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Frank Kermode has a strong claim to be Britain's most distinguished literary critic. Over the course of a long career, he has written on a enormous variety of English literature,...

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CONTENTS WORDS AND MUSIC 1. Quiet Subversive John Updike 2. A Sonnet Setting Alexander Goehr 3. Brooksmith by Henry James Daniel Stern 4. Recollections Robert Tear 5. Afterwards Al Alvarez...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat separates a story from mere sequence of events? In The Art of Telling: Essays on Fiction, one of the twentieth century's most formidable...

Author: Sir Frank Kermode Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Shakespeare made his unique contribution to British and world culture in the midst of Elizabeth's great reign. Here, the circumstances...

"Every so often there is a rebellion against the assumption that Shakespeare is a uniquely great writer. This feeling, strong at the moment, has vociferous supporters in the academics, teachers...

In this work, the author returns to the literature of his youth to ask why we appear to have forgotten how powerful it seemed in a time of economic crisis...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: fep clipped. Few figures in twentieth-century literature cast as long a shadow as T.S. Eliot, and poet and critic Stephen...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in the history of modern thought have provoked as much intellectual revolution as Noam Chomsky, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew thinkers have so profoundly reshaped the modern world as Karl Marx, and David McLellan's Marx — part...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the turbulent crossroads of psychiatry, philosophy, and radical politics, R.D. Laing stands as one of...

Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade, surveys the tradition...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew thinkers have so radically reshaped our understanding of the human mind as Noam Chomsky, and John Lyons'...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn an age of conformity and consumerism, Herbert Marcuse stood as one of the twentieth century's most electrifying...

A collection of extraordinary interviews with some of the most influential literary theorists of our time, such as Derrida, Frye, Bloom, Said and Kermode.

Author: Mark Kermode Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Following a formative encounter with the British pop movie Slade in Flame in 1975, Mark Kermode decided that musical superstardom was...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew literary figures have reshaped the English language with such seismic force as James Joyce, and John Gross's...

The long-awaited memoir by movie and theatre legend, Brian Cox. A Guardian , Times , Sunday Times and Independent Book of the Year *Featuring a foreword by the executive producer...

The long-awaited memoir by movie and theatre legend, Brian Cox. A Guardian , Times , Sunday Times and Independent Book of the Year *Featuring a foreword by the executive producer...

Literature in the Modern World offers a unique combination of English, European, feminist and `new writing', or `Commonwealth', perspectives on literary studies from the 1920s to the 1980s. It is...

The bestselling author of Catherine de Medici returns to sixteenth-century Europe in this evocative and entertaining biography that recreates a remarkable era of French history and brings to life a...

Author: F.C. RoeBinding: HardbackPublished: Longmans, 1960Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Stained endpapers. This academic text, "Modern France" by F.C. Roe, offers a comprehensive historical...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the crucible of post-revolutionary France, a remarkable generation of visionary thinkers dared to imagine a...

Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language--and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now Frank's...

Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionAt the uncertain threshold where reason confronts its own limits, William Desmond's Perplexity...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the turbulent centuries between 751 and 987, the Carolingian dynasty forged an empire that would define the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of faith, politics, and literary genius stands François Mauriac — Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Catholic moralist, and one of the most towering...

It Itches: A Stash of Knitting Cartoons is an affectionate, humorous celebration of every aspect of the craft from buying (and hiding) massive quantities of yarn to wrestling with projects...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFour masterworks of pulse-pounding suspense are gathered in this complete and unabridged omnibus edition from one of the twentieth century's most celebrated architects of...

The New York Trilogy is perhaps the most astonishing work by one of America's most consistently astonishing writers. The Trilogy is three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of...

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WINNER OF THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: SPORT NOMINATED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew lives in English literary history burn as brightly—or as briefly—as that of John Keats, and Sidney Colvin's...

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It was a simple errand. Collect a package. Save the world. 'Part James Bond, part Philip Marlowe, and all hero' -Jeffrey Deaver But when Bill Kemp's contact washes up dead...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind the polished doors of Whitehall lies a battlefield of euphemism, evasion, and exquisite bureaucratic sabotage — and The Complete...

When Chris McDougall stumbled across the story of Churchill's 'dirty tricksters', a motley crew of English poets and academics who helped resist the Nazi invasion of Crete, he knew he...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the most celebrated works of world poetry, the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám presents Edward FitzGerald's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew works in world literature have captured the human imagination as completely and enduringly as The Arabian Nights —...