Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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The Pocket Book of Orwell: A Concise Introduction to Orwell’s Writings and Ideas

The Pocket Book of Orwell: A Concise Introduction to...

Author: Chris McNab
ISBN: 9781398840348
Format: Hardback
$25.85

Explore the writings and ideas of literary legends George Orwell with this handy hardback guide, complete with helpful...  Read More >>

Paper Jane: 250 Years of Austen

Paper Jane: 250 Years of Austen

Author: Janine Barchas ,  Mary Crawford
ISBN: 9781605831237
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Paper Jane reflects Austen's heady reputation as a revered canonical author, even while her books are simultaneously...  Read More >>

Funnier: A New Theory for the Practice of Comedy

Funnier: A New Theory for the Practice of Comedy

Author: Anne Libera ,  Ashley Nicole Black
ISBN: 9780810149366
Format: Paperback
$79.20

""A roadmap for understanding and creating comedy from the visionary Second City comedy director""-- Provided by...  Read More >>

Maurice Blanchot: Three Terrors

Maurice Blanchot: Three Terrors

Author: Marty Hiatt (Independent Scholar)
ISBN: 9798855804485
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Investigates permutations of the terror to examine the complex political and intellectual transformation of literary...  Read More >>

Reading War, Making Memory: Remembering the Bosnian War Across Europe

Reading War, Making Memory: Remembering the Bosnian...

Author: Tea Sindbæk Andersen ,  Jessica Ortner
ISBN: 9781836952305
Format: Hardback
$269.10

A clarifying analysis of how authors from Bosnia-Herzegovina translate and transmit the memory of the Bosnian War...  Read More >>

Letters Writ By a Turkish Spy

Letters Writ By a Turkish Spy

Author: Giovanni P. Marana ,  Arthur J. Weitzman
ISBN: 9781041159711
Format: Hardback
$181.13

Giovanni P. Marana was probably the first writer to use the device of a series of letters written by a visitor to...  Read More >>

Mary Howitt, Our Cousins in Ohio

Mary Howitt, Our Cousins in Ohio

Author: Mary Howitt ,  Donald Ingram Ulin (Professor Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford)
ISBN: 9781399523578
Format: Hardback
$230.00

A new critical edition of Our Cousins in Ohio, showcasing the transatlantic collaboration between best-selling English...  Read More >>

Writing Contested Illness: Experimentation in Contemporary Women's Life Writing

Writing Contested Illness: Experimentation in Contemporary...

Author: Chloe R. Green (Lecturer in English, Australian National University)
ISBN: 9781399534406
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Examines how women's experimental illness narratives are driving new conceptions of contested illness.  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Transnational Perspectives

The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Transnational...

Author: Elisa Bolchi (Associate Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Ferrara) ,  Maria Rita Drumond Viana (Professor C4 in the Department of Letters, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto)
ISBN: 9781399527316
Format: Hardback
$345.00

Explores Virginia Woolf as a transnational figure, her composite legacy and her impact in various cultural and political...  Read More >>

Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction: Receptivity and Gender

Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction: Receptivity and Gender...

Author: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike (Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the 2025-2026 Wayne O. McCready Emerging Fellow, University of Calgary)
ISBN: 9781399538091
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Reveals how Nigerian writers redefine masculinity to challenge social norms and affirm relationalities.  Read More >>

Bold Breaks: Japanese Women and Literary Narratives of Divorce

Bold Breaks: Japanese Women and Literary Narratives...

Author: Anne Sokolsky ,  Sohyun Chun
ISBN: 9798880701520
Format: Hardback
$184.80

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The Code of the Superhero: Morality and Citizenship in the Comics

The Code of the Superhero: Morality and Citizenship...

Author: Ryan L Johnson
ISBN: 9781476694597
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Since their inception, superheroes in comic books and other media have endeavored to guide the nation's children...  Read More >>

Critical Insights: H.G. Wells

Critical Insights: H.G. Wells

Author: Salem Press
ISBN: 9798891791404
Format: Hardback
$277.20

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Critical Insights: A Farewell to Arms

Critical Insights: A Farewell to Arms

Author: Salem Press
ISBN: 9798891791282
Format: Hardback
$277.20

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Critical Insights: The Bluest Eye

Critical Insights: The Bluest Eye

Author: Salem Press
ISBN: 9798891791305
Format: Hardback
$277.20

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Critical Insights: Kate Chopin

Critical Insights: Kate Chopin

Author: Salem Press
ISBN: 9798891791367
Format: Hardback
$277.20

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Violence and the Brontës: Language, Reception, Afterlives

Violence and the Brontës: Language, Reception, Afterlives...

Author: Sophie Franklin (DOROTHY MSCA COFUND Postdoctoral Researcher, University College Dublin)
ISBN: 9781399523004
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Explores the role of violence in relation to Anne, Charlotte and Emily Bronte's literary productions, receptions...  Read More >>

The Professor's House

The Professor's House

Author: Willa Cather ,  Melissa J. Homestead (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
ISBN: 9780198861355
Format: Paperback
$18.95

The Professor's House (1925) depicts the mid-life crisis of Godfrey St. Peter, a history professor at a midwestern...  Read More >>

Critical Insights: Wuthering Heights

Critical Insights: Wuthering Heights

Author: Salem Press
ISBN: 9798891791268
Format: Hardback
$277.20

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How Cormac Works: McCarthy, Language, and Style

How Cormac Works: McCarthy, Language, and Style

Author: Bill Hardwig
ISBN: 9780807185490
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Throughout a career that spanned six decades, Cormac McCarthy produced twelve novels that, while often quite different...  Read More >>

Masculinities in Mid-Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction and Culture, 1931–1965: The Men We Dreamed Of

Masculinities in Mid-Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction...

Author: Loic Wright
ISBN: 9781032834306
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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