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  • Forensic Shakespeare

    Series series Clarendon Lectures in English
    Forensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative poem Lucrece, on four of his late Elizabethan plays (Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar and Hamlet) and on three early Jacobean dramas, (Othello, Measure for Measure and All's Well That ... Read more

    $27.99 USD $23.99 USD

  • An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding

    by David Hume ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.' Thus ends David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, the definitive statement of the greatest philosopher in the English language. His arguments in support of reasoning from experience, and against the 'sophistry and illusion' of religiously inspired philosophical fantasies, caused controversy in the ... Read more

    $10.99 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

  • The Cambridge Companion to Dracula

    Edited by Roger Luckhurst ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Bram Stoker's Dracula is the most famous vampire in literature and film. This new collection of sixteen essays brings together a range of internationally renowned scholars to provide a series of pathways through this celebrated Gothic novel and its innumerable adaptations and translations. The volume illuminates the novel's various pre-histories, critical contexts and subsequent cultural ... Read more

    $21.99 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1

    Isaac D'Israeli (11 May 1766 – 19 January 1848) was an English scholar, writer and man of letters. He was born in Enfield, Middlesex, England, the only child of Benjamin D'Israeli (1730–1816), a Jewish merchant who had emigrated from Cento, Italy in 1748, and his second wife, Sarah Syprut de Gabay Villa Real (1742–1825). Isaac received education in Leiden. At the age of 16, he began his literary ... Read more

    $4.43 USD

  • Birdsong, Speech and Poetry

    The Art of Composition in the Long Nineteenth Century

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
    In the long nineteenth century, scientists discovered striking similarities between how birds learn to sing and how children learn to speak. Tracing the 'science of birdsong' as it developed from the 'ingenious' experiments of Daines Barrington to the evolutionary arguments of Charles Darwin, Francesca Mackenney reveals a legacy of thought which informs, and consequently affords fresh insights ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Frankenstein (Second Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

    by Mary Shelley ...
    Series series Norton Critical Editions
    The best-selling student edition on the market, now available in a Second Edition.Almost two centuries after its publication, Frankenstein remains an indisputably classic text and Mary Shelley’s finest work.This extensively revised Norton Critical Edition includes new texts and illustrative materials that convey the enduring global conversation about Frankenstein and its author. The text is that ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Victorian Age in Literature

    A fascinating survey of Victorian literature from one of England’s greatest mindsDishing out his signature brand of harsh wit, G. K. Chesterton casts a critical eye on the poets and novelists that defined the Victorian age in English literature. “Her imagination was sometimes superhuman—always inhuman,” he writes of Emily Brontë. “Wuthering Heights might have been written by an eagle.” Ranging ... Read more

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  • Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

    "So engrossing, clearheaded, and lucid that its arrival is not just welcome but cause for celebration." —Dan Cryer, NewsdayStephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who "knows more about Shakespeare than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did" (John Leonard, Harper's), has written a biography that enables us to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

    Series Book 9 - Digital Fire Super Combos
    This ebook contains Shakespeare's complete plays and complete poems in a new, easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate format. This is the most reader-friendly introduction to Shakespeare available today. 'The Complete Works of William Shakespeare' collects all thirty-seven of the immortal Bard's comedies, tragedies, and historical plays in a Collectible Edition. This volume also features Shakespeare's ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Unfelt

    The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment

    by James Noggle ...
    Unfelt offers a new account of feeling during the British Enlightenment, finding that the passions and sentiments long considered as preoccupations of the era depend on a potent insensibility, the secret emergence of pronounced emotions that only become apparent with time. Surveying a range of affects including primary sensation, love and self-love, greed, happiness, and patriotic ardor, James ... Read more

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  • The Road to Middle-Earth

    How J. R. R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology

    by Tom Shippey ...
    “Uniquely qualified to explicate Tolkien’s worldview,” this journey into the roots of the Lord of the Rings is a classic in its own right (Salon.com).*From beloved epic fantasy classic to record-breaking cinematic success, J.R.R. Tolkien's story of four brave hobbits has enraptured the hearts and minds of generations. Now, readers can go deeper into this enchanting lore with a revised edition of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics

    **"Brilliant, beautifully organized, exceedingly readable." —Philip RothWorld-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright’s insight into bad (and often mad) rulers.**Examining the psyche—and psychoses—of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD