Routledge, July 2003. Hardcover. First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Pencilled note on verso of ffep; else, near fine. More
University of Virginia Press, March 2007. Hardcover. Sincerity--the claim that the voice, figure, and experience of a first-person speaker is that of the author--has dominated both the reading and the writing of Anglo-American poetry since the romantic era. Most critical studies have upheld an opposition between sincerity and the literary..... More
Seabury Press, January 1976. Hardcover. Modest cover wear and aging; faint pencil notes and marks scattered throughout. More
Vintage Books, January 1974. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Perigee Books, November 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. A fascinating look at the stories behind the dedications of 50 literary classics. Mary Shelley dedicated Frankenstein to her father, her greatest champion. Charlotte BrAnte dedicated Jane Eyre to William Makepeace Thackeray for his enthusiastic review of the bookas first edition. Dostoyevsky dedicated..... More
Counterpoint LLC, March 2004. Hardcover. If you have a language question, where do you go for the answer? How do you keep proper syntax from sounding stiff, and, on the other hand, how do you keep conversational language from being embarrassingly incorrect? Barbara Wallraff, the author of The Atlantic's Word..... More
University College Dublin Press, December 2008. Hardcover. This volume contains all of the extant letters written to each other by the renowned Joyce scholars, Hugh Kenner and Adaline Glasheen, between 1954 and 1984. The letters have been annotated so that we can follow how their ideas are absorbed into their..... More
Doubleday Anchor, January 1958. Mass Market PaperBack. Darkened spine and margins. Mildly edgeworn. Duststained textblock edges. 452 pages. More
McDowell, Oblolensky Inc., 1958. Hardcover. price clipped on inside front dust jacket; dust jacket shows fading and shel wear along front and back cover edges and along front bottom; small tear on bottom rear and bottom spine dust jacket;; cover boards show slight shel wear and denting on bottom spine..... More
Indiana University Press / Midland, January 1965. Paper Back. Mild shelf wear. Creased spine, but solid. Previous owner's name stamped verso front cover, top textblock edge, page 52 and last page of index and bottom. Tanning to margins of back cover, 296 pages. More
Doubleday, January 1953. Mass Market PaperBack. Mild edgewear and toning to cover. 508 pages plus eight page list of available Dolphin and Anchor titles available. More
Green Integer, October 2004. Paper Back. Winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize for Literature (with fellow Swedish writer Eyvind Johnson), Harry Martinson (1904-1978) was noted for his innovative use of language combined with his keen observation of nature. He also wrote three volumes of nature essays in the 1930s. Views..... More
Oxford University Press, February 2012. Hardcover. In The Meaning of Contemporary Realism (1957) Georg Lukacs discussed how the power struggle of the Cold War made it all the more pressing for literary writers to present 'concrete potentialities' of individual character in novel ways. Powers of Possibility explores how American experimental..... More
Yale University Press, January 1985. Hardcover. Book is cocked; else, very good. More
House of Anansi Press, November 1998. Paper Back. Previous owner's name and a date inked inside first page. Else clean and unmarked. More
University of Ottawa Press, July 2005. Trade Paperback. The Canadian Modernists Meet is a collection of new critical essays on major and rediscovered Canadian writers of the early to mid-twentieth century. F.R. Scott's well-known poem 'The Canadian Authors Meet' sets the theme for the volume: a revisiting of English Canada's..... More
University of Ottawa Press, January 1990. Trade Paperback. The tarnished reputation of this turn-of-the-century poet is persuasively burnished anew by fifteen scholars, editors, and poets. More
State University of New York, April 2000. First Edition. Paper Back. Listening to Reading presents two different kinds of writing about poetry--critical analysis and performance--both of which pay particular attention to sound, shape, and the relation of sound/shape to meaning. It offers a critical and performative presentation of experimental writing..... More
Prentice Hall, August 2006. Trade Paperback. The value-priced Prentice Hall Literature Portfolio incorporates the best of short fiction, poetry, and drama all into one compact, affordablet ext. The text is organized around the guiding principle that reading and writing are complementary skills that need to be taught together. In addition..... More
Vintage Books, July 2011. Trade Paperback. Cookery is not necessarily a subject one immediately associates with Simon Schama - one of Britain's most distinguished historians and commentators. But this selection of his occasional writings is a treasure trove of surprises. More
Metropolitan Books, June 2016. Hardcover. PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash, comes In the Darkroom, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father..... More
Little, Brown, 1900. Cloth. Grey cloth with gold lettering spine & front panel, stamped black decorative illustrations within black rectangular frames. Likewise decorative black horizontal bars top and bottom of front panel & spine. Edgeworn top and bottom of boards, especially at spines. End pages chocolate brown front and back..... More
Simon & Schuster, March 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. "Wearing blue jeans meant I was a local. The gray in my hair meant I'd been away. Word of my impending return spread throughout the county. Some stories would have me moving in with my folks because one of them was very..... More
Picador, September 2002. Trade Paperback. The true-life stories in this unique collection provide a window into the American mind and heart (The Daily News). One hundred and eighty voices - male and female, young and old, from all walks of life and all over the country - talk intimately to..... More
McGraw Hill, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition (U.S.) ; Octavo; In heavily edgeworn/chipped dustjacket with foxing/tanning to verso. Jacket flap is not clipped. Quarter bound: navy blue cloth with gold lettering. Blue paper covered boards worn at edges. Plain end pages. Previous owner's name , location and a...... More
