Literature: history & criticism books

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Mrs. Dorriman: A Novel. Volume 1

Mrs. Dorriman: A Novel. Volume 1

Author: Mrs Henry Chetwynd
ISBN: 9789357951623
Format: Paperback
$48.42

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Mrs. Dalloway

Mrs. Dalloway

Author: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9789357950541
Format: Paperback
$48.60

"""This edition originally published: 1992.""--Colophon."  Read More >>

I'd Rather Be Reading

I'd Rather Be Reading

Author: Anne Bogel
ISBN: 9781540904621
Format: Paperback
$42.24

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English Kings Killing Foreigners

English Kings Killing Foreigners

Author: Nina Bowers ,  Philip Arditti
ISBN: 9781350510852
Format: Paperback
$21.99

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Crazy Like a Fox: The Classic Collection

Crazy Like a Fox: The Classic Collection

Author: S.J. Perelman ,  Joshua Cohen
ISBN: 9781598537789
Format: Paperback
$42.11

"When asked about himself the writer Sidney Joseph Perelman once quipped, ""before they made him, they broke the...  Read More >>

William Godwin: A Biographical Study

William Godwin: A Biographical Study

Author: George Woodcock
ISBN: 9780921689485
Format: Paperback
$52.77

"""Godwin ... was the inspiring intelligence behind the humanist attitudes of the English Romantic poets and Utopian...  Read More >>

Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish: Anarchism and Yiddish Literature

Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish: Anarchism and Yiddish...

Author: Anna Elena Torres
ISBN: 9780300243567
Format: Hardback
$80.95

An innovative study of Yiddish literature that reveals the impact of anarchist movements and refugee organizing...  Read More >>

The Murderer’s Mother

The Murderer’s Mother

Author: Mahasweta Devi ,  Arunava Sinha
ISBN: 9781803092324
Format: Hardback
$41.95

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In a Cabin, in the Woods

In a Cabin, in the Woods

Author: Michael Krüger ,  Karen Leeder
ISBN: 9781803093307
Format: Hardback
$31.95

A personal perspective on the challenges of living through a global pandemic. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit,...  Read More >>

The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature

The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature...

Author: Elise Wang (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, California State University, Fullerton)
ISBN: 9780192870728
Format: Hardback
$149.95

This book is about felony prosecution in late medieval England, which it argues was shaped by literary and legal...  Read More >>

Sound and Silence: My Experience with China and Literature

Sound and Silence: My Experience with China and Literature...

Author: Lianke Yan ,  Carlos Rojas
ISBN: 9781478026167
Format: Hardback
$263.87

World-renowned author of novels, short stories, and essays Yan Lianke describes his literary project, reflects on...  Read More >>

Fake News in Contemporary Science and Politics: A Requiem for the Real?

Fake News in Contemporary Science and Politics: A Requiem...

Author: Keith Moser
ISBN: 9783031561795
Format: Hardback
$118.77

This transdisciplinary book investigates the profound repercussions of living in a post-truth world in which 'alternative...  Read More >>

Beauty and Monstrosity in Art and Culture

Beauty and Monstrosity in Art and Culture

Author: Chara Kokkiou ,  Angeliki Malakasioti (Ionian University, Greece)
ISBN: 9781032355825
Format: Hardback
$252.00

This book takes a new look at an old question: what is the relationship between beauty and monstrosity? How has...  Read More >>

Corpora for Language Learning: Bridging the Research-Practice Divide

Corpora for Language Learning: Bridging the Research-Practice...

Author: Peter Crosthwaite (University of Queensland, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032537214
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume presents a diverse range of expertise and practical advice on corpus-assisted language learning, teaching,...  Read More >>

French Comic Drama from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century

French Comic Drama from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth...

Author: Geoffrey Brereton
ISBN: 9781032247434
Format: Paperback
$62.99

In tracing the course of French comedy from the Renaissance, through the age of Louis XIV and the 18th century,...  Read More >>

Theatre Responds to Social Trauma: Chasing the Demons

Theatre Responds to Social Trauma: Chasing the Demons...

Author: Ellen W. Kaplan
ISBN: 9781032053219
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book is a collection of essays by playwrights, directors, devisers, scholars, and educators whose praxis involves...  Read More >>

African Migration and the Novel: Exploring Race, Civil War, and Environmental Destruction

African Migration and the Novel: Exploring Race, Civil...

Author: Professor Jack Taylor (Author)
ISBN: 9781648250910
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Examines how current novels dealing with African migration address social issues, immigrant subjectivity, and the...  Read More >>

Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh

Author: Catherine Rees ,  Graham Saunders (University of Birmingham, UK)
ISBN: 9781032027715
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This comprehensive, accessible introduction to Martin McDonagh outlines his body of work, the key critical contexts...  Read More >>

Sindiwe Magona and the Power of Paradox: Challenging the Polarization of South African Discourse

Sindiwe Magona and the Power of Paradox: Challenging...

Author: Renée Schatteman
ISBN: 9781032598604
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book examines the work of Sindiwe Magona, one of South Africa’s most prolific and ground-breaking writers,...  Read More >>

The Late Byzantine Romance in Context: Narrativity and Identities in the Mediterranean (13th–16th Centuries)

The Late Byzantine Romance in Context: Narrativity and...

Author: Ioannis Smarnakis ,  Zissis D. Ainalis
ISBN: 9781032325675
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book investigates issues of identity and narrativity in late Byzantine romances in a Mediterranean context,...  Read More >>

Graham Greene, Ireland and the Honorary Consul: A View from the South of France

Graham Greene, Ireland and the Honorary Consul: A View...

Author: Eamon Maher ,  Pierre Joannon
ISBN: 9781803744230
Format: Paperback
$64.69

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The Brief Life & Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria

The Brief Life & Mysterious Death of Boris III, King...

Author: Sasha Wilson ,  Joseph Cullen
ISBN: 9781350512726
Format: Paperback
$21.99

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The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea

The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of...

Author: Edward Watts
ISBN: 9780197691953
Format: Paperback
$37.95

As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman...  Read More >>

Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: The Loved One: Volume 10 An Anglo-American Tragedy

Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: The Loved One: Volume...

Author: Evelyn Waugh ,  Prof Adrian Poole (, Trinity College,)
ISBN: 9780198725107
Format: Hardback
$277.95

This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all of Waugh's...  Read More >>

Netz Und Werk: Zur Gesellschaftlichkeit Sprachlichen Handelns

Netz Und Werk: Zur Gesellschaftlichkeit Sprachlichen...

Author: Matthias Attig ,  Katharina Jacob
ISBN: 9783111086309
Format: Hardback
$85.77

This volume brings together chapters that shed light on the tension between language as a creative, dynamic network...  Read More >>

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