Literary Theory

Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Shakespeare and Me, Susannah Carson invites forty actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his...

Few of us think much of the alphabet and its familiar sing-song order once we've learned it as children. And yet the order of the alphabet, that simple knowledge that...

More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of...

A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our time A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered...

This handbook comprises background information on all three volumes of the author's Night's Dawn Trilogy. It contains notes and glossaries on major characters, planets, space stations, political hierarchies, weaponry, spacecraft,...

Secondhand Vintage Hardbacks Bargain Book Box SP4009 Eighteen hardbacks in dust jackets from the 1950s and 1960s — John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Alan...

Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4193 Twenty-four titles from the Penguin Modern Classics canon — Patrick White’s Voss, three Doris Lessing novels, three Iris Murdoch novels, three W. Somerset...

This ground-breaking book provides an abundance of fresh insights into Shakespeare's life in relation to his lost family home, New Place. The findings of a major archaeological excavation encourage us...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.' When Basil Hallward paints the...

Set in clear, easy-to-read type, this budget, slim, lightweight volume is a favourite study text with students. It also features a glossary of obsolete words and words which vary from...

Witty, profound, wildly funny, acerbic and occasionally savage, Rudyard Kipling's poems continue to delight readers of all ages. Included are both the familiar favorites and Kipling's lesser-known works. This is...

The book titled Cyclops by the author Clive Cussler. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In Voltaire In Exile, Ian Davidson has recreated this period in the life of one of the giant figures of the Enlightenment. By painstakingly translating the rich correspondence between Voltaire...

Out of this emotional turbulence came the poem "The Waste Land". Carole Seymour-Jones seeks to show that the poem cannot be understood without reference to the marriage. Based on papers...

"The Book of Success" are so diverse. They are taken from the world's greatest thinkers---from the ancient world to the twentieth century---and have stood the test of time.

Utterly fascinating' Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times Benjamin Franklin took daily naked air baths and Toulouse-Lautrec painted in brothels. Edith Sitwell worked in bed, and George Gershwin composed at the piano...

Along with Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, Othello is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies. What distinguishes Othello is its bold treatment of racial and gender themes. It is also...

Each book in the "Everyman" series has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction, chronology of life and times of the author, plot summary,...

The book titled The Playgroup by the author Nancy Weber. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

William Shawn once called The Talk of the Town the soul of the magazine. The section began in the first issue, in 1925. But it wasn't until a couple of...

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This sharp and stylish biography redefines the woman George Bernard Shaw once described as 'the greatest living Irishwoman'-Augusta Gregory. A remarkable figure in Celtic history, she was married to an...

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An Introduction to Contemporary Irish Literature provides a thorough initiation into the works of a broad selection of living Irish writers. The collection treats the writings of a range of...

Part biography, part self-help, an original, funny and moving portrait of Montaigne, Renaissance nobleman and essayist. How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to...

Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingFew novels in the twentieth century have ignited as much controversy — or as much wonder — as Salman...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThree of the most celebrated novels in the English language unite in this magnificent omnibus edition, gathering Charles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew names in the English literary canon carry the enduring weight of Jane Austen's, and this magnificent omnibus...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFor scholars and devotees of James Joyce's most labyrinthine masterwork, A Classical Lexicon for Finnegans Wake is an indispensable companion, systematically cataloguing...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: FEP missingMarkings: Previous owner,Remainder markCondition remarks: damaged front pastedown From the trenches of Gallipoli to the jungles of the Pacific, Australian war writing has...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOn a radiant June morning in post-WWI London, Clarissa Dalloway steps out to buy...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark gathering of twentieth-century short fiction, Modern Short Stories brings together some of the most compelling voices...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat if the universe is not...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of Christian scripture lies the Gospel of Saint Mark — the shortest, most urgent, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew poets have shaped the English literary imagination as profoundly as William Wordsworth, and this volume...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of Cambridge's glittering intellectual world stands Roy Calvert — a man of extraordinary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of Edwardian England, where class distinctions cut as sharply as a winter frost,...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodSet against the idyllic backdrop of a country estate on the eve of World War II, Between the Acts is Virginia Woolf's final and perhaps...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew writers have compressed the full weight of human experience into such economical prose as Ernest Hemingway, and Short Stories — a curated selection...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodOne of the most luminous achievements in all of modernist literature, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse draws the reader into the inner lives of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodWickedness, wit, and whispered scandal define the late eighteenth century, and no one chronicles its glittering excesses with more relish than T. H. White in The...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew writers in the English literary canon have matched Oscar Wilde's extraordinary capacity to compress profound truth into a perfectly turned phrase, and The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew novels in the English literary canon have provoked as much controversy or carried as much emotional devastation as Thomas Hardy's final and most searing...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedThe sun-drenched, morally labyrinthine city of Alexandria serves as both stage and character in Clea, the magnificent fourth and final...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the labyrinthine world of pre-war Alexandria, where political intrigue and personal betrayal are indistinguishable from one another, Mountolive strips...