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Philip Larkin's Required Writing, a selection from his miscellaneous prose from 1953-82, was highly praised and enjoyed when it appeared in 1983. Further Requirements gathers together many other interviews, broadcasts, statements and reviews. Some of...

This Companion to Victorian Poetry provides an introduction to many of the pressing issues that absorbed the attention of poets from the 1830s to the 1890s. It introduces readers to a range of topics - including historicism, patriotism, prosody, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156913218Author Umberto EcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint HarperviaPublisher Harpervia

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926763071Author ManolisFormat PaperbackPage Count 550Imprint Libros Libertad Pub.Publisher Libros Libertad Pub.Weight(grams) 798gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Writing in fragments is often held to be one of the most distinctive signature effects of Romantic, modern, and postmodern literature. But what is the fragment, and what may be said to be its literary, philosophical, and political significance? Few...

Sixty years after his murder by the Nazis, Bruno Schulz, one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic writers, is experiencing a renaissance in part occasioned by this biography by the renowned Polish poet Jerzy Ficowski. Widely regarded as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521321Author Anthony FaulkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Viking Society for Northern ResearchPublisher Viking Society for Northern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776281Author Uttara NatarajanFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD

Many people today experience the climate crisis with a divided state of mind: aware of the extreme effects, but living everyday life as if the crisis is not actually happening. This book argues that this structure of feeling has roots that can be traced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027786Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)...

Jon Fosse said farewell to theory early in his career, choosing poetry, fiction, and drama as his mediums of choice. Here, however, in a selection from his two books of essays, we see just how incisive a critic and memoirist he can be. Not only including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604860559Author Gabriel KuhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

In seventeen volumes, copublished with Baylor University, this acclaimed series features annotated texts of all of Robert Browning's known writing. The series encompasses autobiography as well as influences bearing on Browning's life and career and...

This book explores the literary afterlives of one of Ireland's most enigmatic, shape-shifting and controversial sons, Roger Casement. A seminal human rights activist, a key figure in the struggle for Irish independence, a traitor to British...

Discusses the transition from a largely oral to a fundamentally literate society in the early modern period. During this period the spoken word remained of the utmost importance but development of printing and the spread of popular literacy combined to...

Nicholas Frankel presents a new and revisionary account of Wilde's final years, spent in poverty and exile on the European continent following his release from an English prison for the crime of "gross indecency" between men. Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant...

Overshadowed in the popular imagination by the figure of Oliver Cromwell, historians are increasingly coming to recognize the importance of Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, in shaping the momentous events of mid-seventeenth-century Britain...

The very best outrage from the Tunbridge Wells Advertiser, the newspaper that coined the phrase 'Disgusted from Tunbridge Wells' for grumpy complaints.Book InformationISBN 9781783342013Author Nigel CawthorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Gibson...

"I ought to be grateful to Richmond & Hogarth, and indeed, whether it's my invincible optimism or not, I am grateful." Virginia Woolf Although more commonly associated with Bloomsbury, Virginia and her husband Leonard Woolf lived in...

The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group is the most comprehensive available survey of contemporary scholarship on the Bloomsbury Group - the set of influential writers, artists and thinkers whose members included Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, E.M. Forster,...

The Shakespearean Forest, Anne Barton's final book, uncovers the pervasive presence of woodland in early modern drama, revealing its persistent imaginative power. The collection is representative of the startling breadth of Barton's scholarship: ranging...

A deftly crafted biography of the author of Siddhartha, whose critique of consumer culture continues to inspire millions of readers.Against the horrors of Nazi dictatorship and widespread disillusionment with the forces of mass culture and consumerism,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590178287Author Max BeerbohmFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

This extensively revised anthology makes available the most important poetry and prose from the period between the accession of Henry VIII in 1509 and the English Revolution of 1640. Responding to the broadening of the canon in recent years, it balances...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501160486Author Fredrik BackmanFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 183mm * 135mm * 15mm

A riveting English translation the Irish classic tale of heartache, death, and loneliness by the beloved author of The Dirty Dust "Unique, funny and bursting with earthy language."-Kevin Gildea, Irish Times The final published work by the renowned...

Mae astudiaethau niferus wedi archwilio delweddaeth beirdd drwy ac mewn iaith, hynny yw, y modd y defnyddiant iaith i greu delweddau, ond nid felly'r ddelweddaeth am iaith ei hunan. Nod y llyfr hwn yw craffu ar sut y mae casgliad o feirdd o bob cwr o'r...

The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern origin to the contemporary era. Contributions cover a wide range of topics including the...

Author of the most influential long poem of its era (Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) and the funniest long poem in European literature (Don Juan), Lord Byron was also the literary superstar of Romanticism, whose effect on nineteenth-century writers, artists,...

One of the deans of literary criticism in America, M. H. Abrams is Class of 1916 Professor of English at Cornell University. He is the author of two landmark books, The Mirror and the Lamp and Natural Supernaturalism, and general editor of the Norton...

George Herbert (1593-1633) is widely regarded as the greatest devotional poet in the English language. His volume of poems, The Temple, published posthumously in 1633, became one of the most widely read and influential collections of the seventeenth...

Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancient Romans looked to the Aeneid as an argument for imperialism. In this major reinterpretation...

This major new reading of the novels of Thomas Hardy, by leading critic George Levine, disentangles the author's often elaborately distanced prose from his beautiful poetic and precise renderings of the natural world. Clear, direct and minimally academic...

Against the background of intellectual and political debates in France during the 1950s and 1960s, Daniel Just examines literary narratives and works of literary criticism arguing that these texts are more politically engaged than they may initially...

I am aware that, once my pen intervenes, I can make whatever I like out of what I was.' Paul Valery, Moi. Modernism is often characterized as a movement of impersonality; a rejection of auto/biography. But most of the major works of European modernism...

This is a discussion of the work of one of Britain's most highly regarded novelists and the winner of the 1998 Booker Prize. David Malcolm places Ian McEwan's work in the context of British literature's particular dynamism in the last decades of the 20th...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946206490Author Jennifer AulieFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Wynstones PressPublisher Wynstones Press

This 2007 second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Dante is designed to provide an accessible introduction to Dante for students, teachers and general readers. The volume was fully updated and includes three new essays on Dante's works. The...

"How almost true they sometimes almost ring!" Samuel Beckett's character rues his words. "How wanting in inanity!" A person could almost understand them! Why taunt and flout us, as Beckett's writing does? Why discourage us from seeing, as Mark Rothko's...

In addition to a broad selection of the poems, the volume includes over 100 images (16 in color), emphasizing the centrality of pictorial representations to Blake's verse. Biographical context is provided through dozens of excerpts from Blake's notebook,...