Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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The Black Cat

The Black Cat

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN: 9781532874239
Format: Paperback
$14.52

The story's speaker unwinds, in a logical manner, a series of happenings he calls household events. More deeply,...  Read More >>

Hunted Down

Hunted Down

Author: Dickens
ISBN: 9781532875465
Format: Paperback
$14.52

This large print title is set in Tiresias 16pt font as recommended by the RNIB.  Read More >>

The Juvenile Tradition: Young Writers and Prolepsis, 1750-1835

The Juvenile Tradition: Young Writers and Prolepsis,...

Author: Laurie Langbauer (Professor of English, Professor of English, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
ISBN: 9780198739203
Format: Hardback
$191.95

The Juvenile Tradition recovers the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century juvenile tradition. Drawing on...  Read More >>

The Astral H.D.: Occult and Religious Sources and Contexts for H.D.’s Poetry and Prose

The Astral H.D.: Occult and Religious Sources and Contexts...

Author: Dr. Matte Robinson (St. Thomas University, Fredericton, Canada)
ISBN: 9781628924176
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Modernist poet H.D. had many visionary and paranormal experiences throughout her life. Although Sigmund Freud worried...  Read More >>

Textplicating Iconophones: Articulatory iconic action in Ulysses

Textplicating Iconophones: Articulatory iconic action...

Author: Nurit Levy
ISBN: 9789027215826
Format: Hardback
$227.70

This volume applies a sign-oriented approach to the description of articulatory and acoustic iconic phenomena in...  Read More >>

El arte de irse por las ramas: La digresión en la novela latinoamericana contemporánea

El arte de irse por las ramas: La digresión en la novela...

Author: María Paz Oliver
ISBN: 9789004311794
Format: Hardback
$324.72

This book studies the use of digression in contemporary Latin American literature by way of close readings of Roberto...  Read More >>

Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt

Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt

Author: Saul Friedländer
ISBN: 9780300219722
Format: Paperback
$24.95

A highly original and engaging appraisal of Kafka's life, work, legacy, and thought  Read More >>

Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime Fiction: Works and Authors of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden Since 1967

Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime Fiction: Works and Authors...

Author: Mitzi Brunsdale
ISBN: 9781476622774
Format: Hardback
$171.60

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The Post-Apocalyptic Novel in the Twenty-First Century: Modernity beyond Salvage

The Post-Apocalyptic Novel in the Twenty-First Century:...

Author: H. Hicks
ISBN: 9781349716494
Format: Paperback
$145.17

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Thompson's Cat

Thompson's Cat

Author: Robert Moore Williams
ISBN: 9781532777431
Format: Paperback
$14.26

The weird, invisible insect depopulated an entire planet. Now it was felling Thompson's crew as his ship hurtled...  Read More >>

The Burial of the Rats

The Burial of the Rats

Author: Bram Stoker
ISBN: 9781532781360
Format: Paperback
$14.26

Many of the earliest and most interesting vampire stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before,...  Read More >>

The Skull

The Skull

Author: Philip K Dick
ISBN: 9781532775710
Format: Paperback
$14.26

Conger agreed to kill a stranger he had never seen. He wasn't concerned about getting the wrong man. He knew what...  Read More >>

The New Dress

The New Dress

Author: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9781532776519
Format: Paperback
$14.26

Virginia Woolf's short story ""The New Dress"" was written in 1924 while she was writing the novel Mrs. Dalloway,...  Read More >>

The Connell Short Guide To J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls

The Connell Short Guide To J.B. Priestley's An Inspector...

Author: David Hughes
ISBN: 9781911187097
Format: Paperback
$15.50

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Discognition

Discognition

Author: Steven Shaviro
ISBN: 9781910924068
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Synopsis coming soon.......  Read More >>

Samuel Richardson and the Art of Letter-Writing

Samuel Richardson and the Art of Letter-Writing

Author: Louise Curran (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781107131514
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Samuel Richardson was not only a prolific correspondent with friends and admirers, but his hugely influential novels...  Read More >>

The Detective Novels of Agatha Christie: A Reader's Guide

The Detective Novels of Agatha Christie: A Reader's...

Author: James Zemboy
ISBN: 9781476665955
Format: Paperback
$64.90

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The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost

The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost

Author: H G Wells
ISBN: 9781532742576
Format: Paperback
$14.26

The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost is a short story by H. G. Wells. Herbert George H. G. Wells (21 September...  Read More >>

The Book of Wonder

The Book of Wonder

Author: Lord Dunsany
ISBN: 9781532739835
Format: Paperback
$14.26

"""Not only does any tale which crosshatches between this world and Faerie owe a founder's debt to Lord Dunsany,...  Read More >>

The Shamrock and the Cross: Irish American Novelists Shape American Catholicism

The Shamrock and the Cross: Irish American Novelists...

Author: Eileen P. Sullivan
ISBN: 9780268041526
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Traces changes in nineteenth-century American Catholic culture through a study of Catholic popular literature. Analysing...  Read More >>

Borges's Poe: The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America

Borges's Poe: The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar...

Author: Emron Esplin ,  Jon Smith
ISBN: 9780820349053
Format: Hardback
$142.43

Esplin argues that Borges, through a sustained and complex literary relationship with Poe’s works, served as the...  Read More >>

Fighting Melancholia: Don Quixote's Teaching

Fighting Melancholia: Don Quixote's Teaching

Author: Francoise Davoine ,  Agnes Jacob
ISBN: 9781782203650
Format: Paperback
$79.99

In this book, the author draws on her literary background to take the reader on a fascinating voyage with an unexpected...  Read More >>

The Hunger Games Trilogy

The Hunger Games Trilogy

Author: Lana Whited
ISBN: 9781619258440
Format: Hardback
$277.20

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Fiction’s Family: Zhan Xi, Zhan Kai, and the Business of Women in Late-Qing China

Fiction’s Family: Zhan Xi, Zhan Kai, and the Business...

Author: Ellen Widmer
ISBN: 9780674088375
Format: Hardback
$108.55

Ellen Widmer examines the writings of a literary family whose works embodied shifting attitudes toward women in...  Read More >>

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