Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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30-Second Literature
£14.9930-Second Literature
30-second Literature encapsulates the key genres, forms, movements, styles and devices of literature from around the world and from the start of civilisation.£14.99 -
An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction
£10.99An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction
These five works – George Gascoigne’s The Adventures of Master F. J; John Lyly’s Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit; Robert Greene’s Pandosto. The Triumph of Time; Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveller and Thomas Deloney’s Jack of Newbury – represent Elizabethan fiction at its best. The Adventures of Master F. J. is a comedy of manners with a sting in its tail. In Euphues John Lyly invented a new, elaborate rhetorical style which delighted its Elizabethan audience and has been praised or parodied ever since. Pandosto was Shakespeare’s source for The Winter’s Tale, but Greene’s is a darker story designed to shock the reader accustomed to romantic conventions. The Unfortunate Traveller marks the peak of Nashe’s gift for literary pastiche, mixing picaresque narrative with mock-historical fantasy. Jack of Newbury dedicated to ‘All famous cloth Workers in England’, sums up important social contradictions in sharply observed comic scenes and bri
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Around the World in 80 Books
£20.00Around the World in 80 Books
Inspired by Jules Verne’s hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature and founder of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic’s restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel prizewinners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways the world bleeds into literature. To chart the expansive landscape of world literature today, Damrosch explores how writers live in two very different worlds: the world of their personal experience, and the world of books that have enabled great writers to give shape and meaning to their lives.
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Art and War
£8.99Art and War
Shimon Adaf and Lavie Tidhar are two of Israel’s most subversive and politically outspoken writers. Growing up on opposite sides of the Israeli spectrum – Tidhar in the north of Israel in the Zion-ist, socialist Kibbutz; Adaf from a family of religious Mizrahi Jews living in Sderot – the two nevertheless shared a love of books, and were especially drawn to the strange visions and outrageous sensibilities of the science fiction that was available in Hebrew. In ‘Art and War’, they engage in a dialogue that covers their approach to writing the fantastic, as they question how to write about Israel and Palestine, about Judaism, about the Holocaust, about childhoods and their end.
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Begin Again
£16.99Begin Again
The struggles of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America have been challenged by the election of Donald Trump. For James Baldwin, these after times came in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement, when a similar attempt to force a confrontation with the truth of America’s racism was answered with the murders of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. In the years from the publication of ‘The Fire Next Time’ in 1963 to that of ‘No Name in the Street’ in 1972, Baldwin became a more overtly political writer, a change that came at great professional and personal cost. But from that journey, Baldwin emerged with a sense of renewed purpose about the necessity of pushing forward in the face of disillusionment and despair. Glaude suggests we can find hope and guidance through our own after times, this era of shattered promises and white retrenchment.
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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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Cousin Phillis and Other Stories
£8.99Cousin Phillis and Other Stories
This representative selection includes five tales of very different kinds written in the 1850s and the longer Cousin Phillis. Immensely readable and sophisticated works of art, they show Gaskell’s mastery of the genre, in an edition that celebrates her achievements in shorter fiction and the context in which they first appeared.
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Dear Reader
£12.99Dear Reader
A memoir of a life spent immersed in the comfort and joy of books, from Sunday Times bestselling author Cathy Rentzenbrink.
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Eileen
£9.99Eileen
Zelda, Nora, Vera, and now Eileen – this is the story of George Orwell’s first wife, a woman who shaped, supported and even saved the life of one of twentieth century’s greatest writers
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Everything and Less
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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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Future Imperfect
£12.99Future Imperfect
Philip K. Dick was one of the most incisive, subversive, and entertaining American authors of the last half of the 20th century. This book examines the first eight cinematic adaptations of Dick’s fiction in light of their literacy sources.
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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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James Joyce
£8.99James Joyce
James Joyce was one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. This book explores his novels and short stories, and analyses the literary traditions and social factors influencing his distinctive complex style. Interweaving Joyce’s life and history with his books, it also shows how Joyce celebrated his own experiences in Dublin.
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Jane Austen
£10.99Jane Austen
The six great novels of Jane Austen picture a world of civility and reassuring stability. But, as Tomalin demonstrates in this fascinating biography, this was not quite the world Austen herself lived in.
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Jane Austen
£8.99Jane Austen
The life of Jane Austen remains fairly opaque. However, in spite of this the author has written a very observant and revealing biography of this remarkable writer whose characters are as alive today in their longings as they were 200 years ago.
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