Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Becoming George: The Invention of George Sand

Becoming George: The Invention of George Sand

Author: Fiona Sampson
ISBN: 9781529924336
Format: Hardback
$55.00

A long-overdue reappraisal of the groundbreaking nineteenth-century writer who reshaped the literary and social...  Read More >>

Chance: A Tale in Two Parts

Chance: A Tale in Two Parts

Author: Joseph Conrad ,  Allan Simmons
ISBN: 9781009618243
Format: Hardback
$310.50

First published in 1914, Joseph Conrad's female-centred, uncharacteristically optimistic Chance represented a new...  Read More >>

Into the Badlands: America and its Crime Writers

Into the Badlands: America and its Crime Writers

Author: John L Williams
ISBN: 9780857306265
Format: Paperback
$39.99

An instant cult classic that remains deeply relevant today: both an incisive and funny travelogue and a revealing...  Read More >>

The Future Is Fiction: A Cultural History of Intergenerational Justice

The Future Is Fiction: A Cultural History of Intergenerational...

Author: Stacey Margolis (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Utah)
ISBN: 9780197839584
Format: Hardback
$194.95

The Future is Fiction is the first cultural history of the idea that people have an obligation to protect the world...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell

The Routledge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell

Author: Elizabeth Ludlow ,  Rebecca Styler
ISBN: 9781032611129
Format: Hardback
$685.69

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James Joyce: A Political Life

James Joyce: A Political Life

Author: Frank Callanan ,  Robert Spoo
ISBN: 9780691227979
Format: Hardback
$79.99

A major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce's life, thought and writings The young...  Read More >>

In the Forest

In the Forest

Author: Edna O'Brien
ISBN: 9780571397495
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A young mother, her infant son and a Catholic priest are all murdered by a delusional young man.  Read More >>

Tom Stoppard in Context

Tom Stoppard in Context

Author: David Kornhaber (University of Texas, Austin) ,  James N. Loehlin (University of Texas, Austin)
ISBN: 9781108413046
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Tom Stoppard in Context provides cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts to help readers enjoy one of the...  Read More >>

The Art of the ""What-If?"": In 17 Science Fiction Tales from the Past

The Art of the ""What-If?"": In 17 Science Fiction Tales...

Author: Paul J. Nahin
ISBN: 9783032156174
Format: Paperback
$59.49

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Narration and Narratology in Modern Persian Literature

Narration and Narratology in Modern Persian Literature...

Author: Alireza Korangy ,  Sara Khorshidi
ISBN: 9789819698325
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This book investigates the ethical and aesthetic implications of modern Persian narratives.  Read More >>

The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded Edition

The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded...

Author: J. R. R. Tolkien ,  Humphrey Carpenter
ISBN: 9780008628772
Format: Hardback
$165.00

The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world’s greatest storytellers, now...  Read More >>

Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel

Author: Lucy Arnold
ISBN: 9781805967224
Format: Paperback
$118.80

This book is the first comprehensive critical introduction to the life and career of one of the most significant...  Read More >>

Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel

Author: Lucy Arnold
ISBN: 9781805966814
Format: Hardback
$198.00

This book is the first comprehensive critical introduction to the life and career of one of the most significant...  Read More >>

Chernobyl Trauma and Gothic: Testimony, Cultural Memory and Global Literary Perspectives

Chernobyl Trauma and Gothic: Testimony, Cultural Memory...

Author: Stuart Lindsay
ISBN: 9781839990649
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This scholarly monograph explores the published eyewitness testimonies, poetry and literature surrounding the 1986...  Read More >>

The Great Good Places

The Great Good Places

Author: Margaret Drabble
ISBN: 9781837265374
Format: Hardback
$39.99

A luminous hybrid collection of short fiction, essay and memoir from literary giant Margaret Drabble  Read More >>

Kafkaesque: Ten Great Writers Translate the Twentieth Century

Kafkaesque: Ten Great Writers Translate the Twentieth...

Author: Maïa Hruska
ISBN: 9780008768614
Format: Hardback
$34.99

‘Dazzling … one fine day, you open a book by an unknown writer, and a charge of pure talent blows you away’ La...  Read More >>

Through Stranger Eyes: Reviews, Introductions, Tributes, and Iconoclastic Essays

Through Stranger Eyes: Reviews, Introductions, Tributes,...

Author: David Brin
ISBN: 9798337205830
Format: Paperback
$47.99

Collected literary and film criticism and more-now revised and updated with new material-from an award-winning,...  Read More >>

Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions

Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other...

Author: José A. de la Garza Valenzuela
ISBN: 9781477333532
Format: Paperback
$80.99

Contrasting works by queer Chicano writers against the legal landscape of sexuality and migration to interrogate...  Read More >>

Black Aliens: Kinship in the Cosmic Diaspora

Black Aliens: Kinship in the Cosmic Diaspora

Author: Joanna Davis-McElligatt
ISBN: 9780814259771
Format: Paperback
$97.55

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Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions

Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other...

Author: José A. de la Garza Valenzuela
ISBN: 9781477333525
Format: Hardback
$243.00

Contrasting works by queer Chicano writers against the legal landscape of sexuality and migration to interrogate...  Read More >>

Zadie Smith: New Perspectives

Zadie Smith: New Perspectives

Author: Nurten Birlik ,  Noémi Albert
ISBN: 9781526177742
Format: Hardback
$206.99

A collection of essays on Zadie Smith's oeuvre to date, which proposes to investigate Smith's works from different...  Read More >>

Black Aliens: Kinship in the Cosmic Diaspora

Black Aliens: Kinship in the Cosmic Diaspora

Author: Joanna Davis-McElligatt
ISBN: 9780814216088
Format: Hardback
$343.07

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Christopher Isherwood Inside Out

Christopher Isherwood Inside Out

Author: Katherine Bucknell
ISBN: 9781529932348
Format: Paperback
$49.99

""Originally published in 2024 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain""--Title page verso.  Read More >>

George Moore: Spheres of Influence

George Moore: Spheres of Influence

Author: Kathryn Laing ,  Mary Pierse
ISBN: 9781805966777
Format: Paperback
$82.77

This invigorating volume explores the literary worlds inhabited by the pioneering Irish author George Moore (1852–1933)....  Read More >>

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