Narrativa e romanzi

Criticism and Creation. With some other essays.

GRIERSON, H.J.C. · 1949 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Chatto and Windus,1949. 1st ed. In this collection of 5 essays on literary criticism, the author "discusses the perpetual conflict between artist and critic; the difficulties and accomplishments of verse translations; and, in a group of three papers, some problems of D...

Woman: An Anthology for Men.

WILLIAMS, STEPHEN.(COMPILER). · 1940 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Hutchinson,nd.(c.1940's). Pp.300. Orange cloth, slightly rubbed, corners bumped. G+.

A Book of English Prose. Character and Incident 1387-1649.

HENLEY, WILLIAM ERNEST AND WHIBLEY, CHARLES.(EDITORS). · 1905 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: Methuen, 1905. New and cheaper Issue. Pp.16/396/40(ads), endpapers toned. Blue cloth, gilt armorial roundel to front,gilt title to spine, top and tail of spine rubbed. G+.

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman with Extracts from his Letters and Remarks on his Writings.

KENNEDY, WILLIAM SLOANE. · 1896 · Chilton Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Paisley and London: Alexander Gardner, 1896. 1st ed. Contents: Part I. Memories, Letters, etc. Part II. Drift and Cumulus. Part III. The Style of Leaves of Grass. Pp.14/190, decorative bookplate to inside front board, front hinge cracked. Brown cloth spine with dark yellow clo...

Under the Chilian Flag.

COLLINGWOOD, HARRY. · 0 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

London: Blackie & Son, nd. A Tale of War between Chili and Peru. The Peak Library series. Pp.280, b/w frontis, slight toning to endpapers. Red cloth, colour to spine faded, edges slightly rubbed. G+.

Derrida. (Fontana Modern Masters series).

NORRIS, CHRISTOPHER. · 1987 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Fontana, 1987. 0006860575. Rep. "Through a series of close readings Norris brings out the logic and development of Derrida's deconstructive strategies, their bearing on philosophy as practiced in the mainstream('logocentric') tradition, and their effectiveness in chall...

The Curious Death of the Novel. Essays in American Literature.

RUBIN, JR. LOUIS D. · 1967 · Chilton Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,637)

Baton Rougr: Louisiana State University Press, 1967. 1st ed. "The collection includes imaginative studies of Henry James, Mark Twain, Edmund Wilson and Karl Shapiro. Several Southern writers, including Faulkner, Ellen Glasgow, Robert Penn Warren, Flannery O'Connor, and James B...

The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G.Wells.

WELLS, H.G. · 1979 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

New York: Avenel Books,1979. 051726188X. H.G.Wells is considered 'the father of modern science fiction." This volume contains seven of his science fiction novels: The Time Machine, The Island of Dr Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon, Th...

Essentials of the Theory of Fiction. (Second edition).

HOFFMAN, MICHAEL J. AND MURPHY, PATRICK D. · 1996 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

London: Leicester University Press, 1996. 0718501209. 2nd ed. "..provides a comprehensive view of the theory of fiction from the nineteenth century, through modernism and postmodernism, to the present. Expanded and revised, it has new selections from contemporary theorists, in...

Literature and Feminism. An Introduction.

MORRIS, PAM. · 1995 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. 063118421X. Rep. "..a comprehensive new introduction to feminist literary criticism and theory which assumes no previous knowledge of the field. Clear, informative and carefully structured, it provides a thorough guide to, and path through, one of the ...

English Satires.

SMEATON, OLIPHANT.(EDITOR). · 1925 · Chilton Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

London: Blackie,nd(c.1925). "..the most typical satires of the successive eras have been selected, so as to throw into relief the special literary characteristics of each, and to manifest the trend of satiric development during the centuries elapsing between Langland and Lowel...

E.E.Cummings: A Collection of Critical Essays.

FRIEDMAN, NORMAN.(EDITOR). · 1972 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1972. 1st ed. Twentieth Century Views series. Ex college library. Pp.6/185, library inkstamps to front endpapers and title page, scuffing to fep. Black cloth, d/w. VG/VG.

The Divine Average: A View of Comedy.

MCCOLLOM, WILLIAM G. · 1971 · Chilton Books

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

Cleveland: The Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1971. 1st ed. Ex college library. "This critical study defines comedy as an amusing, relatively discontinuous action concerning success or failure in social relations.." Pp.12/231, ink stamps to front endpapers and title...

The Augustan Defence of Satire.

ELKIN, P.K. · 1973 · Chilton Books

£42.00 (€50.34 | $55.49 | ¥8,861)

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973. Ex college library. "Professor Elkin has gathered together the opinions of Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, and their contemporaries, on the nature and function of satire; and he has examined this body of opinion with a view to increasing our unders...

From Virgil to Milton.

BOWRA, C,M. · 1967 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Macmillan, 1967. Rep. Ex college library. "The so-called 'literary epic' has played a large part in the spiritual history of Europe, and this book discusses it in some of its most splendid manifestations." Pp.8/248, library stamps, scuffing to fep. Dark red cloth, d/w ...

Character and the Novel.

HARVEY, W.J. · 1970 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Chatto & Windus, 1970. 3rd imp. Ex library."..a general study of the novel which attempts to relate the world of fiction to our sense of such basic notions as Time, Identity and Freedom." Pp.222, inkstamps, scuffing to fep. Purple cloth, d/w. G+/VG.

Paul Bunyan: The Libretto of the Operetta by Benjamin Britten.

AUDEN, W.H. · 1988 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: Faber and Faber, 1988. 0571151426. "This is the lively, witty and often moving text of W.H.Auden's libretto for Benjamin Britten's operetta about the giant logger of American folklore..Donald Mitchell, the foremost authority on Britten's music, has written a long Essay...

The Blacke Bookes Messenger. (1592). and 'Cuthbert Conny-Catcher' The Defence of Conny-Catching. (1592).

GREENE, ROBERT. · 1924 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London: John Lane, Bodley Head, 1924. Facsimile reprint.The original of this text is in the Bodleian Library (Malone 575), issued as Vol X in the Bodley Head Quartos series. Pp.65/errata page/ 2(ads), toning to endpapers. Dark fawn cloth, blue titles to front board and spine, ...

A Feathered Magi. (Illustrator Wendy Theobald) / Child's Play: Nuts Away.(Illustrator John Claypole).

SHAW, DICK (RICHARD BRADSHAW) AND HAMPSHIRE, GERALD. · 1903 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Norwich: WWB Children's, nd. 1903264197. Two stories for children: A Feathered Magi - The Three Wise Men as you have never read the (feathered) tale before. Child's Play - Nuts Away - Join these fun nuts as children help them search for Green Town to grow into trees. Pp.28, b/...

The Rise of the Gothic Novel.

KILGOUR, MAGGIE. · 1995 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London: Routledge, 1995. 0415081823. 1st ed. "In this cogent analysis of the rise and fall of the gothic as a popular form. Kilgour juxtaposes the writings of William Godwin with Mary Wollstonecraft, and Ann Radcliffe with Matthew Lewis. She concludes with a close reading of t...