Literature: history & criticism books

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In the Forest

In the Forest

Author: Edna O'Brien
ISBN: 9780571397495
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A young mother, her infant son and a Catholic priest are all murdered by a delusional young man.  Read More >>

The Island: W. H. Auden and the Last of Englishness

The Island: W. H. Auden and the Last of Englishness...

Author: Nicholas Jenkins
ISBN: 9780571239023
Format: Paperback
$45.00

A groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden's early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development...  Read More >>

The Human Voice

The Human Voice

Author: Darren Murphy (Author)
ISBN: 9781350631946
Format: Paperback
$21.99

The Human Voice by Darren Murphy is a radical reimagining of Jean Cocteau’s classic play La Voix Humaine.  Read More >>

The Last Man and The Journal of Sorrow

The Last Man and The Journal of Sorrow

Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ,  Eileen M. Hunt (University of Notre Dame)
ISBN: 9780198892793
Format: Paperback
$24.95

Mary Shelley's The Last Man is a novel set in the aftermath of climate disaster and a war between Greece and Turkey...  Read More >>

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Author: Willa Cather ,  Catherine Morley (University of Leicester)
ISBN: 9780192849250
Format: Paperback
$23.95

The story of two missionary priests, travelling through the American Southwest in the aftermath of the Mexican American...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945

The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature...

Author: Caroline Edwards (Birkbeck College, University of London)
ISBN: 9781009690508
Format: Paperback
$64.69

Offers an authoritative account of British utopian literature and culture from the postwar to the present. Written...  Read More >>

Molière in Context

Molière in Context

Author: Jan Clarke (University of Durham)
ISBN: 9781108717489
Format: Paperback
$77.60

This definitive guide to Molière's world offers an accessible, interdisciplinary contextual guide for academics,...  Read More >>

Tom Stoppard in Context

Tom Stoppard in Context

Author: David Kornhaber (University of Texas, Austin) ,  James N. Loehlin (University of Texas, Austin)
ISBN: 9781108413046
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Tom Stoppard in Context provides cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts to help readers enjoy one of the...  Read More >>

Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England

Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England

Author: Jonathan Baldo (University of Rochester, New York) ,  Isabel Karremann (University of Zurich)
ISBN: 9781009048330
Format: Paperback
$59.49

The first collection to systematically combine the vibrant fields of memory and affect in early modern studies,...  Read More >>

Percy Shelley for Our Times

Percy Shelley for Our Times

Author: Omar F. Miranda (University of San Francisco) ,  Kate Singer (Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts)
ISBN: 9781009206495
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Two centuries after Percy Shelley's death, his writings still resonate with pressing societal issues. This collection...  Read More >>

Sweetmeats

Sweetmeats

Author: Karim Khan
ISBN: 9781350603356
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Two South Asian elders meet each other in a Type 2 diabetes workshop but find themselves navigating the sparks of...  Read More >>

Life Before You

Life Before You

Author: Eva Hudson
ISBN: 9781350634275
Format: Paperback
$21.99

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The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature: Volume 1

The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature: Volume...

Author: Gavin Kelly (University of Edinburgh) ,  Aaron Pelttari (University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9781108476379
Format: Hardback
$388.12

The most comprehensive and detailed history of Latin literature from the second to the seventh centuries, which...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945

The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature...

Author: Caroline Edwards (Birkbeck College, University of London)
ISBN: 9781009690492
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Offers an authoritative account of British utopian literature and culture from the postwar to the present. Written...  Read More >>

The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded Edition

The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded...

Author: J. R. R. Tolkien ,  Humphrey Carpenter
ISBN: 9780008628772
Format: Hardback
$165.00

The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world’s greatest storytellers, now...  Read More >>

Your Pro-Israel Bookshelf: 100 titles reviewed

Your Pro-Israel Bookshelf: 100 titles reviewed

Author: Neville Teller
ISBN: 9798317824839
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Reviews originally published by the Jerusalem Post of exactly 100 books. Mostly on and about Middle East topics...  Read More >>

Somerset Maugham and the Cinema

Somerset Maugham and the Cinema

Author: Robert Calder
ISBN: 9780299346249
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Explores the relationship between literature and film, what is involved in adaptation, and how best to judge films...  Read More >>

Southern Imagining: A Literary and Cultural History of the Far Southern Hemisphere

Southern Imagining: A Literary and Cultural History...

Author: Elleke Boehmer
ISBN: 9780691262048
Format: Hardback
$59.99

northern viewpoint is most often the default, while the south—the far southern latitudes occupied by Australia,...  Read More >>

Chernobyl Trauma and Gothic: Testimony, Cultural Memory and Global Literary Perspectives

Chernobyl Trauma and Gothic: Testimony, Cultural Memory...

Author: Stuart Lindsay
ISBN: 9781839990649
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This scholarly monograph explores the published eyewitness testimonies, poetry and literature surrounding the 1986...  Read More >>

The Bronze Arms: poems

The Bronze Arms: poems

Author: Richie Hofmann
ISBN: 9780593804742
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Following his captivating and popular A Hundred Lovers, Hofmann's new collection is a queer coming-of-age, tinged...  Read More >>

Kazimira

Kazimira

Author: Svenja Leiber ,  Alta L. Price
ISBN: 9781803093994
Format: Hardback
$47.95

A gripping and emotionally resonant saga that traces the lives of five generations of resilient women from the late...  Read More >>

I Hope You Find What You're Looking For: A Novel

I Hope You Find What You're Looking For: A Novel

Author: Bsrat Mezghebe
ISBN: 9781324092490
Format: Hardback
$46.95

A radiant, highly anticipated debut from the Well–Read Black Girl Books series, delving into the secret lives of...  Read More >>

I Am Your Lifeguard: New and Selected Poems

I Am Your Lifeguard: New and Selected Poems

Author: Charlie Smith
ISBN: 9781324118176
Format: Hardback
$54.95

“For pure, raw power of language, nobody in his generation comes close to Charlie Smith” (David Bottoms).  Read More >>

Padshahnama: A Chronicle of the Reign of Shahjahan (Volume 1: 1628-1637)

Padshahnama: A Chronicle of the Reign of Shahjahan (Volume...

Author: Abdul-Hamid Lahauri Edited and Translated by W. M. Thackston
ISBN: 9789819659098
Format: Hardback
$580.77

Since it is a court chronicle, the emphasis throughout is on the rise and fall of courtiers, governors, administrators,...  Read More >>

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