Literary Theory

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the haunting and luminous No Place on Earth, Christa Wolf conjures an imagined meeting between two real historical figures — the tortured Romantic...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFrom the seismic rupture of the 1917 Revolution to the complex literary landscape of the late Soviet era, Dictionary of Russian Literature...

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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA landmark in twentieth-century literary curation, The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse stands as one of the most celebrated and debated...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the fog of middle-aged longing and quiet desperation, As A Man Grows Older chronicles the ill-fated romantic obsession of Emilio Brentani,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageHenrik Ibsen, the father of modern drama, unleashed a storm of controversy upon the Victorian world with Ghosts,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the turbulent crossroads of art, society, and political upheaval, nineteenth-century France produced a remarkable cast of writers...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the electric world of late 1930s New York, a young woman navigates literary ambitions, romantic entanglements, and...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodSet against the flat, watery fenlands of East Anglia, Waterland is a mesmerising and deeply unsettling masterwork that chronicles the fractured life of Tom...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the intersection of Victorian imagination and imperial anxiety lies The Savage in Literature, a rigorous critical study that examines how English...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the intersection of wit and erudition stands John Carey, one of Britain's most formidable literary critics, whose Original Copy: Selected Reviews and Journalism...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Few Victorian writers provoked, amused, and unsettled their contemporaries quite like Samuel...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOne of the most singular and intellectually formidable voices of twentieth-century British literature, Rose Macaulay led a life as rich in complexity and contradiction...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWilliam Faulkner, one of the most towering figures in American literature, here becomes the subject of an ambitious global conversation in Faulkner: International Perspectives,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.At the intersection of medicine and modernist literature lies one of the most compelling and...