literary criticism
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1985
- £50.00
- In characteristically daring style, Anthony Burgess combines two responses to Orwell's 1984 in one book. The first is a sharp analysis: through dialogues, parodies and essays, Burgess sheds new light on what he called 'an apocalyptic codex of our worst fears', creating a critique that is literature in its own…
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A Choice of Kipling’s Verse
- £15.00
- Eliot's anthology on Kipling, including his essay about the poet.
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A Preface to Paradise Lost (‘revised and enlarged’ from lectures, not a previous publication)
- £140.00
- In Preface to Paradise Lost, C. S. Lewis presents an illuminating reflection on John Milton's Paradise Lost, the seminal classic that profoundly influenced Christian thought as well as Lewis's own work. Lewis a revered scholar and professor of literature closely examines the style, content, structure, and themes of Milton's masterpiece,…
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A Short Life of Shakespeare with the Sources
- £80.00
- "This book is an abridgment of William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems, by Sir Edmund Chambers, published in 1930 in two volumes. It has been made for the convenience of those who cannot possess and perhaps do not find it easy to consult the major work, but have…
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Abinger Harvest
- £140.00
- This collection contains Forsters delightful and essays on subjects as diverse as Mickey Mouse, English liberty, life in India, writers such as Woolf, Conrad and Proust, and the two pageants he wrote for his Surrey village of Abinger.
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An Introduction to Stuart Drama
- £10.00
- Work of literary criticism
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An Introduction to Stuart Drama
- £10.00
- Work of literary criticism
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Anthony Trollope (Writers and their Work)
- £9.00
- This study relates Trollope to the broad Victorian culture to which he offered a distinctive, creative response. It looks particually at the nature and quality of his political intelligence and at his grasp of processes of manipulation, personal interaction, media exploitation and the integration of the private and the public.…
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Ariel’s Gift: a Commentary on Birthday Letters (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Erica Wagner has set the poems of Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters in the context of his marriage to Sylvia Plath with great delicacy . . . Her book is informed not only by Plath's journals and letters, but, more significantly, moonlit throughout by Plath's poetry.' Times Literary Supplement 'A commentary…
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Ben Jonson (English Men of Letters)
- £10.00
- Ben Jonson was an English playwright and poet. His artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and…
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Britten & Auden in the Thirties: The Year 1936
- £25.00
- A crucial year in the Britten/Auden relationship, which reshaped and redefined artistic direction in the immediate pre-war period. Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden were key figures of the 1930s, and here Donald Mitchell traces their lives during one crucial year, 1936. They worked hard to establish themselves, first through the…
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C. S. Lewis (Writers and their Work)
- £10.00
- The works of C.S. Lewis have a wide appeal to a variety of audiences. Lewis is probably most famous for the best-selling The Chronicles of Narnia, although William Nicholson's Shadowlands will have led many readers to Lewis's own account of his tragic bereavement in A Grief Observed. However, Shadowlands represents…
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Charles Williams (Writers and Their Work No 63)
- £20.00
- Written for the British Council and the National Book League, this series Writers and their Work was published monthly. Heath-Stubbs examines the wide interests of Charles Williams who was a poet, novelist and critic; his conclusion was that Williams was 'a major poet' was arrived at by a close analysis,…
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Chaucer (Chesterton’s Biographies)
- £13.00
- Chesterton expounds the genius of Geoffrey Chaucer' in this literary biography which explores both the writer and his time. He claims that Chaucer and his Age were more sane, more normal and more cheerful than writers that came after him' and the characters he portrayed have an immediate contemporary relevance.…
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Crediting Poetry (Nobel Lecture)
- £40.00
- Samus Heaney's lecture, delivered before the Swedish Academy on 7 December 1995, upon winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Cupid and the Jacaranda
- £16.00
- This is another book by Sacheverell Sitwell belonging to the series which began with his Dance of the Ouick and the Dead in 1936. It is, in fact, the fifth volume of this series Cupid and the Jacaranda, like its predecessors, ranges the wide field between fact and fiction. Partly,…
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Dark Matter: A Thinking Fans Guide to Philip Pullman
- £15.00
- "My books are about killing God." So declares Philip Pullman, the award-winning author of the bestselling His Dark Materials trilogy of fantasy novels: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. Appealing to millions of children and adults alike, Pullman's books create a universe in which the church…
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Democracy and the Arts
- £20.00
- Brooke's essay was first written in 1910 as an address to the Cambridge Fabian Society of which Brooke was president while up at King's. Only published posthumously in 1946.
