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	ALEXANDER , CAROLINE / REF : SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Xanadu , the Way to - Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's Xanadu - a Quest Across 3 Continents to Discover the Source of His Literary Inspiration London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 6 x 8 " 0297813137 1993 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... 194 pages ... with illustration from the 1618 edition of Purchas Pilgrimage reproduced courtesy of the British Library ... As a British child growing up in North Florida , author Caroline Alexander first read the masterpiece of Samuel Taylor Coleridge , ' Kubla Khan ' ... Coleridge himself later claimed that the poem was composed in an opium reverie ... brought on " at the moment he was reading the following sentence in Purcha's Pilgrimage : ' Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace to be bu ilt, and a stately garden thereunto ' " ... Scholars have discussed the other contemporary works that influenced Coleridge ever since ... Was there really a place called Xanadu ... with its ' walls and towers ' ? ... What inspired the ' caves of ice ' ... ' the mighty fountain momently forced ' ... and the ' Abyssinian maid singing of Mount Abora ' ? ... In this brilliantly written literary travel book ... the author recounts a quest across 3 continents to discover ... ' the miracle of rare device ' ... the sources of Coleridge's inspiration ... " The Way to Xanadu " ... by Caroline Alexander ... published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson , London ... 1993 First Edition Hardcover in dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New/New . USD 29.95** [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2643] Book number: 1051 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	BELL-VILLADA, GENE H. / GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ Gabriel Garcia Marquez , Conversations with . . . ( Literary Conversations Series ) USA: University Press of Mississippi, 2006. 2006 Printing. Soft Cover. 6 x 9 " 1578067847 2006 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher .... Never opened, Never owned, never marked ... Gift Giving quality ... 200 pages with index ... Introduction ... Chronology ...The Yellow Trolley Car in Barcelona: An Interview by William Kennedy ... Journey Back to the Source by Ed Manifiesto ... Playboy Interview: Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Claudia Drifus ... Building a Compass by Gene H. Bell-Villada ... Love and Age: A Talk with Gabriel Marquez by Marlise Simons ... Much, much more ... " Conversations with Gabriel Garcia Marquez... ( Literary Conversations Series )," by Gene H. Bell-Villada, published by University Press of Mississippi, USA 2006 softcover ... *. NEW . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 6219 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	BERTON, PIERRE Joy of Writing, the . . a Guide for Writers, Disguised As a Literary Memoir - By Pierre Berton Toronto: Doubleday, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Illustrated. 6 -1/4 x 9 -1/2" 0385659970 2003 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... Brand new ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 317 pages ... Pierre Berton 's wise and witty writers' guide covers every aspect of creative non-fiction from the design of a best-selling book jacket to the care and feeding of editors ... The author of some fifty books, most of them best-sellers, Berton calls on half a century of writing experience to examine his craft, from the opening sentence of a major work to its closing paragraphs ... His discussions of prose style, cadence, and rhythm will prove invaluable to anyone contemplating a literary career ... Illustrated with actual facsimiles from his own typewritten manuscripts, the book shows how a narrative can change from draft to draft ... He discusses research procedures, his method of annotating and filing his notes, and the technique of recycling used material ... Berton uses lively anecdotes from his own career and those of others to outline an author's learning processes; and he doesn't shrink from confessing his own failures and blunders on the road to success ... Fellow writers will find his section on literary critics both rewarding and amusing, along with his technique for avoiding the dreaded "writer's block": and his method for battling insomnia during intensive periods of creation ... The Joy of Writing is replete with letters from would-be authors as well as harsh criticism Berton has received from tough editors (with which he agrees) ... Scattered throughout the book are thirty of Berton's own Rules for Writers, ranging from No. 1: Understand your audience to No. 30: Flatter your media host .. Anyone of any age, who has ambitions to write, will find The Joy of Writing invaluable and Berton's legions of fans will find it revealing ... "The Joy of Writing ... A guide for writers, disguised as a literary memoir" ... by Pierre Berton... published by Doubleday, Canada ... in English only ... 