AMIS,KINGSLEY

Memoirs

New York, Summit Books. 1991, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 0671749099) Hardcover. Book, "As Sir Kingsley writes in his preface, these memoirs 'depend largely on a good memory for anecdotes and anecdotal detail. ' The book describes Amis's family in South London, his schooldays, Oxford, his joining the Army midway through the war, Swansea, Cambridge, and his decision to leave the academic world to become a full-time writer. " There are chapters on an number of prominent people he knew : John Betjeman Margaret Thatcher Philip Larkin Anthony Powell Francis Bacon Terry Thomas John Braine Robert Graves Malcolm Muggeridge Peter Quennell Arnold Wesker Philip Toynbee Roald Dahl Enoch Powell Anthony Burgess Tom Driberg Leo Rosten A.J.Ayer. 346p. plates index. As New/New.

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Book number: 042965

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: 0671749099 English Literature Authors Kingsley Amis John Betjeman Margaret Thatcher Philip Larkin Anthony Powell Francis Bacon Terry Thomas Braine Robert Graves Malcolm Muggeridge Peter Quennell Arnold Wesker Toynbee Roald Dahl Enoch Burgess Tom Driberg L

BALFOUR, GRAHAM

The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, Abridged Edition

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1911, First Thus. Hardcover. Book, An abridged version of the biography written by his cousin, issued in the series "The Biographical Collection of Robert Louis Stevenson" 364p. Blind stamped maroon cloth over boards. Neat copy unmarked except for name of previous owner on ffep. Near Fine.

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Book number: 35783

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Robert Louis Stevenson Biography Biographies - British Biographies - Authors

BUXTON, JOHN

The Grecian Taste. Literature in the Age of Neo-Classicism, 1740 - 1820

New York, Barnes & Noble. 1978. (ISBN: 0064908453) Hardcover. Book, "The "Greek Revival" has long been recognkised by architectural historians, but literary historians and critics have neglected the parallel movement in the literature of the time, in spite of the fact that the neo-classicism of the period from 1740-1820 was primarily of literary inspiration. this book .examines the response of a number of . English writers of the time to the Grecian Taste. includes essays on Mark Akenside, William Collins, Oliver Goldsmith, William Blake, Walter Savage Landor, Thomas Love Peacock, Percy Bysshe Shelley. As New/As New.

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Book number: 041257

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: 0064908453 Neo Hellenism Literature English Mark Akenside, William Collins, Oliver Goldsmith, Blake, Walter Savage Landor, Thomas Love Peacock, Percy Bysshe Shelley Greek Imfliece on Culture Literature Greek Influence on Literature

FORD, BORIS [ED]

The Pelican Guide to English Literature. Volune 6 : From Dickens to Hardy

London, Penguin. 1966, Rev Ed.. (ISBN: 014020413X) Pbk. Book, Clean, neat tight reading copy - some underlinings in introductory pages only. 514p. bibliography. index. Good.

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Book number: 30403

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: 014020413x English Literature Dickens Tennyson Bronte Eliot Arnold Hopkins Hardy

GALSWORTHY, JOHN [1867-1933]

Strife : A Drama in Three Acts

Toronto / London, Copp Clark Co/ Duckworth. 1939, Reprint. Hardcover. Book, Strife is a three-act play by the English writer John Galsworthy. It was his third play, and the most successful of the three. It was produced in 1909.In the play, there is a prolonged unofficial strike at a factory; as the trade union and the company directors attempt to resolve the affair, which is causing hardship among the workers' families, there is a confrontation between the company chairman and the leader of the strike.110p.Name of owner, a few pencil notes & underlinings. Good>Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 045471

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: English Literaryure Play Text Drama Drama/ Plays/Theatre Play Scripts

HOWARD, EDWIN J. [EDWIN JOHNSTON]

Geoffrey Chaucer

Twayne Publishers. 1964, 1st US Edition. Hardcover. Book, Twaynels English Authors Series #1. 219p, bibliography,index Neat,crisp tight copy. Small school library stamps - otherwise looks unread. Near Fine/Good with slight chips & Tear.

