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The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume Three: a Legacy in Review
Now available in paperback, The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles rediscovered primary material on one of Canada's most enduringly popular authors, spanning the entirety of her high-profile career and the years...
The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume Two: a Critical Heritage
Now available in paperback, The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles rediscovered primary material on one of Canada's most enduringly popular authors, spanning the entirety of her high-profile career and the years...
The Dark-hunter Companion
$10.00 AUD
Consider this handbook your education. Hunter 101. And don't go thinking you got off easy just because there's not a pop quiz at the end. This is the good stuff....
Petrarch's Canzoniere: Scattered Rhymes; A New Verse Translation
PETRARCH FOR THE MODERN EAR, by the translator of a Dante edition that 'ranks with the very best available in English'. Francesco Petrarch's Canzoniere (translated in English as 'Scattered Rhymes')...
Shakespeare Survey 73: Shakespeare and the City
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of...
Normal People
Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity...
New Grub Street
Jasper is attracted to Marian, who loves him passionately, but he proposes to her only when she inherits a legacy of #5000. When the legacy does not materialise Jasper withdraws....
The Thirteen Gun Salute
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Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease on life. Following his dismissal from the Royal Navy (a false accusation), he has earned reinstatement...
Road to San Giovanni,The
This is a series of five autobiographical essays by the Italian writer, Italo Calvino. The first, "The Road to San Giovanni", revolves around his father and the house and town...
W.B.Yeats: A New Biography
Forty years ago Norman Jeffares published his first biography of W.B.Yeats, however since that time much new material has come to light, both written and illustrative. This volume is a...
Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis
Green shoots, green leaves, California green vesicles be-neath the California green-brown mud. A hormonal transition is a new start, but it is not a new start like a shoot emerges...
Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was not only an exceptionally prolific and versatile writer. As a minister of state in the small duchy of Sachsen-Weimar he had to deal with...
Dystopia: Post-Apocalyptic Art, Fiction, Movies & More
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We have an obsession with broken societies set in futuristic worlds , curious but terrifying new technologies and post-apocalyptic dusty wastelands where survivors grow more desperate every day. Dystopian worlds...
Acting the Right Part: Political Theater and Popular Drama in
Acting the Right Part is a cultural history of huaju (modern Chinese drama) from 1966 to 1996. Xiaomei Chen situates her study both in the context of Chinese literary and...
Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald: Sometimes Madness is Wisdom
A compulsively readable account of the tumultuous lives of jazz-age literary icons Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda. this thought-provoking book tells the story of Zelda Sayre, a talented and...
Singing Lessons: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Healing
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The respected singer and songwriter describes her journey of loss, grief, and recovery following the 1992 suicide of her son and the near-death of her companion of fifteen years, after...
Love and Duty
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As girls, Kate, Effie and Stella watch the MK&T race through town, wondering if they will ever be on that train, bound for somewhere wonderful. Their youthful dreams take them...
The Feminist Critique of Language: A Reader
Feminism has placed language firmlu on the political agenda. A 'feminist critiqwue of language' now undeniably exists: its influence on public, and especially academinc discourse has grown to the point...
Samuel Johnson
In this magnificent biography--a work that won three of the most prestigious literary prizes this country offers--W. Jackson Bate delves deep into the character that formed Johnsons awesome intellect and...
Complete Verse
M.M.Kaye, author of "The Far Pavilions", demonstrates in her foreword that Rudyard Kipling could seek no more convinced and sympathetic an advocate than herself. She introduces us to Kipling's India...
Rooms of One's Own: 50 Places That Made Literary History
Writers' relationships with their surroundings are seldom straightforward. While some, like Jane Austen and Thomas Mann, wrote novels set where they were staying (Lyme Regis and Venice respectively), Victor Hugo...
Reacher: The Stories Behind The Stories
From global bestseller and creator of Jack Reacher, comes Lee Child's first-ever autobiographical collection. From global bestseller and creator of Jack Reacher, comes Lee Child's first-ever autobiographical collection. On Monday...
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
The essential translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries - revealing the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers Dating from 1909 to 1923,...
Summary And Analysis Of The Dialogues Of Plato; With An Analytical Index, Giving References To The Greek Text Of Modern Editions, And To The Translation In Bohn's Classical Library.
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Author: Alfred DayBinding: HardbackPublished: Bell & Daldy, 1870Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Damaged boards. Binding fragile. Cracked...
Anaïs Nin: An Introduction
$45.00 AUD
Author: Benjamin Franklin V And Duane SchneiderBinding: PaperbackPublished: Ohio University Press., 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor discolouration to spine and front of cover, spine is...
French Literature: Its History And Its Meaning
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Author: Wallace FowlieBinding: HardbackPublished: Prentice-HallCondition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Dust jacket has general wear and tear, previous owner name inside, some previous owner marks...
Women & Writing
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Author: Virginia Woolf, Michele Barrett Binding: PaperbackPublished: The Women's Press, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Cover has tanning along spineThis seminal work of literary criticism chronicles...
Giants Of Literature: Kipling
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Author: -Binding: HardbackPublished: Sampson Low, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has tanning along spine, previous owner name inside first pageThis volume presents a comprehensive...
Knocking Round
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Author: J. Le Gay BreretonBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson Ltd, Australia, 1930Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis collection of verse, Knocking Round, presents the lyrical observations...
The Poets' Chantry
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Author: Katherine BrégyBinding: HardbackPublished: HERBERT & DANIEL, 1912Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Light bumping on corners. Frontis loose. Clean...
The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett: Volume III of the Grove
$90.00 AUD
Edited by Paul Auster, this four-volume set of Beckett's canon has been designed by award winner Laura Lindgren. Available individually, as well as in a boxed set, the four hardcover...
English Trader, Indian Maid: Representing Gender, Race, and Slavery in
On March 13th, 1711, an article appeared in "The Spectator about Thomas Inkle, a young and aspiring English trader cast ashore in the Americas, who is saved from violenct death...
The Secret Artist: A Close Reading of Sigmund Freud
Widely acclaimed for giving [an understanding of the connection between Nietzsche's personal experience and his most famous ideas[ (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times) in her biography of Nietzsche, Nietzsche in...
Othello
A prose retelling of Shakespeare's play in which a jealous general is duped into thinking that his wife has been unfaithful, with tragic consequences.
Virgil: Aeneid Book VIII
Book VIII is one of the most attractive and important books of Virgil's Aeneid. It includes the visit of Aaneas to the site of the future Rome, the story of...