THE SHORTER STRACHEY
THE HOGARTH PRESS LTD, January 1989. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
New Arrivals
James Joyce a Critical Introduction (NDP 87) -- Revised & Augmented Edition
A New Directions Paperback, June 1960. Trade Paperback. Because Harry Levin's view is large, as opposed to the many necessary exegeses and close textual studies, he leads the reader easily into the delights to be found in Joyce, from the comparatively simple prose of Dubliners, through Ulysses and into the..... More
The Life of Leopold Bloom: A Novel
UNKNO, April 1993. Trade Paperback. A novel drawing on clues scattered throughout James Joyce's Ulysses reconstructs the life of Dubliner Leopold Bloom. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
James Joyce (Critical Lives)
Reaktion Books, July 2006. Trade Paperback. From Ulysses to Finnegans Wake, James Joyce's writings rank among the most intimidating works of literature. Unfortunately, many of the books that purport to explain Joyce are equally difficult. The Critical Lives series comes to the rescue with this concise yet deep examination of..... More
Jocoserious Joyce: The Fate of Folly in Ulysses
Cornell Univ Pr, February 1991. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
James Joyce and the Politics of Desire
Routledge, June 1990. Trade Paperback. James Joyce and the Politics of Desire offers the first feminist/psychologist re-assessment of the Joycean canon in the wake of Freud, Lacan and Kristeva. More
Dubliners (New Casebooks, 136)
Red Globe Press, October 2005. Trade Paperback. James Joyce's Dubliners is one of the most studied collections of short stories in the world. Perplexing and innovative in technique, Joyce wanted Dubliners to be a 'chapter in the moral history of my country'. This New Casebook brings together a range of..... More
Annotations to 'Finnegans Wake'
Johns Hopkins University Press, December 2005. Trade Paperback. Long considered the essential guide to Joyce's famously difficult work, Roland McHugh's "Annotations to "Finnegans Wake"" provides both novice readers and seasoned Joyceans with a wealth of information in an easy-to-use format uniquely suited to this densely layered text. Each page of..... More
Virginia Woolf: Introductions to the Major Works
Virago Pr, July 1995. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
Jude the Obscure
Penguin Group, January 1993. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
Joyce's Kaleidoscope: An Invitation to Finnegans Wake
Oxford University Press, April 2009. Trade Paperback. James Joyce's Ulysses, once regarded as obscure and obscene, is now viewed as one of the masterpieces of world literature. Yet Joyce's final novel, Finnegans Wake, to which he devoted seventeen years, remains virtually unread, except by scholarly specialists. Its linguistic novelties, apparently..... More
James Joyce's Dublin: A Topographical Guide to the Dublin of Ulysses
Thames & Hudson, June 2004. Oversized Hardcover. One of the most important literary works of the twentieth century, Ulysses is also one of the most realistic novels ever written. The characters, some of them Dubliners appearing under their own names, visit shops and pubs that can be located precisely in..... More
Simple & Direct
Harper Perennial, December 2001. Trade Paperback. A fter a lifetime of writing and editing prose, Jacques Barzun has set down his view of the best ways to improve one's style. His discussions of diction, syntax, tone, meaning, composition, and revision guide the reader through the technique of making the written..... More
The Penguin Dictionary of American Usage and Style: A Readable Reference Book, Illuminating Thousands of Traps That Snare Writers and Speakers
Penguin Reference, January 2000. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
Brewer's Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Phrase and Fable
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, April 1992. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, December 2007. Trade Paperback. An essential primary source on Roman history and a fascinating achievement of scholarship covering a critical period in the Empire As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eyewitness accounts) to..... More
The Principle of Relativity (Dover Books on Physics)
Dover Publications, June 1952. Trade Paperback. This collection of original papers on the special and general theories of relativity is an unabridged translation of the 4th edition of Das Relativitatsprinzip, together with a revised edition of an additional paper by H. A. Lorentz. CONTENTS: I. Michelson's Interference Experiment by H...... More
Korean American: Food That Tastes Like Home
Clarkson Potter, March 2022. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED COOKBOOKS OF 2022--Time, Food52, Eater, Food & Wine, Thrillist, Book Riot An homage to what it means to be Korean American with delectable recipes that explore how new culinary traditions can be forged to honor..... More
My Year Abroad: A Novel
Riverhead Books, February 2022. Paper Back. INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book * Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, TIME, and Marie Claire "A manifesto to happiness--the one found when you stop running from who you are." -New York Times Book Review "An extraordinary..... More
Stoner
NYRB Classics, June 2006. Trade Paperback. Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe. William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to..... More
The Hearing Trumpet
NYRB Classics, January 2021. Paper Back. An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Björk and Luis Buñuel. Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trumpet is the witty, celebratory key to..... More
Each One a Furnace: Poems
McClelland & Stewart, March 2022. Paper Back. From the author of The Junta of Happenstance, here is a brilliant new collection of poems--a burning chronicle of passage and stillness and restlessness. Each One a Furnace explores (im)migration, diasporas, transience, and instability by following the behaviour, and abundant variety, of finches..... More
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Viking, May 2022. Hardcover. A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd's life and legacy--from his family's roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, education, health care, criminal justice, and policing--telling the story of how..... More
Where the Crawdads Sing Deluxe Edition
G.P. Putnam's Sons, October 2019. First Thus. Hardcover. A beautiful, deluxe edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller--with over 12 million copies sold--that will make the perfect holiday gift or treat for yourself. A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick A Business Insider Defining Book of the..... More
Run River
Vintage, April 1994. Paper Back. The iconic writer's electrifying first novel is a story of marriage, murder and betrayal that only she could tell with such nuance, sympathy, and suspense--from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean. Everett McClellan..... More
