St Martins Pr, September 1994. First Thus. Soft Cover. Octavo. Clean & sound. Previous owner's name inked inside first page. [349 pages]. More

Penguin Classics, March 1984. Trade Paperback. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, first published in 1764, is a series of short, radical essays - alphabetically arranged - that form a brilliant and bitter analysis of the social and religious conventions that then dominated eighteenth-century French thought. One of the masterpieces of the Enlightenment..... More

Viking Books, May 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Every generation rediscovers Jane Austen with a renewed passion for her timeless stories of romance, family relations, and foibles of human nature. Today she is more popular than ever. Natalie Tyler captures the essence of this enthusiasm in a book that shuns obscure..... 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 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

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

Viking Press, January 1952. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. Dustjacket is missing. Brown cloth covered boards with much faded gold lettering along spine. Wear to board edges, heavily worn top of spine. Mild tanning of end pages, but relatively clean & white compared to the heavily foxed, deeply spotted internal pages..... 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

Scribner, July 2013. Hardcover. From New York Times bestselling author, "one of America's top cultural critics" (Entertainment Weekly), and "The Ethicist" for The New York Times Magazine, comes a new book of all original pieces on villains and villainy. Chuck Klosterman has walked into the darkness. As a boy, he..... 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

Univ of Michigan Pr, November 1992. Hardcover. More