Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Bibliophobia
£35.00Bibliophobia
Richly illustrated with manuscripts, printed objects, and art works, Bibliophobia tells a 5000-year history of writing and of books to give readers a fascinating account of why books matter and how they impact on our lives.
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Cliffsnotes TM On Dreiser’s Sister Carrie
£2.95Cliffsnotes TM On Dreiser’s Sister Carrie
A groundbreaking book when it was first published, <b><i>Sister Carrie</i></b> is about a young woman who runs to the big city in search of adventure. She finds it aplenty, and her transgressions are numerous. This was one of the books that began the group of writers known as the Realists. .
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Dinner With Joseph Johnson
£25.00Dinner With Joseph Johnson
Once a week, in late 18th-century London, writers of contrasting politics and personalities gathered around a dining table. The veal and boiled vegetables on offer at 72 St Pauls Courtyard may have been unappetising but the company was convivial and the conversation was at once brilliant, unpredictable and profound. The host was Joseph Johnson, publisher and bookseller: a man at the heart of literary life. Johnson was joined at dinner by a shifting constellation of extraordinary people who, during the period he was in business, remade the literary world. His guests included the Swiss artist Henry Fuseli, his chief engraver William Blake and scientists Joseph Priestley and Benjamin Franklin. William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge sat beside a group of remarkable women including the poet Anna Barbauld, the novelist Maria Edgeworth and Mary Wollstonecraft.
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Fantasy
£20.00Fantasy
Fantasy has become a dominant mode of storytelling and it mirrors our experiences and anxieties better than any representation of the merely real. This book poses two central questions about fantastic storytelling: how can it be meaningful if it doesn’t claim to represent things as they are, and what kind of change can it make in the world?
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Fierce Bad Rabbits
£14.99Fierce Bad Rabbits
‘Fierce Bad Rabbits’ takes us on an eye-opening journey in a pea-green boat through the history of picture books. From Edward Lear through to Beatrix Potter and contemporary picture books like ‘Stick Man’, Clare Pollard shines a light on some of our best-loved childhood stories, their histories and what they really mean. Because the best picture books are far more complex than they seem – and darker too. Monsters can gobble up children and go unnoticed, power is not always used wisely, and the wild things are closer than you think. Sparkling with wit, magic and nostalgia, ‘Fierce Bad Rabbits’ weaves in tales from Clare’s own childhood, and her re-readings as a parent, with fascinating facts and theories about the authors behind the books. Introducing you to new treasures while bringing your childhood favourites to vivid life, it will make you see even stories you’ve read a hundred times afresh.
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Great Literary Friendships
£16.99Great Literary Friendships
Close friendships are a heart-warming feature of many of our best-loved works of fiction. This book explores 24 fictional friendships in succinct, structured entries, spanning 400 years, and writers as diverse as Jane Austen to John Steinbeck. Beautifully packaged, this is the ideal gift for your literature-loving friend.
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Jacob’s Room
£7.99Jacob’s Room
Jacob’s Room is Virginia Woolf’s first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, who is both representative and victim of the social values which led Edwardian society into war.
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Philip Roth
£30.00Philip Roth
Appointed by Philip Roth and granted complete access and independence, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth’s personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and engaging Roth himself in breathtakingly candid conversations. The result is an indelible portrait of an American master and of the post-war literary scene. Bailey shows how Roth emerged from a lower-middle-class Jewish milieu to achieve the heights of literary fame, how his career was nearly derailed by his catastrophic first marriage, and how he championed the work of dissident novelists behind the Iron Curtain.
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Rooms of Their Own
£19.99Rooms of Their Own
Rooms of Their Own travels around the world, examining the unique spaces in which famous writers created their most notable work.ÂÂ
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Sense and Sensibility
£4.99Sense and Sensibility
In Jane Austen’s first published novel, her portrait of two heroines’ parallel experiences of love, loss, and hope offers a powerful analysis of how women were shaped by the claustrophobic society they had to survive. This new edition includes a new introduction, and revised notes and bibliography.
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The Amis Collection
£12.99The Amis Collection
What advice can one give a green young author? What purpose do literary prizes serve? Where on earth can a man get a decent bite to eat? This collection is vintage Kingsley Amis, revealing him at his most robust and incisive, cutting a swathe through such subjects as writers and writing, ‘Abroad’, eating and drinking, music, language and education. He turns a clear and critical eye on Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell, Anthony Burgess, Ian Fleming and Philip Larkin, and does not spare their potential readers in ‘Sod the Public: A Consumer’s Guide’. In typically razor-sharp, wicked and witty prose, Amis tackles the culture and conceits of his era.
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The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic
£22.99The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic
This Companion offers an accessible overview to the diversity of the American Gothic that will be of use to undergraduates, graduate students, and professional researchers. The introduction and sixteen chapters explore this topic chronologically, in relation to different social groups, and in different genres and media.
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The Ministry of Truth
£9.99The Ministry of Truth
In The Ministry of Truth, Dorian Lynskey charts the life of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: one of the most influential books of the 20th Century, a perennial bestseller, and a work that remains more relevant than ever in today’s tumultuous world.
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The Three-Cornered Hat
£4.99The Three-Cornered Hat
Each book in the “Everyman” series has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction, chronology of life and times of the author, plot summary, annotated reading list and critical response.
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Ulysses
£9.99Ulysses
Ulysses, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, has had a profound influence on modern fiction. In a series of episodes covering the course of a single day, 16 June 1904, the novel traces the movements of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus through the streets of Dublin.
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Walking the Invisible
£9.99Walking the Invisible
See through the eyes of the Brontës as you immerse yourself in their lives and landscapes, wandering the very same paths they each would have walked in search of the inspiration behind their novels and poetry.
An ‘imaginative and elegant trek through the landscape of the Brontës’ Grazia
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