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Albert, Edward.
The Story of English Literature.
Revised by C.D. Poster.
Collins 1965 rev. ed. Plates, 255pp., boards, good. 3.50
Allen, Walter.
The English Novel: a short critical history.
Penguin Pelican 1965 rep. 300g. Index, 376pp., card covers, inscr. else good. 3.50
Anderson, Rachel.
The Purple Heart Throbs: The sub-literature of Love.
Hodder and Stoughton 1974 600g. Plates, index, 286pp., good in d/w. 8.00
Aristotle; Horace; Longinus.
Classical Literary Criticism.
Trans. by T.S. Dorsch.
Penguin Classics 1965 100g. 157pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Beer, Patricia.
Reader I Married Him: A study of the Women Characters of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot.
MacMillan 1977 rep. 213pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w. 5.00
Bostetter, Edward E.
The Romantic Ventriloquists: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron.
Univ. of Washington P.
1975 rev. ed. Index, 357pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good. 8.00
Bradbrook, M.C.
George Chapman. Writers and their Work.
Longman for the BC. 1977 Biblio., 60pp., card covers, ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good. 2.50
Braden, Gordon.
Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance.
Yale Univ. Press. 600g. Index, 198pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Brereton, Geoffrey.
An Introduction to the French Poets: Villon to the Present Day.
Methuen 1973 Index, 320pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w.
7.00
Brooks, Cleanth.
The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry.
Dennis Dobson 1968 rev. ed. Index, 206pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w. 4.00
Bryson, Bill.
Mother Tongue: The English Language.
Penguin Index, 269pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Bush, Douglas.
English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century.
The Oxford History of English Literature 1948 rep. 900g. Index, 621pp., good. 12.00
Chambers, E.K.
English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages.
The Oxford History of English Literature 1947 rep. 550g. Index, 247pp., good in torn d/w. 8.00
Cronin, Anthony.
Dead as Doornails: Bohemian Dublin in the Fifties and Sixties.
Oxford UP 1986 201pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Echevarria, Roberto Gonzalez.
Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American narrative.
Duke UP. Biblio., index, 245pp., card covers, good. 8.00
Ellis, John M.
Narration in the German Novelle: Theory and Interpretation.
Cambridge UP. 1979 Biblio., 219pp., card covers, ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good working copy. 3.50
Forster, E.M.
Aspects of the Novel.
Penguin Pelican 1966 rep. 150g. Index, 175pp., card covers, inscr. else good. 3.00
Foster, Edward Halsey.
Understanding the Black Mountain Poets.
Univ. of South Carolina P. Biblio., index, 206pp., good in d/w. 10.00
Fowler, Roger.
Linguistics and the Novel.
Methuen 1977 Index, 145pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w.
4.00
Friedman, Alan Warren. (Ed.)
Forms of Modern British Fiction.
Univ. of Texas P. 1975 Index, 247pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w. 5.00
Garland, H.B.
A Concise Survey of German Literature.
MacMillan 1971 Index, 125pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w.
3.50
Garland, H.B.
Lessing: The Founder of Modern German Literature.
MacMillan 1962 2nd. ed. Index, 202pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w.
5.00
Geismar, Maxwell.
American Moderns: From Rebellion to Modernity.
Hill and Wang 1958 265pp., card covers, front sl. creased else good. 4.00
Gifford, Henry.
The Novel in Russia: From Pushkin to Pasternak.
Hutchinson UL. 1964 Index, 208pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w.
4.00
Gray, R.D.
An Introduction to German Poetry.
Cambridge UP. 1965 122pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good working copy in d/w.
3.50
Greenwood, Edward.
F.R. Leavis.
Longman for the BC. 1978 Biblio., 58pp., card covers, ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good. 2.50
Gregory, H.; Zaturenska, M.
A History of American Poetry 1900-1940.
NY. 1946 Index, 524pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps else good in d/w. 5.00
Guicharnaud, Jacques.
Modern French Theatre: From Giradoux to Beckett.
Yale University Press 1963 rep. Index, 304pp., card covers, inscr., corner of ffep. cut off, sp. sunned else good and sound. 6.00
Haddow, Alexander.
On the Teaching of Poetry.
Blackie 200g. 114pp., lacks ffep. else good. 2.50
Hawkes, Terence.
Structuralism and Semiotics.
Routledge rep. 200g. Index, 192pp., card covers, sl. marked/creased else good. 3.50
Hayward, M.; Crowley, E.L. (Ed.)
Soviet Literature in the Sixties.
