Literary Theory

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom one of Britain's most celebrated and intellectually daring postmodern writers comes The Ebony Tower, a masterful collection of novellas that holds...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsFrom one of Edwardian England's most formidable wits comes a collection of essays so sharp and spirited they feel as alive today...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingIn the golden age of the English novel, Henry Fielding's The History of the Adventures...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of Roman theatrical tradition stands a playwright whose raucous, boundary-breaking comedies have entertained audiences...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the sun-scorched landscapes of mid-twentieth-century Australia, Randolph Stow's The Bystander presents a haunting portrait of alienation, moral ambiguity, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodLong before the term literary liberation entered the cultural lexicon, a remarkable cohort of women writers were quietly—and not so quietly—reshaping the...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: erratum slip laid inAt the heart of Jonathan Franzen's monumental The Corrections lies a single, desperate wish — Enid Lambert's...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped dj. From one of the twentieth century's most distinctive literary voices comes Marching Soldier, a long...

Always Apprentices collects five years of intimate, wide-ranging conversations with many of today's most prominent writers, taken from the pages of the Believer . The participants don't limit themselves to...

The Merchant of Venice has been performed more often than any other comedy by Shakespeare. This edition pays special attention to the expectations of its first audience, and to our...

THE SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. THE ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014. For more than a decade, the book now considered the most important novel...

FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022 Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize for Non-Fiction 2023 'This is one of...

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of King Lear on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No Fear Shakespeare contains: The complete...

Katherine Mansfield and Germany is the first study of Mansfield's encounter with Germany and all things German: language, culture, society. This crucial area of her life and art has been...

The authorship of Shakespeare's plays has been the subject of endless debate through the ages. In his groundbreaking new book, Peter Dawkins, the internationally renowned author, lecturer and Shakespearean scholar,...

The Dam Busters, The Great Escape and Reach for the Sky were all written by Paul Brickhill, an Australian hero of WWII. 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of his birth...

James Joyce was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, but he was not immediately recognised as such; rather he lived in exile in the cosmopolitan Europe of...

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This series aims to introduce students to a wide variety of critical opinion and to show students, by example, how to construct a good critical essay. This collection of specially-commissioned...

The first of Sinclair Lewis's great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Reflecting his own unhappy childhood in...

Newly reissued in time for the November film release of SHERLOCK HOLMES starring Robert Downey Jr., Rachel McAdams, and Jude Law, here is a collection of classic Sherlock Holmes tales....

For decades, generations of readers have shared their favorite passages of favorite Louis L'Amour novels and short stories: parents with their children, neighbors with their friends, executives with their staff...

In a radical new reading of Ulysses , Maria Tymoczko argues that previous scholarship has distorted our understanding of Joyce's epic novel by focusing on its English and continental literary...

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This gripping biography of the great Czech novelist, diarist and short story writer chronicles Kafka's entire (if tragically curtailed) life (1883-1924), but it focuses upon the writer's relationship to his...

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This brilliantly argued book is an entirely fresh critique of the postmodern turn. David Simpson sets his sights on the most distinctive aspects of postmodern scholarship: the pervasiveness of the...

The Winter's Tale is Shakespeare's most perfectly realized tragi- comedy, as notable for its tragic intensity as for its comic grace and, throughout, for the richness and complexity of its...

The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - A...

This is the first edition of Edward Lear's letters for nearly eighty years, and the first to draw on all his known correspondence, which is now scattered in private and...

The definitive English translation of the classic Sanskrit epic poem - now available in a one-volume paperback. The Rmyaa of Vlmki , the monumental Sanskrit epic of the life of...

From the longest-running, most influential book review in America, here is its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past 125 years. A "delightful" (Vanity Fair) collection from...

Everything you need to know about King Lear to succeed in your A Level or undergraduate studies. With the widest coverage and a wealth of practical content, York Notes Advanced:...

A Times Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year 'Does art enhance life, or negate it? The painful question runs through Lowry's portrait of Thomas Hardy, and produces a sombre,...

Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen...

** Chosen as a New Statesman, Financial Times, Observer and Sunday Times Book of the Year ** A riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot's celebrated poem The...

"The foremost military memoir in the English language, written in a clear, supple style . . . a masterpiece." -Ron Chernow, in Grant Faced with cancer and financial ruin, Ulysses...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean for a child to truly read — not merely to decode symbols, but to...

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Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Light foxing on the book block, otherwise internally sound. Coming of age in the repressive Catholic suburbs of...

Edition: First Edition, First PrintingCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the hush between thought and perception, Gerald Murnane constructs a world where the act of reading and imagining becomes...

Edition: First Edition Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFrom the fertile plains of the Australian imagination emerges Landscape with Landscape, a quietly revolutionary work by one of Australia's...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat lies beyond the horizon of memory, language, and the self? Gerald Murnane's Inland is a radical and mesmerising work of...

This innovative study investigates the emergence and impact of the lower middle class on British print culture through the figure of the office clerk. This interdisciplinary work offers important insights...

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In this "magnificent book" (T. S. Eliot), Ernst Robert Curtius (1886-1956), one of the foremost literary scholars of this century, examines the continuity of European literature from Homer to Goethe,...