Literary studies: from c 1900 -
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Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
£17.99Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
This guide to the text, setting ‘Things Fall Apart’ in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, offers analyses of its themes, style and structure. It provides exemplary close readings, presenting an up-to-date account of its critical reception and examines its afterlife in literature, film and popular culture.
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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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Contemporary Literature
£22.99Contemporary Literature
Contemporary literature is among the most popular areas of literary study but it can be a difficult one to define. This book equips readers with the necessary tools to take an analytical and systematic approach to contemporary texts. The author provides answers to some of the critical questions in the field.
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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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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 Larkin
£10.99Philip Larkin
Lerner’s study relates poetry to Larkin’s life, and to the literary and social environment of post-war Britain; discusses the Larkin persona, and Larkin’s relation to literary criticism; and above all seeks to guide readers to a full appreciation of the power and subtlety of Larkin’s best poems.
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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 Book About Everything
£20.00The Book About Everything
To celebrate the centenary of Ulysses‘s publication, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers each respond to an episode of James Joyce’s classic modernist novel.
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The Hedgehog and the Fox
£8.99The Hedgehog and the Fox
The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. This fragment of Archilochus describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin’s masterly, but very readable, essay on Tolstoy’s view of history.
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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 Rainbow
£8.99The Rainbow
The Rainbow chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family over a period of more than 60 years, setting them against the emergence of modern England. In her introduction to this edition Kate Flint illuminates Lawrence’s aims and achievements against the background of the burgeoning century.
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The Wrath to Come
£27.99The Wrath to Come
An examination of Gone With the Wind, the myth of the Lost Cause and what they can tell us about American history and culture today.
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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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Vade Mecum
£9.99Vade Mecum
‘Vade Mecum’ brings together Richard Skinner’s best essays, reviews and interviews from 1992-2014. There are close critical engagements with writers (Kazuo Ishiguro, Italo Calvino, Shakespeare’s The Tempest) and composers (Erik Satie, Iannis Xenakis, Luc Ferrari), meditations on films and filmmakers (Antonioni, Krzysztof Kielowski, Chinatown) and idiosyncratic reflections on Werner Herzog’s ‘Of Walking in Ice’ and ‘Steely Dan’.
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