Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine: Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi's Realist Prose

The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine: Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi's...

Author: Maxim Tarnawsky
ISBN: 9781442650084
Format: Hardback
$170.00

In The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine, Maxim Tarnawsky presents a thorough and much-needed reexamination of Ukrainian...  Read More >>

La mujer moderna en los escritos de Federica Montseny

La mujer moderna en los escritos de Federica Montseny...

Author: Nuria Nuria Cruz-Camara (Person)
ISBN: 9781855662940
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Este libro explora la representación de la mujer moderna en los escritos de Federica Montseny (1905-1994), prominente...  Read More >>

Embroidering the Scarlet A: Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film

Embroidering the Scarlet A: Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate...

Author: Janet Mason Ellerby
ISBN: 9780472072637
Format: Hardback
$263.87

The first book-length study of changing cultural representations of unwed mothers in American fiction and film,...  Read More >>

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Third Edition

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Third Edition...

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson ,  Martin A. Danahay
ISBN: 9781554810246
Format: Paperback
$41.58

Broadview’s popular edition of this classic work of horror has been updated with a new appendix on the figure of...  Read More >>

Jane Austen's Names: Riddles, Persons, Places

Jane Austen's Names: Riddles, Persons, Places

Author: Margaret Doody
ISBN: 9780226157832
Format: Hardback
$62.95

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The Perfect Stranger: A Memoir of Love and Survival

The Perfect Stranger: A Memoir of Love and Survival...

Author: P. J. Kavanagh
ISBN: 9781910463017
Format: Hardback
$38.79

Written with a poet’s precision, The Perfect Stranger is a funny, absorbing and brilliantly portrayed rite of passage....  Read More >>

A History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture

A History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture...

Author: Antje Richter
ISBN: 9789004291751
Format: Hardback
$924.00

Dedicated to the study of Chinese epistolary literature and culture from the early empire to the twentieth century,...  Read More >>

Shipwreck and Island Motifs in Literature and the Arts

Shipwreck and Island Motifs in Literature and the Arts...

Author: Brigitte le Juez
ISBN: 9789004298743
Format: Hardback
$364.32

The motifs of island and shipwreck have been present in literature and the arts from ancient times. The essays in...  Read More >>

Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Master of Pulp Storytelling

Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Master of Pulp Storytelling...

Author: Charles A Madison
ISBN: 9781511941136
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Few, if any, authors of science fiction writing since the publication of A PRINCESS OF MARS can say that they were...  Read More >>

The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner

The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner

Author: John T. Matthews (Boston University)
ISBN: 9781107050389
Format: Hardback
$201.83

This book offers contemporary readers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William...  Read More >>

Genealogical Fictions: Cultural Periphery and Historical Change in the Modern Novel

Genealogical Fictions: Cultural Periphery and Historical...

Author: Jobst Welge (Professor, Leipzig University)
ISBN: 9781421414355
Format: Hardback
$114.00

This book should be of interest to students and scholars of comparative literature, world literature, and the history...  Read More >>

The 1990s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

The 1990s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction...

Author: Nick Hubble ,  Philip Tew
ISBN: 9781474242424
Format: Electronic book text
$955.68

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1990s shape contemporary British Fiction? From...  Read More >>

The Measure of Manliness: Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel

The Measure of Manliness: Disability and Masculinity...

Author: Karen Bourrier
ISBN: 9780472052486
Format: Paperback
$94.91

Sheds new light on the narrative importance of the disabled man in Victorian literature and culture  Read More >>

Resisting Novels (Routledge Revivals): Ideology and Fiction

Resisting Novels (Routledge Revivals): Ideology and...

Author: Lennard J. Davis
ISBN: 9781138780927
Format: Paperback
$96.99

""By making friends with signs"", Lennard Davis argues, ""we are weakening the bond that anchors us to the social...  Read More >>

The Measure of Manliness: Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel

The Measure of Manliness: Disability and Masculinity...

Author: Karen Bourrier
ISBN: 9780472072484
Format: Hardback
$197.87

Sheds new light on the narrative importance of the disabled man in Victorian literature and culture  Read More >>

The Metamorphosis: A Norton Critical Edition

The Metamorphosis: A Norton Critical Edition

Author: Franz Kafka ,  Mark M. Anderson (Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780393923209
Format: Paperback
$26.95

Franz Kafka's classic 1915 novella remains one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. This Norton...  Read More >>

Far From the Madding Crowd

Far From the Madding Crowd

Author: Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 9780008127701
Format: Paperback
$18.45

A tale of love and loss – the first of Thomas Hardy’s novels to win him widespread recognition and popularity –...  Read More >>

The Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Representations of Reality in History and Fiction

The Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Representations...

Author: Brian Hamnett (Research Professor,, Research Professor,, University of Essex)
ISBN: 9780198732419
Format: Paperback
$104.95

Brian Hamnett examines key historical novels by Scott, Balzac, Manzoni, Dickens, Eliot, Flaubert, Fontane, Galdós,...  Read More >>

The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner

The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner

Author: John T. Matthews (Boston University)
ISBN: 9781107689565
Format: Paperback
$62.10

This book offers contemporary readers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William...  Read More >>

David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace

Author: Philip Coleman ,  Philip Coleman
ISBN: 9781619255135
Format: Hardback
$277.20

American novelist, essayist, and short story writer David Foster Wallace was known for his experimental writing...  Read More >>

Crooked Tales: The Short Stories

Crooked Tales: The Short Stories

Author: Jennifer L Thorpe
ISBN: 9781511500852
Format: Paperback
$21.09

Crooked Tales is a creative collection of short stories with a twist of metaphor and a taste of truth. The author...  Read More >>

Conceiving Strangeness in British First World War Writing

Conceiving Strangeness in British First World War Writing...

Author: C. Buck
ISBN: 9781137471642
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book reframes British First World War literature within Britain's history as an imperial nation. Rereading...  Read More >>

Justice and Revenge in Contemporary American Crime Fiction

Justice and Revenge in Contemporary American Crime Fiction...

Author: Stuart Sim
ISBN: 9781137469656
Format: Hardback
$145.17

The detective figure in contemporary American crime fiction increasingly relies on revenge to bring about justice...  Read More >>

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