Samuel Johnson
Hogarth Press, January 1984. Trade Paperback. More
Literary Non-Fiction
Literary Russia: A guide
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
Oscar Wilde
Granada, January 1971. Mass Market PaperBack. More
The Forties: From Notebooks & Diaries Of The Period
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
The Fifties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period
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
Edmund Wilson
Ungar Pub. Co., June 1987. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Light soiling. Previous owner's name in ink half title page. [205 page]. More
The Auden Generation: Literature and Politics in England in the 1930's
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
The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry
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
The Mystery of Lewis Carroll: Discovering the Whimsical, Thoughtful, and Sometimes Lonely Man Who Created 'Alice in Wonderland'
St. Martin's Griffin, February 2011. Trade Paperback. In The Mystery of Lewis Carroll, Jenny Woolf brings to life the brilliant, secretive, and self-contradictory creator of Alice in Wonderland, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll. Reveling in double meanings and puzzles, in his fiction and his life, Carroll always--at least in..... More
The Structure of Complex Words
Harvard University Press, March 1989. Trade Paperback. Cited in BCL3 . Reprint. Originally published in 1951. Contains a fairly long new introduction by Jonathan Culler. No bibliography. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. Moderate creasing on the cover. Binding tight. Pencil underlining on just 16 pages. Previous owners name..... More
Literary Criticism, Pope to Croce
Wayne State University Press, January 1962. Trade Paperback. This volume attempts to represent European theories of poetry from Plato's time to the year 1700. Editor Allan H. Gilbert has selected writers who in their own day spoke for the future rather than the past, and those whose conceptions are of..... More
Literary Critics (Enl)
Random House (UK), November 1986. Trade Paperback. More
Doing Things with Texts: Essays in Criticism and Critical Theory (Revised)
W. W. Norton & Company, October 1997. Trade Paperback. This volume brings together for the first time influential essays and reviews by one of our most important literary critics. Spanning three decades, the essays concern themselves with the most central development themes in recent criticism, from the New Criticism to..... More
Joe Gould's Secret
Modern Library, January 1997. First Thus. Hardcover. A profile of the writer and Greenwich Village bohemian highlights his wealthy upbringing and Harvard education, his complicated lifestyle, and his fascination with oral history. More
A Literary Chronicle: 1920-1950
Doubleday Anchor Books, January 1956. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Shelf worn mass market paperback edition. Heavy darkening of spine. Hole punched overlapping holes upper right corner of front cover. Worn & torn at one bottom corner of spine. Previous owner's name inked half title page. [442 pages]. More
Everybody Was So Young : Gerald and Sara Murphy, a Lost Generation Love Story
Bantam Dell Pub Group, April 1999. Trade Paperback. A dazzling biography for readers of The Great Gatsby and other Lost Generation authors Gifted artist Gerald Murphy and his elegant wife, Sara, were icons of the most enchanting period of our time; handsome, talented, and wealthy expatriate Americans, they were at..... More
Elizabethan and Metaphysical Imagery
Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1947. Trade Paperback. More
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
W. W. Norton & Company, September 1994. Trade Paperback. Critical/biographical portraits of such notable figures as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Chesnut, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Oliver Wendell Holmes prove Wilson to be the consummate witness to the most eloquently recorded era in American..... More
The Flaming Heart: Essays on Crashaw, Machiavelli, and Other Studies of the Relations between Italian and English Literature from Chaucer to T. S. Eliot (Norton Library (Paperback))
W. W. Norton & Company, January 1973. Paper Back. Here, in his own translations and in original English versions of his own, Professor Praz has gathered many important essays central to his life's work, in a continuous study of the vital currents which have flowed between two cultures, the English..... More
The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination (V 278)
Vintage, February 1965. Mass Market PaperBack. In this collection of essays, consummate poet Wallace Stevens reflects upon his art. His aim is not to produce a work of criticism or philosophy, or a mere discussion of poetic technique. As he explains in his introduction, his ambition in these various pieces..... More
Eleven essays in the European novel
Harcourt, Brace & World/ Harbinger, January 1964. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo in worn, creased cover. Previous owner's name inked half title page. Unmarked interiors. [243 pages]. More
An American Procession
Vintage, February 1985. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Clean, sound. Previous owner's name inked half title page. Else without interior markings. First Vintage paper edition. [408 pages]. More
The Scandal of Ulysses: The Life And Afterlife of a Twentieth Century Masterpiece -- Revised Edition
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
James Joyce Portraits of the Artist In E
Wolfhound Press, January 1979. Paper Back. Octavo. Moderate user wear. Previous owner's name inked half title page. [304 pages]. More
