Letteratura

Robert Herrick.

BROOKS-DAVIES, DOUGLAS.(EDITOR). · 1996 · Chilton Books

£4.00 (€4.80 | $5.29 | ¥844)

London: Everyman, 1996. 0460877992. A selection of Robert Herrick's poetry together with a chronology of his life and times. Pp.24/103. Pbk. VG.

Hiss The Villain: Six English and American Melodramas.

BOOTH, MICHAEL.(EDITOR). · 1964 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1964. "Dr Booth..defines melodrama and traces its development..For the plays themselves he has collated the various nineteenth century acting editions to produce a text that is both authentic and readable.." Pp.390, introduction followed by the ful...

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

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

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

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...

How to Study Modern Poetry.

CURTIS, TONY. · 1993 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993. 0333467299. How to Study Literature series. "..shows you how to build a confident and coherent critical response to poetry from the second half of the twentieth century." Pp.8/172,. Pbk. VG.

The Hawarden Horace.

GRAVES, CHARLES L. · 1895 · Chilton Books

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London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1895. 3rd edition. Satirical verses in Latin and English poking fun at political figures of the day. W.E.Gladstone (whose country home was Hawarden Castle) had published a translation of the poems of Horace. Pp.91/4(ads), occasional pencil notations ...

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 ...

Poems of St Therese of Lisieux.

BANCROFT, ALAN.(TRANSLATOR). · 1996 · Chilton Books

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London: Fount, 1996. 0006279503. 1st ed. "Bancroft captures the intelligence and fervour of Therese's verse. The fifty poems - like her prose - celebrate her joyous surrender to the glory of God." Pp.40/192, slight toning to pages, minor chipping to lower edge of first couple ...

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

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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

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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 (€50.35 | $55.50 | ¥8,863)

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

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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

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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

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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 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

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, ...

Hidden Talents. Poems.

ANDERSON, LILY. · 1980 · Chilton Books

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Wymondham: Privately Published, 1980. Poetry. Unpaginated. Cream card covers. VG.

Whispering in God's Ear. 'An Inspired Collection of Poetry for Children'.

MACDONALD, ALAN. (COMPILER). · 1996 · Chilton Books

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Oxford: Lion, 1996. 0745936725. "Specially selected for their appeal to children, these poems reflect the poets' Christian faith and how they view the world around us, celebrating God's creation in all its variety." Pp.96, b/w illustrations by Susie Poole throughout, small ini...

Beginning Of The Way. A Nativity Play.

RAEBURN, HENZIE. · 1941 · Chilton Books

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London: Religious Drama Society, nd.(c.1941). "'Beginning of The Way' is dedicated ti The Pilgrim Players of Canterbury, for whom it was written." First presented in Holy Trinity Church, Chesterfield, on December 6th, 1940. Pp.32, owners name to first page. Pbk, slight sunning...

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

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

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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/...

A Child's Garden of Verses. (Complete and Unabridged).

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. · 1994 · Chilton Books

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

Ware: Wordsworth, 1994. 1853261416. 64 poems for children. "This edition, which includes Charles Robinson's charming illustrations and vignettes, is described as the definitive edition by 'The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature'." Pp.137, b/w illustrations throughout by...