Simon & Schuster, July 1993. Trade Paperback. From fox-hunting to whist, this lively guide to the intricate manners, mores, social distinctions, sports, games, and sundry peculiarities of 19th-century England is a grand resource for anyone interested in Albion at its most arcane, eccentric, and imperial. Line drawings. More
Wolfhound Press, January 1979. Paper Back. Octavo. Moderate user wear. Previous owner's name inked half title page. [304 pages]. More
A New Directions Book, 1967. First Edition. Cloth. First/first (US) in very good dustjacket. Not price clipped. Darkening to jacket edges/spine. Indian red cloth boards with gold lettering spine edge. Wear to edges of cloth top & bottom of spine. Light tanning to end pages & fore-edge/top-edge. Tight binding. Clean..... More
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
Oxford University Press, 1970. Reprint. Paper Back. In this now-classic study, Praz describes the whole of Romantic literature under one of its most characteristic aspects, that of erotic sensibility. This wide spread mood in literature had a major effect on 19th-century poets and painters, and the affinities between them and..... More
Scribner Book Company, June 2003. Trade Paperback. Reynolds Price has long been one of America's most acclaimed and accomplished men of letters -- the author of novels, stories, poems, essays, plays, and a memoir. In A Whole New Life, however, he steps from behind that roster of achievements to present..... More
University Press of Mississippi, February 1991. Trade Paperback. Collections of interviews with notable modern writers. More
Other Press, August 2015. Trade Paperback. **Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Biography** Now in paperback, the biography of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, the inspiration behind The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson's award-winning film By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig had become the most widely translated living author in..... More
Other Press (NY), May 2014. Hardcover. An original study of exile, told through the biography of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, the man who inspired The Grand Budapest Hotel By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short stories, and biographies..... More
Harper Perennial, April 2007. Trade Paperback. A distinguished novelist and critic inspires readers and writers with this inside look at how the professionals read--and write Long before there were creative writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries..... More
HarperCollins Publishers, 1989. First Thus. Cloth. Octavo. {6' x 9 & 1/2'} In mildly edgeworn dustjacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Tightly bound spine with some slight leaning. Previous owner's name inked front free end pages [482 pages]. More
University of Chicago Press, November 1988. Paper Back. More
Random House, November 2017. Hardcover. The story of literature in sixteen acts--from Homer to Harry Potter, including The Tale of Genji, Don Quixote, The Communist Manifesto, and how they shaped world history In this groundbreaking book, Martin Puchner leads us on a remarkable journey through time and around the globe..... More
Coach House Books, May 2022. Paper Back. From LAMBDA Literary Award winner Sina Queyras, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind Thirty years ago, a professor threw..... More
Random House, April 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In this clarion call to pick up a pen and find yourself from "one of our most astute chroniclers of modern life" (The New York Times Book Review), #1 New York Times bestselling author Anna Quindlen shows us how anyone..... More
The University of Chicago Press, 1968. Hardcover. In dust jacket. More
The Johns Hopkins University Press, April 1991. First Edition. Cloth. "The extraordinary virtue of this exceptional study is that it authorizes the reader through Rabat's complex negotiations with Joyce conceived as reader of texts."--Talia Schaffer, James Joyce Literary Supplement. In very good dust jacket. Black cloth boards with gold lettering..... More
A.L. Burt Company, 1990 (?). Cloth. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Damp stains & discoloration to boards. Non-authorial inscription (in fountain pen) front pastedown: 'Calhoun Boyd with love fron Aunt Bettye, xmas, 1912.' 267 pages plus 6 pages advertisement of 'A.L. Burt's Catalogue of Books for Young People..... More
Harvard University Press, January 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. {7' x 9'} In heavily chipped, torn, darkened & stained DJ. Flap is not clipped. Fern green cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Boards mildly edgeworn top & bottom. Likewise marginal darkening top & bottom. Previous owner's name, a date..... More
Metropolitan Books, November 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER My Body offers a lucid examination of the mirrors in which its author has seen herself, and her indoctrination into the cult of beauty as defined by powerful men. In its more transcendent passages . . . the..... More
Metropolitan Books, November 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER My Body offers a lucid examination of the mirrors in which its author has seen herself, and her indoctrination into the cult of beauty as defined by powerful men. In its more transcendent passages . . . the..... 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
Spiegel & Grau, June 2022. Paper Back. Instant New York Times Bestseller Winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award * 2022 Nautilus Book Awards Gold Winner * Shortlisted for the John Burroughs Medal * Finalist for the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize * Shortlisted for a Reading..... More
Liverpool University Press, March 1969. Stapled Soft Cover. This literary study is an exploration and a celebration of a writer who for the last half century has been at the forefront of modern African writing. Since the publication of Things Fall Apart in 1958, Chinua Achebe has been credited with..... More
MCD, May 2022. Hardcover. A nuanced mediation on love, identity, and belonging. This story of survival radiates with resilience and hope. --Publishers Weekly, starred review This openhearted memoir . . . opens the door to include queer descendants of war survivors into the growing American library of love." --Sarah Schulman..... More
