Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End

The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End

Author: Katie Roiphe
ISBN: 9780349008530
Format: Paperback
$26.99

From one of our most perceptive and provocative voices comes an arresting and wholly original account of the last...  Read More >>

Modernity and the English Rural Novel

Modernity and the English Rural Novel

Author: Dominic Head (University of Nottingham)
ISBN: 9781107039131
Format: Hardback
$316.80

This book re-evaluates the rural English novel in the twentieth century in relation to the recognised artistic responses...  Read More >>

The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Author: William Anderson ,  Laura Ingalls Wilder
ISBN: 9780062419699
Format: Paperback
$27.99

""This is a fresh look at the author in her own words. Gathered from museums, archives, and personal collections,...  Read More >>

Exploring Plurilingualism in Fan Fiction: ELF Users as Creative Writers

Exploring Plurilingualism in Fan Fiction: ELF Users...

Author: Valeria Franceschi
ISBN: 9781443898683
Format: Hardback
$279.71

This book explores English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) use in online interaction within virtual communities constituted...  Read More >>

Un Capitan de Quince Años (Spanish Edition)

Un Capitan de Quince Años (Spanish Edition)

Author: Julio Verne
ISBN: 9781546495598
Format: Paperback
$21.12

La Pilgrim era una embarcación de cuatrocientas toneladas que pertenecía a James W. Weldon, armador de California,...  Read More >>

The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 12: The Novel in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific Since 1950

The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 12:...

Author: Coral Ann Howells (Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London) ,  Paul Sharrad (University of Wollongong, Australia)
ISBN: 9780199679775
Format: Hardback
$307.00

This multi-authored volume offers a comprehensive account of English language novels and related prose fiction since...  Read More >>

Literary Cynics: Borges, Beckett, Coetzee

Literary Cynics: Borges, Beckett, Coetzee

Author: Dr Arthur Rose (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Durham, UK)
ISBN: 9781474258647
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Focusing on work by Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee, Literary Cynics explores the relationship...  Read More >>

A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work

A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work

Author: Bernadette Brennan
ISBN: 9781925498035
Format: Paperback
$32.99

The first full-length study of Helen Garner's forty years of writing - a literary portrait that maps Garner's works...  Read More >>

Narrative and Space: Across Short Story Landscapes and Regional Places

Narrative and Space: Across Short Story Landscapes and...

Author: Alda Correia
ISBN: 9783034327985
Format: Paperback
$153.70

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EL Piloto del Danubio (Spanish Edition)

EL Piloto del Danubio (Spanish Edition)

Author: Julio Verne
ISBN: 9781546459309
Format: Paperback
$26.40

Ilia Brusch, ganador del premio de pescadores aficionados de la liga del Danubio, parte en una embarcación para...  Read More >>

Who Can Afford to Improvise?: James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners

Who Can Afford to Improvise?: James Baldwin and Black...

Author: Ed Pavlić
ISBN: 9780823276837
Format: Paperback
$66.00

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One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays

One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter:...

Author: Scaachi Koul
ISBN: 9781250121028
Format: Paperback
$47.52

Simultaneously published in Toronto (Doubleday Canada, c2017).  Read More >>

Idle Talk Under the Bean Arbor: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Story Collection

Idle Talk Under the Bean Arbor: A Seventeenth-Century...

Author: Aina the Layman ,  Ziran the Eccentric Wanderer
ISBN: 9780295999975
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Written around 1660, the unique Chinese short story collection Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor (Doupeng xianhua),...  Read More >>

Before The Wax Hardened

Before The Wax Hardened

Author: Adrian Kenny
ISBN: 9781843517108
Format: Paperback
$33.64

The author's keen eye and clear style lends this portrayal of an individual and a generation the truth and elegance...  Read More >>

The Connell Short Guide To Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

The Connell Short Guide To Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's...

Author: David Isaacs
ISBN: 9781911187684
Format: Paperback
$18.09

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The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds

Author: H G Wells
ISBN: 9781546306207
Format: Paperback
$22.04

Do UFO's really exist? Could creatures from another planet visit Earth? In The War of the Worlds they do exist and...  Read More >>

The Woman Question in the Selected Novels of Nayantara Sahgal, Manju Kapur and Arundhati Roy

The Woman Question in the Selected Novels of Nayantara...

Author: Indu Swami
ISBN: 9788176259729
Format: Hardback
$49.14

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British Women Short Story Writers: The New Woman to Now

British Women Short Story Writers: The New Woman to...

Author: Emma Young ,  James Bailey
ISBN: 9781474423175
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Essays tracing the evolving relationship between British women writers and the short story genre from the late Nineteenth...  Read More >>

Immortal Engines: Life Extension and Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Immortal Engines: Life Extension and Immortality in...

Author: Gary Westfahl ,  George Slusser
ISBN: 9780820352428
Format: Hardback
$245.39

The topics the essays focus on, as well as the perspectives of the contributors, range widely: genetics, cryonics,...  Read More >>

Fights of Fancy: Armed Conflict in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Fights of Fancy: Armed Conflict in Science Fiction and...

Author: George Slusser ,  Eric S. Rabkin
ISBN: 9780820352329
Format: Hardback
$245.39

This collection of fifteen original essays offers new perspectives on armed conflict as a central aspect of science...  Read More >>

Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist

Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist

Author: Clara Jones
ISBN: 9781474423168
Format: Paperback
$79.07

As well as tracing Woolf's career as an activist across 45 years, this book also explores the consistent but often...  Read More >>

Modern Languages Study Guides: Der Vorleser: Literature Study Guide for AS/A-level German

Modern Languages Study Guides: Der Vorleser: Literature...

Author: Paul Elliott
ISBN: 9781471890161
Format: Paperback
$38.79

Literature analysis made easy. Build your students' confidence in their language abilities and help them develop...  Read More >>

Modern Languages Study Guides: Como agua para chocolate: Literature Study Guide for AS/A-level Spanish

Modern Languages Study Guides: Como agua para chocolate:...

Author: Sebastian Bianchi ,  Mike Thacker
ISBN: 9781471890109
Format: Paperback
$38.79

Literature analysis made easy. Build your students' confidence in their language abilities and help them develop...  Read More >>

The Afterlives of Georges Perec

The Afterlives of Georges Perec

Author: Rowan Wilken ,  Justin Clemens
ISBN: 9781474401241
Format: Hardback
$245.81

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