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In 1904, while still working on his translations of Ruskin, Marcel Proust wrote to Maurice Barr s "I still have two Ruskin's to do, and after that I shall try...
William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love
Named a BOOK OF THE YEAR by The Times and Sunday Times, New Statesman, Spectator, Prospect, and New Yorker . 'Undoubtedly Hoare's masterpiece' Olivia Laing 'Queer in all senses of...
J.B. Priestley
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century British letters cast as long and varied a shadow as J.B. Priestley — playwright, novelist, essayist, and broadcaster — and...
Mother Tongue, Father Time: A Decade Of Linguistic Revolt
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of language, power, and identity, Mother Tongue, Father Time: A Decade of Linguistic Revolt presents...
A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most revolutionary novels of the twentieth century, A Portrait of the Artist as...
Main Street
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the suffocating heart of small-town America, Carol Milford — an idealistic, college-educated young woman — marries a...
Early Victorian Novelists
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe great novels of the early Victorian era — the sweeping moors of Brontë, the fog-laden streets of...
The Kleinian Development: Part Iii: The Clinical Significance Of The Work Of Bion
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; creased spineIn the final volume of his landmark trilogy, Donald Meltzer, M.D., turns his incisive analytical lens...
Spirit Of Place: Letters & Essays On Travel
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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew writers have surrendered themselves to place with the same intoxicating abandon as Lawrence Durrell, and Spirit...
The Abolition Of Man: Or Reflections On Education With Special Reference To The Teaching Of English In The Upper Forms Of Schools
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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; small price sticker on the front cover; What does it mean to be human in an...
Aristophanis Comoediae Undecim, Graece Et Latine
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: ** Greek-Latin text ** - Good for age - Binding: Original leather, dried and cracked with the usual...
What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Essential Questions Answered
250TH BIRTHDAY EDITION 'Almost as good as finding an unpublished novel' The Lady 'Any new book on Austen raises the urgent question, Would I get more pleasure from reading this...
How to Think Like a Poet: The Poets That Made Our World and Why We
'An entertaining guide to the rhyme and reason of poetry' -- The Idler How history's most influential and inspiring poets - from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O'Hara...
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature
This book introduces students to the literature of Anglo-Saxon England, the period from 600-1066, in a collection of fifteen specially commissioned essays. The Companion is aimed at students encountering Old...
Selected Novels & Stories
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew authors have mapped the treacherous terrain of social ambition, moral consciousness, and transatlantic identity with the precision and psychological depth of...
A Body Of Water: A Year's Notebook
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the luminous margins of a single year, Beverley Farmer's A Body of Water: A Year's Notebook presents an intimate, meditative...
A Singular Man
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the gilded facade of mid-century American prosperity lurks George Smith, a mysteriously wealthy recluse obsessed with building himself the grandest mausoleum the world has...
The Ice Age
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerBritain in the 1970s is a nation gripped by stagnation, disillusionment, and economic collapse — and Margaret Drabble's The Ice Age captures this...
The Writer In The Modern World
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhat does it mean to be a writer in an age of upheaval, war, modernism, and shifting moral landscapes? The Writer in the...
Shakespeare's Eden: The Commonwealth Of England 1558-1629
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of literature and political history stands a period so turbulent and transformative that...
The Oxford Dictionary Of English Proverbs
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A Reader's Guide To James Joyce
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor any reader venturing into the labyrinthine worlds of James Joyce, William York Tindall's authoritative companion stands as an...
A Dictionary Of Modern English Usage
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodFew reference works have achieved the status of a cultural institution, yet H. W. Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage stands as precisely that —...
Splintered Light: Logos And Language In Tolkien's World
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of theology, linguistics, and mythopoeic imagination stands Splintered Light: Logos and Language in...
The Poetical Works Of Thomas Hood: With Memoir, Explanatory Notes, &C.
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodFew voices from the Victorian era capture the full spectrum of human experience — from riotous comedy...