2003 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving condition *. New/New . USD 59.95** [Appr.: EURO 40 \| £UK 36.25 \| JP¥ 5291] Book number: 5216 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	BERTON, PIERRE Joy of Writing, the . . a Guide for Writers, Disguised As a Literary Memoir - By Pierre Berton Toronto: Doubleday, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Illustrated. 6 -1/4 x 9 -1/2" 0385659970 2003 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 317 pages ... Pierre Berton's wise and witty writers' guide covers every aspect of creative non-fiction from the design of a best-selling book jacket to the care and feeding of editors ... The author of some fifty books, most of them best-sellers, Berton calls on half a century of writing experience to examine his craft, from the opening sentence of a major work to its closing paragraphs ... His discussions of prose style, cadence, and rhythm will prove invaluable to anyone contemplating a literary career ... Illustrated with actual facsimiles from his own typewritten manuscripts, the book shows how a narrative can change from draft to draft ... He discusses research procedures, his method of annotating and filing his notes, and the technique of recycling used material ... Berton uses lively anecdotes from his own career and those of others to outline an author's learning processes; and he doesn't shrink from confessing his own failures and blunders on the road to success ... Fellow writers will find his section on literary critics both rewarding and amusing, along with his technique for avoiding the dreaded "writer's block": and his method for battling insomnia during intensive periods of creation ... The Joy of Writing is replete with letters from would-be authors as well as harsh criticism Berton has received from tough editors (with which he agrees) ... Scattered throughout the book are thirty of Berton's own Rules for Writers, ranging from No. 1: Understand your audience to No. 30: Flatter your media host .. Anyone of any age, who has ambitions to write, will find The Joy of Writing invaluable and Berton's legions of fans will find it revealing ... "The Joy of Writing ... A guide for writers, disguised as a literary memoir" ... by Pierre Berton... published by Doubleday, Canada ... in English only ... 2003 First Edition Hardcover in original Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving condition *. New/New . USD 49.95** [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4408] Book number: 5216c Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	BLADES, JOE ED. Jive Talk - George Fetherling ( Douglas ) in Interviews & Documents New Brunswick: Broken Jaw Pub, 2001. First. Soft Cover. 5 -1/2 x 8 -1/2 " 1896647545 2001 Softcover ... Brand New from publisher ... feltpen line and dot bottom edge ... 88 pages ... In the course of promoting and discussing the 50 books he's written or co-edited, George ( formerly Douglas ) Fetherling, once called "our ranking man of letters" by Books in Canada, has found himself interviewed about writers, trends and issues, as he's observed them from his extraordinary insider / outsider prospective ... Most such sessions have been of topical interest, but others, the ones collected and annotated in Jive Talk, evidence postdated testimony in Canadian literaary history ... By scouring sources both obvious and obscure ( from the Globe and Mail and Queen's Quarterly to defunct little magazines and the archives of community radio stations ), Joe Blades has pulled together highlights from three decades of this discontinuous commentary on Canada's writing life ... " Jive Talk " ... edited by Joe Blades ... 2001 Softcover ... published by Broken Jaw Pub, New Brunswick ... in English only *. NEW . USD 9.95** [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 878] Book number: 4801 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	BYATT, A.S. On Histories and Stories - Selected Essays . . . A.S. Byatt on the Renaissance of the Historical Novel , the Wartime Experience Novels , the Darwinian Novel , the Myth , Folk & Fairy Tale Revival , Arabian Nights & Shakespeare, William Golding & More London: Chatto & Windus, 2000. Later Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 070116946X 2000 Hardcover in DJ , later printing ... Brand new from publisher ... Last one ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked .. Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 196 pages ... In recent years many novelists have become increasingly interested in history as fiction ... and fiction as history ... In her powerful opening essays - ' Fathers ', ' Forefathers ' and ' Ancestors ' - writer A .S. Byatt considers the renaissance of the historical novel ... She discusses particularly the novel of wartime experience ... the surprising variety of distant pasts that British writers have invented ... and the new ' Darwinian novel ' , which has been stimulated in part by the discovery of DNA ... These afford new readings of writers from Elizabeth Bowen and Henry Greene ... to Anthony Burgess ... William Golding and Muriel Spark ... and other contemporary authors, including Penelope Fitzgerald, Julian Barnes, Martin Amis, John Fuller, Hilary Mantel and Pat Barker ... This book also offers a fascinating insight into the author's own translation of historical fact into fiction ... in the two novellas which make up " Angels and Insects " ... while in ' Old Stories, New Forms, ' she explores the recent European revival of interest in myth, folk tales and fairy tales ... Also two short peices look in detail at at the perennial appeal of Particular Stories : The Arabian Nigh ts ... ' the greatest stories ever told ' and a cluster of tales of ice, snow, and glass, from ' Snow White ' and ' The Snow Queen ' to the mysterious, ' stony ' women of Shakespeare and George Eliot ... Vivid, profound, and full of original insig hts, this fascinating book redraws the map of the boundaries of fiction today ... " On Histories and Stories - Selected Essays " ... by A.S. Byatt ... published by Chatto & Windus , London 2000 ... Hardcover in Dustjacket ... *. New/New . USD 29.95** [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2643] Book number: 4480 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	CONTAG, KIMBERLY Mockery in Spanish Golden Age Literature - Analysis of Burlesque Representation - Text in English Only Maryland: University Press of America, 1996. First. Hard Cover. 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 " 0761803734 1996 Hardcover 1st Edition ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned ... * Please Note ; thick red feltpen mark bottom edge , with tiny bit of bleed through to bottom tip of blank part of pages, does not affect any text. Otherwise handsome book; black lightly textured boards with gold gilt tittles on spine ... 214 pages ... index and bibliography ... all in English only ... includes : Burlesque & the literatue of the Golden Age of Imperial Spain ... Burlesque & the Meaningful Coincidence of Brilliant Letters & Miserable Realities ... The Artifice of Burlesque ... Modes of Representing the Critical Issues of Imperial Spain ... Burlesque & The Modern Battlefield of Literary Theory and Cultural Historiography ... Arguments for a Model of MBurlesque Literature - A Case for Don Quixote ... Strategies toward Burlesque - Toward a Common Denominator, the Intimacy , History, Historical Uses & Abuses, and Age of Burlesque ... Literature of the Spanish Baroque ... Laughter and Serious Concern ... The Case of Two Sonnets - Gongora's Entrando en Valladolid & estando alli la Corte ... Representation in the Quevedesque Tradition ... Social Issues El descasamentero ... Entertainment & Social Consequences Retablo de las Maravillas ... Burlesque & Scholarly Enquiry ... and a chapter devoted to Don Quixote ... Mockery & Reason, Cervantes ' working definition of Burlesque mockery , patters in DQ ... Counterfeit & mock-heroic ... locating patterns, seriocomic and economy of Burlesque mockery & more ... " Mockery in Spanish Golden Age Literature - Analysis of Burlesque Representation " in the literature of Spain ... edited by Kimberly Contag , Associate Professor of Spanish at Mankato State University in Minnesota ... published by the University Press of America , Maryland 1996 Hardcover First Edition ... *. New . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 1410 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	COOTE, STEPHEN / REF. SAMUEL PEPYS ) Samuel Pepys - a Life London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 0340751231 2000 First Edition HARDCOVER in DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 397 pages ... illustrated with 8 pages glossy B&W photographs ... This biography of one of the most popular and interesting figures in English history, was long overdue ... Famed diarist Samuel Pepys was a highly energetic man, closely involved in his strenuous and exciting times ... Here is an irresistable combination of public events and private passions, but above all this is a story of warmth and achievement, of affections and sadnesses, and of great things done by a man from no very special background who had to make his own way in the world ... ' Coote brings off Pepys's turbulent life colorfully and with sympathy. As biographer of Charles I, Coote had consulted the 1660-1669 diaries of Pepys and, for good reason, could not put the volumes down. As Clerk of the Works, Pepys was the efficient bureaucrat who administered the navy and managed, in the process, to be involved in nearly every major event in post-Cromwell Britain and to know everyone who counted, either as ally or enemy. Shrewd and nimble, he was exhaustingly convivial, constantly curious and calculatingly ambitious. As Coote writes, "Public office was indeed a way to private riches." Little of it failed to make his