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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Samuel Johnson — lexicographer, moralist, and the most formidable...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in English literary history loom as large or as vividly as Samuel Johnson — and John Wain's acclaimed biography captures the full measure...

This volume contains a generous selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as 'The Rambler' in the early 1750s. It was here that he first created the literary character...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodCondition remarks: sandglass laid-inOne of the most celebrated biographies ever written, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. stands as a towering monument of English literature,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures loom as large in the 18th-century literary canon as Samuel Johnson — moralist, poet,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of eighteenth-century English letters stands Samuel Johnson — poet, moralist, and arguably the...

A landmark in Boswell and Johnson studies In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a...

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, published in 1755, marked a milestone in a language in desperate need of standards. No English dictionary before it had devoted so much space to everyday words,...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodA treasury of the English literary tradition, Selected English Essays gathers the finest prose compositions from Britain's most celebrated writers, spanning centuries of intellectual and aesthetic...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: SignedA fascinating literary curiosity from the height of the British political scene, Selected Poems by Mary Wilson—wife of former Prime Minister...

By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Sensing the deficit, and impelled by a mixture of national pride...

This selection, both verse and prose, represents all aspects of Clare's genius - bird poems, observations on nature, songs and ballads, social satire, and intense expressions of Clare's search for...

Book by Samuel Johnson, published in 1775. The Journey was the result of a three-month trip to Scotland that Johnson took with James Boswell in 1773. It contains Johnson's descriptions...

A generous selection from the most charismatic and infamous of the Romantic poets Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord...

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, leaves the easy life of the Happy Valley, accompanied by his sister Nekayah, her attendant Pekuah, and the much-travelled philosopher Imlac. Their journey takes them to...

An edition of Shakespeare's King John which includes a lengthy introduction, an extensive commentary and suggested further reading.

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few bodies of work have endured the centuries with such relentless force...

Author: Henry Hitchings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year In 1746, Samuel Johnson undertook the Herculean task of writing the first...

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,...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew figures loom as large in the origins of the English...

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...

Poems organised according to genre, to demonstrate the progress and variety Coleridge achieved Living in a revolutionary age, Coleridge's poetry was written in a spirit of moral and emotional inquiry...

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...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. John Bayley, long regarded as one of Britain's most distinguished literary critics,...

A fresh selection of Wordsworth's poetry from the poet's biographer. One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural...

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,...

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Author: A. A. Phillips,Binding: HardbackPublisher: Melbourne, Australia International Press, 1979Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerResponses: Selected Writings compiles the incisive observations of Elizabeth Bowen, a...

With an Introduction, explanatory notes, and annotated bibliography by Nicholas Seager. In Sanditon, Austen exercises her acute powers of social observation in the setting of a newly fashionable seaside resort....

Searing, haunting and timeless prose from one of England's greatest poets This selection of John Donne's most powerful prose shows that the man remembered predominantly for his poetry was also...

Author: William BannermanBinding: HardbackPublished: Barrie and Jenkins, London, 1998Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor wear on back of external coverThis collection of lyrical poetry, The...

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...

A new selection of John Donne's endlessly innovative and fascinating verse, from the witty conceit of 'The Flea' to the instense spirituality of his divine poems. Regarded by many as...

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These volumes represent each author's best and most famous writings. This finely crafted and affordable series offers the works of these world-renowned authors to a wider audience. Includes "Hamlet," "Macbeth,"...