literary criticism
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Hours in a Library (2nd series)
- £100.00
- Second series of essays by Leslie Stephen (father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell) on a range of writers: Sir Thomas Browne, Jonathan Edwards, William Law, Horace Walpole, Dr Johnson's Writings, Crabbe's poetry, William Hazlitt, Mr Disraeli's Novels.
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Humour: its theory and technique. A book of discovery
- £50.00
- Stephen Butler Leacock FRSC (1869Ð1944) was a British-Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world. This book was a distillation of his understanding and insights into comedy.
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I Can’t Stay Long (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.' When Laurie Lee first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a delight in…
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Invitation to the Classics: A Guide to Books You’ve Always Wanted to Read
- £40.00
- Practically a classic itself, Invitation to the Classics is a popular guide to those great works of literature that you always meant to read. Full color and engaging, this book is a gateway to the fulfilling pursuit of understanding our culture by exploring its most enduring writings. "These sparkling essays…
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Jane Austen (Thames & Hudson Literary Lives)
- £13.00
- This work is a study of the life and work of Jane Austen, who sprang from the upper-middle class society of late 18th-century southern England. Self-contained, orthodox in morals and religion, depending for its strength on the professions and on the ownership of the land - this was the milieu…
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John Betjeman (Writers and their Work)
- £9.00
- Sir John Betjeman remains the most popular English poet of today. He has been termed a `national teddy bear', and some commentary has addressed his work in rather such terms. However, it is evident that most of his key themes - the spirit of place (or `place-myth'), mundane lives (`petit…
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John Keats (Writers and their Work)
- £9.00
- This book offers the intelligent new reader a critically evaluative guide to KeatsÕs major poems and letters, from a perspective which aims to counter the historical emphasis of recent critical work.
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John Masefield, O.M.: a Bibliography and Eighty-First Birthday Tribute (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- A Tribute to the Poet Laureate John Masefield with a bibliography for his 81st Birthday in 1960. A limited signed edition of 999 copies.
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Jonathan Swift (Writers and their Work)
- £9.00
- The book's focus is the major satires upon which Swift's literary reputation principally rest including 'A Tale of Tub', 'An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity', 'Gulliver's Travels', 'A Modest Proposal' and more. This critical analysis highlights the extremism of Swiftian satire and its off page menaces.
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Journey to the Ends of Time: Vol 1. Lost in the Dark Wood
- £30.00
- Journey to the Ends of Time is the knowledge and experience of a lifetime projected into the form of fantasias of the mind and soul. They are exercises of the imagination, and variations upon the greatest of all human themes. But it is not written from a religious angle, and…
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Lewis Carroll
- £12.00
- de la Mare's brief appreciation of the great Victorian master of the absurd
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Life as a Literary Device: a Writer’s Manual of Survival (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Vitali Vitaliev is the Ukranian-born author, poet and journalist whose life has been spent exploring the curious, the unusual and the plain dotty manifestations of human life around the world. In this honest memoir, Vitaliev describes how on many occasions in his life, words have provided him with the means…
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Light on C. S. Lewis
- £50.00
- Written soon after Lewis's death in 1963, this book contains verious essays on his legacy. Owen Barfield, Austin Farrer, J. A. W. Bennett, Nevill Coghill, John Lawlor, Stella Gibbons, Kathleen Raine, Chad Walsh and Walter Hooper. Index. CONTENTS: Preface by Jocelyn Gibb, Introduction by Owen Barfield. 1. The Christian Apologist…
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Lire Ted Hughes: New Selected Poems, 1957-1994 (Lectures D’une Oeuvre) (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- 1st edition of anthology of essays on the poetry of Ted Hughes, 10 in English and 5 in French.
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Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies & Other Writing
- £40.00
- In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ÔI have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.Õ This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from…
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-
Hours in a Library (2nd series)
- £100.00
- Second series of essays by Leslie Stephen (father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell) on a range of writers: Sir Thomas Browne, Jonathan Edwards, William Law, Horace Walpole, Dr Johnson's Writings, Crabbe's poetry, William Hazlitt, Mr Disraeli's Novels.
