Literary Theory

A Collection of 3,000 Thoughts, Insights, Views, and Perceptions from Antiquity to the Present Organised by hundreds of subjects that range from youth and aging and love and loss to...

Mesklin is a vast, inhospitable, disc-shaped planet, so cold that its oceans are liquid methane and its snows are frozen ammonia. It is a world spinning dizzyingly, a world where...

The book titled Jumbo by the author Gabrielle Lord. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This series aims to introduce the reader to major 19th and 20th century dramatists, movements and new forms of drama throughout the world. This book is an examination of the...

In 1776 Foote's was the most talked-of name in the English-speaking world. By 1777 it was almost unmentionable. Samuel Foote, friend of David Garrick and Dr Johnson, is the greatest...

Many know the public Yeats but few have managed to penetrate to the inner man, or to explore the relationship with his much younger wife, George. Here Brenda Maddox brings...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Worn cover; remainder mark; internally sound. A work of literary fiction steeped...

This is the first volume of letters from William Burroughs, covering the years 1945-1959. The letters are entertaining and revealing, placing Burroughs' work in the context of an extraordinary life...

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Published to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of Armistice, this collection is intended to be an introduction to the great wealth of First World War Poetry. The sequence of poems is...

The book titled Feathers or Lead by the author Unknown. 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: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Previous owner. A...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of feminist film criticism, From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies by Molly...

Edition: 1st american ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed Markings: Previous ownerA richly illustrated biographical portrait, Evelyn Waugh and His World presents a vivid panorama of one of...

This fascinating anthology is a dive into the personal letters of some of the brightest literary minds in history. This collection is a look into the personal lives of some...

With fascism on the march once more, this is an urgent dispatch from one of the great writers and intellectuals of our time 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'freedom' - is...

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

A masterwork of Japanese literary fiction, Thirst for Love chronicles the psychological unraveling of Etsuko, a young widow who moves into her late husband's family estate in rural Japan and...

Virginia Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality. Virginia Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that...

A landmark work of narrative nonfiction, Death in the Afternoon presents Ernest Hemingway's passionate and deeply informed study of Spanish bullfighting, treating the corrida not as mere spectacle but as...

Secondhand Fiction Bargain Book Box Sarah Bernstein's Study for Obedience — Booker Prize shortlisted, its author named to Granta's Best of Young British Novelists — is the most talked-about title...

This is the complete guide to the Nobel Prizewinners of the 20th Century. Included are: 703 biographies and photographs, covering all 6 Nobel classifications; Classifications chronologically presented from 1901 onwards,...

A collection of extraordinary interviews with some of the most influential literary theorists of our time, such as Derrida, Frye, Bloom, Said and Kermode.

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Hermann Hesse's final and most ambitious novel, The Glass Bead Game: Magister Ludi, is a sweeping work of philosophical fiction set in the distant future within the fictional province of...

A landmark work of feminist literature, The Awakening chronicles the emotional and sexual liberation of Edna Pontellier, a married woman in late nineteenth-century New Orleans who gradually rejects the suffocating...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards - good with light foxing. Binding remains tight. Clean text. This...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA richly detailed literary biography, Alan Judd's Ford Madox Ford chronicles the turbulent life and enduring legacy of one of...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsA deeply introspective work of literary fiction, Going by Sumner Locke Elliott chronicles the final chapter in the life of...

Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slipcase - goodAn indispensable scholarly reference for Tolkien enthusiasts, The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA daring work of postmodern literary fiction, Mantissa presents a wickedly satirical battle of wills between a...

Edition: 1st us ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA haunting and deeply psychological literary novel, The Child in Time chronicles the devastating aftermath...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of literary fiction, The Professor of Desire chronicles the turbulent inner life of David...

Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA celebrated collection of lyric poetry, All You Who Sleep Tonight presents Vikram Seth's masterful command of...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark of modernist fiction, Women in Love chronicles the intertwined lives of two sisters — Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen — and...

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Edition: 1st US ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Binding remains tight. Clean and bright copy. This seminal work in...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA candid and reflective memoir, Ways of Escape chronicles Graham Greene's restless life as both a writer and...

Edition: First British EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good , ex-libraryJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Light chipping at bottom of jacket spine. Jacket...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: DamagedPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Chunk of jacket missing at the back. otherwise fine. A landmark work of cultural criticism, Speaking to Each...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA landmark work of literary autobiography, A Sort of Life chronicles the early years of...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA darkly satirical novella by one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary voices, Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsPublished in 1914, The Wise Virgins: A Story of Words, Opinions and a Few Emotions is a sharp,...

Edition: 1st aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Remainder mark"Vanities" is a work of Australian literary fiction that dissects the ambitions, self-deceptions, and moral...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Good Markings: No markingsA rigorous work of academic scholarship, Politics and Theopolitics in the Bible and Postbiblical Literature...