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Derek Walcott (Caribbean Biography)
- £20.00
- This succinct account of the life of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott focuses on his development as poet, playwright and man of the theatre: director, producer, teacher. Friends and colleagues who figured in his career are recalled. The importance of his native St Lucia and family influences in the shaping of…
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East of the Wardrobe: The Unexpected Worlds of C S Lewis
- £25.00
- A fascinating look at the rich but under-appreciated Eastern sources behind the Narnia book. C. S. Lewis was no great traveller but he was a prodigious bibliophile who absorbed the world's traditions of myth, religion, and cosmology. The Chronicles of Narnia are steeped in allusions to the Bible, Greek mythology,…
- Add to basket
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Elizabethan Essays
- £30.00
- Rare anthology of Eliot's essays on Elizabethan dramatists (incl Marlowe, Johnson, Shakespeare et al.)
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Émile Zola
- £25.00
- Hemmings was Professor of French Literature at Leicester and wrote a number of highly respected books about Zola, in particular, this profile of his life and writing.
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £75.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £100.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £55.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944, which C S Lewis took a decade to complete for publication. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
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Figures of Several Centuries
- £50.00
- An anthology of essays by Arthur Symons (1865-1945), a noted poet, critic and magazine editor.
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From the Land of Shadows
- £8.00
- His third book of cultural criticism, From the Land of Shadows sees essayist, critic and poet Clive James at his erudite, enlightening best. '[T]he lasting impression is of our critic's truly amazing breadth of reference' Ð Times Literary Supplement. Collecting his work from the late 1970s and into the early…
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G.K.C. As M.C. being a collection of thirty-seven introductions
- £100.00
- A rare anthology (only 2500 printed) of Chesterton's essays, introducing a range of subjects such as Boswell, the Book of Job, Aesop, The Book of Snobs and Thackeray, George Macdonald, Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as his own The Man Who Was Thursday. Frontispiece: b/w drawing of Chesterton 'Bibliophilus Maximus'…
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Handbook to Anthony Powell’s Music of Time
- £30.00
- Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time is a landmark of twentieth-century writing. Hilary Spurling has written an invaluable companion to the 12-volume masterpiece, creating a magnificent database of Powell’s imagination and England’s cultural landscape.
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Handbook to Anthony Powell’s Music of Time
- £35.00
- Anthony PowellÕs A Dance to the Music of Time is a landmark of twentieth-century writing. Hilary Spurling has written an invaluable companion to the 12-volume masterpiece, creating a magnificent database of PowellÕs imagination and EnglandÕs cultural landscape.
- Add to basket
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1985
- £50.00
- In characteristically daring style, Anthony Burgess combines two responses to Orwell's 1984 in one book. The first is a sharp analysis: through dialogues, parodies and essays, Burgess sheds new light on what he called 'an apocalyptic codex of our worst fears', creating a critique that is literature in its own…
- Add to basket
-
A Choice of Kipling’s Verse
- £15.00
- Eliot's anthology on Kipling, including his essay about the poet.
- Add to basket
-
A Preface to Paradise Lost (‘revised and enlarged’ from lectures, not a previous publication)
- £140.00
- In Preface to Paradise Lost, C. S. Lewis presents an illuminating reflection on John Milton's Paradise Lost, the seminal classic that profoundly influenced Christian thought as well as Lewis's own work. Lewis a revered scholar and professor of literature closely examines the style, content, structure, and themes of Milton's masterpiece,…
- Add to basket
-
A Short Life of Shakespeare with the Sources
- £80.00
- "This book is an abridgment of William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems, by Sir Edmund Chambers, published in 1930 in two volumes. It has been made for the convenience of those who cannot possess and perhaps do not find it easy to consult the major work, but have…
- Add to basket
-
Abinger Harvest
- £140.00
- This collection contains Forsters delightful and essays on subjects as diverse as Mickey Mouse, English liberty, life in India, writers such as Woolf, Conrad and Proust, and the two pageants he wrote for his Surrey village of Abinger.
