Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Passing

Passing

Author: Nella Larsen
ISBN: 9780008590154
Format: Paperback
$23.26

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Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West

Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West

Author: Victoria Glendinning
ISBN: 9780755650439
Format: Paperback
$43.96

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The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds

Author: H. G. Wells
ISBN: 9780008590178
Format: Paperback
$18.09

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Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys

Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys

Author: Louisa May Alcott
ISBN: 9780008590161
Format: Paperback
$20.67

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Dear Knausgaard

Dear Knausgaard

Author: Kim Adrian
ISBN: 9781913861384
Format: Paperback
$33.61

In a series of warm and often funny letters, Kim Adrian delivers a compelling feminist critique of the 6-volume...  Read More >>

Everyday Consumption in Twenty-First-Century Brazilian Fiction

Everyday Consumption in Twenty-First-Century Brazilian...

Author: Lígia Bezerra
ISBN: 9781612497594
Format: Paperback
$104.00

The first in-depth study to map out the representation of consumption in contemporary Brazilian prose. The book...  Read More >>

Conrad’s Malaysian Fiction

Conrad’s Malaysian Fiction

Author: Florence Clemens ,  Gene M. Moore
ISBN: 9789004525917
Format: Hardback
$269.28

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Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel

Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel

Author: Sandra Dinter
ISBN: 9781032401102
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Since the 1980s novels about childhood for adults have been a booming genre within the contemporary British literary...  Read More >>

Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology

Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology...

Author: Erin James ,  Eric Morel
ISBN: 9780814255650
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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Victorian Coral Islands of Empire, Mission, and the Boys’ Adventure Novel

Victorian Coral Islands of Empire, Mission, and the...

Author: Michelle Elleray
ISBN: 9781032401027
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Michelle Elleray investigates how empire was conveyed to Victorian children in popular forms from 1840-1880, with...  Read More >>

Everyday Consumption in Twenty-First-Century Brazilian Fiction

Everyday Consumption in Twenty-First-Century Brazilian...

Author: Lígia Bezerra
ISBN: 9781612497587
Format: Hardback
$231.00

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The Making of Middle-earth: The Worlds of Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings

The Making of Middle-earth: The Worlds of Tolkien and...

Author: Christopher A. Snyder
ISBN: 9781454944751
Format: Hardback
$85.80

This book, originally published in 2013 and richly illustrated with photographs and artwork , was the first to connect...  Read More >>

Exile as a Continuum in Joseph Conrad’s Fiction: Living in Translation

Exile as a Continuum in Joseph Conrad’s Fiction: Living...

Author: Ludmilla Voitkovska
ISBN: 9781032258768
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Considering Conrad’s transcultural background, this volume investigates the essential features of his expatriate...  Read More >>

Last Scene of All: Representing Death on the Western Stage

Last Scene of All: Representing Death on the Western...

Author: Jessica Goodman
ISBN: 9781781886861
Format: Hardback
$303.60

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The Mysterious Romance of Murder Lib/E: Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir

The Mysterious Romance of Murder Lib/E: Crime, Detection,...

Author: David Lehman ,  Stephen Bowlby
ISBN: 9798212134750
Format: Audio
$176.85

Why do we keep returning to Agatha Christie's ingenious puzzles and Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled murder mysteries?...  Read More >>

Rip Van Winkle's Republic: Washington Irving in History and Memory

Rip Van Winkle's Republic: Washington Irving in History...

Author: Andrew Burstein ,  Nancy Isenberg
ISBN: 9780807177594
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Edited by acclaimed historians Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg, Rip Van Winkle’s Republic marks a rediscovery...  Read More >>

Short Story Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers

Short Story Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9780028673967
Format: Hardback
$1337.82

Presents literary criticism on the works of short-story writers of all nations, cultures, and time periods. Critical...  Read More >>

Agatha Christie: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction

Agatha Christie: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction...

Author: J.C. Bernthal ,  Elizabeth Foxwell
ISBN: 9781476676203
Format: Paperback
$80.30

Summarizes and explores Agatha Christie’s entire literary output, including the detective fiction, plays, radio...  Read More >>

Pessoa: An Experimental Life

Pessoa: An Experimental Life

Author: Richard Zenith
ISBN: 9780141998299
Format: Paperback
$45.00

A monumental biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic writers For many thousands...  Read More >>

Secrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction

Secrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction

Author: Dr. María J. López (University of Córdoba, Spain) ,  Dr. Pilar Villar-Argáiz (University of Granada, Spain)
ISBN: 9781501372193
Format: Paperback
$61.99

""Collects a range of theoretical approaches and close readings in order to analyze the relationship between secrecy...  Read More >>

Elena Ferrante as World Literature

Elena Ferrante as World Literature

Author: Prof Stiliana Milkova Rousseva (Oberlin College, USA) ,  Thomas Oliver Beebee (Penn State University USA)
ISBN: 9781501371912
Format: Paperback
$61.99

""Examines the global impact and relevance of Elena Ferrante's narratives of feminine identity""--  Read More >>

Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present

Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to...

Author: Dr Hadas Elber-Aviram (University of Notre Dame, London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350202825
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Finalist for the 2023 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies From the time of Charles Dickens,...  Read More >>

Ecocollapse Fiction and Cultures of Human Extinction

Ecocollapse Fiction and Cultures of Human Extinction...

Author: Sarah E. McFarland (Northwestern State University, Louisiana, USA) ,  Greg Garrard (University of British Columbia Canada)
ISBN: 9781350202900
Format: Paperback
$61.99

This work analyzes 21st-century realistic speculations of human extinction: fictions that imagine future worlds...  Read More >>

Biblical Sterne: Rhetoric and Religion in the Shandyverse

Biblical Sterne: Rhetoric and Religion in the Shandyverse...

Author: Ryan J. Stark (Corban University, USA) ,  Emma Mason (University of Warwick UK)
ISBN: 9781350202894
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Is Laurence Sterne one of the great Christian apologists? Ryan Stark recommends him as such, perhaps to the detriment...  Read More >>

Rethinking the Romantic Era: Androgynous Subjectivity and the Recreative in the Writings of Mary Robinson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Mary Shelley

Rethinking the Romantic Era: Androgynous Subjectivity...

Author: Kathryn S. Freeman
ISBN: 9781350194939
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Focusing on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Robinson and Mary Shelley, this book uses key concepts of androgyny, subjectivity...  Read More >>

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