Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Dostoevsky 1821-1881

Dostoevsky 1821-1881

Author: E.H. Carr
ISBN: 9781138803350
Format: Paperback
$96.99

The bare events of Dostoevsky’s life – his father murdered by peasants, his own ordeal before a firing squad, then...  Read More >>

The Political and Social Thought of F.M. Dostoevsky

The Political and Social Thought of F.M. Dostoevsky...

Author: Stephen Carter
ISBN: 9781138803374
Format: Paperback
$96.99

This study concentrates on The Devils, but also places this novel in the total context of Dostoevsky’s work. Also...  Read More >>

Reflecting on Anna Karenina

Reflecting on Anna Karenina

Author: Mary Evans (University of Kent, UK)
ISBN: 9781138803398
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is considered by many to be one of the greatest novels ever written. This study, first published...  Read More >>

Tolstoi: The Teacher

Tolstoi: The Teacher

Author: Charles-Baudouin ,  Fred Rothwell
ISBN: 9781138803336
Format: Paperback
$96.99

The author states here that Tolstoy's views on education were ingenious and profound. It considers the development...  Read More >>

Tolstoy

Tolstoy

Author: Ernest Joseph Simmons
ISBN: 9781138803459
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Tolstoy’s fame as one of the world’s greatest novelists has never been in doubt, but the importance of his views...  Read More >>

Tolstoy: An Approach bound with Dostoevsky: A Study

Tolstoy: An Approach bound with Dostoevsky: A Study...

Author: Janko Lavrin
ISBN: 9781138803428
Format: Paperback
$52.99

This volume contains two concise works by the innovative twentieth-century literary critic Janko Lavrin, offering...  Read More >>

Truman Capote

Truman Capote

Author: George Plimpton
ISBN: 9781509837717
Format: Paperback
$51.75

In the tradition of his smash bestseller ""Edie"", Plimpton brings the endlessly intriguing Truman Capote to life...  Read More >>

Postcolonial Gateways and Walls: Under Construction

Postcolonial Gateways and Walls: Under Construction...

Author: Daria Tunca ,  Janet Wilson
ISBN: 9789004337671
Format: Hardback
$477.84

This collection of essays focuses on the evocative figures of the ‘gateway’ and the ‘wall’ – both literal and metaphorical...  Read More >>

Jane Austen's Names: Riddles, Persons, Places

Jane Austen's Names: Riddles, Persons, Places

Author: Margaret Doody
ISBN: 9780226419107
Format: Paperback
$42.95

In Jane Austen's works, a name is never just a name. In fact, the names Austen gives her characters and places are...  Read More >>

Blurred Boundaries: Rankin's Rebus

Blurred Boundaries: Rankin's Rebus

Author: Rodney Marshall, Dr
ISBN: 9781540412034
Format: Paperback
$39.57

November 2016 fifth edition: now includes an exclusive eighteen page interview with Ian Rankin and a chapter on...  Read More >>

Sedna

Sedna

Author: Richard L Smith (Ferrum College Virginia USA)
ISBN: 9781943767885
Format: Paperback
$31.55

In 2017 a group of geologists are sent on a long journey to the minor planet Sedna to explore and answer some geological...  Read More >>

El Making Of

El Making Of

Author: Alan D D
ISBN: 9798201187194
Format: Paperback
$25.85

¿Quieres conocer mejor a Dacre Stoker? ¿Saber quiénes son AnGélida? ¿Leer lo que pienso de Halestorm, Emilie Autumn,...  Read More >>

Sargasso #3: The Journal of William Hope Hodgson Studies

Sargasso #3: The Journal of William Hope Hodgson Studies...

Author: Sam Gafford
ISBN: 9781539745112
Format: Paperback
$26.14

The third issue of SARGASSO: The Journal of William Hope Hodgson Studies is now available. This issue includes more...  Read More >>

Proust: The Search

Proust: The Search

Author: Benjamin Taylor
ISBN: 9780300224283
Format: Paperback
$24.95

An arresting study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century...  Read More >>

Stephen King and Philosophy

Stephen King and Philosophy

Author: Jacob M. Held
ISBN: 9781442253841
Format: Paperback
$40.99

Haunting us with such unforgettable stories as The Shining, The Shawshank Redemption, Salem's Lot, Carrie, The Green...  Read More >>

Joyce's Dante: Exile, Memory, and Community

Joyce's Dante: Exile, Memory, and Community

Author: James Robinson (University of Durham)
ISBN: 9781107167414
Format: Hardback
$276.86

This title explores the ways in which James Joyce read the medieval poet Dante Alighieri and appropriated his works...  Read More >>

Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature, 1945-1975

Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism...

Author: Michael LeMahieu (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Clemson University)
ISBN: 9780190623975
Format: Paperback
$75.95

Fictions of Fact and Value looks at logical positivism's major influence on the development of postwar American...  Read More >>

Sara Paretsky: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction

Sara Paretsky: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction

Author: Margaret Kinsman ,  Elizabeth Foxwell
ISBN: 9780786471874
Format: Paperback
$71.50

Sara Paretsky's groundbreaking mystery series about Chicago private investigator V.I. Warshawski debuted in 1982...  Read More >>

The Language of Surrealism

The Language of Surrealism

Author: Professor Peter Stockwell (University of Nottingham, Nottingham)
ISBN: 9781137392213
Format: Hardback
$180.00

A thorough introduction to the language of surrealism by a leading authority in the field. The author draws on recent...  Read More >>

Rethinking Race and Identity in Contemporary British Fiction

Rethinking Race and Identity in Contemporary British...

Author: Sara Upstone
ISBN: 9780415729192
Format: Hardback
$326.00

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Conspicuous Silences: Implicature and Fictionality in the Victorian Novel

Conspicuous Silences: Implicature and Fictionality in...

Author: Ruth Rosaler
ISBN: 9780198769743
Format: Hardback
$242.00

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Women of Words in Le Morte Darthur: The Autonomy of Speech in Malory’s Female Characters

Women of Words in Le Morte Darthur: The Autonomy of...

Author: Siobhán M. Wyatt
ISBN: 9783319342030
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Offering a new reading of Malory’s famed text, Le Morte Darthur, this book provides the first full-length survey...  Read More >>

The Last Midnight: Essays on Apocalyptic Narratives in Millennial Media

The Last Midnight: Essays on Apocalyptic Narratives...

Author: Leisa A. Clark ,  Amanda Firestone
ISBN: 9781476663234
Format: Paperback
$68.20

""This collection of new essays explores apocalyptic themes and narratives in a variety of post-millennial media,...  Read More >>

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