diary. The reader lives through the Great Plague, the Great Fire of London, the restoration of the king and the wars for regional supremacy. But Pepys lived on until 1703, 34 years after the diary stopped, battling to keep Charles II in power and clinging to his own perquisites as long as he could. As a boy he had pushed through the crowd to watch the execution of Charles I. Later, as a toppled officeholder "so dangerously able and so loud in the assertion of his own virtues," he nearly lost his own head. Coote informs as he entertains. One even learns such things as what "umble pie" really was. No academic read, Samuel Pepys will appeal to a broad, and broad-minded, audience.' ... " Samuel Pepys - A Life " ... by Stephen Coote ... published by Hodder & Stoughton , London 2000 ... First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. NEW/NEW . USD 49.95** [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4408] Book number: 4804 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	CRABBE, GEORGE / FELIX PRYOR , ED. Voluntary Insane , the - the Long - Suppressed Poem of George Crabbe ( 1754 - 1832 ) - the Favorite Poet of Byron & of Jane Austen . . . First Publication of a Masterpiece of the Romantic Age London: Richard Cohen Pub, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 9 x 5 - 1/2 " 1860660258 1995 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Gift Giving quality ... Never opened , Never owned ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear Mylar sleeve ... 110 pages ... with illustrated end pages & dustjacket ... This fascinating book is the first publication of one of the masterpieces of the Romantic Age .... George Crabbe ( 1754-1832) was a favorite poet of Byron ... Scott and ... particularly ... of Jane Austen ... This is a highly dramatic and acutely-observed tragedy ... describing the murder of a baby by a young girl ... and the ' voluntary ' insanity that follows ... The poem is edited by Felix Pryor ... who discovered it among the papers of an ancestor ... Sarah Hoare ... who was Crabbe's closest friend at the end of his life ... and also his unofficial literary executor ... The editor's introduction by Pryoar explores the extraordinary links between the shocking subject matter of the poem ... and the tragedies that affected Crabbe himself ... which included his drug addiction ... the madness of his wife following the death of her children ... and a tainted inheritence ... He argues that it was these autobiog raphical origins ... as well as the shocking nature of the story itself ... that led to the poem's original suppression for so many years ... even though in it Crabbe succeeds ... where many of his greatest contemporaries failed ... in producin g a tragedy of Shakespearian power .... Editor Felix Pryor is editor of The Fabor Book of Letters and author of The Mirror and the Globe, a study of the ' little eyases ' in Hamlet ... he has also contributed an article on ' Nelson the Letter Writer ' to the Royal Naval Museum's Nelson Companion ... He is descended from the sister of Sarah Hoare, the original owner of the manuscript of this long-lost poem ... The front cover of the pictorial dj shows a detail of a portrait of Sarah Hoare, the original owner of the manuscript, by an unknown artist ... as well as a copy made by Sarah Hoare of the portrait of George Crabbe by Thomas Phillips R.A. on the back ... decorated end pages are illustrated with with watercolor by Sarah Hoare, showing Samuel Hoare at Heath House, Hamstead, in an imaginary gallery hung with portraits of his friends ... " The Voluntary Insane " ... by George Crabbe ... edited by Felix Pryor ... published by Richard Cohen Books, London ... 1995 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality . NEW/New . USD 19.95 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 906 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	DAVIES, HUNTER / ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Robert Louis Stevenson , in Search of the Teller of Tall Tales . . . Places Associated with Rls , from Birthplace in Scotland , to France, California & Samoa . . . With Photographs London: Sinclair - Stevenson Pub, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 6 x 9-1/2 " 1856192636 1994 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Jacket protected in New clear non-stick mylar sleeve ... 290 pages ... illustrated with 16 pages of historical B&W photographs ... Robert Louis Stevenson gave travel writing a good name ... He also gave it one of its best-known observations ... ' to travel hopefully is a better t hing than to arrive ' ... He travelled in the past ... producing his historic adventure stories ... such as Kidnapped ... Catriona ... and Treasure Island ... He travelled in his imagination ... creating Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ... And he travel led in real life ... on a donkey in the Cevennes ... and across the Pacific to Samoa ... where he died in 1894 ... To mark the centenniel of Stevenson's death ... the author went travelling with him ... searching out the man and his motivation ... following him in the past and in the present ... He visited those places which will always be associated with Stevenson ... from his birthplace in Edinburgh, Scotland ... to France ... to California ... and then his final home in the Pacifi c ... His book is half travel, half biography ... And all of it is entertaining, amusing and informative ... " The Teller of Tales - In Search of Robert Louis Stevenson " ... by Hunter Davies ... published by Sinclair-Stevenson Publishing, London ... 