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St Martins Pr, September 1994. Soft Cover. More
St Martins Pr, September 1994. Soft Cover. More
St Martins Pr, September 1994. First Thus. Soft Cover. Octavo. Clean & sound. Previous owner's name inked inside first page. [349 pages]. More
Penguin Books, October 1981. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Mild user wear. Darkened margins to internal pages, though mostly without markings within text. Previous reader's name in ink first inside page. [328 pages]. More
Oxford University Press, June 1996. Mass Market PaperBack. In this quirky and intriguing book, John Sutherland has conveniently gathered together thirty-four nagging little questions, puzzles, errors, and enigmas from some of the best-loved examples of Victorian fiction. Readers often have stumbled upon seeming mysteries in their favorite novels. Why, for..... More
THE BODLEY HEAD LTD, 1979. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. 1979 repress of 1974 UK first edition In edgeworn dustjacket with a few small tears and small damp stain at base of spine. Airforce blue covered boards with gold lettering and mildly slanting spine. Sticker residue top right corner of fep. Internal..... More
The Viking Press, November 1968. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In edgeworn dustjacket with small tears and chipped top & bottom edges. Flap is not clipped. Two inch closed tear top of rear panel. Creasing to flap. Two-thirds bound. Black cloth covered on spine side with gold & purple lettering. Remaining..... More
Harcourt, October 1980. Trade Paperback. More
Spectrum, January 1966. Paper Back. Octavo. Unmarked internal pages. Worn cover at edges & spine. Tiny removal scar bottom left of front cover. [182 pages]. More
Thames & Hudson, June 1988. Oversize Softcover. More
Thames & Hudson, June 1988. Oversize Softcover. More
University of California Press, May 1983. First Thus. Paper Back. The first two chapters of this book isolate and describe the literary phenomenon of the Sophoclean tragic hero. In all but one of the extant Sophoclean dramas, a heroic figure who is compounded of the same literary elements faced a...... More
Harvest/HBJ, October 1969. Paper Back. A companion volume to Biographical Essays, this collection of twenty-five pieces includes two of Strachey's finest critical essays, Shakespeare's Final Period and English Letter Writers. Index. Octavo. Sunned spine. Previous owner's name in ink first inside page. [296 pages]. More
Harvest/HBJ, October 1969. Reprint. Paper Back. Thirty-five sketches, including pieces on Voltaire, Frederick the Great, Rousseau, Gibbon, Walpole, Boswell, Carlyle, and Sarah Bernhardt, by one of the great biographical writers of this century. Companion volume to Strachey's Literary Essays. Index. Octavo. Previous owner's name inked first inside page. [295 pages]..... More
Black Sparrow Pr, February 1991. Hardcover. Pictorial boards bound in green cloth back with paper cover label. Glassine jacket. Book and jacket have moderate shelf wear. Number 111 on an edition limited to 125 copies numbered and signed by John Sanford. More
Farrar Straus Giroux, October 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Richard Howard has been writing stylish, deeply informed commentary on modern culture and literature for more than four decades. Here is a selection of his finest essays, including some never before published in book form, on a splendid range of subjects--from American..... More
Mariner Books, March 1969. Trade Paperback. Few books have had such an impact on their own generation as did Eminent Victorians, which exposed the hypocrisy of the Victorian era by deflating the legends surrounding four of its most notable figures. In the process, Strachey revitalized the art of biography. More
Hogarth Press, January 1984. Trade Paperback. More
Picador, January 1997. Trade Paperback. This work takes the reader on a literary tour of Russia from the streets of Bulgakov's Moscow to the country estates of Tolstoy which can be read as an overview of Russian literature or used as a guide to a trip around Russia. Beginning with..... More
Granada, January 1971. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 1984. Reprint. Trade Paperback. From one of the greatest literary critics of the twentieth century, this installment of Edmund Wilson's private notebooks covers the years of the 1940s, providing a rich lens into the writer's life and the world at large. Wilson turned forty-five in..... More
Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), October 1986. First Edition. Cloth. {4 & 1/2 x 7 & 1/2'} In DJ with moderate use wear. Sun-tanned jacket spine. Soiling & foxing jacket cover. Front flap is not clipped. Fern green cloth covered boards with gold lettering upon spine., Tightly bound at bottom..... More
Ungar Pub. Co., June 1987. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Light soiling. Previous owner's name in ink half title page. [205 page]. More
Princeton University Press, October 1982. First Thus. Soft Cover. The description for this book, The Auden Generation: Literature and Politics in England in the 1930s, will be forthcoming. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2'} Sunned spine with slight edgewear and curl to front cover. Previous owner's name in ink..... More
Cornell University Press, June 1971. Trade Paperback. This is a revised and enlarged edition of the most extensive and detailed critical reading of English Romantic poetry ever attempted in a single volume. It is both a valuable introduction to the Romantics and an influential work of literary criticism. The perceptive..... More