Literary Theory

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Travelling without Gods celebrates the life and work of one of Australia's best-loved contemporary poets, Chris Wallace-Crabbe. Wide-ranging in theme and context, it explores the imaginative effects of his writing....

"The best book ever written about the terrifying business of single-handed sailing--.Lundy tells a harrowing tale, as tight and gripping as The Perfect Storm or Into Thin Air."--San Francisco Chronicle...

Ben Jonson was the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries. In the century following his death he was seen by many as the finest of all English writers, living or dead. His...

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Edward Thomas, poet, essayist, and critic, with some thirty books to his name, was thirty-nine when he was killed in the Arras offensive on Easter Day, 1917. F.R. Leavis singled...

Five of Euripides' boldest and most moving tragedies,all focussing on strong female characters Written during a period overshadowed by the fierce struggle for supremacy between Sparta and Euripides' native Athens,...

The sonnets of Shakespeare When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous. The 154 sonnets...

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Leo Tolstoy(1828-1910) was born into one of the grand old families of Imperial Russia. The loss of both of his parents during childhood was the prelude to a series of...

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An insightful exploration that unveils the lesser-known dimensions of this legendary writer and her legacy, revealing the cultural icon's profound impact as a visionary editor who helped define an important...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor readers navigating the vast, labyrinthine world of William Faulkner's fiction, Who's Who in Faulkner is an indispensable...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of art, science, and revolutionary thought, The Film Sense stands as one of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the turbulent crossroads of Renaissance ambition and Baroque despair, Jacobean theatre produced some of the most psychologically...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedPart of the prestigious Studies in Modern European Literature and Thought series, Rob Lyle's Mistral presents a focused and illuminating critical study...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the pantheon of twentieth-century French literature, few figures loom as large or as enigmatically as André Malraux — novelist, art theorist, adventurer, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the landscape of modern European thought, few figures loom as large or as enigmatically as Miguel de Unamuno — the Spanish...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerVasily Rozanov stands as one of the most provocative and enigmatic figures in Russian intellectual history, a writer whose radical subjectivity and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor any reader seeking to navigate the rich and often labyrinthine world of D.H. Lawrence's fiction, Graham Holderness's Who's Who in D.H. Lawrence stands...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsFew critics write with the authority of a practitioner, but V. S. Pritchett — celebrated short story writer, novelist, and...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodThe Twyborn Affair is a daring and psychologically profound novel that chronicles the fragmented life of Eddie Twyborn, a figure of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the twilight years of one of Russia's most defiant literary voices, Osip Mandelstam produced a body of verse that stands as both a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAnne Clissmann's Flann O'Brien: A Critical Introduction to His Writings is an authoritative and comprehensive scholarly study of one of...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the intersection of faith and verse, Poetry and Life: An Anthology of English...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the front lines of the Western Desert to the cramped quarters of an English childhood, A Prose Miscellany presents the full breadth of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the rich tapestry of early twentieth-century Paris, Suzanne and Joseph Pasquier immerses readers in the intimate and turbulent lives...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerPublished in 1975 to immediate critical acclaim, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory is a landmark work of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the heart of Victorian England's collision between science and faith stands one of the most extraordinary memoirs ever written — Edmund Gosse's Father and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the centre of a turbulent 1970s British university campus stands Howard Kirk, a radical sociology professor whose calculated charm, political certainty, and voracious...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of literary genius and political conscience stands Edmund Wilson, one of twentieth-century America's most formidable intellectual voices, and Letters on Literature...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the turbulent crossroads of Victorian faith and doubt stands Leslie Stephen — mountaineer, philosopher, editor, and father of Virginia Woolf — a man who...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the heart of the radical Enlightenment stood William Godwin — philosopher, novelist, and anarchist thinker whose audacious ideas electrified late eighteenth-century Britain and whose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings,Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Glue marks on front end and end pages - pages...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew voices in American literature resonate with the same raw, tender intensity as Tennessee Williams, and Collected Stories presents the full breadth of his singular...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFirst published in 1870 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable stands as one of the most beloved and enduring reference...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew works in the English literary canon offer as intimate and authoritative a portrait of an age's greatest poets as Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom one of Victorian literature's most versatile and celebrated voices comes Memories and Portraits, a rich collection of autobiographical and critical essays that draws...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodA landmark gathering of mid-century literary minds, The Craft of Letters in England presents a rich and authoritative symposium on the state of British writing in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt a pivotal moment in American literary culture, The Creative Present: Notes on Contemporary American Fiction assembles some of the sharpest critical...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the single masterpiece that captivated a generation lies the tragically short life of Henri-Alban Fournier — known to the world as Alain-Fournier —...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodLanguage has always been a mirror held up to society, and nowhere is its capacity for disguise more brilliantly revealed than in the art...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerA masterwork of restrained passion and psychological acuity, Dominique stands as one of the most celebrated French...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsA haunting meditation on displacement and identity, The Exiles follows a group of American expatriates adrift...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew literary titans loom as large over the French tradition as Honoré de Balzac, and Mary F. Sandars' comprehensive...