1994 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New/New . USD 49.95** [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4408] Book number: 987a Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	DAVIES, HUNTER / ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Robert Louis Stevenson , in Search of the Teller of Tall Tales . . . Places Associated with Rls , from Birthplace in Scotland , to France, California & Samoa . . . With Photographs London: Sinclair - Stevenson Pub, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 6 x 9-1/2 " 1856192636 1994 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Jacket protected in New clear non-stick mylar sleeve ... 290 pages ... illustrated with 16 pages of historical B&W photographs ... Robert Louis Stevenson gave travel writing a good name ... He also gave it one of its best-known observations ... ' to travel hopefully is a better t hing than to arrive ' ... He travelled in the past ... producing his historic adventure stories ... such as Kidnapped ... Catriona ... and Treasure Island ... He travelled in his imagination ... creating Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ... And he travel led in real life ... on a donkey in the Cevennes ... and across the Pacific to Samoa ... where he died in 1894 ... To mark the centenniel of Stevenson's death ... the author went travelling with him ... searching out the man and his motivation ... following him in the past and in the present ... He visited those places which will always be associated with Stevenson ... from his birthplace in Edinburgh, Scotland ... to France ... to California ... and then his final home in the Pacific ... His book is half travel, half biography ... And all of it is entertaining, amusing and informative ... " The Teller of Tales - In Search of Robert Louis Stevenson " ... by Hunter Davies ... published by Sinclair-Stevenson Publishing, London , 1994 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket *. New/New . USD 49.95** [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4408] Book number: 987 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	DELILLO, DON / THOMAS DEPIETRO Don Delillo , Conversations with . . . Jackson: University Mississippi Press, 2005. First. Soft Cover. 6 x 9 " 1578067049 2005 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ..... tiny faint crease top some pages back ... Gift Giving quality ... 183 pages with index and Chronolgy of DeLillo's life & works ... Don DeLillo says " There are so many temptations for American writers to become part of the system and part of the structure that now, more than ever, we have to resist. American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous " ... This fascinating book contains besides the introduction 17 interviews with DeLillo , from 1982 to 2001 ... with many writers, such as Jody McAuliffe, Robert Harris, William Goldstein, Kevin Connolly, and many more ... " Conversations with Don DeLillo " ... compiled & with introduction by Thomas Depietro ... published by the University of Mississippi Press, Jackson *. NEW . USD 14.95** [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1319] Book number: 5876 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	DISCH, THOMAS M. Dreams Our Stuff Is Made of, the - How Science Fiction Conquered the World - By Thomas M. Disch - Sci Fi 's Impact on Technology, Fashion, Lifestyle , Miltary , Media & More - Through the Books, Movies & T.V. Shows That Have Shaped Us New York: Touchstone, 1998. First. Soft Cover. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2" 0684859785 1999 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned ... short thin feltpen mark bottom edge ... Gift Giving quality ... 256 pages ... From one of science fiction's most acclaimed novelists ... comes this engrossing journey through the books ... movies ... and television TV programs that have shaped our perspective ... of both the present & the future ... In an uncompromising ... often irrever ent survey of the genre of sci fi ... from Edgar Allan Poe ... to Philip K. Dick ... to Star Trek ... author Thomas M. Disch analyzes science fiction's impact on technological innovation ... fashion ... lifestyle ... military strategy ... the me dia ... & much more ... An illuminating look at the art of science fiction ... with a practitioner's insight into the craft ... as well as a work of pointed literary and cultural criticism ... this book reveals of how this " pulp genre " has captured the popular imagination ... while transforming the physical and social world in which we live ... " The Dreams Our Stuff is Made of - How Science Fiction Conquered the World " ... by Thomas M. Disch ... published by Touchstone , New York ... 