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Crime Fiction in the City: Capital Crimes

Crime Fiction in the City: Capital Crimes

Author: Lucy Andrew ,  Catherine Phelps
ISBN: 9780708325865
Format: Hardback
$77.63

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Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory: Sex, Animal, Life

Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory: Sex, Animal,...

Author: Derek Ryan
ISBN: 9780748676439
Format: Hardback
$245.81

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Literary Remains: Death, Trauma and Lu Xun's Refusal to Mourn

Literary Remains: Death, Trauma and Lu Xun's Refusal...

Author: Eileen J. Cheng
ISBN: 9780824835958
Format: Hardback
$142.56

This book explores Lu Xuns complex relationship with the past, specifically how his modern creative writings critically...  Read More >>

Migrant Modernism: Postwar London and the West Indian Novel

Migrant Modernism: Postwar London and the West Indian...

Author: J. Dillon Brown
ISBN: 9780813933931
Format: Hardback
$112.20

Modernist techniques not only provided a way for these writers to mark their difference from the aggressively English,...  Read More >>

The New Death: American Modernism and World War I

The New Death: American Modernism and World War I

Author: Pearl James
ISBN: 9780813934075
Format: Hardback
$121.00

These writers, James argues, have much to say about how the First World War changed death's cultural meaning.  Read More >>

The Crab Cannery Ship and Other Novels of Struggle

The Crab Cannery Ship and Other Novels of Struggle

Author: Kobayashi Takiji ,  Željko Cipriš
ISBN: 9780824836672
Format: Hardback
$171.60

This book contains translations of three novels by Takiji Kobayashi, a Communist organizer and proletarian writer...  Read More >>

The Science Fiction Reboot: Canon, Innovation and Fandom in Refashioned Franchises

The Science Fiction Reboot: Canon, Innovation and Fandom...

Author: Heather Urbanski
ISBN: 9781299147973
Format: Electronic book text
$105.60

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Joseph Conrad's Critical Reception

Joseph Conrad's Critical Reception

Author: John G. Peters (University of North Texas)
ISBN: 9781107034853
Format: Hardback
$248.40

This book provides a history of the commentary written about the life and works of Joseph Conrad. It traces the...  Read More >>

The Weirdest Sci-Fi Comic Ever Made: Understanding Jack Kirby's 2001: A Space Odyssey

The Weirdest Sci-Fi Comic Ever Made: Understanding Jack...

Author: Julian Darius
ISBN: 9781489566188
Format: Paperback
$23.73

In 1976-1977, comics legend Jack Kirby, known for his bombastic super-heroes, produced an adaptation and continuation...  Read More >>

El abrigo naranja

El abrigo naranja

Author: Sergio Espada
ISBN: 9788468637181
Format: Paperback
$48.00

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The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy

Author: Dante ,  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
ISBN: 9781435146914
Format: Hardback
$33.61

The three books of this epic poem- 'lnferno', 'Purgatorio' and 'Paradiso'- tell the story of the poet's personal...  Read More >>

Alexander Pope’s Catholic Vision: “Slave to No Sect”

Alexander Pope’s Catholic Vision: “Slave to No Sect”...

Author: G. Atkins
ISBN: 9781137344779
Format: Hardback
$145.17

A fresh look at the greatest poet of early eighteenth-century England, this highly readable book focuses on Pope's...  Read More >>

The Life of Ian Fleming

The Life of Ian Fleming

Author: John Pearson
ISBN: 9781448208067
Format: Paperback
$32.99

The biography of the man who created James Bond, one of the world's most famous and popular fictional characters....  Read More >>

Reading Theories in Contemporary Fiction

Reading Theories in Contemporary Fiction

Author: Dr Lisa McNally
ISBN: 9781441164094
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Even after the upheavals wrought by Theory, literary criticism has generally ignored the act and experience of reading...  Read More >>

Reading the American Novel 1780 - 1865

Reading the American Novel 1780 - 1865

Author: Shirley Samuels (Cornell University, USA)
ISBN: 9781118786314
Format: Undefined
$131.87

Reading the American Novel 1780-1865 provides valuable insights into the evolution and diversity of fictional genres...  Read More >>

Reading the American Novel 1780 - 1865

Reading the American Novel 1780 - 1865

Author: Shirley Samuels (Cornell University, USA)
ISBN: 9781118786321
Format: Undefined
$284.99

Reading the American Novel 1780-1865 provides valuable insights into the evolution and diversity of fictional genres...  Read More >>

Practice to Deceive

Practice to Deceive

Author: David Housewright ,  Brian Emerson
ISBN: 9781470888725
Format: Audio
$79.07

Brash and resourceful PI Holland Taylor takes on an unpromising embezzlement case: an elderly woman has been cheated...  Read More >>

Xeno Fiction: More Best of Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Fiction

Xeno Fiction: More Best of Science Fiction: A Review...

Author: Damien Broderick (Independent Scholar and Author) ,  Van Ikin
ISBN: 9781479400799
Format: Paperback
$42.21

"Science fiction loves strangeness. It relishes oddities, even when it piles on fear and dystopian loathing. The...  Read More >>

Feminine Subjects in Masculine Fiction: Modernity, Will and Desire, 1870-1910

Feminine Subjects in Masculine Fiction: Modernity, Will...

Author: M. Miller
ISBN: 9780230355187
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Between 1870 and 1910 male authors were actively engaged with imagining new possibilities for women, at the same...  Read More >>

Portraits and Observations

Portraits and Observations

Author: Truman Capote
ISBN: 9780812994391
Format: Hardback
$55.00

The original stand-alone volume of Capote's complete essays, now in a newly repackaged Modern Library hardcover...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy

The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy

Author: Steven Frye (California State University, Bakersfield)
ISBN: 9781107644809
Format: Paperback
$62.10

This book offers essays from an international team of scholars, providing an introduction to McCarthy's life and...  Read More >>

Superman: The High-Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero

Superman: The High-Flying History of America's Most...

Author: Larry Tye
ISBN: 9780812980776
Format: Paperback
$44.88

"Seventy-five years after he came to life, Superman remains one of America's most adored and enduring heroes. Tye,...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy

The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy

Author: Steven Frye (California State University, Bakersfield)
ISBN: 9781107018150
Format: Hardback
$201.83

This book offers essays from an international team of scholars, providing an introduction to McCarthy's life and...  Read More >>

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