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The Intellectual Part: An Autobiography
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsThe Intellectual Part: An Autobiography chronicles the life and intellectual journey of Rayner Heppenstall, offering a profound look...
Yvor Winters: Uncollected Essays & Reviews
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerYvor Winters: Uncollected Essays & Reviews presents a comprehensive collection of critical writings from one of the twentieth century's most...
Duino Elegies: The German Text, With An English Translation, Introduction And Commentary By J. B. Leishman And Stephen Spender
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Edition: 3rd., ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: No markingsDuino Elegies presents a monumental cycle of ten poems that grapple with profound existential questions concerning...
Beyond The Lighthouse: English Women Novelists In The Twentieth Century
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis book explores the contributions of English women novelists throughout the 20th century, highlighting their unique voices and...
The Elizabethan World Picture
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageE.M.W. Tillyard's The Elizabethan World Picture presents a foundational analysis of the intellectual and...
Essays In Stylistic Analysis
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageEssays In Stylistic Analysis presents a rigorous academic examination of literary style. This collection...
English Literature & Printing From The 15Th To The 18Th Century: Part I. A-L And Part Ii. M-Z
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: 2 Vols., in one,This scholarly volume chronicles the rich tapestry of...
One Half Of Robertson Davies (SIGNED)
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Gifter's inscription penned on fep. This collection presents a vibrant array of essays and speeches from one...
The Music Of Humanity: A Critical Study Of Wordsworth's Ruined Cottage Incorporating Texts From A Manuscript Of 1799-1800
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerThis scholarly work presents a meticulous critical study of William Wordsworth's poignant poem, The Ruined Cottage. It uncovers...
The Art Of Courtly Love
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed Markings: Previous ownerThe Art Of Courtly Love presents a foundational medieval treatise that meticulously details the intricate rules and conventions governing romantic...
The Common Reader: Second Series
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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsVirginia Woolf's The Common Reader: Second Series presents a collection of incisive literary essays that illuminate the...
Transition 1927-38: The History Of A Literary Era
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis scholarly work chronicles the vibrant and often tumultuous literary landscape between 1927 and 1938, focusing on the...
Saint With A Gun: The Unlawful American Private Eye
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Some marks and specks on boards. This compelling literary analysis, Saint With A Gun:...
The Craft Of The Novel
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor tear to back of DJ and some rubbing to...
From the Material to the Mystical in Late Medieval Piety: The
The German mystic Gertrude the Great of Helfta (c.1256-1301) is a globally venerated saint who is still central to the Sacred Heart Devotion. Her visions were first recorded in Latin,...
Shakespeare Survey 75: Othello
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of...
Revolution and Its Narratives: China's Socialist Literary and Cultural
Published in China in 2010, Revolution and Its Narratives is a historical, literary, and critical account of the cultural production of the narratives of China's socialist revolution. Through theoretical, empirical,...
All Is True: The Claims and Strategies of Realist Fiction
"All is true," realist writers would say of their work, to which critics now respond: All is art and artifice. Offering a new approach to reading nineteenth-century realist fiction, Lilian...
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from
An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the battles for modern art and society were being fought in France and Spain, it has seemed...
V.S. Pritchett
V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997) - VSP as he was affectionately known - was the greatest British short-story writer of the twentieth century, and one of its liveliest and most humane...
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (Collins Classics)
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'At first you saw only a mass of coarse, matted black hair; presently it was seen that this...
Meanjin: The Civil State
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Author: variousBinding: PaperbackPublisher: University of Melbourne, 1997Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA vivid tapestry of essays, poetry, and reflections,...
The Great Good Place: The Country House And English Literature
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Author: Malcolm KelsallBinding: HardbackPublisher: Columbia University Press, -Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThe academic work The Great Good Place: The Country House And English Literature...
Flaws In The Glass: A Self-Portrait
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Author: Patrick WhiteBinding: HardbackPublisher: Jonathan Cape, 1981Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerFlaws In The Glass: A Self-Portrait offers a profoundly introspective journey into the psyche...
The Country And The City
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Author: Raymond WilliamsBinding: HardbackPublisher: CHATTO & WINDUS, 1973Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: staining on dust jacket spineThe Country And The City presents a...
Australia Through The Looking-Glass: Children's Fiction 1830-1980
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Author: Brenda NiallBinding: HardbackPublisher: Melbourne University Press, 1987Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slight sun fading DJ spine This academic work chronicles the...