The Life Of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D. Vol I
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodCondition remarks: sandglass laid-inOne of the most celebrated biographies ever written, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. stands as a towering monument of English literature,...
The Imagined City: Melbourne In The Mind Of Its Writers
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerMelbourne — sprawling, layered, and perpetually reinventing itself — has long captured the imaginations of those who call it home, and The...
The Book Of Form & Emptiness
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Grief has a voice, and in Ruth Ozeki's The Book of Form & Emptiness, it speaks directly to thirteen-year-old Benny Oh, a boy reeling from the sudden death of his...
Decolonizing Knowledge: Looking Back, Moving Forward
Interdisciplinary scholars rethink strategies for moving contemporary decolonization politics forward by revisiting the writings of the mid-20th century anti-colonial movements' leading intellectuals. Decolonizing Knowledge draws on intellectual histories of anti-colonial...
Saxophone
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The saxophone is a contradictory instrument that has rooted itself in the soil...
Pub
"Erudite, quirky, and amusing." Sebastian Faulks Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The pub is an English institution. Yet...
Relic
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Every culture, every religion, every era has enshrined otherwise regular objects with a...
Poems: Third Series
In 1593 Shakespeare awoke and found himself famous. Lines from his comic, erotic, tragic poem Venus and Adonis were on everyone's lips.The appearance in 1594 of the darkly reflective and...
Julius Caesar: Third Series
This edition of one of Shakespeare's best known and most frequently performed plays argues for Julius Caesar as a new kind of political play, a radical departure from contemporary practice,...
A Jane Austen Miscellany: Sisters, Suitors, Familes Friends
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The book titled A Jane Austen Miscellany: Sisters, Suitors, Familes Friends by the author Jane Austen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
And Then? And Then? What Else?: A Writer's Life
A memoir from the beloved author behind the multimillion-copy bestselling A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS 'Handler's memoir, although subtle, ironic and full of dry wit, still pulses with that same...
Careme: The First Celebrity Chef
NOW A MAJOR APPLE+ TV SERIES 'Magnificent' ANTHONY BOURDAIN 'Irresistible' HUGH FEARNLEY-WHITTINGSTALL 'A classic' DAMIAN BARR From historian and screenwriter, Ian Kelly, comes the legendary story of Careme, the original...
How to Think Like a Poet: The Poets That Made Our World and Why We
An entertaining guide to history's most influential and inspiring poets - from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O'Hara - and how they can teach us to better understand...
Beowulf: Poem, Poet and Hero
The Old English epic poem Beowulf has an established reputation as a canonical text. And yet the original poem has remained inaccessible to all but experienced scholars of Old English....
Jane Austen in 50 Words
What does Jane Austen mean when she writes approvingly of a character's 'gentility' and 'delicacy', or critically of another's 'indolence' and 'impertinence'? What are her characters doing when they take...
Shakespeare is Hard, but so is Life
The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere, from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from classic theatre to modern adaptations on stage...
Hungry as the Sea
Through shipwreck and hurricane, in the ice of the Antarctic to the coast of Africa, Nick Berg is a man fighting back against the ruthless ambition of an arch-rival who...
Smith of Wootton Major
A charming new paperback edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien's major pieces of short fiction, and his only finished work dating from after the publication of The Lord of the...
Why Plato Matters Now
Professor Angie Hobbs proves in this persuasive and intelligent book that Plato is more relevant than ever. Does Plato matter? An ancient philosopher whose work has inspired and informed countless...
Shakespeare is Hard, but so is Life
The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere, from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from classic theatre to modern adaptations on stage...
As if by Chance: Journeys, Theatres, Lives
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David Lan evokes a unique theatre of life. Sometimes hilarious, always deeply felt we travel with him to Peter Brook's Paris, to Chekhov's Yalta, to Lithuania in search of his...
The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures
The End of the Poem contains the fifteen lectures delivered by Paul Muldoon during his tenure as Oxford Professor of Poetry, from 1999 to 2004. Rather than individual and discreet...
