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Penguin Classics relaunch. The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded, one ship on cover. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. From the golden age of English...

Author: C. S. Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 C. S. Lewis offers a magisterial take on the literature and poetry of one of the most consequential periods in...

A rich selection of poetry from the golden age of English poetry. The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Part of the acclaimed Literature in Perspective series, The Elizabethan Poets presents...

The poetry of Spenser, Sidney, and their contemporaries viewed as rhetorical discourse. ""A Ciceronian Sunburn"" reconsiders the complexion of Tudor poetics by demonstrating the ways in which poets and pedagogues...

Why was literature so often defended and defined in early modern England in terms of its ability to provide the Horatian ideal of both profit and pleasure? Robert Matz analyzes...

A beautiful boxed set of six of Dickens's greatest works for the Dickens anniversary year 2012 is the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of our greatest and most...

A guide to English literature from 1500 to 1660. It combines a series of critical essays on understanding Renaissance literature, Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, Renaissance poetry and the contemporary historical...

The essential works of a master of English prose, reissued in Penguin Classics This selection brings together the best prose writings of the great early nineteenth-century essayist Charles Lamb, whose...

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A selection of dialogues and letters of one of the most eloquent - and influential - masters of Latin prose. A major writer and a leading figure in the public...

"The Short Oxford History of English Literature" provides, in a single volume, a comprehensive beginner's guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present...

Penguin Classics relaunch Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his...

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Shocking and moving' Guardian'A tour-de-force' Washington PostAt eight years of age, Charles Spencer was sent away to one of England's most exclusive boarding schools. In this...

A new selection of Swift's witty, acerbic and polemical prose The political dilemma of Ireland; the state of faith in England; the charms of the Beggar's Opera; the importance of...

Author: Mike Lupica Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Spenser investigates the past secrets of an elusive tech billionaire in this latest instalment of Robert B. Parker's beloved series, and...

A collection of Schopenhauer's powerful and inventive philosophy One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by...

The book titled Spenser's "Amoretti": A Critical Study by the author Donna Gibbs. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Author: Charles DickensFormat: Leather / fine binding, 152mm x 236mm, 1496 pagesPublished: Union Square & Co., United States, 2010Brings together five of Charles Dickens' best-known novels: "Oliver Twist", "A Christmas...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark anthology in American literary culture,...

Author: Edmund GosseBinding: HardbackPublished: William Heinemann, 1912Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: No dust jacket, cover has wear. Some pages have tanning and/or foxing.This collection of literary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the heart of Victorian England's collision between science and faith stands one of the most extraordinary memoirs ever written — Edmund Gosse's Father and...

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From the Jazz Age through the McCarthy era, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) stood at the center of the American cultural scene. In his own youth a crucial champion of the young...

Author: The Hon. Evan Charteris, K.C.Binding: HardbackPublished: William Heinemann Ltd, 1931Condition:Book: Fair, ex-libraryJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Small stamps on prelims, otherwise internally sound. This...

From the Jazz Age through the Kennedy administration, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) stood at the center of the American cultural scene. A champion of the young Ernest Hemingway, a loyal friend...

Virtually from its first appearance in 1951, this book was considered one of the most illuminating literary autobiographies to have come out of the 1930s and 40s. In writing it...

A critical biography of the poet explores the Spanish Civil War, the rise and fall of Marxism and Nazism, World War II, Vietnam, the sexual revolution, and modern figures such...

A wonderful new collection of Henry James's short stories about the relationship between art and life, edited by Michael Gorra This volume gathers seven of the very best of Henry...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersAt sixty, one of America's most formidable literary minds...

Condition remarks:Book: Acceptable Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: Reading copy with markingsSpencer And Waterloo: The Letters Of Spencer Madan 1814-1816 presents a compelling collection of personal correspondence from a...

Dickens' experimental and thrilling short stories This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of the novel and experimenting with...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the sun-drenched decay of nineteenth-century Venice, The Aspern Papers follows an unscrupulous American scholar who schemes...

The sonnets of Shakespeare When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous. The 154 sonnets...

Burke's hugely influential work - particularly in art - on the sublime and the beautiful Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely...

William Shakespeare's sonnets are a beautiful expression of a range of human emotions - from love to grief, anger, jealousy and lust. Including the instantly recognisable 'Shall I compare thee...

'I have nothing to declare,' Wilde once told an American customs official, 'except my genius.' A good part of that genius is evident in the essays and poems included in...

A new Penguin English Library edition of Jane Austen's tantalizing final work - set to be a major Andrew Davies ITV adaptation this autumn Written in the last months of...

Author: Elizabeth RothensteinBinding: HardbackPublished: Phaidon Press Ltd, 1945Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: small cipping on jacketThis compelling volume presents a...