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Defining Moments in Books: The Greatest Books, Writers, Characters,
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Written and selected by a range of international writers, academics, and critics, here's an instantly accessible and intelligent look at literary history and criticism over the past century. From key...
Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead
Australia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire. Twentieth-century writers...
Morning, Noon, and Night
From Homer and Shakespeare to Toni Morrison and Jonathan Safran Foer, major works of literature have a great deal to teach us about two of life s most significant stages...
Hamlet (Norton Critical Editions)
The text of this Second Edition is based on the second quarto (1604-1605), with occasional references to the folio. In order to help the reader place the play in the...
Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of
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A poignant history of the cartoonists and illustrators from the Connecticut School For a period of about fifty years, right in the middle of the American Century, many of the...
Voice of the Hammer: The Meaning of Work in Middle English Literature
Shaped by the increasing commercialization of economic relations, the social agitation of the agricultural and artisan classes, and the growing formalization of status consciousness, the cultural landscape of late medieval...
Pindaric Metre: The 'Other Half'
Pindar is one of the greatest Greek poets, but while the metre of half of his poems is easy to grasp, that of the other half has so far remained...
A Muggle's Guide to the Wizarding World: Exploring the Harry Potter
This book examines and explains the complex universe created in J. K. Rowling's books, covering everything from Azkaban to Zombies. It contains a comprehensive glossary of characters, creatures, locations and...
Chinese Whispers: Cultural Essays
This is a literary journey of an Australian writer's encounter with the culture and people of China, particularly its young writers and artists, and of the evolving influence of China...
A Change Of Perspective: The Letters Of Virginia Woolf Volume Iii: 1923-1928
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Author: Virginia WoolfBinding: HardbackPublished: The Hogarth Press, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling collection, A Change Of Perspective: The Letters Of Virginia Woolf 1923-1928, chronicles...
Collected Letters 1926-1950
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Author: Bernard ShawBinding: HardbackPublished: Viking, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markThis compelling volume presents a rich collection of correspondence from one of the twentieth century's most influential playwrights...
Collected Letters: 1874-1897
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Author: Bernard ShawBinding: HardbackPublished: Max Reinhardt, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling collection, Vol. 1: Bernard Shaw Collected Letters 1874-1897, chronicles the formative years of the renowned...
English Literature In The Earlier Seventeenth Century: 1600-1660
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Author: Douglas BushBinding: HardbackPublished: Clarendon Press, 1945Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Gifter's inscription on fep with numerous signatures. Internally sound. This scholarly...
Charles Dickens: His Tragedy And Triumph, Volume Two
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Author: Edgar JohnsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Simon and Schuster, 1952Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis definitive biography, Charles Dickens: His Tragedy And Triumph A Biography, chronicles...
Small World: An Academic Romance
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Author: David LodgeBinding: HardbackPublished: SECKER & WARBURG, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsSmall World by David Lodge is a witty academic satire that chronicles the misadventures of various...
The Reading Promise: 3,218 nights of reading with my father
When Alice was nine years old, she and her father - a beloved school librarian - made a promise to read aloud together for 100 consecutive nights. Upon reaching their...
17F: Life of Ian Fleming
The book titled 17F: Life of Ian Fleming by the author Donald McCormick. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Mythology: The Voyage Of The Hero
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Author: David Adams LeemingBinding: PaperbackPublished: -Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageMythology: The Voyage Of The Hero presents a compelling analysis of the...
History of 20th-century Literature
Poets representing war's anguish, modernists transforming the novel, Beats capturing the rhythm of the times: the 20th century witnessed some of the most diverse and experimental writing since the birth...
The Literary Life And Other Curiosities
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Author: Robert HendricksonBinding: HardbackPublished: The Viking Press, New York, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis engaging compendium chronicles the fascinating world of literature, presenting a rich...
The Text Of Paradise Lost: A Study In Editorial Procedure
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Author: R.G. MoylesBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Toronto Press, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis scholarly work presents a meticulous examination of the editorial...
