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The Friendly Jane Austen
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Every generation rediscovers Jane Austen with a renewed passion for her timeless stories of romance, family relations, and foibles of human nature. Today she is more popular than ever. Natalie...
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from
England has had a bad press from the Modernist disciples of a shiny, high-speed future. While the battles for modern art and modern-society were being fought in Paris and Spain,...
The Turn of the Screw
Contexts includes twenty-six selections, from James's letters, notebooks, and other writings during the period 1863-1908, centering on the ghost story, the supernatural and, in particular, "my little book," The Turn...
Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction
From Zeus and Europa, to Diana, Pan, and Prometheus, the myths of ancient Greece and Rome seem to exert a timeless power over us. But what do those myths represent,...
The Common Reader: Second Series (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to...
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded edition
The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world's greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing...
Pierrot Mon Ami
Pierrot Mon Ami, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneau's finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age novel concerning a young man's initiation into a world filled with deceit,...
Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
A Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, Bookseller and at Waterstones 'He understands only the women he invents - the others not at all' Thomas...
Quintilian's Institutes Of Oratory (Two-Volume Set)
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Author: Rev. John Selby WatsonBinding: HardbackPublished: The Legal Classics Library, 2014Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis distinguished work of classical rhetoric presents...
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889): A Study Of Poetic Idiosyncrasy In Relation To Poetic Tradition; Volume Ii
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Author: W. H. GardnerBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis academic study presents a meticulous examination of Gerard Manley Hopkins' distinctive poetic voice. It...
Feet On The Ground: An Approach To Modern Verse
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Author: Margaret J. O'Donnell, M.A.Binding: HardbackPublished: Blackie & Son Limited, 1950Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: wear and rubbing of hard cover; marked moulding on spine; binding becoming loose on...
A History Of English Literature
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Author: Peter Quennell & Hamish JohnsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Ferndale Editions, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive volume chronicles the vast and intricate tapestry of English literary tradition. It...
The Oxford Illustrated History Of English Literature
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Author: Pat RogersBinding: HardbackPublished: Guild Publishing, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis authoritative volume, The Oxford Illustrated History Of English Literature, chronicles the rich and complex tapestry of...
The Complete Works: William Shakespeare
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Author: William ShakespeareBinding: HardbackPublished: ABBEY LIBRARY, 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: dust cover torn and worn; some rubbing to cloth cover otherwise in...
Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays
'Dizzyingly flexible, deeply human, often funny, it blasts aside our preconceptions and urges us to see the world as it is' i Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in Siri Hustvedt's...
Agatha Christie: The Sunday Times Bestseller
'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse' - THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'A riveting portrait' - GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR *** 'Worsley's sparkling biography...
Jane Austen at Home: A Biography
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This is my kind of history: carefully researched but so vivid that you are convinced Lucy Worsley was actually there at the party - or the...
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft: Twentieth Anniversary Edition with
Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic...
The Adulterous Citizen: Poems, Stories, Essays
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This is an exploration into an obsession. THE ADULTEROUS CITIZEN contemplates the feeling of belonging, while yearning for the seduction of elsewhere. Tishani Doshi guides us through the streets of...
The Outsider
Wilson rationalized the psychological dislocation so characteristic of Western creative thinking into a coherent theory of alienation, and defined those affected by it as a type: the Outsider. Through the...
Rich and Strange: Gender, History, Modernism
Like the products of the "sea-change" described in Ariel's song in The Tempest, modernist writing is "rich and strange." Its greatness lies in its density and its dislocations, which have...
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
In Six Walks in the Fictional Woods Umberto Eco shares with us his Secret Life as a reader-his love for MAD magazine, for Scarlett O'Hara, for the nineteenth-century French novelist...
The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of
What if the Nazis had triumphed in the Second World War? What if Adolf Hitler had escaped Berlin for the jungles of Latin America in 1945? Gavriel Rosenfeld's pioneering study...
Strong Medicine
The book titled Strong Medicine by the author Arthur Hailey. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel: Genre and Ideology in
Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel focuses on the novels of R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie and explores the tension in these novels between ideology...
