10 books in Literary Criticism & Collections - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Life's Too F***ing Short
A Guide to Getting What You Want Out of Life Without Wasting Time, Effort, or Money
Written by Janet Street-Porter
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $15.95
An irreverent, unapologetically opinionated, no-holds-barred manifesto for women who aim to thrive, not just survive, in the 21st century.
“Spend the first minute of every day telling yourself ‘I am bloody brilliant’–no one else is going to!” Janet Street-Porter proffers pithy pronouncements on everything from platform shoes to climbing the corporate ladder... Read more >
A Guide to Getting What You Want Out of Life Without Wasting Time, Effort, or Money
Written by Janet Street-Porter
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $15.95
An irreverent, unapologetically opinionated, no-holds-barred manifesto for women who aim to thrive, not just survive, in the 21st century.
“Spend the first minute of every day telling yourself ‘I am bloody brilliant’–no one else is going to!” Janet Street-Porter proffers pithy pronouncements on everything from platform shoes to climbing the corporate ladder... Read more >
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Soul of the Age
A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare
Written by Jonathan Bate
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $35.00
“One man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
In this illuminating, innovative biography, Jonathan Bate, one of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, has found a fascinating new way to tell the story of the great dramatist. Using the Bard’s own immortal list of a man’s seven ages in... Read more >
A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare
Written by Jonathan Bate
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $35.00
“One man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
In this illuminating, innovative biography, Jonathan Bate, one of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, has found a fascinating new way to tell the story of the great dramatist. Using the Bard’s own immortal list of a man’s seven ages in... Read more >
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Soul of the Age
A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare
Written by Jonathan Bate
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $35.00
“One man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
In this illuminating, innovative biography, Jonathan Bate, one of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, has found a fascinating new way to tell the story of the great dramatist. Using the Bard’s own immortal list of a man’s seven ages in... Read more >
A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare
Written by Jonathan Bate
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $35.00
“One man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
In this illuminating, innovative biography, Jonathan Bate, one of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, has found a fascinating new way to tell the story of the great dramatist. Using the Bard’s own immortal list of a man’s seven ages in... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Shakespeare & Co.
Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story
Written by Stanley Wells
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 18, 2008
Price: $14.95
From the dean of Shakespeare studies comes a lively, entertaining work of biography that firmly locates Shakespeare within the hectic, exilarating world in which he lived and worked.
Theatre in Shakespeare's day was a growth industry. Everyone knew everyone else, and they all sought to learn, borrow, or steal from one another... Read more >
Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story
Written by Stanley Wells
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 18, 2008
Price: $14.95
From the dean of Shakespeare studies comes a lively, entertaining work of biography that firmly locates Shakespeare within the hectic, exilarating world in which he lived and worked.
Theatre in Shakespeare's day was a growth industry. Everyone knew everyone else, and they all sought to learn, borrow, or steal from one another... Read more >
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Albion
The Origins of the English Imagination
Written by Peter Ackroyd
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $19.95
With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to... Read more >
The Origins of the English Imagination
Written by Peter Ackroyd
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $19.95
With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Things That Matter
What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life
Written by Edward Mendelson
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: August 15, 2006
Price: $23.00
An illuminating exploration of how seven of the greatest English novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Between the Acts—portray the essential experiences of life.
For Edward Mendelson—a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University—these classic novels tell life... Read more >
What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life
Written by Edward Mendelson
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: August 15, 2006
Price: $23.00
An illuminating exploration of how seven of the greatest English novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Between the Acts—portray the essential experiences of life.
For Edward Mendelson—a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University—these classic novels tell life... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Albion
The Origins of the English Imagination
Written by Peter Ackroyd
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $19.95
With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to... Read more >
The Origins of the English Imagination
Written by Peter Ackroyd
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $19.95
With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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yes I said yes I will Yes.
A Celebration of James Joyce, Ulysses, and 100 Years of Bloomsday
Edited by Nola Tully
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $11.00
On the fictional morning of June 16, 1904—Bloomsday, as it has come to be known—Mr. Leopold Bloom set out from his home at 7 Eccles Street and began his day’s journey through Dublin life in the pages of James Joyce’s novel of the century, Ulysses. Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday... Read more >
A Celebration of James Joyce, Ulysses, and 100 Years of Bloomsday
Edited by Nola Tully
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $11.00
On the fictional morning of June 16, 1904—Bloomsday, as it has come to be known—Mr. Leopold Bloom set out from his home at 7 Eccles Street and began his day’s journey through Dublin life in the pages of James Joyce’s novel of the century, Ulysses. Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday... Read more >
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London
A Biography
Written by Peter Ackroyd
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $21.00
Here are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar’s and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin in the Fields. Cockneys and vagrants. Immigrants, peasants, and punks. The Plague, the Great Fire... Read more >
A Biography
Written by Peter Ackroyd
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $21.00
Here are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar’s and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin in the Fields. Cockneys and vagrants. Immigrants, peasants, and punks. The Plague, the Great Fire... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The War Against Cliche
Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
Written by Martin Amis
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2002
Price: $16.95
Is there anything that Martin Amis can’t write about? In this virtuosic, career-spanning collection he takes on James Joyce and Elvis Presley, Nabokov and English football, Jane Austen and Penthouse Forum, William Burroughs and Hillary Clinton. But above all, Amis is concerned with literature, and with the deadly cliches–not only of... Read more >
Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
Written by Martin Amis
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2002
Price: $16.95
Is there anything that Martin Amis can’t write about? In this virtuosic, career-spanning collection he takes on James Joyce and Elvis Presley, Nabokov and English football, Jane Austen and Penthouse Forum, William Burroughs and Hillary Clinton. But above all, Amis is concerned with literature, and with the deadly cliches–not only of... Read more >
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