Literary Theory

Following the bestselling "Summer of a Dormouse", Sir John Mortimer - playwright, novelist, octogenarian and erstwhile QC - offers up more lessons in living and growing old disgracefully. What would...

The book titled Lilian's Story by the author Kate Grenville. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery An embittered Roman General returns from war, having captured the Queen of the...

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The book titled Coastwise Lights by the author Alan Ross. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A powerful and thrilling account of man's dual nature. "Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil." The mysterious association between respectable Dr Henry Jekyll and despicable...

An inventive and surprising examination of a century of spy fiction. Why do spies have such cachet in the twentieth century? Why do they keep reinventing themselves? What do they...

With their relationship on shaky ground, Helen and Alison leave for a weekend at a casino. Will the shell-shocked PI be able to forget the mental and physical wounds that...

Author: Richard ChaseBinding: HardbackPublished: The Reprint Society London, 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: some marks to hardcover; rubbing of...

Author: Sampson LowBinding: HardbackPublished: Sampson Low, 1970Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: dust cover worn; cloth cover in good condition; some marks on...

Kill Time with Classics is a new series of activity books designed for avid readers who love the classics of literature. Pride and Prejudice contains engaging and stimulating mental and...

Dante is one of the towering figures of medieval European literature. Yet many riddles and questions about him persist. By re-reading Dante with an open mind, Barbara Reynolds made remarkable...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but...

Author: John D. RateliffBinding: HardbackPublished: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 2007Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work meticulously chronicles the intricate creative process behind J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved classic,...

Author: Patrick Williams And Laura ChrismanBinding: PaperbackPublished: Simon & Schuster, 1993Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Reading copy with markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageColonial Discourse And Post-Colonial Theory:...

Author: Judith RoofBinding: HardbackPublished: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1996Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCome As You Are: Sexuality & Narrative presents a...

On the heels of Boyd's Costa (formerly Whitbread) Award winner, Restless , an erudite and entertaining collection of essays and opinions from one of our generation's most talented writers. Plant...

The book titled Best Short Stories: 1989 by the author Giles Gordon. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This text claims that the link between William Shakespeare and the works published under his name is weak, and it argues instead that Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of...

The book titled Descent from Xanadu by the author Harold Robbins. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to...

The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world's greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing...

Author: W. H. GardnerBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis academic study presents a meticulous examination of Gerard Manley Hopkins' distinctive poetic voice. It...

Author: Margaret J. O'Donnell, M.A.Binding: HardbackPublished: Blackie & Son Limited, 1950Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: wear and rubbing of hard cover; marked moulding on spine; binding becoming loose on...

Author: Peter Quennell & Hamish JohnsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Ferndale Editions, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive volume chronicles the vast and intricate tapestry of English literary tradition. It...

Author: William ShakespeareBinding: HardbackPublished: ABBEY LIBRARY, 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: dust cover torn and worn; some rubbing to cloth cover otherwise in...

'Dizzyingly flexible, deeply human, often funny, it blasts aside our preconceptions and urges us to see the world as it is' i Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in Siri Hustvedt's...

'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse' - THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'A riveting portrait' - GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR *** 'Worsley's sparkling biography...

Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic...

This is an exploration into an obsession. THE ADULTEROUS CITIZEN contemplates the feeling of belonging, while yearning for the seduction of elsewhere. Tishani Doshi guides us through the streets of...

Like the products of the "sea-change" described in Ariel's song in The Tempest, modernist writing is "rich and strange." Its greatness lies in its density and its dislocations, which have...

Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel focuses on the novels of R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie and explores the tension in these novels between ideology...

From the entry of Shakespeare's birth in the Stratford church register to a Norwegian production of Macbeth in which the hero was represented by a tomato, this enthralling and splendidly...

The surely soon-to-be million-copy bestselling sort-of inspirational parody.. A timeless parody of Charlie Mackesy's The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse . Enter the world of me, Panda,...

Author: Annie Cohen-SolalBinding: HardbackPublished: Heinemann, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: some wear and marks to cloth cover; some tanning...

Author: David DaichesBinding: PaperbackPublished: London: Secker & Warburg, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: wear and fading to outside cover; white out marks on first inside page;...

Author: David DaichesBinding: PaperbackPublished: Secker & Warburg, London, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: wear and fading to outside cover; mildew spotting...

Author: David DaichesBinding: HardbackPublished: Secker & Warburg, 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: wear to cover; minor chipping to edges;...

The story of Shakespeare in China is one of cultural blending and reinvention. Peopled by devoted evangelists, theatre directors and dogged interpreters intent on bridging divisions of language and politics,...

'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...

William Shakespeare's lifetime (1564-1616) spanned the reigns of the last of the Tudors, Elizabeth I and the first of the Stuart kings, James I and the changing times and political...

When two European scientists unexpectedly inherit an Indian rajah's fortune, each builds an experimental city of his dreams in the wilds of the American Northwest. France-Ville is a harmonious urban...

Lily Dale lives with her sister Bell and their widowed mother in rural tranquillity at Alington. But Lily yearns for more than this idyll can offer, and in Adolphus Crosbie,...

This is the first and only biography of Sydney Taylor (1904-1978), author of the award-winning All-of-a-Kind Family series of books, the first juvenile novels published by a mainstream publisher to...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has...