Literary Theory

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: price clipped dj. First published in 1957, The Uses of Literacy stands as one of the...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the most celebrated works in the English literary canon, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales presents a vivid...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the turbulent intellectual landscape of modern Russia, two powerful symbols collide: Lot's Wife — frozen, backward-looking, paralysed by the past — and the...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat separates a masterful literary biography from a mere recounting of facts? The Craft of Literary Biography, edited by Jeffrey Meyers, brings together fourteen...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: Tanning and foxingSet against the turbulent backdrop of seventeenth-century Lombardy under Spanish rule, The Betrothed chronicles the harrowing journey of two young peasants, Renzo and...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the turbulent aftermath of the Paris Commune to the ideological battlegrounds of the twentieth century, Literature and the Left in France charts the...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedA luminous window into one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary minds, Memories gathers the recollections and reflections...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind one of literature's most iconic fictional voices stood a flesh-and-blood woman whose extraordinary life rivalled anything her famous husband could imagine. Nora: The...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the grand sweep of American literary history, few eras crackle with as much creative electricity as the mid-nineteenth century, and Van...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedAt the crossroads of Russian Romanticism and early realism stands Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoyevsky — philosopher, musician, writer, and eccentric polymath — whose singular life...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the heart of Edwardian literary London stood South Lodge — the Campden Hill home of...