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Morning, Noon, and Night
From Homer and Shakespeare to Toni Morrison and Jonathan Safran Foer, major works of literature have a great deal to teach us about two of life s most significant stages...
Voltaire, Goldberg and Others: A Compendium of the Witty, the Profound
The book titled Voltaire, Goldberg and Others: A Compendium of the Witty, the Profound by the author Milton Shulman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and
The book titled Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and by the author Louise A. DeSalvo. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...
Metaphor
Denis Donoghue turns his attention to the practice of metaphor and to its lesser cousins, simile, metonym, and synecdoche. Metaphor ("a carrying or bearing across") supposes that an ordinary word...
Hamlet (Norton Critical Editions)
The text of this Second Edition is based on the second quarto (1604-1605), with occasional references to the folio. In order to help the reader place the play in the...
Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of
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A poignant history of the cartoonists and illustrators from the Connecticut School For a period of about fifty years, right in the middle of the American Century, many of the...
Voice of the Hammer: The Meaning of Work in Middle English Literature
Shaped by the increasing commercialization of economic relations, the social agitation of the agricultural and artisan classes, and the growing formalization of status consciousness, the cultural landscape of late medieval...
Pindaric Metre: The 'Other Half'
Pindar is one of the greatest Greek poets, but while the metre of half of his poems is easy to grasp, that of the other half has so far remained...
A Muggle's Guide to the Wizarding World: Exploring the Harry Potter
This book examines and explains the complex universe created in J. K. Rowling's books, covering everything from Azkaban to Zombies. It contains a comprehensive glossary of characters, creatures, locations and...
Chinese Whispers: Cultural Essays
This is a literary journey of an Australian writer's encounter with the culture and people of China, particularly its young writers and artists, and of the evolving influence of China...
Evaristo Carriego: A Book About Old-Time Buenos Aires
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Author: Jorge Luis BorgesBinding: HardbackPublished: E. P. Dutton, Inc., 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis work presents a fascinating biographical and critical study of the forgotten Argentine poet Evaristo...
The Compleet Molesworth
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Author: Geoffrey Willans And Ronald SearleBinding: HardbackPublished: THE FOLIO SOCIETY, 2008Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis seminal work of poetic mythology, The White Goddess, presents a complex and...
Kept In The Dark
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Author: Anthony TrollopeBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 1997Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Inscription on slipcase. This Victorian novel chronicles the intricate social dynamics surrounding a young woman's...
A Change Of Perspective: The Letters Of Virginia Woolf Volume Iii: 1923-1928
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Author: Virginia WoolfBinding: HardbackPublished: The Hogarth Press, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling collection, A Change Of Perspective: The Letters Of Virginia Woolf 1923-1928, chronicles...
Collected Letters 1926-1950
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Author: Bernard ShawBinding: HardbackPublished: Viking, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markThis compelling volume presents a rich collection of correspondence from one of the twentieth century's most influential playwrights...
Collected Letters: 1874-1897
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Author: Bernard ShawBinding: HardbackPublished: Max Reinhardt, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling collection, Vol. 1: Bernard Shaw Collected Letters 1874-1897, chronicles the formative years of the renowned...
English Literature In The Earlier Seventeenth Century: 1600-1660
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Author: Douglas BushBinding: HardbackPublished: Clarendon Press, 1945Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Gifter's inscription on fep with numerous signatures. Internally sound. This scholarly...
Charles Dickens: His Tragedy And Triumph, Volume Two
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Author: Edgar JohnsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Simon and Schuster, 1952Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis definitive biography, Charles Dickens: His Tragedy And Triumph A Biography, chronicles...
Small World: An Academic Romance
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Author: David LodgeBinding: HardbackPublished: SECKER & WARBURG, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsSmall World by David Lodge is a witty academic satire that chronicles the misadventures of various...
The Reading Promise: 3,218 nights of reading with my father
When Alice was nine years old, she and her father - a beloved school librarian - made a promise to read aloud together for 100 consecutive nights. Upon reaching their...
The Arden Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotations
Who said "Neither a lender or borrower be", who loved "not wisely but too well" and whose "salad days" are now behind her? If you have ever struggled to remember...
Making Sense Of Self: Medical Advice Literature In Late Nineteenth-Century America
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Author: Anita Clair Fellman & Michael FellmanBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work chronicles the evolution and impact of medical...
