Joyce's Dublin: A walking guide to Ulysses (Revised Edition)
Wolfhound Press, January 1988. Paper Back. {7' x 9 & 3/4'} Curled textbloc, Well worn with a few stray scratches. Previous owner's name inked on half title page. [96 pages]. More
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Words Alone: Yeats and His Inheritances
Oxford University Press, USA, July 2011. Hardcover. Roy Foster's two-volume biography of Yeats was hailed in the New York Review of Books as a triumph of scholarship, thought, and empathy such as one would hardly have thought possible in this age of disillusion. Now, Foster turns his focus to the..... More
Scattering Branches: Tributes to the Memory of W. B. Yeats
The Macmillan Company, January 1940. Cloth. {5' X 7 & 1/2'} In dustjacket with marginal darkening/tanning, including sun tanned spine. Slight edgewear to jacket. Front flap is clipped. Pine green cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Mildly edgeworn boards, otherwise bright, clean, sound boards. Heavy tanning/darkening to end..... More
THE LAST TYCOON an unfinished novel
Charles Scribner's Sons, June 1960. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo in price-clipped dustjacket. Tanned spine and margins. Red cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. 3rd printing. [163 pages]. More
The English Language (New History of Literature, 10)
Peter Bedrick Books, 1987. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in dustjacket. Burgundy cloth with gold lettering on spine. Previous reader's name in ballpoint on ffep. [362 pages]. More
The New Spirit (Complete and Unabridged)
National Home Library Foundation, 1935. Cloth. 32mo. Dustjacket is missing. in heavily spotted & worn brown cloth. Tanned end papers fronnt and rear. Dust stains. [292 pages]. More
Madame Bovary and the Critics: A Collection of Essays
New York University Press, January 1966. Trade Paperback. More
New Bearings in English Poetry
Chatto & Windus, 1961. Hardcover. shelf wear and corner bumping on dust jacket as would be expected from age; small tear on DJ at top of front by spine; another small tear on top back of DJ near spine; mild page yellowing in keeping with age; price clipped on inside..... More
THE COMMON PURSUIT
THE HOGARTH PRESS LTD, January 1984. Trade Paperback. More
Ulysses: fifty years
Indiana University Press, January 1974. Cloth. Octavo. Green cloth covered spine with gold lettering (sith sliight fade) along spine. Tight binding. [199 pages]. More
A Guide to English Literature (Anchor A 418a)
Anchor Books, January 1968. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. 2nd Anchor edition. Spine is slightly leaning and lightened from exposurer to sun. Top of spine is bumped /brusied with crushed corners. [261 plus two page list of Anchor titles]. More
King's English (Oxford Language Classics series)
Oxford University Press, USA, April 2003. Reprint. Paper Back. In this classic reference book the Fowler brothers illustrate by example all the commonly-made blunders of English usage and guide the reader to improved expression and style. If Dickens had owned a copy of The King's English for example, he would..... More
The Meaning of Courtly Love
SUNY Press, 1978. First Thus. Paper Back. This book contributes to an understanding of the nature of mid-life transitions and crises by focusing on the unique personal meaning of the transitional experience for the individual. There is an implicit structure to the way in which such a transition is experienced..... More
Tolstoy: A Critical Introduction (Major European Authors Series)
Cambridge University Press, February 1970. Trade Paperback. This is a critical introduction to the novels and short stories of Tolstoy, treating them in their own right as works of literature, not as biographical evidence or contributions to a philosophical system. The heart of the book, inevitably, is in the two..... More
The Beggar's Opera and Companion Pieces (Crofts Classics)
Harlan Davidson, 1986. Reprint. Paper Back. MATT. We retrench the Superfluities of Mankind. The World is avaritious, and I hate Avarice. A covetous fellow, like a Jackdaw, steals what he was never made to enjoy, for the sake of hiding it. These are the Robbers of Mankind, for Money was..... More
Glory that was Greece: A Survey of Hellenic Culture and Civilisation. -- Evergreen Encyclopedia Volume 12 E-w96
Grove Press, January 1962. Paper Back. 3rd edition. Quarto. Spine is leaning. Mild wear to cover. Previous reader's name in ink first inside page. [319 pages]. More
A Course in Modern Linguistics
Pearson College Div, June 1958. First Edition. Cloth. Ex-library. Octavo. Cracked hinge before title page. More
Linguistic Perspectives on Literature
Routledge Kegan & Paul, March 1980. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo. First Routledge & Kegan Paul paperback edition. Previous reader's name in ink half title page. [332 pages]. More
Rope and Other Plays, (The Ghost, The Rope, A Three-Dollar Day, Amphitryo)
Penguin Books, May 1964. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254-184 BC) are the earliest surviving complete works of Latin literature. The four plays collected here reveal a playwright in his prime, exploring classic themes and developing standard..... More
Sherman: A Soldier's Passion for Order
Free Press, October 1992. Hardcover. This biography of General William Tecumseh Sherman aims to reveal the motives underlying his often controversial actions. As well as Sherman's role in the Civil War, the book covers other aspects of his life - West Point, the Gold Rush, the construction of the transcontinental..... More
The Theban Plays: King Oedipus; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone (Penguin Classics)
Penguin, 1975. Mass Market PaperBack. 'O Light! May I never look on you again, Revealed as I am, sinful in my begetting, Sinful in marriage, sinful in shedding of blood!' The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles (496-406 BC) to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's struggle..... More
Cicero and the Roman Republic
Pelican Book, January 1962. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. 2nd edition of mass market paperback. Edgeworn, especially heavy top and bottom of spine.with tiny tears. First two leafs loose from top. Spine mildly cocked. [398 pages]. More
Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat
Scribner Book Company, August 2001. Trade Paperback. Told by the man who kicked off the infamous lawsuit between Oprah and the cattlemen, Mad Cowboy is an impassioned account of the highly dangerous practices of the cattle and dairy industries.Howard Lyman's testimony on The Oprah Winfrey Show revealed the deadly impact..... More
SOPHOCLES: Three Tragedies: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra
Oxford University Press, December 1964. Paper Back. Faithful as translations and vigorous and straightforward both to read and to act, these versions were written, like their originals, for immediate staage-production. Kitto has deliberately used a fairly strict meter, allowing himself no greater number of verses than Sophocles used, and where..... More
Oedipus Tyrannus; A New Translation. Passages from Ancient Authors. Religion and Psychology : Some Studies. Criticism
W W Norton & Co Inc, July 1970. First Thus. Paper Back. This new translation is for the contemporary reader. Specifically commissioned for stage production, it rings easily on the modern ear and yet retains fidelity to Sophocles' original, avoiding the archaisms of other translations. Octavo. Complete number line. Sunned..... More
