone of Restoration theatre, this...

Condition remarks: Condition: Fair to Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some chipping and tearing to edges and corners. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A cornerstone...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Part of the celebrated English Men of Letters series,...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A towering work of Victorian fiction, The...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A monumental work of postwar German literature,...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A quietly devastating work of literary fiction,...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Winner of the National Book Award for...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record, edited by Leopold...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark anthology in American literary culture,...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Set in seventeenth-century Poland in the aftermath...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark work in literary biography, Rudyard...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A sweeping work of literary fiction, Constance...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A masterwork of literary fiction by one...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, one tear on jacket seam — the dust jacket displays the characteristic teal/green geometric patterned design, with some general age-related wear. Page Condition: Good...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Appears intact. Stickers/Labels: None visible. Winter's Crimes 4 is the fourth instalment in the acclaimed British...

Condition remarks: Condition: Fair to Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed and aged, consistent with a 1928 publication. Markings: previous owner. Binding: Appears intact though aged. Stickers/Labels: None...