1998 Softcover *. NEW . USD 9.95** [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 878] Book number: 1783 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	ELLIS, JOHN M. Literature Lost - Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities New York: Yale University Pub, 1997. First. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 x 1 " 0300069200 1997 Hardcover in DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 262 pages with index ... In the span of less than a generation, university humanities departments have experienced an almost unbelievable reversal of attitudes, now attacking & undermining what had previously been considered best and most worthy in the Western tradition ... John M. Ellis here scrutinzes the new regime in humanistic studies ... He offers a careful, intelligent analysis that exposes the weaknesses of notions that are fashionable in humanities today. In a clear voice, with forceful logic, he speaks out against the orthodoxy that has installed race, gender, and class perspectives at the center of college humanities curricula ... Ellis begins by showing that political correctness is a recurring impulse of Western society and one that has a discouraging history. He reveals the contradictions and misconceptions that surround the new orthodoxy and demonstrates how it is most deficent just where it imagines itself to be superior ... Ellis contends that humanistic education today, far from being historically aware, relies on anachronistic thinking;far from being skeptical of Western values, represents a ruthless and unskeptical Western extremism; far from being valuable in bringing political perspectives to bear, presents politics that are crude and unreal; far from being sophisticated in matters of "theory," is largely ignorant of the range and history of critical theory; far from valuing diversity, is unable to respond to the great sweep of literature ... In a concluding chapter, Ellis surveys the damage that has been done to higher education and examines the prospects for change ... " Literature Lost - Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities " ... by John M. Ellis ... published by Yale University Press, New York ... 1997 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New/New . USD 22.95** [Appr.: EURO 15.5 \| £UK 14 \| JP¥ 2026] Book number: 5925 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	EMERSON, EVERETT ED. Major Writers of Early American Literature Wisconsin: University Wisconsin Press, 1976. First. Soft Cover. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2" 0299061949 1976 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned, Never marked ... Gift Giving quality ... 310 pages ... " An outstanding collection of original critical essays ... by distinguished specialists ... this book is both a chronological survey of nearly 200 years of American literature ... and an exciting reappraisal of the major figures of that period ... indispensable for undergraduate and gr aduate collections ... this book makes solid, documented claims for our early writers ... while resisting the temptation to overpraise and to distort ... Each essay contains a bibliography ... and an index is provided " ... " Major Writers of Early American Literature " ... edited by Everett Emerson ... published by the University of Wisconsin Press ... 1976 softcover ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New/New . USD 14.95** [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1319] Book number: 3473 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	ENRIGHT, DOMINIQUE Euphemisms -the Meanings and Memoirs of . . . In Other Words London: Michael O'Mara Pub, 2005. Later Printing 2005. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 5 - 1/2 x 8 - 1/2 " 1843171449 2005 Hardcover in DJ, later printing ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned, Never marked ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Jacket protected in New, clear non-stick mylar sleeve ... 160 pages ... From sex and superstition to warfare and death, euphemisms exist for all sorts of subjects and every kind of communication ..Be your aim the dirty joke, the cover-up, an explanation of 'the birds and bees' or a victory in the next election, euphemism is the secret weapon that illuminates even as it obscures, and obscures even as it illuminates ... 