Psychoanalytic Criticism: Theory In Practice
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Author: Elizabeth WrightBinding: PaperbackPublished: -Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image'Psychoanalytic Criticism: Theory In Practice presents a comprehensive introduction to the application of...
17F: Life of Ian Fleming
The book titled 17F: Life of Ian Fleming by the author Donald McCormick. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Unconscious In Culture: The Structuralism Of Claude Lévi-Strauss In Perspective
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Author: Ino RossiBinding: PaperbackPublished: DuttonCondition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis scholarly work presents a comprehensive analysis of Claude Lévi-Strauss's structuralist...
Mythology: The Voyage Of The Hero
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Author: David Adams LeemingBinding: PaperbackPublished: -Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageMythology: The Voyage Of The Hero presents a compelling analysis of the...
History of 20th-century Literature
Poets representing war's anguish, modernists transforming the novel, Beats capturing the rhythm of the times: the 20th century witnessed some of the most diverse and experimental writing since the birth...
The Literary Life And Other Curiosities
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Author: Robert HendricksonBinding: HardbackPublished: The Viking Press, New York, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis engaging compendium chronicles the fascinating world of literature, presenting a rich...
The Experience Of Defeat: Milton And Some Contemporaries
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Author: Christopher HillBinding: HardbackPublished: Elisabeth Sifton Books, VIKING, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerChristopher Hill's The Experience Of Defeat: Milton And Some Contemporaries presents...
The Text Of Paradise Lost: A Study In Editorial Procedure
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Author: R.G. MoylesBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Toronto Press, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis scholarly work presents a meticulous examination of the editorial...
How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic
Ireland played the central role in maintaining European culture when the dark ages settled on Europe in the fifth century: as Rome was sacked by Visigoths and its empire collapsed,...
City Lights: A Street Life
Keith Waterhouse was born into a world that has now vanished - a soot-blackened, tramcar-rattling provincial city, still late Edwardian or even Victorian in many of its ways, but full...
English Literature At The Close Of The Middle Ages
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Author: E. K. ChambersBinding: HardbackPublished: Clarendon Press, 1945Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis scholarly volume presents a comprehensive examination...
At the Pillars of Hercules
First published in 1979, this collection focuses on the literature and politics of the 1970s. Clive James's discussions range from the legacy of Auden and Larkin, to Gore Vidal and...
Shakespeare's Legal And Political Background
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Author: George W. KeetonBinding: HardbackPublished: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Limited, 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work, Shakespeare's Legal & Political Background, presents a...
Art & Reality: John Anderson On Literature And Æsthetics
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Author: John AndersonBinding: HardbackPublished: Hale & Iremonger, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work presents a rigorous examination of the intricate relationship between artistic creation and the...
Vita: The Life Of V. Sackville-West
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Author: Victoria GlendinningBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling biography chronicles the extraordinary life of a prominent literary figure and gardener,...
Sir John Vanbrugh: The Playwright as Architect
McCormick's study is the first to show the interrelation of Vanbrugh's seemingly disparate careers as architect and dramatist. Perhaps because his talent embraced two diverse disciplines, Sir John Vanbrugh has...
"Miserables, Les": History in the Making
Beginning with the events of Victor Hugo's personal life, this book conveys the excitement surrounding the conception of the musical. It brings together interviews with casts, directors, producers as well...
Sense and Sensibility
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Published in 1811, Sense and Sensibility has delighted generations of readers with its masterfully crafted portrait of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Forced to leave their home after their...
Coriolanus
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....
King Richard II
The times have forced changes in the way we look at "Richard II" more than any other of Shakespeare's plays. What to his contemporaries was a balanced dramatisation of the...
Samuel Beckett
"Penguin Illustrated Lives" is a series of photographic biographies that offers a fresh, intimate portrait of some of our favourite writers. An incisive, lively text is accompanied by over 100...
Vladimir Nabokov
"Penguin Illustrated Lives" is a series of photographic biographies that offers a fresh, intimate portrait of some of our favourite writers. An incisive, lively text is accompanied by over 100...
The Life of Herod the Great
'The Life of Herod The Great - like Hurston herself - is a masterpiece, a miracle, and a marvel. In other words, treasure for the whole world' Tayari Jones, author...