Literary Theory

Volume 2 of a three volume set containing Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence in its entirety. The publication of Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence will be a major event in Australian scholarly...

The world has changed faster during the 20th century than ever before. All our previous assumptions about God, our social, economic and political structures, science and technology, and - by...

The book titled Whistlejacket by the author John Hawkes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Conventional criticism discusses Wordsworth's poetry in terms of what his writing might have meant then, around 1800. Antony Easthope writes about how we can read that poetry now, nearly 200...

The book titled Critical Terms for Literary Study by the author Frank Lentricchia. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Through tireless searches in archives and some very astute deductions these two ex-BBC television production executives have exposed a new dimension to Lewis Carroll's ALICE IN WONDERLAND and THROUGH THE...

Of all types of literature, children's literature is perhaps the best loved, most varied, and most subtly influential. Its history is not merely a footnote to social history, but a...

Eighteen titles across the full spectrum of women's fiction, from breezy escapism to genuinely moving drama. Sophie Kinsella's Confessions of a Shopaholic, Jodi Picoult's Plain Truth, Jennifer Weiner's Certain Girls,...

Edition: 1st us ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA quietly devastating work of literary fiction, Schmidt Steps Back chronicles the later years of...

Condition remarks:Book: Acceptable , ex-libraryJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed Markings: Ex-library with usual markingsA rigorous work of literary criticism, The Picturesque Prison: Evelyn Waugh and His Writing presents a comprehensive...

Edition: 1st us ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark of postmodern literary fiction, The Mezzanine chronicles a single lunch break in the...

Edition: 1st aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Yellowed Markings: Previous ownerA landmark work of American literary fiction, Another Country chronicles...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsA handsome collected volume from Heinemann's uniform edition, "The Selected Novels of...

Edition: 1st english translation Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA work of mid-twentieth-century French literary fiction, The Neon Halo by Jean-Louis...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: SignedA rich collection of literary and personal essays, Crossing the Gap presents the reflections of one of Australia's most...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: SignedCondition remarks: Signed bookplate. Boards - good. Binding - tight. A quietly devastating work of literary fiction, Peter Smart's...

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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Cover - worn with some insect damage. A rigorous work of academic philosophy,...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed Markings: Previous ownerA razor-sharp work of psychological fiction, The Driver's Seat chronicles the unsettling final day of Lise, a woman...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work of literary biography, Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart chronicles the life of...

Here for the first time is this controversial writer's real childhood and early adulthood. The mixed feelings of an intelligent, sensitive child - talented but tormented; the eventual separation from...

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The book titled Something Childish and Other Stories by the author Katherine Mansfield. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work of literary biography, Max: A Biography chronicles the life of Sir...

Condition remarks:Book: Acceptable Jacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerSet against the burgeoning literary and social landscape of early 20th-century Australia, The Ashes of Achievement follows the intertwined lives...

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Edition: rev ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA bold work of philosophical non-fiction, The Aristos presents John Fowles's personal...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA bold work of literary scholarship, The Shakespeare Marlowe Revolution argues that the celebrated works long attributed solely to William Shakespeare...

When Marie D'Anger saw that look in Edy Baudin's eye, she knew it was time to go home. Marie D'Anger returns to the family home in south-west Australia after years...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA rigorous work of sociological scholarship, Marx and Modern Social Theory presents a systematic examination of Karl Marx's intellectual legacy and its...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA luminous work of literary fiction by one of Australia's most celebrated writers, Child's...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA sweeping treasury of one of literature's most brilliant and irreverent voices, this comprehensive collection gathers the full range of Oscar Wilde's...

I was eleven, no more, when the wish came to me to be a writer; and then very soon it was a settled ambition. But for the young V. S....

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The book titled Feral City by the author Rosie Scott. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA bold and experimental work of Australian feminist fiction, Remember the Tarantella by Finola Moorhead chronicles the lives of women...

Kit Marlowe was the bad boy of the Elizabethan drama, a schemer and player who inhabited a seamy underworld in which plots proliferated. When he died, stabbed through the eye...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA celebrated collection of short fiction from one of Australia's most distinctive literary voices,...

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Condition remarks:Book: New Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: New in original plastic wrap. A cornerstone of American literature, this landmark novel chronicles the life of Hester Prynne, a...

In this book, Janet Todd, one of the leading authorities on seventeenth- and eighteenth century women writers, discusses gender issues from the Restoration to Romanticism investigating women authors and the...

Edition: 1st us ed., 1st prCondition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Clean and bright copy. A provocative...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: SignedA striking collection of prose poetry and experimental fiction, Black Bagatelles by Rodney Hall presents a series of darkly...

The book titled Dancing on Hot Macadam: Peter Carey's Fiction by the author A.J. Hassall. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Edition: 1st aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Yellowed Markings: SignedA rich and genre-defying work from one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices, The Most Beautiful World: Fictions...

This series of readings, explores the functioning of moments in poems when the medium--language--becomes an issue. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to...