- Add to basket
-
An Introduction to Stuart Drama
- £10.00
- Work of literary criticism
- Add to basket
-
An Introduction to Stuart Drama
- £10.00
- Work of literary criticism
- Add to basket
-
Anthony Trollope (Writers and their Work)
- £9.00
- This study relates Trollope to the broad Victorian culture to which he offered a distinctive, creative response. It looks particually at the nature and quality of his political intelligence and at his grasp of processes of manipulation, personal interaction, media exploitation and the integration of the private and the public.…
- Add to basket
-
Ariel’s Gift: a Commentary on Birthday Letters (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Erica Wagner has set the poems of Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters in the context of his marriage to Sylvia Plath with great delicacy . . . Her book is informed not only by Plath's journals and letters, but, more significantly, moonlit throughout by Plath's poetry.' Times Literary Supplement 'A commentary…
- Add to basket
-
Ben Jonson (English Men of Letters)
- £10.00
- Ben Jonson was an English playwright and poet. His artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and…
- Add to basket
-
Britten & Auden in the Thirties: The Year 1936
- £25.00
- A crucial year in the Britten/Auden relationship, which reshaped and redefined artistic direction in the immediate pre-war period. Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden were key figures of the 1930s, and here Donald Mitchell traces their lives during one crucial year, 1936. They worked hard to establish themselves, first through the…
- Add to basket
-
C. S. Lewis (Writers and their Work)
- £10.00
- The works of C.S. Lewis have a wide appeal to a variety of audiences. Lewis is probably most famous for the best-selling The Chronicles of Narnia, although William Nicholson's Shadowlands will have led many readers to Lewis's own account of his tragic bereavement in A Grief Observed. However, Shadowlands represents…
- Add to basket
-
Charles Williams (Writers and Their Work No 63)
- £20.00
- Written for the British Council and the National Book League, this series Writers and their Work was published monthly. Heath-Stubbs examines the wide interests of Charles Williams who was a poet, novelist and critic; his conclusion was that Williams was 'a major poet' was arrived at by a close analysis,…
- Add to basket
-
Chaucer (Chesterton’s Biographies)
- £13.00
- Chesterton expounds the genius of Geoffrey Chaucer' in this literary biography which explores both the writer and his time. He claims that Chaucer and his Age were more sane, more normal and more cheerful than writers that came after him' and the characters he portrayed have an immediate contemporary relevance.…
- Add to basket
-
Crediting Poetry (Nobel Lecture)
- £40.00
- Samus Heaney's lecture, delivered before the Swedish Academy on 7 December 1995, upon winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- Add to basket
-
Cupid and the Jacaranda
- £16.00
- This is another book by Sacheverell Sitwell belonging to the series which began with his Dance of the Ouick and the Dead in 1936. It is, in fact, the fifth volume of this series Cupid and the Jacaranda, like its predecessors, ranges the wide field between fact and fiction. Partly,…
- Add to basket
-
Dark Matter: A Thinking Fans Guide to Philip Pullman
- £15.00
- "My books are about killing God." So declares Philip Pullman, the award-winning author of the bestselling His Dark Materials trilogy of fantasy novels: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. Appealing to millions of children and adults alike, Pullman's books create a universe in which the church…
- Add to basket
-
Democracy and the Arts
- £20.00
- Brooke's essay was first written in 1910 as an address to the Cambridge Fabian Society of which Brooke was president while up at King's. Only published posthumously in 1946.
- Add to basket
-
Derek Walcott (Caribbean Biography)
- £20.00
- This succinct account of the life of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott focuses on his development as poet, playwright and man of the theatre: director, producer, teacher. Friends and colleagues who figured in his career are recalled. The importance of his native St Lucia and family influences in the shaping of…
- Add to basket
-
East of the Wardrobe: The Unexpected Worlds of C S Lewis
- £25.00
- A fascinating look at the rich but under-appreciated Eastern sources behind the Narnia book. C. S. Lewis was no great traveller but he was a prodigious bibliophile who absorbed the world's traditions of myth, religion, and cosmology. The Chronicles of Narnia are steeped in allusions to the Bible, Greek mythology,…
- Add to basket
-
Elizabethan Essays
- £30.00
- Rare anthology of Eliot's essays on Elizabethan dramatists (incl Marlowe, Johnson, Shakespeare et al.)
- Add to basket
-
Émile Zola
- £25.00
- Hemmings was Professor of French Literature at Leicester and wrote a number of highly respected books about Zola, in particular, this profile of his life and writing.
- Add to basket
-
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £75.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
- Add to basket
-
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £100.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
- Add to basket
-
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £55.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944, which C S Lewis took a decade to complete for publication. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
- Add to basket
-
Figures of Several Centuries
- £50.00
- An anthology of essays by Arthur Symons (1865-1945), a noted poet, critic and magazine editor.
- Add to basket
-
From the Land of Shadows
- £8.00
- His third book of cultural criticism, From the Land of Shadows sees essayist, critic and poet Clive James at his erudite, enlightening best. '[T]he lasting impression is of our critic's truly amazing breadth of reference' Ð Times Literary Supplement. Collecting his work from the late 1970s and into the early…
- Add to basket
-
G.K.C. As M.C. being a collection of thirty-seven introductions
- £100.00
- A rare anthology (only 2500 printed) of Chesterton's essays, introducing a range of subjects such as Boswell, the Book of Job, Aesop, The Book of Snobs and Thackeray, George Macdonald, Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as his own The Man Who Was Thursday. Frontispiece: b/w drawing of Chesterton 'Bibliophilus Maximus'…
- Add to basket
-
Handbook to Anthony Powell’s Music of Time
- £30.00
- Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time is a landmark of twentieth-century writing. Hilary Spurling has written an invaluable companion to the 12-volume masterpiece, creating a magnificent database of Powell’s imagination and England’s cultural landscape.
- Add to basket
-
Handbook to Anthony Powell’s Music of Time
- £35.00
- Anthony PowellÕs A Dance to the Music of Time is a landmark of twentieth-century writing. Hilary Spurling has written an invaluable companion to the 12-volume masterpiece, creating a magnificent database of PowellÕs imagination and EnglandÕs cultural landscape.
- Add to basket