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Book number: 37701

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: English Literature Geoffrey Chaucer Z10 Chaucer

NORMAN, CHARLES

Mr. Oddity : Samuel Johnson, LL. D

New York, Collier Books. 1961, 1st Pbk Edition. Pbk. Book, A biography of Samuel Johnson "that includes material unavailable to Boswell.including..Johnson's manuscript account of himself ..letters. and dialogues recorded by other contemporaries' 288p. index, Tight clean copy, some scuffing to paper covers. Very Good+.

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Book number: 35731

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Samuel Johnson Johnson,Samuel Biographies - Canadian

OUSBY, IAN

Blue Guide : Literary Britain and Ireland

London, A & C Black/ W.W.Norton. 1985, 1st UK Ed.. (ISBN: 0713627352) Soft cover. Book, A traveller's guide to the places associated with the most fanous English and Irish authors." 424p.(+ 40p. maps) illus.index. Very Good.

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Book number: 30307

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: 0713627352 London England Guidebooks Travel Europe Great Britain Ireland Literature Authiors Blue Guide England Ireland

ASHLEY, ROBERT & MOSELEY, EDWIN M [EDS]

Elizabethan Fiction

New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1962, 4th Printing. Soft cover. Book, Includes [1] George Gascoigne: The Adventures of Master F.J. [2] John Lyly : Euphues : The Anatomy of Wit [3}]Sir Philip Sidney: The Arcadia (excerpt) [4] Thomas Nassssshe: The Unfortunate Traveller [5] Thomas Deloney: Jack of Newbury. Introduction and notes. 443p. Vintage copy, neat and tight, but with some marks and underlinings 443p. Fair > Good.

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Book number: 37280

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Elizabethan England Literature Fiction Elizabeth I,Queen of England Elizabethan England

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS

Familiar Studies of Men and Books

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1908, First Thus. Hardcover. Book, This volume of articles and essays inludes Victor Hugo, Robert Burns, Walt Whitnman,Henry David Thoreau, Yoshida Torajiro, Francpis Villon, Charlrd of Orleans, Samual Pepys, John Knox. Issued in the series "The Biographical Collection of Robert Louis Stevenson" 342p. Blind stamped maroon cloth over boards.Neat copy, unmarked except for the name of previous owner on ffep. Near Fine.

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Book number: 35781

Catalogue: English Literature

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS

New Arabian Nights

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1909, First Thus. Hardcover. Book, A volume of short stories first published in 1882, is a collection of short stories previously published in magazines between 1877 and 1880. The collection contains Stevenson's first published fiction, and a few of the stories are considered by some critics to be his best work, as well as pioneering works in the English-language short story tradition.Issued in the series "The Biographical Collection of Robert Louis Stevenson" Introduction by Mrs Stevenso. [Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson] 427p Blind stamped maroon cloth over boards. Neat unmarked copy except for the name of previous owner on ffep. Near Fine.

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Book number: 35778

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Short Stories Short Stories Robert Louis Stevenson

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS

Virginibus Puerisque And Other Papers

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1911, First Thus. Hardcover. Book, Virginibus Puerisque (1881) was the first collection of Stevenson's essays on various topics previously published in the Cornhill Magazine This copy issued in the series "The Biographical Collection of Robert Louis Stevenson" 264p .Blind stamped maroon cloth over boards. Neat unmarked copy except for the name of previous owner on ffep. Near Fine.

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Book number: 35782

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Essays Essays

HARRIS, VICTOR & HUSAIN, ITRAT

English Prose 1600-1660

San Francisco, Rhinehart Press. 1965, Reprint. (ISBN: 0299876543) Soft cover. Book, ".designed to offer a substantial introduction to the prose of nine major writers of the 17th. century" it includes selections from Francis Bacon, Robert parsons, Lancelot Andrewes, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Thomas Hobbes, Sir Thomas Browne , Jeremy Taylor. 514p. Bibliography. Clean tight text. Very Good.

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Book number: 31623

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: 0299876543 English Literature 17 Century Zzschir-S