Methuen 1965 Index, 221pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w. 5.00
Hennessy, Brendan.
The Gothic Novel. Writers and their Work.
Longman 1978 Biblio., 60pp., card covers, ex-lib. copy with usual stamps
else good, 2.50
Highet, Gilbert.
The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature.
Oxford UP. 1949 Notes, index, 763pp., sp. sl. marked else good. 18.00
Hingley, Ronald.
Nightingale Fever: Russian Poets in Revolution.
Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1982 Index, 269pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w. 7.00
Ikeda, Daisaku.
On the Japanese Classics: Conversations and Appreciations.
NY. 1979 Glossary, index, 202pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w. 5.00
Josipovici, Gabriel. (Ed.)
The Modern English Novel: the reader, the writer and the work.
Open Books 1976 Index, 281pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w.
5.00
Keating, P.J.
The working classes in Victorian fiction.
Routledge and Kegan Paul 1971 Frontis., plates, index, 310pp., school ex-lib. copy with some stamps; sl. stain to edge else good and sound. 8.00
Keeley, E.; Sherrard, P. (Trans. and intro.)
Six Poets of Modern Greece.
Thames and Hudson 1960 Notes, 192pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps else good in d/w.
5.00
Kenner, Hugh.
A Homemade World: The American Modernist Writers.
Marion Boyars 1977 500g. 221pp., index, good in d/w. 8.00
Kermode, Frank.
Modern Essays.
Fontana 1990 351pp., card covers, sp. sl. creased else good. 5.00
Knight, G. Wilson.
The Golden Labyrinth: A Study of British Drama.
Phoenix House 1962 Index, 402pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w.
8.00
Knights, L.C.
Explorations: Essays on Criticism Mainly on the Literature of the Seventeenth Century.
Penguin Peregrine 1964 250g. 202pp., card covers, inscr., sp. creased else good. 3.50
Knoepflmacher, U.C.
Religious Humanism and the Victorian Novel: George Eliot, Walter Pater and Samuel Butler.
Princeton UP. 1970 Index, 315pp., card covers,
ex-lib. copy with usual stamps else good. 5.00
Kravitz, Nathaniel.
3000 Years of Hebrew Literature.
W.H. Allen 1973 Index, 586pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w.
8.00
Lees, Leslie.
A History of Australian Drama: Volume 2 - Australian Drama in the 70's.
Angus and Robertson 1978 Plates, index, 270pp., 1/2 title sl. marked at foot else good in d/w. 8.00
Levi, Peter.
The Pelican History of Greek Literature.
Penguin Pelican 1985 Index, 511pp., card covers, good. 5.00
Lukacs, Georg.
The Historical Novel.
Trans. from the German by Hannah and Stanley Mitchell.
Merlin Press 1962 140mm. by 220mm., 600g. Index, 363pp., good in sl. torn d/w. 12.00
MacLean, Marie.
Narrative As Performance: The Baudelairean Experiment.
Routledge 1988 300g. Biblio., index, 216pp., card covers, good. 6.00
MacInnes, Colin.
No Novel Reader.
Martin Brian and O'Keefe 1975 55pp., card covers. ex-lib. copy with usual stamps else good. 2.00
Mackenzie, Fraser et al. (Ed.)
Studies in French Language, Literature and History. 23 essays presented to R.L. Graeme Ritchie.
Cambridge UP. 1949 258pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w.
3.50
Manlove, C.N. Literature and Reality 1600-1800
MacMillan 1978 Index, 238pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, else good in d/w.
5.00
Moore, Geoffrey. (Sel. and intro.)
American Literature: A Representative Anthology of American Writing from Colonial Times to the Present.
Faber 1964 Index, 1328pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w.
10.00
Moore, Will G.
French Classical Literature: An Essay.
Oxford UP. 1961 Index, 174pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w. 3.50
Nocentini, Claudia.
Italo Calvino and the Landscape of Childhood.
Northern Universities Press 2000.
106pp. Paperback. Condition: very good. 5.00
The Pelican Guide to English Literature:
Ed. by Boris Ford.
4. from Dryden to Johnson.
1966 rep. Index, 512pp., card covers, good. 3.50
The Pelican Guide to English Literature:
Ed. by Boris Ford.
1. The Age of Chaucer. 1965 rep. 300g. Index, 495pp., card covers, inscr. else good. 3.50
5. From Blake to Byron.
1985 rep. Appendix, notes, index, 438pp., card covers, front marked else good. 2.50
Quennell, Peter. (Ed.)
