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Saints And Scholars
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat happens when the Irish revolutionary James Connolly survives his 1916 execution and flees across a storm-lashed landscape to a remote island cottage, only to...
Modernism: A Literature in Crisis
An engaging, approachable introduction to literary modernism Modernism represented an astonishing outbreak of cultural innovation, spanning artforms and nations. It was centred around feelings of growing alienation in an industrial...
Why Marx Was Right
One of the foremost Marxist critics of his generation forcefully argues against Marx's irrelevancy "Reading a book by Terry Eagleton is like watching fireworks."-Dennis O'Brien, Christian Century "[Eagleton is] a...
The Ideology of the Aesthetic
The Ideology of the Aesthetic presents a history and critique of the concept of the aesthetic throughout modern Western thought. As such, this is a critical survey of modern Western...
The Eagleton Reader
This is the first collection of Terry Eagleton's work for the theatre - St Oscar, The White, the Gold and the Gangrene, Disappearances, and God's Locusts.
Culture
One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture's value Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be...
How to Read Literature
A literary master's entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasure-"English 101 in a book." (Michael Lindgren, Washington Post) What makes a work of literature good...
The Gatekeeper: A Memoir
A memoir in which our hero blends autobiography with moral, political and cultural reflections. thoughts about god, evil, suffering, death and tragedy are interwoven with comic or moving scenes from...
Framing the Sign: Criticism and Its Institutions
Theory has drawn to the study of literature many distinct fields; but it has also now widened its brief substantially to include many hitherto non-literary issues. To interpret the "sign"...
Culture And Society 1780-1950
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most consequential works of cultural criticism produced in the twentieth century, Raymond Williams's Culture and...
The Last Attachment: The Story Of Byron And Teresa Guiccioli As Told In Their Unpublished Letters And Other Family Papers
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the twilight of his turbulent life, Lord Byron — poet, exile, and legend — fell into a love affair so consuming...
The Devil and the Dark Water: from the bestselling author of The Seven
STUART TURTON'S INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE LAST MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD NOW IS OUT NOW 'If you read one book this year, make sure it's this...
The Cockatoos: Shorter Novels And Stories
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom one of the twentieth century's most celebrated and challenging literary voices comes The Cockatoos, a collection of shorter novels and stories that distils...
Terrible True Tales: The Stone Age: From the author of Horrible
'Deary's storytelling is simple, historically accurate and compelling.' - The i newspaper on The Silver Hand From the author of the blockbuster Horrible Histories series, which is now a TV...
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Omnibus
Literary figures from throughout time and various bodies of work are brought together to face any and all threats to Britain. Allan Quartermain, Mina Murray, Captain Nemo, Dr. Henry Jekyll...
Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis (SIGNED)
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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedWhen the King of Rock 'n' Roll died on August 16, 1977, the world mourned — but none felt the loss more...
Great Masters Of World Painting: Botticelli, Canaletto, Watteau, Cézanne, Titian
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew art books dare to gather five of the most towering figures in Western painting under a single, authoritative volume — Great Masters of...
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Illustrated Edition
Jim Kay's dazzling depiction of J.K. Rowling's wizarding world has won legions of fans since the first Illustrated Edition of the Harry Potter novels was published in hardback in 2015,...
Letters for the Ages Behind Bars: Letters from History's Most Famous
Letters for the Ages Behind Bars is a history of imprisonment told through the letters of people incarcerated over many centuries, for crimes committed or sometimes even for no reason...
Run, Computer, Run: The Mythology Of Educational Innovation
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of the technological optimism of the late 1960s, a bold and penetrating critique dared to...
Truthteller: An Investigative Reporter's Journey Through the World of
There is a war on truth. And the liars are winning. There is an increasingly large number of weapons in the arsenal of the rich, the powerful and the elected...
The Black On White Misprint Show: More Clangers & Other Disasters In Cold Print
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn a world where words are wielded with great intention, it is the unintended ones that prove most...
The Meteorite Hunters: On the Trail of Extraterrestrial Treasures and
Planet Earth is under attack: every day, millions of meteoroids plummet through our atmosphere. Fortunately, the majority are minuscule - too small to survive the scouring of Earth's atmosphere, let...
Moving in Stereo: Ric Ocasek, the Driving Force of The Cars
The sounds of new wave pop music and the early days of MTV were defined by the work of a handful of iconic musicians, and few stood taller in that...
Traffic In Towns: A Study Of The Long Term Problems Of Traffic In Urban Areas
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn 1963, a landmark government report reshaped the future of...
Merry-go-round
The book titled Merry-go-round by the author W. Somerset Maugham. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Modern Painters 1931-1970
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark contribution to the study of antipodean modernism, Modern Painters 1931–1970 presents a sweeping survey...
Colonial Painters 1788-1880
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAustralia's earliest artistic voices speak across centuries in Colonial Painters 1788–1880, a richly authoritative survey that chronicles the...
Kerry James Marshall: History Of Painting
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew artists have reshaped the landscape of contemporary painting as boldly and as deliberately as Kerry James Marshall, and History of Painting stands as a definitive...
Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur
A fully illustrated catalogue of new work and texts by Sir Grayson Perry to accompany a landmark exhibition at the Wallace Collection in celebration of the artist's 65th birthday. This...
Garryowen's Melbourne: A Selection From The Chronicles Of Early Melbourne, 1835 To 1852
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersAt the wild, muddy edges of the British Empire, a city was being born...
Great Harry's Navy: How Henry Viii Gave England Sea Power
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of the sixteenth century, England was a second-rate maritime power — yet within decades, Henry...
Impressionist Painters 1881-1930
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of a new artistic era, Australian Impressionism emerged as a radical and distinctly national vision...
Rowlandson: Watercolours And Drawings
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew artists captured the raucous, unruly spirit of Georgian England with the raw vitality and comic genius of...
Selected Works Of Alfred Jarry
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Stained cover. Creased spine. At the fringes of nineteenth-century French literature, Alfred Jarry stands as one of...
Summer Of No Surrender: A Taut Story Of Fighter Pilots In The Battle Of Britain
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe skies over Britain in the summer of 1940 became the stage for one of history's most desperate...
Victorian Squatters (SIGNED)
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed,Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Faded and creased cover. Name penned on fep. Flat signed by Spreadborough on the title...
Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight,
From one of the most respected military historians working today, an illuminating and brilliantly written exploration of war's profound impact -- social and cultural as well as military -- on...
The Alternatives
EQUAL PARTS HILARIOUS AND PROFOUND, THE ALTERNATIVES IS A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL ABOUT FOUR GIFTED IRISH SISTERS, FROM A MAJOR LITERARY VOICE. PERFECT FOR FANS OF JONATHAN FRANZEN, MAGGIE O'FARRELL...
Land Is All That Matters: The Struggle That Shaped Irish History
In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe everyone lived 'off the land' in one way or another. In Ireland, however, almost everyone lived 'on the land' as well. Agriculture was the only...
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes
The subject of numerous biographies and history books, Winston Churchill has been repeatedly voted as one of the greatest of Englishmen. Even today, Boris Johnson in his failing attempts to...
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: Illustrated Edition
Jim Kay's dazzling depiction of J.K. Rowling's wizarding world has won legions of fans since the first Illustrated Edition of the Harry Potter novels was published in hardback in 2015,...