Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)

Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)...

Author: William Dean Howells
ISBN: 9781023130684
Format: Hardback
$86.99

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books...  Read More >>

The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature

The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature...

Author: Robert Emmons Rogers
ISBN: 9781023162241
Format: Hardback
$89.63

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

Algonquin Indian Tales

Algonquin Indian Tales

Author: Egerton Ryerson Young
ISBN: 9781023044158
Format: Hardback
$86.99

[...] CHAPTER XII. The Naming of the Baby-A Canoe Trip-The Legend of the Discovery of Medicine-How the Chipmunk...  Read More >>

The Tale of Terror

The Tale of Terror

Author: Edith Birkhead
ISBN: 9781022968479
Format: Hardback
$84.35

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Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde

Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde

Author: Oscar Wilde ,  Robert Baldwin Ross
ISBN: 9781022987531
Format: Hardback
$81.71

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Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners - Learning to Declutter: 40 Progressive Tales That Build Your Spanish Vocabulary While Teaching You How to Simplify Your Space and Mind

Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners - Learning to...

Author: Ariel Vega Luna
ISBN: 9798281354769
Format: Paperback
$34.24

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Smith of Wootton Major

Smith of Wootton Major

Author: J. R. R. Tolkien ,  Verlyn Flieger
ISBN: 9780008737672
Format: Paperback
$22.99

A charming new paperback edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s major pieces of short fiction, and his only finished...  Read More >>

Jane Austen: The Life of a Literary Titan

Jane Austen: The Life of a Literary Titan

Author: Caroline Sanderson
ISBN: 9781803999227
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A concise and fascinating biography of one of the world's undisputed literary titans  Read More >>

Pen Names

Pen Names

Author: Kirsty McHugh ,  Ian Scott
ISBN: 9781851246496
Format: Hardback
$29.99

An engaging exploration of the stories behind forty famous pen names from the nineteenth century to the present...  Read More >>

La vie et l'oeuvre énigmatiques d'Agatha Christie

La vie et l'oeuvre énigmatiques d'Agatha Christie

Author: Gew Sciences Humaines
ISBN: 9781787953062
Format: Paperback
$129.33

Agatha Christie, l'un des auteurs les plus lus, est considérée comme la reine du crime . Tous les lecteurs connaissent...  Read More >>

R.C. Hutchinson: The Man and His Writing

R.C. Hutchinson: The Man and His Writing

Author: Barry Webb
ISBN: 9780718897994
Format: Paperback
$64.69

Biographical and critical study on the often forgotten, but talented, 20th century writer, R.C. Hutchinson.  Read More >>

The Enigmatic Life And Work Of Agatha Christie

The Enigmatic Life And Work Of Agatha Christie

Author: Gew Humanities Group
ISBN: 9781787953048
Format: Paperback
$126.69

Agatha Christie is one of the most widely read authors and is considered the ""Queen of Crime."" Every reader knows...  Read More >>

Anthony Burgess and America: The Untold Story Behind the American Influences on Burgess’s Life, Work, and Legacy

Anthony Burgess and America: The Untold Story Behind...

Author: Christopher W Thurley
ISBN: 9781526174147
Format: Hardback
$219.00

This book is a critical biography and literary cultural analysis of Burgess's interactions with the United States...  Read More >>

Through the Fiction of Phebe Gibbes (1764–90): Women, Alienation, and Prodigality in the Long Eighteenth Century

Through the Fiction of Phebe Gibbes (1764–90): Women,...

Author: Kathryn Freeman
ISBN: 9781526175007
Format: Hardback
$195.00

Centralising the prolific English novelist, Phebe Gibbes, in a lineage of women writers of the revolutionary period,...  Read More >>

The Black Rose

The Black Rose

Author: Buddhadeva Bose ,  Arunava Sinha
ISBN: 9780143469889
Format: Paperback
$31.02

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Restless Was the Night and Other Stories

Restless Was the Night and Other Stories

Author: Buddhadeva Bose ,  Arunava Sinha
ISBN: 9780143469872
Format: Paperback
$41.37

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Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch

Author: Bridget Clarke (University of Montana)
ISBN: 9781009571739
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element aims to illuminate the affinities between Murdoch's concept of the individual and the Enlightenment...  Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee

The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee

Author: Dr Lucy Valerie Graham (University of Johannesburg, South Africa) ,  Dr Andrew van der Vlies (University of Adelaide, Australia.)
ISBN: 9781350411975
Format: Paperback
$79.00

J. M. Coetzee – novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2003) – is widely recognized...  Read More >>

Female Identity in Contemporary Fictional Purgatorial Worlds

Female Identity in Contemporary Fictional Purgatorial...

Author: Simon Bacon
ISBN: 9781350227071
Format: Paperback
$59.99

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Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative...

Author: Dani Shapiro
ISBN: 9781529909975
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Examines the process of creative writing and storytelling through the author's personal stories and experiences...  Read More >>

Women, Politics, and Social Networks in the Sagas of Norwegian Kings

Women, Politics, and Social Networks in the Sagas of...

Author: Markus Eldegard Mindrebø
ISBN: 9781501521218
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This book explores elite women's distinctive roles as power brokers binding together aristocratic networks, as described...  Read More >>

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