City Lights: A Street Life
Keith Waterhouse was born into a world that has now vanished - a soot-blackened, tramcar-rattling provincial city, still late Edwardian or even Victorian in many of its ways, but full...
English Literature At The Close Of The Middle Ages
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Author: E. K. ChambersBinding: HardbackPublished: Clarendon Press, 1945Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis scholarly volume presents a comprehensive examination...
Shakespeare's Legal And Political Background
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Author: George W. KeetonBinding: HardbackPublished: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Limited, 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work, Shakespeare's Legal & Political Background, presents a...
Art & Reality: John Anderson On Literature And Æsthetics
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Author: John AndersonBinding: HardbackPublished: Hale & Iremonger, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work presents a rigorous examination of the intricate relationship between artistic creation and the...
Sense and Sensibility
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Published in 1811, Sense and Sensibility has delighted generations of readers with its masterfully crafted portrait of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Forced to leave their home after their...
Coriolanus
The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans....
Samuel Beckett
"Penguin Illustrated Lives" is a series of photographic biographies that offers a fresh, intimate portrait of some of our favourite writers. An incisive, lively text is accompanied by over 100...
The Life of Herod the Great
'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...
Anthropology And Myth: Lectures 1951-1982
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Author: Claude Lévi-StraussBinding: HardbackPublished: Basil Blackwell, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis academic collection presents the foundational theories of structural anthropology through a series of illuminating lectures. It...
French Surrealism: Collected Works (Four-Volume Set)
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Author: Antonin ArtaudBinding: HardbackPublished: Calder & Boyars, London, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis four‑volume set of avant‑garde literature presents...
Restoring the Inner Heart: The Nous in Dostoevsky's Ridiculous Man
Written close to the end of the great writer's life, Fyodor Dostoevsky's short story The Dream of a Ridiculous Man tells of a transformation of the heart and a journey...
H. G. Wells: The Critical Heritage
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Author: Patrick ParrinderBinding: HardbackPublished: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsH.G. Wells: The Critical Heritage presents a comprehensive collection of critical responses to...
Between Self And World: The Novels Of Jane Austen
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Author: James ThompsonBinding: HardbackPublished: THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Some silverfish damage on DJ.This academic study, Between...
Keats And His World
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Author: Timothy HiltonBinding: HardbackPublished: THAMES AND HUDSON, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsTimothy Hilton's Keats And His World chronicles the poignant life and enduring legacy of...
A Double Dying: Reflections On Holocaust Literature
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Author: Alvin H. RosenfeldBinding: HardbackPublished: Indiana University Press, 1980Condition:Book: Good, ex-libraryJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsThis scholarly work offers a profound examination of the literary responses...
Complete Poems
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Contains Marlowe's translations of Ovid's "Elegies" and the First Book from Lucan's Civil War, plus the unfinished "Hero and Leander" and the poet's most famous creation, "The Passionate Shepherd to...
Herself in Love
The book titled Herself in Love by the author Marianne Wiggins. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Vancouver Confidential
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Most civic histories celebrate progress, industry, order, and vision. This isn't one of those. Vancouver Confidential is a collaboration of artists and writers who plumb the shadows of civic memory...
Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure,
The New York Times chief film critic shows why we need criticism now more than ever Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A....
The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect
Thomas Hardy is one of England's greatest novelists and poets, whose part-real, part-imaginary realm of Wessex has taken on a life of its own. But his first career in architecture...
Expatriate Paris
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The book titled Expatriate Paris by the author Arlen J. Hansen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
O'Brien and Fitzgerald Walk in
The book titled O'Brien and Fitzgerald Walk in by the author Peter Townsend. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity: Authority and the
This book explores the much maligned and misunderstood genre of declamation. Instead of a bastard rhetoric, declamation should be seen as a venue within which the rhetoric of the legitimate...
Parallelogram
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The book titled Parallelogram by the author Thomas Caplan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Blue Suit
The book titled The Blue Suit by the author Richard Rayner. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Talking Of Books
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Author: Oliver EdwardsBinding: HardbackPublished: Heinemann, 1957Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: general wear and tanningThis work presents a thoughtful examination...