- Add to basket
-
Humour: its theory and technique. A book of discovery
- £50.00
- Stephen Butler Leacock FRSC (1869Ð1944) was a British-Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world. This book was a distillation of his understanding and insights into comedy.
- Add to basket
-
I Can’t Stay Long (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.' When Laurie Lee first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a delight in…
- Add to basket
-
Invitation to the Classics: A Guide to Books You’ve Always Wanted to Read
- £40.00
- Practically a classic itself, Invitation to the Classics is a popular guide to those great works of literature that you always meant to read. Full color and engaging, this book is a gateway to the fulfilling pursuit of understanding our culture by exploring its most enduring writings. "These sparkling essays…
- Add to basket
-
Jane Austen (Thames & Hudson Literary Lives)
- £13.00
- This work is a study of the life and work of Jane Austen, who sprang from the upper-middle class society of late 18th-century southern England. Self-contained, orthodox in morals and religion, depending for its strength on the professions and on the ownership of the land - this was the milieu…
- Add to basket
-
John Betjeman (Writers and their Work)
- £9.00
- Sir John Betjeman remains the most popular English poet of today. He has been termed a `national teddy bear', and some commentary has addressed his work in rather such terms. However, it is evident that most of his key themes - the spirit of place (or `place-myth'), mundane lives (`petit…
- Add to basket
-
John Keats (Writers and their Work)
- £9.00
- This book offers the intelligent new reader a critically evaluative guide to KeatsÕs major poems and letters, from a perspective which aims to counter the historical emphasis of recent critical work.
- Add to basket
-
John Masefield, O.M.: a Bibliography and Eighty-First Birthday Tribute (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- A Tribute to the Poet Laureate John Masefield with a bibliography for his 81st Birthday in 1960. A limited signed edition of 999 copies.
- Add to basket
-
Jonathan Swift (Writers and their Work)
- £9.00
- The book's focus is the major satires upon which Swift's literary reputation principally rest including 'A Tale of Tub', 'An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity', 'Gulliver's Travels', 'A Modest Proposal' and more. This critical analysis highlights the extremism of Swiftian satire and its off page menaces.
- Add to basket
-
Journey to the Ends of Time: Vol 1. Lost in the Dark Wood
- £30.00
- Journey to the Ends of Time is the knowledge and experience of a lifetime projected into the form of fantasias of the mind and soul. They are exercises of the imagination, and variations upon the greatest of all human themes. But it is not written from a religious angle, and…
- Add to basket
-
Lewis Carroll
- £12.00
- de la Mare's brief appreciation of the great Victorian master of the absurd
- Add to basket
-
Life as a Literary Device: a Writer’s Manual of Survival (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Vitali Vitaliev is the Ukranian-born author, poet and journalist whose life has been spent exploring the curious, the unusual and the plain dotty manifestations of human life around the world. In this honest memoir, Vitaliev describes how on many occasions in his life, words have provided him with the means…
- Add to basket
-
Light on C. S. Lewis
- £50.00
- Written soon after Lewis's death in 1963, this book contains verious essays on his legacy. Owen Barfield, Austin Farrer, J. A. W. Bennett, Nevill Coghill, John Lawlor, Stella Gibbons, Kathleen Raine, Chad Walsh and Walter Hooper. Index. CONTENTS: Preface by Jocelyn Gibb, Introduction by Owen Barfield. 1. The Christian Apologist…
- Add to basket
-
Lire Ted Hughes: New Selected Poems, 1957-1994 (Lectures D’une Oeuvre) (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- 1st edition of anthology of essays on the poetry of Ted Hughes, 10 in English and 5 in French.
- Add to basket
-
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies & Other Writing
- £40.00
- In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ÔI have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.Õ This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from…
- Add to basket