literature
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Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
- £35.00
- A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year / 'One of our generation's greatest biographers' London Review of Books / 'Witty, spirited, richly crowded with incident and character - a joy to read' Prospect / From the author of the prize-winning Matisse The Master comes an essential biography of…
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Balzac
- £30.00
- Graham Robb has produced a masterpiece literary biography in which Balzac bursts into life on every page. The living manifestation of the colourful and varied world he described, yet at the same time its most astonishing exception, Balzac is the perfect subject for biography. Robb skilfully interweaves the life with…
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Betjeman
- £12.00
- John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century. His collected poems sold over two million copies. Television audiences loved his quirky evocations of landcsape and architecture. As Poet Laureate, he became a national icon, but behind the public man were doubts and demons. The poet…
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Brave New World Revisited
- £40.00
- In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control. Nearly thirty years later in Brave New World Revisited, Huxley checked the progress of his prophecies against reality and argued that many of…
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Bruce Chatwin
- £15.00
- In the years since his death from AIDS, Bruce Chatwin s reputation as a story-teller has grown and his books have continued to attract and inspire readers all over the world. At the same time there has been an increasing awareness that it was through his life and death that…
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Censored: a literary history of subversion and control
- £20.00
- The list of books suppressed in the English language features the sacred and profane, poetic and pornographic, famous and infamous. A history of literary censorship is therefore a history not only of texts but of the authorities that have attempted to prevent their circulation: sovereigns, politicians, judges, prison officers, slaveholders,…
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Denton Welch, The Making Of A Writer
- £20.00
- Maurice Denton Welch (1915Ð1948) was an English writer and painter, admired for his vivid prose and precise descriptions. Fictional content aside, the point of origin of virtually all of his stories is biographical: they are often set in places he knew or had visited, and feature thinly-disguised, often deeply unflattering,…
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Desert Islands (and Robinson Crusoe)
- £25.00
- One of de la Mare's famous thematic anthologies. As critic Lord David Cecil wrote, '"De la Mare's anthologies should be numbered among his creative works; for in them the quoted passages are woven together on a web of imaginative comment as highly wrought and as often as long as the…
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Desert Islands (and Robinson Crusoe) SIGNED
- £100.00
- One of de la Mare's famous thematic anthologies. As critic Lord David Cecil wrote, '"De la Mare's anthologies should be numbered among his creative works; for in them the quoted passages are woven together on a web of imaginative comment as highly wrought and as often as long as the…
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Dr Johnson and the Law: and Other Essays on Johnson
- £60.00
- xiii, 49 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill., map ; 24 cm. Plan of the the Inner and Middle Temple from the Map of London (John Ogilby, 1677) serves as end papers. Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Johnson, Samuel - 1709-1784 - Knowledge Law. Dr. Johnson's House (London, England).…
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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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Finders Keepers – Selected Prose 1971-2001
- £25.00
- Delving into his literary heritage and his own voice in the modern world, this current collection contains the Nobel Prize winner's greatest lectures, short newspaper articles, radio commentaries, and other richly textured pieces.
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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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George Mackay Brown: The Life
- £14.00
- George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes. He had a wide international reputation, but hardly left his native Orkney. A prolific poet, admired by such fellow poets as Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Charles Causley, and hailed by the composer…
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God As Author: A Biblical Approach To Narrative
- £10.00
- God as Author takes a thoughtful literary approach to understanding the Gospel. Gene Fant writes in the preface: "Most of us have heard that Christ is 'the Author and Finisher of our faith' (Hebrews 12:2), so it makes sense that the Gospel would be God's story. As many a church…
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Honeymoons through writers’ eyes
- £12.00
- "A brilliant collection of writings on the subject of the honeymoon. Offering context and commentary where necessary, the editors have canvassed history, fact and fiction for the gamut of newlywed experience, from the Brownings' blissful elopement and Napoleon and Marie-Louise's swift exit from the marriage supper, to Charles Kingsley's bizarre…
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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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I Want! I Want!
- £15.00
- The 2nd Annual Lecture of the National Book Council, delivered at the Caxton Hall, Westminster on May 19th 1944, Geoffrey Faber in the Chair.