South of the Naples
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Author: Roger PeyrefitteBinding: HardbackPublisher: Thames and Hudson, 1954Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: First Edition, Some foxing on front/end pagesA journey that begins in...
The Oxford Companion To Australian Literature
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Author: William H. Wilde, Joy Hooton, Barry AndrewsBinding: HardbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, 1986Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis authoritative reference work presents a comprehensive overview...
Mayor's Juvenal (two volume slipcased set)
This final edition of Mayor's Juvenal, issued here in two hardback volumes (available separately or as a slip-cased set), should be an essential part of all professional Latinists' reference libraries....
Terence: The Girl from Andros
The Girl from Andros was the first play of the brilliant but short-lived Roman comic playwright Terence and shows him as already a master dramatist. It is based on two...
A Companion to Greek Tragedy
The Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy provides readers with a fundamental grounding in Greek tragedy, and also introduces them to the various methodologies and the lively critical dialogue that characterize...
The Oxford Book of Work
Primal curse or sacred duty? Painful drudgery or the only sure route to human happiness? Work has always evoked conflicting reactions. Yet whether we view it as a tedious necessity...
The Poison Principle: A Memoir About Family Secrets And Literary Poisonings
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Author: Gail BellBinding: PaperbackPublisher: Picador, 2001Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe memoir The Poison...
Kill Your Darlings: New Fiction, Essays, Commentary And Reviews
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Author: Rebecca . Starford, (editor)Binding: PaperbackPublisher: Kill Your Darlings P/L, Seddon West, 2010Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageKill Your...
Meanjin: Volume 53 Number 4 Summer
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Author: Jenny LeeBinding: PaperbackPublisher: University of Melbourne, 1994Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageMeanjin: Volume 53 Number 4 Summer presents...
Slavic Sins of the Flesh: Food, Sex, and Carnal Appetite in
This remarkable work by Ronald D. LeBlanc is the first study to appraise the representation of food and sexuality in the nineteenth-century Russian novel. Meticulously researched and elegantly and accessibly...
PRIVATE WORLD OF DAPHNE DU MAURIER
The first to indicate that Du Maurier had bi sexual tendencies, this book depicts a woman far removed fro m the ''Queen of Romance'' described in the tabloid obituaries ....
As You Like It
Michael Hattaway's Introduction to this bestselling edition of As You Like It accounts for what makes this popular play both innocent and dangerous. This third edition includes a new section...
The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries
How did a single genre of text have the power to standardise the English language across time and region, rival the Bible in notions of authority, and challenge our understanding...
The Tears of Sovereignty: Perspectives of Power in Renaissance Drama
A comparative study of the representation of sovereignty in paradigmatic plays of early modernity, The Tears of Sovereignty argues that the great playwrights of the period-William Shakespeare, Lope de Vega,...
The Roman Self in Late Antiquity: Prudentius and the Poetics of the
The Roman Self in Late Antiquity for the first time situates Prudentius within a broad intellectual, political, and literary context of fourth-century Rome. As Marc Mastrangelo convincingly demonstrates, the late-fourth-century...
Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life
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The book titled Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life by the author Robert Fulghum. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Euripides: Medea
This edition presents Medea, the most famous play of the Athenian tragedian Euripides, in ancient Greek, with commentary designed for university Greek classes, from second-year Greek upward. It helps students...
Henri Peyre: His Life in Letters
Henri Peyre (1901-1988), a giant figure in French studies, did more to introduce Americans to the modern literature and culture of French than any other person. Sterling Professor and chair...
Rewriting Russia: Jacob Gordin's Yiddish Drama
Jacob Gordin was the first major playwright of the "Golden Age" of New York's Yiddish theater, which was not just entertainment but also a public forum, a force for education...
Christian Sorcerers on Trial: Records of the 1827 Osaka Incident
In 1829, three women and three men were paraded through Osaka and crucified. Placards set up at the execution ground proclaimed their crime: they were devotees of the "pernicious creed"...
Cavell, Companionship, and Christian Theology
In recent decades, theologians and philosophers of religion have engaged in a vigorous debate concerning the status and nature of ecclesiology. Throughout this debate, they have found resources for their...
Private Dicks and Feisty Chicks: An Interrogation of Crime Fiction
Private Dicks and Feisty Chicks is an entertaining and fast-paced exploration of crime fiction. Written by Cathy Cole, a published crime author, it addresses the reasons why readers of crime...