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Thomas Pynchon by Tony Tanner
Booksplease Price: £108.12Thomas Pynchon is now recognized as a major contemporary novelist and perhaps the most important American writer since Melville. His work is both richly imaginative and amazingly erudite and can be... -
Prefaces to Shakespeare by Tony Tanner 9780674064249
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £26.68When Tony Tanner died in 1998, the world lost a critic who was as sensitive a reader of Jane Austen as he was of Thomas Pynchon, and who wrote with a warmth and clarity that belied his fluency in... -
Thomas Pynchon by Tony Tanner 9780367347994
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73Thomas Pynchon is now recognized as a major contemporary novelist and perhaps the most important American writer since Melville. His work is both richly imaginative and amazingly erudite and can be... -
Jane Austen by Tony Tanner 9780230008236
Booksplease Price: £47.74Tony Tanner's classic text on Jane Austen addresses the issues that have always occupied the author's most perceptive critics, and offers an illuminating and refreshing analysis of Austen's novels. ... -
Adultery in the Novel: Contract and Transgression by Tony Tanner
Booksplease Price: £42.36Originally published in 1979. Adultery is a dominant feature in chivalric literature; it becomes a major concern in Shakespeare's last plays; and it forms the central plot of novels from Anna... -
The Oxford Book of Sea Stories by Tony Tanner
Booksplease Price: £29.51'And then went down to the ship.' Thus, with a nod to Homer, Ezra Pound began his own epic odyssey through the world of literature and the modern world. There is no literature without a departure, a... -
Henry James: Book. 1 by Tony Tanner 9780582012738
Booksplease Price: £21.27Barbara Hardy has concentrated on the late period from 1900 to 1916, observing language and theme in close readings of The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, The Golden Bowl, The Sacred Fount, the... -
A Pocketful of Poems by Professor of English and American Literature Tony Tanner 9781477131930
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £13.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781477131930Author Tony TannerFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint -
The Reign of Wonder: Naivety and Reality in American Literature by Tony Tanner 9780521291989
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.30The adopted attitude towards reality and experience in American literature tends to be one of wonder and cultivated naivety rather than analysis and judgement. In this book, Dr Tanner offers some... -
The American Mystery: American Literature from Emerson to DeLillo by Tony Tanner 9780521783743
Booksplease Price: £44.32The late Tony Tanner was one of the most distinctive and distinguished critical voices on American literature. His work is familiar to generations of students and scholars, and has helped shape our... -
Scenes of Nature, Signs of Men: Essays on 19th and 20th Century American Literature by Tony Tanner 9780521311557
Booksplease Price: £55.15This book is about the relationship of the American writer to his land and language - to the 'scene' and the 'sign', to the natural landscape and the inscriptions imposed upon it by men. Among the... -
Henry James The Shorter Fiction: Reassessments by N. H. Reeve 9780333647301
Booksplease Price: £90.56Eleven essays representing a fresh engagement, from a variety of critical positions, with the tales and nouvelles of Henry James. The collection contains new studies of well-known stories, such as... -
Henry James The Shorter Fiction: Reassessments by N. H. Reeve 9781349253739
Booksplease Price: £91.94Eleven essays representing a fresh engagement, from a variety of critical positions, with the tales and nouvelles of Henry James. The collection contains new studies of well-known stories, such as... -
The Social Construction of American Realism by Amy Kaplan
Booksplease Price: £24.80Kaplan redefines American realism as a genre more engaged with a society in flux than with one merely reflective of the status quo. She reads realistic narrative as a symbolic act of imagining and... -
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780241951477
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67The Great Gatsby is a dazzling social satire, F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece and a milestone in twentieth-century literature, now beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range... -
The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America by Leo Marx
Booksplease Price: £21.75For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define--and continues to give depth... -
Conrad's Eastern World by Norman Sherry 9780521291200
Booksplease Price: £50.23A book for those interested in Conrad's life and work and/or literary detection convincingly performed. Professor Sherry establishes how well Conrad knew the East and how the original material he... -
Beyond Suspicion: New American Fiction Since 1960 by Marc Chenetier 9780812230598
Booksplease Price: £65.67Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1996In his book Beyond Suspicion: New American Fiction since 1960, Marc Chenetier analyzes the developments in recent American fiction,... -
The Language of Fiction: Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel by David Lodge 9781138133983
Booksplease Price: £110.69Language of Fiction was the first book of criticism by the renowned novelist and critic David Lodge. His uniquely informed perspective - he was already the author of three successful novels at the... -
The Language of Fiction: Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel by David Lodge 9780415290036
Booksplease Price: £17.03Language of Fiction was the first book of criticism by the renowned novelist and critic David Lodge. His uniquely informed perspective - he was already the author of three successful novels at the... -