Genius in the Drawing-Room: The Literary Salon in the 19th. and 20th Centuries.
Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1980 Plates, 188pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w.
5.00
Ravenscroft, Arthur.
Chinua Achebe. Writers & their Work.
British Council 1969 40pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Rawson, Claude.
Satire and Sentiment 1660-1830
Stress Points in the English Augustan Tradition.
Yale U.P. 2000 309pp. Paperback. Condition: very good. 8.00
Reeves, James.
A Short History of English Poetry, 1340-1940.
Heinemann 1964 rep. 600g. Frontis., plates, index, 228pp., ex-lib. copy with some stamps, lacks ffep., else good reading copy in d/w. 5.00
Regan, Stephen (Ed.).
The Nineteenth-Century Novel: A Critical Reader.
Routledge. 950g. Index, 573pp., card covers, good. 8.00
Rosenblatt, Roger.
Black Fiction.
Harvard University Press 1975 rep. 600g. Index, 211pp., ex-lib. copy with some stamps/marks else good in d/w. 5.00
Shaw, Donald. L.
The Generation of 1898 in Spain.
Ernest Benn 1975 Index, 246pp., lacks ffep., else good in d/w. 6.00
Silkin, Jon.
Out of Battle: The Poetry of the Great War.
Oxford UP. 1972 750g. Index, 366pp., ep's tape-marked else good. 8.00
Skelton, Robin.
Poetic Truth.
Heinemann 1978 Index, 131pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w.
5.00
Smith, Elton E; Haas, Robert (Ed.).
The Haunted Mind: The Supernatural in Victorian Literature.
Scarecrow Press Inc. Index, 138pp., good. 12.50
Strong, Augustus Hopkins.
American Poets and their Theology.
Philadelphia: The Griffith and Rowland Press 1916
150mm. by 220mm., 1100g. Index, 485pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, else good. 7.50
Sutherland, James.
English Satire.
Cambridge UP. 1958 Index, 173pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w.
5.00
Tanner, Tony.
Adultery in the Novel: Contract and Transgression.
Johns Hopkins University Press 1979 800g. Index, 383pp., ex-lib. copy with some stamps else good in sl. marked d/w. 10.00
Taylor, Estella Ruth.
The Modern Irish Writers.
Univ. of Kansas P. 1954 Notes, index, 176pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps else good in d/w. 5.00
Taylor, John Russell.
Anger and After: A Guide to the New British Drama.
Methuen 1971 rep. Index, 391pp., card covers, good. 5.00
Taylor, John Russell.
Peter Shaffer.
Longman for the BC. 1974 Biblio., 34pp., card covers, ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good. 2.00
Taylor, John Russell.
The Second Wave: British Drama for the Seventies.
Methuen 1971 236pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w. 3.50
Thomson, Boris.
The Premature Revolution: Russian Literature and Society 1917-1946.
Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1972 Index, 325pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w.
5.00
Thwaite, Anthony.
Twenteith-Century English Poetry.
Heinemann 1978 Index, 134pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w. 3.50
Tillotson, Geoffrey.
A View of Victorian Literature.
Oxford UP. 1978 Appendix, index, 396pp., college ex-lib. copy with some stamps/marks else good and sound. 10.00
van Delden, Maarten.
Carlos Fuentes, Mexico and Modernity.
Liverpool U.P. 1998 262pp. Paperback. Condition: good. 7.00
Vickers, Brian.
Francis Bacon.
Longman for the BC. 1978 Biblio., 46pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Walker, Marshall.
The Literature of the United States of America.
MacMillan History of Literature 1983 500g. Plates, chronological table, index, 236pp., good in d/w. 8.00
Watson, George.
The Story of the Novel.
Barnes & Noble 1979 300g. Index, 166pp., card covers, good. 5.00
Watt, Ian.
The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding.
Chatto and Windus 1974 rep. Index, 319pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., some underlining, else good in d/w. 4.00
Whitfield, J.H.
A Short History of Italian Literature.
Cassell 1962 Index, 299pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w.
6.00
Willey, Basil.
The Eighteenth-Century Background.
Penguin Peregrine 1967 rep. 300g. Index, 283pp., card covers, inscr., some underlining and notes, sp. creased; good reading copy. 3.50
Williams, Raymond.
Drama from Ibsen to Eliot.
Penguin Peregrine 1964 Index, 314pp., card covers, top edge sl. bashed else good.
5.00
Williams, Raymond.
The English Novel: From Dickens to Lawrence.
Chatto and Windus 1971 Index, 196pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w. 5.00