Shakespeare: For All Time
From the entry of Shakespeare's birth in the Stratford church register to a Norwegian production of Macbeth in which the hero was represented by a tomato, this enthralling and splendidly...
Literature in Renaissance England: The Oxford Anthology of English
This volume includes works by Spenser (excerpts from all books of The Faerie Queene), Shakespeare (including The Tempest), Marlowe (Dr. Faustus, Hero and Leander), Donne, and Milton (Comus, Samson Agonistes,...
The Taming of the Shrew
The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans....
The Last Supper
The book titled The Last Supper by the author Charles McCarry. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Jane Austen Insult Guide for Well-Bred Women: Serving Tea with a
A celebration of the sharpest, wittiest, most beloved Jane Austen characters and their timeless retorts Why use plain words to scold those nearest to you when fancier insults are available?...
The Panda, the Cat and the Dreadful Teddy: A Parody
The surely soon-to-be million-copy bestselling sort-of inspirational parody.. A timeless parody of Charlie Mackesy's The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse . Enter the world of me, Panda,...
Sartre: A Life
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Author: Annie Cohen-SolalBinding: HardbackPublished: Heinemann, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: some wear and marks to cloth cover; some tanning...
A Critical History Of English Literature: Volume One: From The Beginnings To The Sixteenth Century
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Author: David DaichesBinding: PaperbackPublished: London: Secker & Warburg, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: wear and fading to outside cover; white out marks on first inside page;...
A Critical History Of English Literature: Volume Two: Shakespeare To Milton
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Author: David DaichesBinding: PaperbackPublished: Secker & Warburg, 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: wear and fading to outside cover; white...
A Critical History Of English Literature: The Restoration To 1800, Volume Three
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Author: David DaichesBinding: PaperbackPublished: Secker & Warburg, London, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: wear and fading to outside cover; mildew spotting...
A Critical History Of English Literature: The Romantics To The Present Day, Volume Four
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Author: David DaichesBinding: HardbackPublished: Secker & Warburg, 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: wear to cover; minor chipping to edges;...
Richard Hillary
Richard Hillary was born in Australia in 1919 and brought up in England. Oxford educated, he was a writer foremost who was also a fighter pilot. When World War Two...
Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London
"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night," wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we...
The Lyre In The Pawnshop: Essays On Literature And Survival 1974-1984
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Author: Fay ZwickyBinding: HardbackPublished: Nedlands. University of WA, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: sun bleaching, minor marks and fraying of external cover and spine; ex-library...
The People's Bard: How China Made Shakespeare its Own: Penguin
The story of Shakespeare in China is one of cultural blending and reinvention. Peopled by devoted evangelists, theatre directors and dogged interpreters intent on bridging divisions of language and politics,...
Mapping Shakespeare: An exploration of Shakespeare's worlds through
William Shakespeare's lifetime (1564-1616) spanned the reigns of the last of the Tudors, Elizabeth I and the first of the Stuart kings, James I and the changing times and political...
The Begum's Millions
When two European scientists unexpectedly inherit an Indian rajah's fortune, each builds an experimental city of his dreams in the wilds of the American Northwest. France-Ville is a harmonious urban...
Small House at Allington
Lily Dale lives with her sister Bell and their widowed mother in rural tranquillity at Alington. But Lily yearns for more than this idyll can offer, and in Adolphus Crosbie,...
From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family
This is the first and only biography of Sydney Taylor (1904-1978), author of the award-winning All-of-a-Kind Family series of books, the first juvenile novels published by a mainstream publisher to...
Crooked House: B2+ Level 5 (Collins Agatha Christie ELT Readers)
Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has...
Candor And Perversion: Literature, Education, And The Arts
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Author: Roger ShattuckBinding: PaperbackPublished: W. W. NORTON & COMPANY, 1999Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis insightful collection of essays critically examines the...
Defining Moments in Books: The Greatest Books, Writers, Characters,
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Written and selected by a range of international writers, academics, and critics, here's an instantly accessible and intelligent look at literary history and criticism over the past century. From key...
Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead
Australia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire. Twentieth-century writers...