Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Murder in the West End Volume II: The Plays of Agatha Christie and Her Disciples

Murder in the West End Volume II: The Plays of Agatha...

Author: Amnon Kabatchnik
ISBN: 9798887714714
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Part 2 of the history of crime and mystery on the stage.  Read More >>

Finding Philosophers in Global Fiction: Redefining the Philosopher in Multi-cultural Contexts

Finding Philosophers in Global Fiction: Redefining the...

Author: Professor Anway Mukhopadhyay ,  Professor Saptarshi Mallick
ISBN: 9798765100912
Format: Hardback
$190.00

A cross-cultural study that explores and redefines what philosophy, philosophizing, and philosophers are through...  Read More >>

The Angle of Horror by Cristina Fern�ndez Cubas: An English Translation and Critical Edition

The Angle of Horror by Cristina Fern�ndez Cubas: An...

Author: Jessica A Folkart ,  Jessica A Folkart
ISBN: 9781683933960
Format: Hardback
$197.00

From Cristina Fern�ndez Cubas, Spain's master of the short story, comes the unsettling and often hilarious collection...  Read More >>

H.P. Lovecraft's Commonplace Book: Weirdly Illustrated

H.P. Lovecraft's Commonplace Book: Weirdly Illustrated...

Author: H P Lovecraft ,  Michael Bukowski
ISBN: 9781590214732
Format: Paperback
$60.72

Acclaimed artist Michael Bukowski takes the weird scribbled entries in H.P. Lovecraft's Commonplace Book that formed...  Read More >>

Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity Through Magic

Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity Through Magic

Author: Stefan Ekman
ISBN: 9781643150642
Format: Paperback
$71.25

The first book-length historical and theoretical analysis of the urban fantasy genre  Read More >>

Persuasion after Rhetoric in the Eighteenth Century and Romanticism

Persuasion after Rhetoric in the Eighteenth Century...

Author: Yasmin Solomonescu (Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Notre Dame) ,  Stefan H. Uhlig (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis)
ISBN: 9780192863737
Format: Hardback
$170.95

This edited volume studies how in European literary culture the codified verbal system of rhetoric shifted towards...  Read More >>

The Rise of the Cyberzines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1991 to 2020: The History of the Science-Fiction Magazines Volume V

The Rise of the Cyberzines: The Story of the Science-Fiction...

Author: Mike Ashley
ISBN: 9781835537770
Format: Paperback
$90.54

Shortlisted for the Locus Science Fiction Foundation Non-Fiction Award 2023 The Rise of the Cyberzines concludes...  Read More >>

Sleuthing Miss Marple: Gender, Genre, and Agency in Agatha Christie's Crime Fiction

Sleuthing Miss Marple: Gender, Genre, and Agency in...

Author: Desirée Prideaux
ISBN: 9781835537756
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Beginning at the ‘scene of the crime’, this investigation places Agatha Christie and the clue-puzzle in historical...  Read More >>

Talking of Joyce

Talking of Joyce

Author: Umberto Eco ,  Liberato Santoro-Brienza
ISBN: 9781910820025
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This new and expanded edition of Talking of Joyce focuses on James Joyce's cultural ancestry - aesthetic and linguistic,...  Read More >>

Stay Here with Me: A Memoir

Stay Here with Me: A Memoir

Author: Robert Olmstead ,  Brock Clarke
ISBN: 9781567927795
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Novelist Robert Olmstead journeys back to his youth on his grandfather’s New Hampshire dairy farm to confront the...  Read More >>

Thresholds: A ‘Complete’ Table of the Borrowings in Yambo Ouologuem’s Le Devoir de violence, and Why They Matter

Thresholds: A ‘Complete’ Table of the Borrowings in...

