Literary Theory

"This is a brilliant and extremely useful guide, approachable on every level. Boyd Tonkin opens up infinite worlds of the imagination." - Ian McEwan Following the great success of Robert...

'As with everything Colm Toibin sets his masterful hand to, The Magician is a great imaginative achievement - immensely readable, erudite, worldly and knowing, and fully realized.' - Richard Ford...

An Illuminating Essay on the Author of the Miles Franklin Award-Winning Novels Benang and That Deadman Dance I value Kim Scott's fiction so highly because I feel that his approach...

In a nostalgic, yet nimble telling of his boyhood in Flushing, Michigan, Edmund Love notes that he was born into a world that ceased to exist almost as soon as...

'This is by far the most important book about Virginia Woolf that has appeared since her death.' Angus Wilson, Observer Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing is to be found in...

Winner of the 2024 Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism Winner of the Northern California Book Award for General Nonfiction 'The Island makes an outstanding contribution to our knowledge of...

Reading each of Shakespeare's plays from Hamlet to The Tempest , Janet Adelman brilliantly illuminates Shakespeare's negotiations with mothers, present and absent - not only Gertrude, Volumnia, and Hermione, but...

Stephen Knight's book is a full analytic survey of crime fiction from its origins in the 19th century to the most contemporary developments. Knight explains how and why the various...

For over half a century, scholars have laboured to show that C. S. Lewis's famed but apparently disorganised Chronicles of Narnia have an underlying symbolic coherence, pointing to such possible...

Iris Murdoch: A Writer at War is a fascinating private memoir of one of the great women writers and thinkers of the 20th century and a remarkable historical document of...

This is a book about books, about the subversive power of reading and the strange, enduring magic of books as objects. Ever since childhood, books have been at the centre...

'Witty and geekily eclectic' The Times An erudite and amusing exploration' Financial Times 'Full of jawdropping facts' Mail on Sunday 'Remarkable . . . engrossing' Sunday Times 'A pleasure' Spectator...

The book titled The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage: A Reader's Companion to the by the author Claude J Summers. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

This exhaustive reference work examines the complete fictional works of Dick Francis, a former steeplechase jockey to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and an accomplished British novelist. As of 2007,...

The book titled Rolf Boldrewood by the author Thomas Alexander Browne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Ullis went to the bathroom and carefully unfolded the business card and placed it on the sink. Then he rolled up a note and snorted the last of his wife's...

This comprehensive edition of Sylvia Plath's letters is a work of immense scholarship and care, presenting a complete and historically accurate text of the known and extant letters Plath wrote...

Primarily a jazz critic, Gary Giddins is also keenly interested in cinema and modern American literature, and this book brings together over thirty of his most perceptive pieces. There are...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman's deferred American dream Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the...

Secondhand Classic Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2946 Twenty-three books that together represent a remarkable gathering of canonical classics — four Jane Austens, García Márquez's great love story, du Maurier's...

Secondhand Poetry Bargain Book Box SP2947 From a young Heaney stepping into the dark to Larkin at the absolute height of his powers, from Slessor's lighthouse to Bruce Dawe's suburban...

The book titled Alexander Pushkin: A Celebration of Russia's Best-loved Writer by the author A. D. P. Briggs. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Books That Changed the World tells the fascinating stories behind 50 books that, in ways great and small, have changed the course of human history. Andrew Taylor sets each text...

The book titled Boeve de Haumtone and GUI de Warewic: Two Anglo-Norman Romances: by the author Judith Weiss. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Medieval Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Dialogue: The Apparicion by the author Michael Hanly. Please contact us for more information about this title.

If we set H. E. Bates's best tales against the best of Chekhov's, Graham Greene declared, I do not believe it would be possible, with any conviction, to argue that...

Gloriously entertaining, supremely erudite and delightfully idiosyncractic - this is the diary of the spectacular year of 1922 1922. The spectacular year that F. Scott Fitzgerald chose as a backdrop...

A posthumously published autobiography from the famous, even infamous, Irish playwright and author of Borstal Boy. Continuing the longstanding tradition of political Irish literature, propagated by James Joyce and Sean...

Russian spies, Spanish fascists, and Hemingway sipping mojitos in Madrid. Somewhere between the genres of biography and historical fiction lies Stephen Koch's new book, The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos,...

This is a book about books, about the subversive power of reading and the strange, enduring magic of books as objects. Ever since childhood, books have been at the centre...

This text is the first collection of major critical essays on 'the most Australian Australian'. The editors have gathered material from a broad variety of sources and critical perspectives, and...

The book titled The Critics Bear it away: American Fiction and the Academy by the author Frederick C. Crews. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The book titled Enemies of Promise by the author Cyril Connolly. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

An impressionistic study of Bruce Chatwin's life and work by one of his friends. It is not a biography, but a collection of Clapp's own memories of Chatwin and those...

In this volume, some of the 20th-century's greatest playwrights talk about their craft. In doing so, they prove that reports of the death of the theatre have been greatly exaggerated....

Mailer wrote almost 50,000 letters over the course of his life, keeping a copy of almost every one of them. He corresponded with presidents and politicians, artists and athletes, writers...

Borges takes us on a startling, idiosyncratic, fresh, and highly opinionated tour of English literature, weaving together countless cultural traditions of the last three thousand years. Borges's lectures - delivered...

In English translations that achieve a lively readability without sacrificing the dramatic and comic impact of the original Latin, this volume presents all six comedies: The Girl from Andros (Andria),...

A brilliant and very readable critical biography of, according to the author, 'the greatest single imaginative genius of the nineteenth century'. Winner of the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize. 'I have...

This book is an advanced critical introduction to Greek tragedy. It is written specifically for the reader who does not know Greek and who may be unfamiliar with the context...

The book titled The King of Inventors: Life of Wilkie Collins by the author Catherine Peters. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford by the author Nancy Mitford. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"Backgrounds and Contexts" includes a wealth of materials on the tale's publication history as well as its relevance to Victorian culture. Twelve of Stevenson's letters from the years 1885-87 are...

A major new biography of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a unique figure in British history, a great writer as well as an imperial icon whose life trajectory matched...

Allusions form a colourful extension to the English language, drawing on our collective knowledge of literature, mythology, and the Bible to give us a literary shorthand for describing people, places,...

'It was early in a fine summer's day, near the end of the eighteenth century, when a young man, of genteel appearance, having occasion to go towards the north-east of...