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
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
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 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
Wolfhound Press, January 1979. Paper Back. Octavo. Moderate user wear. Previous owner's name inked half title page. [304 pages]. More
University of California Press, 1968. Reprint. Paper Back. 12mo. {4 & 1/4' x 7 & 1/2'} Rubbing and heavily worn corner. Clean, unmarked text. 7th printing. [129 pages]. More
Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1971. Paper Back. Damp stained at bottom right corner. Previous owner's name inked first inside page. Well worn. [304 pages]. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 1987. Paper Back. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The book's first section is a tete-a-tete with Emma Bovary; the second traces the gestation and birth of the novel, as well as Flaubert's method, his mania for documentation, and the novel's literary sources; the..... More
Grove Pr, October 1989. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
Shoemaker & Hoard, November 2005. Hardcover. Edmund Wilson, 20th century America's most direct and readable critic of literature and society, was a man of many loves. In his half century as a major force in American letters he had an outsize romantic career that reflected the complex depths of his..... More
Princeton University Press, October 1997. Trade Paperback. Edmund Wilson helped shape American letters from the early 1920s through the mid-'60s. He remains a presence in our literary culture, and his accounts of art and society have influenced a younger generation of readers and thinkers. This vibrant collection emerges from symposiums..... More
William Morrow & Company, February 2004. Hardcover. Subversive, eccentric and flamboyant, the artistic community in England in the first half of the twentieth century was engaged in the bold experiment of refashioning not just their art, but their daily lives. They reinvented the home, challenging and rejecting the smug certainties..... More
Knopf, March 1989. Hardcover. Here is Cynthia Ozick on writing in all its guises--as art, as communication, as culture. She shares essays on writers, on postmodernism, on translation, on Jewish literature, and on metaphor, one of the chief agents of our moral nature. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper..... More
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, April 2014. Trade Paperback. It chanced during one winter, a few years ago, that our cities were bent on discussing the theory of the Age. By an odd coincidence, four or five noted men were each reading a discourse to the citizens of Boston or New..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, February 2021. Hardcover. Best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake was a small-town mob boss but maintained an unspoken family vow of silence. Then..... More
University of Illinois Press, January 1961. First Thus. Cloth. Octavo in dustjacket with darkened spine and margins. Mild edgewear. Flap is not clipped. DJ verso tanned/darkened. Rough-hewn half inch tear to jacket top of front fold. Boards covered by cedar colored brown with silver lettering on spine and front panel..... More
Univ of Chicago Press, June 1970. Paper Back. Octavo. Sticker removal scar front cover. Underlining & side notes. [164 pp.]. More
John Hopkins, January 1969. Reprint. Paper Back. 3rd printing. Octavo. With slight darkening of spine. Some soiling/stains to cover. Previous owner's name inked verso of front cover. A few scattered pencil marginal tick marks and underlined words. [310 pp.]. More
College and University Press, January 1961. Paper Back. Octavo. Sunned spine and margins. Sticker residue front cover. Previous owner's name inked verso of front cover. [224 pp.]. More
Noonday Press, December 1995. Trade Paperback. When Michael Holroyd's life of Strachey appeared in 1967, it changed the course of modern biography, setting a new standard for the recounting of literary lives and launching the enduring Bloomsbury revival. In the 1960s, however, many of Strachey's friends and lovers were still..... More
East African Educational Publishers, December 1983. Trade Paperback. Oral Literature of the Maasai offers an extensive collection of types of oral literature: oral narratives; proverbs; riddles; and a variety of songs for different occasions. The versions in this book were collected by the author from a specific Maasai community in..... More
Cambridge University Press, 2000. Reprint. Paper Back. This book takes a critical look at the work of one of the twentieth century's most influential playwrights from the viewpoint of those whose job it is to give the work life on stage. From personal experience of over seventy productions, from interviews..... More
University of Michigan Press, August 2000. First Edition. Cloth. Sails of the Herring Fleet traces esteemed director and theorist Herbert Blau's encounters with the work of Samuel Beckett. Blau directed Beckett's plays when they were still virtually unknown, and for more than four decades has remained one of the leading..... More
Grove Press, January 1961. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Well worn mass market paperback. Heavily worn along the edges of spine with bottom one-inch stripped of surface layer of paper. Creased corner of back cover. [120 pages]. More
University of Chicago Press, December 1978. Paper Back. More
Little, Brown and Co., January 1967. First Edition. Cloth. First U.S. edition. {6' x 9 & 1/2'} Heavily edgeworn dustjacket with curl to edges, chips & tears. Repaired with clear tape. Damp stained bottom of front panel with red ink separation from cover to DJ verso. Front flap is not..... More