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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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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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On Writing
- £20.00
- After six novels, five story collections and two books of non-fiction, and countless international prizes, A.L. Kennedy certainly has the authority to talk about the craft of writing books Ð itÕs just a wonder sheÕs found the time. These are missives from the authorial front line Ð urgent and vivid,…
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Portrait Of A Marriage: Vita Sackville-West And Harold Nicolson
- £12.00
- The marriage was that between the two writers, Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson and the portrait is drawn partly by Vita herself in an autobiography which she left behind at her death in 1962 and partly by her son, Nigel. It was one of the happiest and strangest marriages there…
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Rhetorical Renaissance: The Mistress Art and Her Masterworks
- £23.00
- Kathy Eden reveals the unexplored classical rhetorical theory at the heart of iconic Renaissance literary works. Kathy Eden explores the intersection of early modern literary theory and practice. She considers the rebirth of the rhetorical artÑresulting from the rediscovery of complete manuscripts of high-profile ancient texts about rhetoric by Plato,…
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Soldier’s Heart: reading literature through peace and war at West Point
- £10.00
- A West Point English professor offers an intimate portrait of teaching literature to young men and women preparing for war and assesses the various ways in warfare has transformed her relationship with literature, describing the changes that have occurred since September 11, what it means to be a civilian teaching…
- Add to basket
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Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography
- £9.00
- A biography of a remarkable writer - a hero of the 1930s - a panoramic portrait of a troubled century. Seven years after Spender's death, John Sutherland offers the first authorized life of this brilliant, but famously enigmatic, man. As wellas knowing him personally Sutherland has had unhindered access to…
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Studies in Words (Second edition)
- £25.00
- LanguageÑin its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations and its shifting meaningsÑis a perennially fascinating topic. C. S. Lewis's Studies in Words explores this fascination by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations using examples from a vast range of English literature, recovering lost meanings and…
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The Allegory of Love: a study in Medieval Tradition
- £22.00
- The Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called 'courtly love' and the allegorical method within which it developed in literature and thought, from its first flowering in eleventh-century Languedoc through to its transformation and gradual demise…
- Add to basket
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The Bedside Book of Birds: an avian miscellany
- £25.00
- Featured in the vast majority of mythologies and religions, birds are generally associated with creativity and the human spirit. From the Christian dove to Quetzalcoatl (the Aztec plumed serpent), and from Raven Man to Plato's description of the soul growing wings and feathers, birds have represented the soul in contrast…
- Add to basket
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The Bible and its Rewritings
- £40.00
- Piero Boitani discusses how some of the most fascinating scenes of Old and New Testament -- Genesis, Exodus, Job, the Susanna story, the Gospel of John -- are directly or indirectly rewritten in works ranging from the medieval period to the late twentieth-century: by Milton and Mann; by Chaucer, Dryden,…
- Add to basket
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The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret Of The Cold War
- £21.00
- The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. For almost five decades after the Second World War, Europe was divided by the longest and most heavily guarded border on earth. The Iron Curtain, a near-impenetrable barrier of wire and…
- Add to basket
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Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
- £35.00
- A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year / 'One of our generation's greatest biographers' London Review of Books / 'Witty, spirited, richly crowded with incident and character - a joy to read' Prospect / From the author of the prize-winning Matisse The Master comes an essential biography of…
- Add to basket
-
Balzac
- £30.00
- Graham Robb has produced a masterpiece literary biography in which Balzac bursts into life on every page. The living manifestation of the colourful and varied world he described, yet at the same time its most astonishing exception, Balzac is the perfect subject for biography. Robb skilfully interweaves the life with…
- Add to basket
-
Betjeman
- £12.00
- John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century. His collected poems sold over two million copies. Television audiences loved his quirky evocations of landcsape and architecture. As Poet Laureate, he became a national icon, but behind the public man were doubts and demons. The poet…
- Add to basket
-
Brave New World Revisited
- £40.00
- In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control. Nearly thirty years later in Brave New World Revisited, Huxley checked the progress of his prophecies against reality and argued that many of…
- Add to basket
-
Bruce Chatwin
- £15.00
- In the years since his death from AIDS, Bruce Chatwin s reputation as a story-teller has grown and his books have continued to attract and inspire readers all over the world. At the same time there has been an increasing awareness that it was through his life and death that…
- Add to basket
-
Censored: a literary history of subversion and control
- £20.00
- The list of books suppressed in the English language features the sacred and profane, poetic and pornographic, famous and infamous. A history of literary censorship is therefore a history not only of texts but of the authorities that have attempted to prevent their circulation: sovereigns, politicians, judges, prison officers, slaveholders,…
- Add to basket
-
Denton Welch, The Making Of A Writer
- £20.00
- Maurice Denton Welch (1915Ð1948) was an English writer and painter, admired for his vivid prose and precise descriptions. Fictional content aside, the point of origin of virtually all of his stories is biographical: they are often set in places he knew or had visited, and feature thinly-disguised, often deeply unflattering,…
- Add to basket
-
Desert Islands (and Robinson Crusoe)
- £25.00
- One of de la Mare's famous thematic anthologies. As critic Lord David Cecil wrote, '"De la Mare's anthologies should be numbered among his creative works; for in them the quoted passages are woven together on a web of imaginative comment as highly wrought and as often as long as the…
- Add to basket
-
Desert Islands (and Robinson Crusoe) SIGNED
- £100.00
- One of de la Mare's famous thematic anthologies. As critic Lord David Cecil wrote, '"De la Mare's anthologies should be numbered among his creative works; for in them the quoted passages are woven together on a web of imaginative comment as highly wrought and as often as long as the…
- Add to basket
-
Dr Johnson and the Law: and Other Essays on Johnson
- £60.00
- xiii, 49 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill., map ; 24 cm. Plan of the the Inner and Middle Temple from the Map of London (John Ogilby, 1677) serves as end papers. Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Johnson, Samuel - 1709-1784 - Knowledge Law. Dr. Johnson's House (London, England).…
- 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
-
Finders Keepers – Selected Prose 1971-2001
- £25.00
- Delving into his literary heritage and his own voice in the modern world, this current collection contains the Nobel Prize winner's greatest lectures, short newspaper articles, radio commentaries, and other richly textured pieces.
