Literary Theory

A collection of correspondence between Rainer Maria Rilke, Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetayeva. Published for the first time in English, these 49 letters examine their thought and work, the nature...

A biography of the 20th-century's most famous woman writer - winner of the 1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography.

This new translation successfully combines a feeling for the formal proprieties of Dumas's style with a supple and colloquial liveliness that once again proves this story irresistible.

This book examines the opinions and influences, idiosyncrasies and personalities of writers as diverse as Shakespeare and Kingsley Amis, Cervantes and Milan Kundera. Professor Miller discusses and defends the profession...

The book titled Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary by the author Hannah Arendt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

InRuth Hall, one of the bestselling novels of the 1850s, Fanny Fern drew heavily on her own experiences: the death of her first child and her beloved husband, a bitter...

The book titled Pack My Bag: A Self-Portrait by the author Henry Green. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

An autobiography, revealing Nabokov's comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, army of relations and family hangers-on and of lovely civilized houses in St Petersburg...

A delightful and uniquely imaginative tribute to the Bard, incorporating biography, theatrical history, and a vivid recreation of the Elizabethan age. Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject...

Reissued in electric new backlist style, The Facts is Philip Roth's idiosyncratic memoir How does a novelist write about the facts of his life after spending years fictionalising those facts...

This companion to the work of one of Britain's best-loved novelists celebrates the centenary of her birth. Daphne du Maurier is one of Britain's best-loved authors, her writing capturing the...

Readers who have discovered the delights of the British master storyteller H.E. Bates in A Month by the Lake and A Party for the Girls (published by New Directions in...

Felix Holt, austere, idealistic, and passionate, is pitted against the self-satisfied local landlord Harold Transome in this story set in a Midland borough at the time of the Great Reform...

This book is part of the "Everyman" series, which has been totally re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type. It includes an introduction, a chronology of the life and times...

Buchan vividly and affectionately describes the writer whose novels and poems made him the most popular author of his day. Scott was born in 1771 to a powerful Border family....

' Backing into the Spotlight is a hilarious and an unashamedly non-PC memoir . . . Now in his eighth decade, Whitehall is a fine raconteur, gloriously unreconstructed and still...

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was born on Long Island and had a variety of occupations, including journalism, printing and teaching, before publishing Leaves Of Grass in 1855, which was highly praised...

Attitudes to sex have changed since Burns' time, passing through the prim, censorious 19th century, to move slowly towards the more open attitudes of the 21st. In writing about Burns,...

Charlotte Yonge, a best-seller admired by her greatest literary contemporaries in the mid-nineteenth century, but ignored or vilified by critics for the next hundred years, has recently received some attention...

Osbert Sitwell, with his siblings Edith and Sacheverell, was at the heart of every literary fracas from 1918 to until well after 1945. He was a close friend and sometime...

Almost 400 years after his death, William Shakespeare is still acclaimed as the world's greatest writer, and yet the man himself remains shrouded in mystery. In this absorbing historical detective...

From bestselling author Michael Palin comes this remarkable travelogue and insightful biography of Hemingway -- a companion to the four-part PBS series of the same title. Long fascinated by Hemingway's...

The book titled Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by the author Ebenezer Cobham Brewer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Having assured the members of London's exclusive Reform Club that he will circumnavigate the world in 80 days, Fogg - stiff, repressed, English - starts by joining forces with an...

Introduces English Literature's first female detective Despite the grave misgivings of both their families, Valeria Brinton and Eustace Woodville are married. But before long the new bride begins to suspect...

He spent his earliest years in post-World War Two refugee camps. He came to America and grew up in Cleveland - stealing cars, rolling drinks, battling priests, nearly going to...

The book titled The Perfect Stranger by the author P. J. Kavanagh. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn a world saturated with opinions, knowing how to write a truly authoritative review is a rare and powerful skill — and Reviews and Reviewing: A...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew writers in the English language have wielded wit as a weapon quite like Oscar...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFirst published in 1867, Ivan Turgenev's Smoke is a masterwork of Russian realism that cuts to the heart...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of Victorian literary culture lies a dark and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn The World in Ripeness, the celebrated English writer H.E. Bates chronicles the mature years of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBeneath the muted skies of an off-season Swiss resort, a woman arrives carrying the weight of a social transgression she refuses to name — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedAt the heart of Patrick White's final novel lies one of literature's most haunting and elusive protagonists — Eddie Twyborn,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Some moisture damageMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn a literary landscape crowded with mediocrity and fashionable obscurantism, Stephen Vizinczey's Truth &...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew novels in the English literary canon match the audacious vitality of The History of Tom Jones: A...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodOne of the most wickedly brilliant satires ever written, Candide chronicles the misadventures of its relentlessly optimistic young...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodAgainst the brooding, untamed expanse of Egdon Heath — a landscape so vivid it becomes a character unto...

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Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew poets have shaped the landscape of the English-speaking literary world as profoundly as William Butler Yeats, and The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodWhat begins as the madcap misadventures of a sun-baked Castilian nobleman who has read too many chivalric...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodAt the heart of Honoré de Balzac's Père Goriot lies one of literature's most devastating portraits of parental...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodSet against the rarefied air of a Swiss Alpine sanatorium in the years preceding the First World War,...

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Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew works in the Western literary canon match the anarchic brilliance and philosophical depth of François Rabelais's The Histories...

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