Literary Theory

Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew literary lives have burned as brightly — or as turbulently — as that...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the turbulent decade between two world wars, French literature became a battleground of ideas — and Fiction in the Historical Present: French Writers...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind every published word lies a battle fought in boardrooms, courtrooms, and committee halls — A Writer's Rights chronicles the formative two decades of...

Edition: rev ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the golden age of British popular fiction, three authors — Dornford Yates, John Buchan, and Sapper — conjured a world of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingOne of the twentieth century's most audacious literary achievements opens with a line that immediately signals its ambition: an eighty-one-year-old homosexual novelist,...

Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markBehind the austere, imperious gaze that defined one of Britain's most singular literary minds lies a life as dramatic...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind the immortal prose of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm stood a man of fierce contradictions — a...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the winter seasons between 1913 and 1916, two of the twentieth century's most towering literary figures — Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats —...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedSpanning nearly four decades of intimate correspondence, Letters 1895-1933 to Lady Cunard presents a vivid and deeply personal window into...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark collection in the tradition of literary education, Short Fiction of the Masters gathers some of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: **FRENCH TEXT ONLY**A landmark in the annals of French literary criticism, Figures II stands as the second volume in Gérard Genette's celebrated...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat did it mean to think, believe, and create in an age torn between faith and reason, tradition...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn a fictional country that mirrors Pakistan with unsettling precision, Salman Rushdie's Shame chronicles the rise and fall of two powerful families — the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the award-winning British novelist Graham Swift comes Learning to Swim and Other Stories, a masterful collection of short fiction that plunges the reader into...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodThe final curtain falls on one of English literature's most celebrated family sagas in End of the Chapter, John Galsworthy's triumphant conclusion to his...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodThe definitive reference work for anyone who loves the English literary tradition, The Oxford Companion to English Literature stands as an authoritative and comprehensive...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat do Charles Baudelaire, Jules de Goncourt, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, and Alphonse Daudet have in common beyond their literary genius? According to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Behind the razor-sharp wit and darkly comic tales of Edwardian England stood a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind every hard-boiled detective story lies the man who invented the genre — and Diane Johnson's The Life of Dashiell Hammett is the definitive portrait...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the heart of one of America's most turbulent social debates stands William Faulkner, a literary giant whose complex and often contradictory pronouncements on race...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingEdmund Wilson, one of the twentieth century's most formidable literary minds, steps beyond his celebrated role as critic and chronicler to present...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings,Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.First published in 1807, Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Few works have made the genius of William Shakespeare as universally...

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