- 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
-
George Mackay Brown: The Life
- £14.00
- George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes. He had a wide international reputation, but hardly left his native Orkney. A prolific poet, admired by such fellow poets as Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Charles Causley, and hailed by the composer…
- Add to basket
-
God As Author: A Biblical Approach To Narrative
- £10.00
- God as Author takes a thoughtful literary approach to understanding the Gospel. Gene Fant writes in the preface: "Most of us have heard that Christ is 'the Author and Finisher of our faith' (Hebrews 12:2), so it makes sense that the Gospel would be God's story. As many a church…
- Add to basket
-
Honeymoons through writers’ eyes
- £12.00
- "A brilliant collection of writings on the subject of the honeymoon. Offering context and commentary where necessary, the editors have canvassed history, fact and fiction for the gamut of newlywed experience, from the Brownings' blissful elopement and Napoleon and Marie-Louise's swift exit from the marriage supper, to Charles Kingsley's bizarre…
- Add to basket
-
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
-
I Want! I Want!
- £15.00
- The 2nd Annual Lecture of the National Book Council, delivered at the Caxton Hall, Westminster on May 19th 1944, Geoffrey Faber in the Chair.
- 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
-
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
-
On Writing
- £20.00
- After six novels, five story collections and two books of non-fiction, and countless international prizes, A.L. Kennedy certainly has the authority to talk about the craft of writing books Ð itÕs just a wonder sheÕs found the time. These are missives from the authorial front line Ð urgent and vivid,…
- Add to basket
-
Portrait Of A Marriage: Vita Sackville-West And Harold Nicolson
- £12.00
- The marriage was that between the two writers, Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson and the portrait is drawn partly by Vita herself in an autobiography which she left behind at her death in 1962 and partly by her son, Nigel. It was one of the happiest and strangest marriages there…
- Add to basket
-
Rhetorical Renaissance: The Mistress Art and Her Masterworks
- £23.00
- Kathy Eden reveals the unexplored classical rhetorical theory at the heart of iconic Renaissance literary works. Kathy Eden explores the intersection of early modern literary theory and practice. She considers the rebirth of the rhetorical artÑresulting from the rediscovery of complete manuscripts of high-profile ancient texts about rhetoric by Plato,…
- Add to basket
-
Soldier’s Heart: reading literature through peace and war at West Point
- £10.00
- A West Point English professor offers an intimate portrait of teaching literature to young men and women preparing for war and assesses the various ways in warfare has transformed her relationship with literature, describing the changes that have occurred since September 11, what it means to be a civilian teaching…
- Add to basket
-
Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography
- £9.00
- A biography of a remarkable writer - a hero of the 1930s - a panoramic portrait of a troubled century. Seven years after Spender's death, John Sutherland offers the first authorized life of this brilliant, but famously enigmatic, man. As wellas knowing him personally Sutherland has had unhindered access to…
- Add to basket
-
Studies in Words (Second edition)
- £25.00
- LanguageÑin its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations and its shifting meaningsÑis a perennially fascinating topic. C. S. Lewis's Studies in Words explores this fascination by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations using examples from a vast range of English literature, recovering lost meanings and…
- Add to basket
-
The Allegory of Love: a study in Medieval Tradition
- £22.00
- The Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called 'courtly love' and the allegorical method within which it developed in literature and thought, from its first flowering in eleventh-century Languedoc through to its transformation and gradual demise…
- Add to basket
-
The Bedside Book of Birds: an avian miscellany
- £25.00
- Featured in the vast majority of mythologies and religions, birds are generally associated with creativity and the human spirit. From the Christian dove to Quetzalcoatl (the Aztec plumed serpent), and from Raven Man to Plato's description of the soul growing wings and feathers, birds have represented the soul in contrast…
- Add to basket
-
The Bible and its Rewritings
- £40.00
- Piero Boitani discusses how some of the most fascinating scenes of Old and New Testament -- Genesis, Exodus, Job, the Susanna story, the Gospel of John -- are directly or indirectly rewritten in works ranging from the medieval period to the late twentieth-century: by Milton and Mann; by Chaucer, Dryden,…
- Add to basket
-
The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret Of The Cold War
- £21.00
- The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. For almost five decades after the Second World War, Europe was divided by the longest and most heavily guarded border on earth. The Iron Curtain, a near-impenetrable barrier of wire and…
- Add to basket