Author: Christopher L. Miller
ISBN: 9781835532331
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Recent research has revealed that the borrowings in Yambo Ouologuem’s epochal novel Le Devoir de violence (Bound...  Read More >>

Refugee Afterlives: Home, Hauntings, and Hunger

Refugee Afterlives: Home, Hauntings, and Hunger

Author: Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy
ISBN: 9781835533963
Format: Hardback
$297.56

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. This book compares fiction...  Read More >>

Ex-Wife (Faber Editions): 'I was floored: truly brilliant.' (Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss)

Ex-Wife (Faber Editions): 'I was floored: truly brilliant.'...

Author: Ursula Parrott ,  Monica Heisey
ISBN: 9780571388059
Format: Paperback
$24.99

'Darkly funny and startlingly contemporary, full of witty one-liners and stop-you-in-your-tracks observations about...  Read More >>

Nineteen Eighty-four

Nineteen Eighty-four

Author: George Orwell ,  Ronald Carter
ISBN: 9780241705407
Format: Paperback
$22.99

One of a series of fiction titles for schools, this is Orwell's classic novel in which every aspect of life is controlled...  Read More >>

Sublime Virtue: 'Sainthood’ as Rendered Problematic by a Dozen Novelists

Sublime Virtue: 'Sainthood’ as Rendered Problematic...

Author: Andrew Shanks
ISBN: 9781915412287
Format: Paperback
$43.96

What might a notion of ‘sainthood’ look like, radically purged of any spirit of propagandist church ideology? In...  Read More >>

Dead Reckonings No. 35 (Spring 2024)

Dead Reckonings No. 35 (Spring 2024)

Author: Alex Houstoun ,  Ramsey Campbell
ISBN: 9781614984467
Format: Paperback
$19.80

"Table of Contents Evenson Collection Well Worth Reading ........... Tony Fonseca Brian Evenson, None of You...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Companion to the Eighteenth-Century British Novel and the Arts

The Edinburgh Companion to the Eighteenth-Century British...

Author: Jakub Lipski ,  M-C. Newbould
ISBN: 9781399506625
Format: Hardback
$388.12

Offers compelling insights into the eighteenth-century novel and its vibrant relationships with the arts  Read More >>

Reading Modernism's Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis and the Bestseller

Reading Modernism's Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis...

Author: Helen Tyson
ISBN: 9781399522090
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Examines the scene of reading in modernism, psychoanalysis and popular novels from the early twentieth century  Read More >>

Thomas Hardy and the Death of Emma: What His Writings Reveal

Thomas Hardy and the Death of Emma: What His Writings...

Author: Andrew Norman
ISBN: 9781399051170
Format: Hardback
$75.00

In many of his poems, the great Dorset poet and novelist Thomas Hardy referred to a certain romantic courtship,...  Read More >>

Don Quixote’s Impossible Quest for the Absolute in Literature: Fiction, Reflection, and Negative Theology

Don Quixote’s Impossible Quest for the Absolute in Literature:...

Author: William Franke
ISBN: 9781032688961
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Don Quixote’s madly ideal fiction is as relevant as ever in our “post-truth” era of virtual reality. Classic Christian...  Read More >>

The Citybot's Library: Essays on the Transformers

The Citybot's Library: Essays on the Transformers

Author: Julian Darius
ISBN: 9781940589350
Format: Paperback
$39.57

Since 1984, the Transformers have been an almost ever-present part of American popular culture - in toys, cartoons,...  Read More >>

Reanimating Grief: Waking the Dead in Literature, Theatre and Performance

Reanimating Grief: Waking the Dead in Literature, Theatre...

Author: William McEvoy
ISBN: 9781526176691
Format: Hardback
$194.99

This book explores how literature, theatre and music revive the dead to explore the dynamics of grief and mourning....  Read More >>

Late Victorian Literary Collaboration: Authorship, Co-Authorship and Popular Fiction

Late Victorian Literary Collaboration: Authorship, Co-Authorship...

Author: Annachiara Cozzi
ISBN: 9781835536865
Format: Hardback
$297.56

An exciting new contribution to the expanding but still largely uncharted territory of collaboration studies, Late...  Read More >>

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