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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew voices in the English literary canon ring...

Author: Ian Donaldson (Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 562 Ben Jonson was the greatest of...

Ben Jonson was commonly regarded during his lifetime and the century following his death as a writer whose powers were equal, if not superior, to those of Shakespeare. By the...

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...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their...

Ben Jonson was one of the world's greatest literary minds. During the reign of James I his literary prestige was at its height, and, during his lifetime, Jonson's contemporary literary...

Edition: ReprintCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the winter of 1618–1619, the great English playwright and poet Ben Jonson made an extraordinary journey on foot from London to Edinburgh,...

Author: Ben JonsonBinding: PaperbackPublished: Yale University Press, 1975Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBen Jonson's Selected Masques presents a captivating collection of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBen Jonson stands as one of the towering figures of the English Renaissance, a contemporary and rival of Shakespeare whose...

Author: Ben JonsonBinding: HardbackPublished: The King's Printers, 1930Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Number 48 of 188 copies (British Empire). Red vellum with gilt. 39 page reproduction of the...

The book titled Ben Jonson: Selected Works by the author Ben Jonson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the teeming, raucous world of Elizabethan and Jacobean London, few figures burned as brightly — or as...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFirst performed in 1610, Ben Jonson's The Alchemist stands as one of the most brilliantly constructed comedies in...

Jonson's rich and savage comedies The three plays collected in this volume depict the faults, errors and foibles of ordinary people with exuberant humour, savage satire and acute observations. Volpone...

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Brings together the major works of literary criticism from the English Renaissance Controversy raged through England during the 1570-80s as Puritans denounced all manner of games & pastimes as a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the crossroads of literary history and critical thought, L. G. Knights' Explorations stands as one of the twentieth century's...

In an age where resilience is essential The Windsor Legacy delivers an enthralling narrative of inspiration and royal intrigue. Penned by Robert Jobson, a Sunday Times and New York Times...

Edition: 2nd impr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis compelling biography chronicles the tumultuous life of Edward VIII, from his early years as Prince of Wales to...

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Author: James ThomsonBinding: HardbackPublished: W. Kent & Co., 1859Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Aged and worn boards....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most subversive masterpieces in the history of English theatre, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera has...

Author: Ian NorrieBinding: HardbackPublished: High Hill Press, Hampstead, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical account, Writers And Hampstead: Observations On The Place And The People, 101 Commentators...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: none. Binding condition: Good. Few poets have lived as turbulently and written as immortally as John...

Edited by Alan Jenkins, this authoritative Collected Poems contains all of the poetry that Ian Hamilton chose to publish, together with a small number of uncollected and unpublished poems; it...

Byron's exotic poem on the love life and adventures of Don Juan Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the...

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Containing many previously unpublished letters, this third volume of a six volume collection of the complete correspondence of John Wallis (1616-1703), documents an important period in the history of the...

In 1906, having been assigned Izaak Walton's Life of Donne to read for his English class, a Harvard freshman heard a lecture on the long disparaged 'metaphysical' poets. Years later,...

The bid of Bonnie Prince Charlie and his Jacobites for the throne of Britain has never lost its grip on the popular imagination. In July 1745 he and a tiny...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: small tears on dust jacket but still maintains integrity Before he was a Founding...

This in-depth investigation into the art, politics and murderous cynicism of Renaissance Milan is is an academic detective story sketched out with erudition and journalistic panache. Debunking the outrageous claim...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe Giant Book Of 1000 Great Lives presents a monumental collection of biographical sketches,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhat does it truly mean to be rational? Jonathan Bennett's Rationality: An Essay Towards an Analysis presents a rigorous and penetrating philosophical...

The most extensively annotated edition available with almost 1,000 notes by Marc A. Mamigonian and John Turner This text is based on the Egoist Press second edition of 1918 James...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Few works in the English biographical tradition carry the quiet authority and intimate grace of Izaak Walton's collected Lives....

Author: W. Stanford ReidBinding: HardbackPublished: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling biography, Trumpeter Of God, chronicles the tumultuous life and profound influence...