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  • Mrs. Dalloway (annotated)

    The annotated, authorized edition of Virginia Woolf's celebrated Mrs. Dalloway, named one of Time's 100 Best Novels, features commentary by Women's Studies professor Bonnie Kime Scott.In this vivid portrait of a single day in a woman’s life, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of preparation for a party while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Daughter Of Time with FREE Author's Biography + Active TOC

    Inspector Alan Grant #5

    by Josephine Tey ...
    Series Book 5 - Inspector Alan Grant
    Josephine Tey's classic novel about Richard III, the hunchback king, whose remains were recently discovered. The Daughter of Time investigates his role in the death of his nephews, the princes in the Tower, and his own death on the battlefield. Richard III reigned for only two years, and for centuries he was villified as the hunch-backed wicked uncle, murderer of the princes in the Tower. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Nancy-Lou Patterson Reviews Books By and About Dorothy L. Sayers, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Others

    Nancy-Lou Patterson taught at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, for thirty years. She was not only an active artist, poet, and fiction writer, she also published extensively on the Inklings and authors associated with them. Her book reviews provide an extraordinary history of mythopoeic scholarship from 1975 through 2001. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dickens by Chesterton

    Critical Study, Biography, Appreciations & Criticisms of the Works by Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic, widely recognized as a literary genius. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. G. K. Chesterton took great interest in the literature of Charles Dickens, writing several books concerning his life and his works: Charles Dickens – Biographical Sketch ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To The Lighthouse (annotated)

    The annotated, authorized edition of one of the great literary masterpieces of the twentieth century with commentary by leading Virginia Woolf scholar Mark Hussey.From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and conflict between men and women.To the Lighthouse is ... Read more

    $13.49 USD $1.99 USD

  • Living with Shakespeare

    Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors

    Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Living with Shakespeare, Susannah Carson invites forty actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his work is still such a vital part of our culture.We hear from James Earl Jones on reclaiming Othello as a tragic hero, Julie Taymor on turning Prospero into Prospera, Camille Paglia on teaching the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Affinities

    On Art and Fascination

    by Brian Dillon ...
    A meditation on the power and pleasures of the image, from paintings to photographs to migraine auras, by one of Britain's finest literary minds.In Affinities, Brian Dillon, who Joyce Carol Oates has said writes “fascinating prose . . . on virtually any subject,” explores images and artists he is drawn to and analyzes the attraction. What does it mean to claim affinity with a picture? What do ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Émigrés

    French Words That Turned English

    The fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French-speaking cultures across the worldEnglish has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language. French words and phrases—such as à la mode, ennui, naïveté and caprice—lend English a certain je-ne-sais-quoi that would ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Collins Classics)

    Series series Collins Classics
    HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.A green horse great and tall;A steed full stiff to guide,In broidered bridle allHe worthily bestridesDating from around 1400 and composed by an anonymous writer, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was first translated and published almost 200 years ago. Its epic nature has not been dimmed by time: the classic ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The art of The Faerie Queene

    Series series The Manchester Spenser
    The Art of The Faerie Queene is the first book centrally focused on the forms and poetic techniques employed by Spenser. It offers a sharp new perspective on Spenser by rereading The Faerie Queene as poetry which is at once absorbing, demanding and experimental. Instead of the traditional conservative model of Spenser as poet, this bookpresents the poem as radical, edgy and unconventional, thus ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Re-envisioning Mythopoeia

    Papers on the Works of Lloyd Alexander, Pauline Baynes, Madeleine L'Engle, C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Others and Nancy-Lou Patterson's Mythopoeic Drawings

    Nancy-Lou Patterson taught at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, from 1962 until she retired in 1992. The University of Waterloo named her a Distinguished Professor Emerita and Wilfrid Laurier University awarded her an honorary doctor of letters. Patterson taught art history and was an active artist, poet, and fiction writer. She was also an enthusiastic conference participant and scholar, who ... Read more

