The Faber Book of Letters: Letters Written in the English Language 1578-1939
Faber & Faber, March 1989. Hardcover. More
Faber & Faber, March 1989. Hardcover. More
Shambhala Publications, October 2002. Trade Paperback. The poetry selected for this volume comes from the Tang Dynasty (618-907), an era when the influence of Buddhism was at its strongest in China. The best loved and most influential of all Chinese poems come from this period. Like all books in the..... More
Ryan Pub, January 1990. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
Algonquin Books, January 1994. Trade Paperback. In this ninth volume of "New Stories from the South, " you'll find characters you wish you knew, along with others you'll be glad you don't: a boy who wears his mother's shoes as his father lies dying, a young mother dying of cancer..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 1973. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Classics, February 1984. Trade Paperback. These plays embody Aeschylus' concerns with the destiny and fate of both individuals and the state, all played out under the watchful eye of the gods. In "Agamemnon, the warrior who defeated Troy returns to Argos and is murdered by his wife Clytemnestra for..... More
Penguin Classics, February 1984. Trade Paperback. These plays embody Aeschylus' concerns with the destiny and fate of both individuals and the state, all played out under the watchful eye of the gods. In "Agamemnon, the warrior who defeated Troy returns to Argos and is murdered by his wife Clytemnestra for..... More
Cooper River Books, September 2023. Paper Back. Learning about history can be boring-but that's mostly because the guys who teach it are relics themselves, cloaked in tweed and tenured since Roosevelt gave away Easter Europe. In his laugh-out-loud book Where Have All the Cowboys Gone, Prioleau Alexander digs deep into..... More
Pocket Books, 1956. Mass Market PaperBack. Movie (Frank Sinatra) cover. Second printing; some stains on the back cover and minor creasing of edges. More
Univ of Missouri Pr, January 1982. Paper Back. Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Previous seller price sticker present at front cover upper right corner; Previous owner initials present at half title; Text free of markings; An excellent copy. More
Dover Publications, February 1976. Paper Back. {9 & 1/4' x 10'}. Mild edgewear. Small quarto. Toning. {154 pp.]. More
Plume, May 1994. Mass Market PaperBack. Whether his target is the war between the sexes or his fellow playwright Euripides, Aristophanes is the most important Greek comic dramatist--and one of the greatest comic playwrights of all time. His writing--at once bawdy and delicate--brilliantly fuses serious political satire with pyrotechnical bombast..... More
Columbia University Press, November 2001. First Thus. Hardcover. George Eliot's reception as a writer has been checkered from the start. Prejudice followed the revelation of her real identity as a woman, and she suffered from critical neglect at the start of the twentieth century before a postwar renaissance of interest..... More
The Liffey Press, November 2005. Paper Back. James Joyce's Ulysses, arguably the greatest novel of the twentieth century, has been the subject of scandal from first publication in 1922. When Bruce Arnold's The Scandal of Ulysses first appeared, twelve years ago, it was described as the sensational life of a...... More
Princeton University Press, October 2005. Trade Paperback. Written in the midst of World War II after its author emigrated to America, "The Sea and the Mirror" is not merely a great poem but ranks as one of the most profound interpretations of Shakespeare's final play in the twentieth century. As..... More
Penguin USA, February 1998. Cloth. A few pages have underlining and marginal notes; else, fine. More
Europa Editions, September 2008. Trade Paperback. The phenomenal New York Times bestseller that "explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building" (Publishers Weekly). In an elegant hôtel particulier in Paris, Renée, the concierge, is all but invisible--short, plump, middle-aged, with bunions on her feet and an addiction to..... More
Europa Editions, September 2008. Trade Paperback. The phenomenal New York Times bestseller that "explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building" (Publishers Weekly). In an elegant hôtel particulier in Paris, Renée, the concierge, is all but invisible--short, plump, middle-aged, with bunions on her feet and an addiction to..... More
Europa Editions, September 2008. Trade Paperback. The phenomenal New York Times bestseller that "explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building" (Publishers Weekly). In an elegant hôtel particulier in Paris, Renée, the concierge, is all but invisible--short, plump, middle-aged, with bunions on her feet and an addiction to..... More
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, January 1923. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo. {5' x 7 & 1/2) Heavily chipped & tanned dustjacket. Flap is not clipped. Dark green cloth covered boards with gold lettering upon spine & blindstamped JMB emblem. Clean, unmarked internal text. No underlining or side notes. Echoes of the..... More
Hill and Wang, 1996. Trade Paperback. What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes's answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism . . . not only..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1972. Paper Back. {5' x 7 & 3/4'} Trade paperback with lightened spine.Previous owners' name written in ink first insed==[141 pages]. More
Penguin Classics, June 1964. Mass Market PaperBack. The sparkling plays about the scoundrelly valet Figaro, used as the basis of operas by Mozart and Roissini A highly engaging comedy of intrigue, The Barber of Seville portrays the resourceful Figaro foiling a jealous old man's attempts to keep his beautiful ward..... More
Doubleday Anchor Books, 1958. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with darkened/bowed spine. [385 pages plus three page list of Anchor titles then available]. More
Heinemann Drama, August 2000. Trade Paperback. Certainty may give way to misgiving, happiness may become unease. Moment-to-moment changes often make actors and directors pause and ponder when deciding to perform a Shakespeare comedy. But this should not be the case, claims theatre scholar Albert Bermel. In Shakespeare at the Moment..... More