10 books in Literary Criticism & Collections - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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The Anchor Book of Sixteenth Century Verse
Edited by Richard D. Sylvester
Format: eBook, 648 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2013
Price: $16.99
This comprehensive anthology contains selections from the work of twenty-five poets of the sixteenth century. Employing the original, rather than normalized, texts, the volume includes complete, non-excerpted poems by John Skelton, Philip Sidney and others. The selections - which include such works as 'The Steele Glass'. Richard S. Sylvester examines the... Read more >
Edited by Richard D. Sylvester
Format: eBook, 648 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2013
Price: $16.99
This comprehensive anthology contains selections from the work of twenty-five poets of the sixteenth century. Employing the original, rather than normalized, texts, the volume includes complete, non-excerpted poems by John Skelton, Philip Sidney and others. The selections - which include such works as 'The Steele Glass'. Richard S. Sylvester examines the... Read more >
Walter Pater
Lover of Strange Souls
Written by Denis Donoghue
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 8, 2013
Price: $11.99
A TWENTIETH-CENTURY intellectual of the first rank presents the case for the nineteenth-century aesthetician whose elegant subversions delivered us to modernism. Walter Pater (1839-1894) was an obscure Oxford don until 1873, when his first book, The Renaissance, exposed his argument favoring sensation over though and, in doing so, ignited a hard... Read more >
Lover of Strange Souls
Written by Denis Donoghue
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 8, 2013
Price: $11.99
A TWENTIETH-CENTURY intellectual of the first rank presents the case for the nineteenth-century aesthetician whose elegant subversions delivered us to modernism. Walter Pater (1839-1894) was an obscure Oxford don until 1873, when his first book, The Renaissance, exposed his argument favoring sensation over though and, in doing so, ignited a hard... Read more >
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The Man Who Invented Christmas
How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits
Written by Les Standiford
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $14.99
As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how one writer and one book revived the signal holiday of the Western world.
Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher... Read more >
How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits
Written by Les Standiford
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $14.99
As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how one writer and one book revived the signal holiday of the Western world.
Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher... Read more >
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Soul of the Age
A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare
Written by Jonathan Bate
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $18.00
“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: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $18.00
“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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yes I said yes I will Yes.
A Celebration of James Joyce, Ulysses, and 100 Years of Bloomsday
Edited by Nola Tully
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2010
Price: $9.99
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: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2010
Price: $9.99
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 >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Soul of the Age
A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare
Written by Jonathan Bate
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $14.99
“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: $14.99
“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
trade paperback.
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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: $17.00
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: $17.00
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 >
Albion
The Origins of the English Imagination
Written by Peter Ackroyd
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.99
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: $15.99
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 >
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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: $14.00
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: $14.00
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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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