    $8.00 USD

  • My Life in Middlemarch

    A Memoir

    by Rebecca Mead ...
    A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch--and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories.Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town when she first read George Eliot's Middlemarch, regarded by many as the greatest English novel. After gaining ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Experience

    by Martin Amis ...
    Series series Vintage International
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • One of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time discloses a private life every bit as unique and fascinating as his bestselling novels.“Superb memoir...a moving account of [Amis’s] coming of age as an artist and a man.” —San Francisco Chronicle**The son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis explores his relationship with this father and writes ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Gallery of Clouds

    A personal and critical work that celebrates the pleasure of books and reading.Largely unknown to readers today, Sir Philip Sidney’s sixteenth-century pastoral romance Arcadia was long considered one of the finest works of prose fiction in the English language. Shakespeare borrowed an episode from it for King Lear; Virginia Woolf saw it as “some luminous globe” wherein “all the seeds of English ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Fearful Symmetry

    A Study of William Blake

    by Northrop Frye ...
    This brilliant outline of Blake's thought and commentary on his poetry comes on the crest of the current interest in Blake, and carries us further towards an understanding of his work than any previous study. Here is a dear and complete solution to the riddles of the longer poems, the so-called "Prophecies," and a demonstration of Blake's insight that will amaze the modern reader. The first ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Victorians Undone

    Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum

    A fascinating account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from best-selling historian and critic Kathryn Hughes.In Victorians Undone, renowned British historian Kathryn Hughes follows five iconic figures of the nineteenth century as they encounter the world not through their imaginations or intellects but through their bodies. Or rather, through their body parts. Using the vivid ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • A Brave Vessel

    The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown

    "At once a penetrating work of literary analysis and a riveting historical narrative." -Nathaniel PhilbrickMerging maritime adventure and early colonial history, A Brave Vessel charts a little-known chapter of the past that offers a window on the inspiration for one of Shakespeare's greatest works. In 1609, aspiring writer William Strachey set sail for the New World aboard the Sea Venture, only to ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • The Sherlock Holmes Book

    Big Ideas Simply Explained

    by DK ...
    Series series DK Big Ideas
    Discover the key ideas, themes, and plotlines behind every case investigated by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in the famous and celebrated stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with this original, graphics-led book.Using the "Big Ideas" series' trademark combination of witty illustrations, clear graphics, and inspirational quotes, The Sherlock Holmes Book is the perfect primer for newcomers and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Fellowship

    The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams

    C. S. Lewis is the 20th century's most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For three decades, they and their closest associates formed a literary club known as the Inklings, which met every week in Lewis's Oxford rooms and in nearby pubs. They discussed literature, religion, and ideas; read aloud from works in progress; took philosophical rambles in woods ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Henry V

    Series series Shakespeare Library
    Classic Books Library presents this new beautiful edition of William Shakespeare's historical play, "Henry V". Featuring a specially commissioned new biography of William Shakespeare, it is a must for Shakespeare enthusiasts and newcomers alike. The play is the final part of Shakespeare’s second historical tetralogy. Set during the Hundred Years’ War, it portrays Henry V’s quest to extend his ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated / Inline Footnotes)

    Oakshot Press

    Series series Oakshot Press Classics
    Ebook comes with main table of contents and interlinked sub table of contents. Each chapter is clearly marked so user knows which book within the boxset is being read.The Novels of Henry James.Watch And Ward.Roderick Hudson.The American.The Europeans.Confidence.Washington Square.The Portrait of a Lady.The Bostonians.The Princess Casamassima.The Reverberator.... ... Read more

    $2.62 USD

  • Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton

    First published in 1944, Magdalen King-Hall's Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton is a historical novel set in late-seventeenth-century England. It tells the story of Barbara Skelton, a well-born young woman trapped in a loveless marriage, who finds escape from the tedium of her life by leading a double life as a highway robber. Rich in historical detail and high on melodrama, the novel ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Keats's Odes

    A Lover's Discourse

    ***“***When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over—like this world, and some of the people in it.”In 1819, the poet John Keats wrote six poems that would become known as the Great Odes. Some of them—“Ode to a Nightingale,” “To Autumn”—are among the most celebrated poems in the English language. Anahid Nersessian here collects and elucidates each of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Vampire

    A New History

    by Nick Groom ...
    An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scenePublished to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori’s publication of The Vampyre, Nick Groom’s detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century, when Enlightenment science collided with ... Read more

    $12.99 USD