Literary Theory

A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was...

The relationship between philosopher-critic Walter Benjamin and playwright-poet Bertolt Brecht was both a lasting friendship and a powerful intellectual partnership. Having met in the late 1920s in Germany, Benjamin and...

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....

The Literary Lifeline is a tribute to the transporting and consoling power of reading. In this insightful and moving book, Kevin Harvey affirms the importance that language and literature can...

When we think about George Orwell, we imagine an angular, moustachioed sceptic crouched over a typewriter, who - between puffs on his cigarette - composes effortless streams of prose, unadorned...

When we think about George Orwell, we imagine an angular, moustachioed sceptic crouched over a typewriter, who - between puffs on his cigarette - composes effortless streams of prose, unadorned...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLanguage is alive — breathing, shifting, and endlessly surprising — and Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English...

Secondhand Modern Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4002 The 1970s paperback shelf of a reader with taste: Kingsley Amis, Paul Scott, Joseph Heller, Philip Roth, Muriel Spark, J.P. Donleavy, Tom Sharpe,...

Secondhand Literature & Reference Bargain Book Box SP4192 Fowler’s, the Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, Keats’s letters, Leavis’s The Great Tradition and two Penguin verse anthologies, with Australian literary criticism,...

Secondhand Matthew Reilly Bargain Book Box SP4160 Fifteen Matthew Reilly novels in hardback and large-format paperback, from Ice Station and Contest through the whole Jack West run to The One...

Edition: First UK EditionCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped djIn a world where consumerism reigns supreme and language itself becomes a weapon of control, The...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt a time when educational failure was quietly accepted as an inevitable byproduct of a...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the volatile intersection of technology, embodiment, and cultural politics, Johannes Birringer's Media & Performance: Along the Border presents a provocative and rigorous examination...

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More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of...

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Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4193 Twenty-four titles from the Penguin Modern Classics canon — Patrick White’s Voss, three Doris Lessing novels, three Iris Murdoch novels, three W. Somerset...

This ground-breaking book provides an abundance of fresh insights into Shakespeare's life in relation to his lost family home, New Place. The findings of a major archaeological excavation encourage us...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.' When Basil Hallward paints the...

In Voltaire In Exile, Ian Davidson has recreated this period in the life of one of the giant figures of the Enlightenment. By painstakingly translating the rich correspondence between Voltaire...

Out of this emotional turbulence came the poem "The Waste Land". Carole Seymour-Jones seeks to show that the poem cannot be understood without reference to the marriage. Based on papers...

"The Book of Success" are so diverse. They are taken from the world's greatest thinkers---from the ancient world to the twentieth century---and have stood the test of time.

Along with Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, Othello is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies. What distinguishes Othello is its bold treatment of racial and gender themes. It is also...

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William Shawn once called The Talk of the Town the soul of the magazine. The section began in the first issue, in 1925. But it wasn't until a couple of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThree of the most celebrated novels in the English language unite in this magnificent omnibus edition, gathering Charles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew names in the English literary canon carry the enduring weight of Jane Austen's, and this magnificent omnibus...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: FEP missingMarkings: Previous owner,Remainder markCondition remarks: damaged front pastedown From the trenches of Gallipoli to the jungles of the Pacific, Australian war writing has...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark gathering of twentieth-century short fiction, Modern Short Stories brings together some of the most compelling voices...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat if the universe is not...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of Christian scripture lies the Gospel of Saint Mark — the shortest, most urgent, and...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of Cambridge's glittering intellectual world stands Roy Calvert — a man of extraordinary...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodSet against the idyllic backdrop of a country estate on the eve of World War II, Between the Acts is Virginia Woolf's final and perhaps...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodWickedness, wit, and whispered scandal define the late eighteenth century, and no one chronicles its glittering excesses with more relish than T. H. White in The...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedThe sun-drenched, morally labyrinthine city of Alexandria serves as both stage and character in Clea, the magnificent fourth and final...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the labyrinthine world of pre-war Alexandria, where political intrigue and personal betrayal are indistinguishable from one another, Mountolive strips...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the shimmering, sun-drenched city of Alexandria, Egypt, love, art, and truth collide in ways that shatter every certainty —...