Conrad in Perspective: Essays on Art and Fidelity by Zdzislaw Najder 9780521573214
Booksplease Price: £95.49Zdzislaw Najder, one of the world's leading authorities on Joseph Conrad and author of the major biography Joseph Conrad: A Chronicle (1983), is widely acclaimed for his particular insights into... -
Histories Volume 2 William Shakespeare 9781857151930
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.37The Everyman Signet Shakespeare series continues with the second volume of Histories, containing HENRY IV, parts I and II, HENRY V and HENRY VIII. As before, there is an extended introduction by Tony... -
The Knowledge of Ignorance: From Genesis to Jules Verne by Andrew Martin 9780521112482
Booksplease Price: £35.47This highly original study is concerned with the theory of knowledge. It approaches the subject in a new way by exploring the recurrent paradox which equates pure ignorance with perfect knowledge,... -
Conrad in Perspective: Essays on Art and Fidelity by Zdzislaw Najder 9780521021463
Booksplease Price: £35.47Zdzislaw Najder, one of the world's leading authorities on Joseph Conrad and author of the major biography Joseph Conrad: A Chronicle (1983), is widely acclaimed for his particular insights into... -
Romances: The Last Plays by William Shakespeare
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.71Completing the 8 volume Everyman Signet Shakespeare contains Shakespeare series, this final volume contains Shakespeare's four Last Plays - THE TEMPEST, PERICLES, THE WINTER'S TALE AND CYMBELINE. The... -
The Life of William Faulkner: A Critical Biography Richard Gray (University of Essex) 9780631203162
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £42.51In this major reassessment, now available in paperback, Richard Gray uses and develops recent theories about the relationship between writing and historical experience, language and social change, to... -
Histories Volume 1 William Shakespeare 9781857151770
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.37The Everyman Complete Shakespeare will publish the History plays in two volumes. In volume I are contained Shakespeare's first five history plays: HENRY VI parts I, II and II; RICHARD III and KING... -
Tragedies Volume 2 by William Shakespeare 9781857151640
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £14.16The second volume of the Everyman Signet Shakespeare completes the survey of Shakespeare's tragic output with Titus Andronicus, Troilus and Cressida, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of... -
Comedies Volume 2 by William Shakespeare 9781857152265
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.71The penultimate volume in the 8-volume Everyman Signet Shakespeare contains Shakespeare's later Comedies - THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, AS YOU LIKE IT,... -
Tragedies Volume 1: Contains Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear by William Shakespeare 9781857150926
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.37Volume 1 of the Everyman Shakespeare, published in 1992, includes the four major tragedies: HAMLET, KING LEAR, OTHELLO and MACBETH. The authoritatively edited texts of the plays are supplemented with... -
Prepossessing Henry James: The Strange Freedom Julián Jiménez Heffernan 9781032058665
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83The novels of Henry James are filled with ghosts, but most of them escape dramatic treatment. These elusive specters are the voices of precursors that haunt his narratives, compromising their... -
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780141182636
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Now the subject of a major new film from director Baz Luhrmann (Romeo+Juliet, Moulin Rouge!), starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald's brilliant fable... -
Emma by Jane Austen 9780393927641
Booksplease Price: £10.99The text of the Fourth Edition of the Norton Critical Edition of Emma is based on the 1816 edition published by John Murray. George Justice has lightly and judiciously emended the text for... -
Venice and the Cultural Imagination: 'This Strange Dream upon the Water' Michael O'Neill 9781138661561
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89In the era of the Grand Tour, Venice was the cultural jewel in the crown of Europe and the epitome of decadence. This edited collection of eleven essays draws on a range of disciplines and approaches... -
D. H. Lawrence: Triumph to Exile 1912-1922: The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence by Mark Kinkead-Weekes 9781107403000
Booksplease Price: £46.11This second volume of the acclaimed Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence covers the years 1912-22, the period in which Lawrence forged his reputation as one of the greatest and most controversial... -
D. H. Lawrence: Dying Game 1922-1930: The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence by David Ellis 9781107402997
Booksplease Price: £52.01Originally published in 1998, the final volume of the Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence chronicles his progress from leaving Europe in 1922 to his death in Venice in 1930. Based on much... -
Dom Casmurro by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis 9780195103083
Booksplease Price: £67.74"A palm tree, seeing me troubled and divining the cause, murmured in its branches that there was nothing wrong with fifteen-year old boys getting into corners with girls of fourteen; quite the... -
Pride and Prejudice: An Annotated Edition by Jane Austen 9780674049161
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £23.51Along with the plays of William Shakespeare and the works of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen's novels are among the most beloved books of Western literature. Pride and Prejudice (1813) was in Austen's...