'In Other Words' is the indespensible guide to the euphenism, steering you through the multiplicity of evasions on offer, while also providing defintiions and histories for a host of well-known phrases ... Learn to see your estate agent's sychophantic speil at the first mention of 'bijou'; be blinded no more by politicians' doublespeak and duplicity; discover just how many euphenisms there are for 'toilet'; and, perhaps most importantly, get up to speed with yout naughty bits and sexual quips ... So whether you're about to 'meet your maker,' or even make the beast with two backs', 'In Other Words' explains and celebrates the humble euphemism ... Arranged thematically, it's a one-stop shop for 'Jiminy Cricket' and 'Rose Palm' (not to mention her five beautiful daughters) ... Confused? ... This book explains all - cutting to the chase, calling a spade a spade ... and divulging a whole lot more besides ... " In Other Words : The Meanings and Memoirs of Euphemisms" ... by Dominique Enright ... published by Michael O'Mara Publishing , London ... 2005 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. NEW/New . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 5700 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	EVANS, JOHN D. / MARK TWAIN Tom Sawyer Companion , a - an Autobiographical Guided Tour with Mark Twain - Illustrated Maryland: University Press of America, 1993. First. Hard Cover. Photos. 6 x 9 " 0819190594 1993 Hardcover 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned ... feltpen mark bottom edge ... Gift Giving quality ... 113 pages ... illustrated with B&W photographs ... Mark Twain wrote from his own richly varied experiences in life, and, luckily for his readers and fans, left a great deal of autobiographical material richly detailing his experiences. His autobiography as well as all his letters, notebooks, and text of his speeches, show us many events similar to those in "Tom Sawyer" and he has been seen as the personal embodiment of a grown up ( well, almost ! ) Tom. This book gives excerpts from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" in juxtaposition with excerpts from Twain's own personal writings, to show that delightful admission of Twain coming true. Evans presents 46 episodes, in order of occurrence, from "Tom Sawyer" & adds editorial commentary only in order to clarify the links presented between plot synopsis of Twain's "fiction" writing & his autobiographical material. This is a delightful, and insightful, look at Twain's childhood with a focus on the events that shaped not only his later life but his art, in the form of the classic literature that has been beloved by generations of readers of all ages ... Many hours of happy enjoyment, picturing the grown-up Twain, who was always nattily attired in his later years in white suit and mustache, paradoxically barefoot with a fishing line tied to his toe on the banks of the Mississippi River, watching the paddlewheelers go by ... A worthwhile read for Sawyer studies, Twain scholars, and great fun for those fans of Twain , and of Tom and Huck , who will always be kids at heart ... " A Tom Sawyer Companion - An Autobiographical Guided Tour with Mark Twain " ... edited by John D. Evans ... published by University Press of America , Maryland ... 1993 Hardcover *. New . USD 29.95** [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2643] Book number: 3172 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	FABRE, MICHEL J. / REF: RICHARD WRIGHT Richard Wright , the World of . . . 1908 - 1960 - Critical Essays on Wright, Wright's Poetry & Early Prose , By Michel J. Fabre - Center for the Study of Southern Culture Series Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 6 x 9-1/4 x 3/4 " 0878052585 1985 Hardcover in DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... This is a handsome book ... Black cloth over boards with Gold gilt title on spine, in glossy black photographic jacket, with B&W photo of Richard Wright, from the Archives of the Special Collections at the University of Mississippi ... Author Michel Fabre is Professor of American Studies and director for Afro-American Studies and New Literatures in English at the Universite de la Sorbonne Nouvelle ... He is author of " The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright " ...and coeditor, with Ellen Wright, of the " Richard Wright Reader " ... Richard Wright , 1908 - 1960 , the Mississippi-born black writher, saw himself as ' an outsider between two cultures ' ... a man searching ... In these 12 essays written over the last two decades, Michel Fabre, Wright's biographer, follows Wright's search in an investigation of the novelist's life and career ... Although the essays were not originally intended as a collection their organization here underscores Wright's literary and intellectual development ... The pieces here range in time from a bibliographical study of Wright's first scanty personal library, to his interest at the end of his life in Negritude and African writing ... Other essays probe his first use of the Gothic and his subsequent first efforts at ' naturalistic ' fiction, in which he moved away from the ideology of the American Communist Party , to which he had belonged for some 10 years after 1933, to more personal modes of self-expression ... Also explored here are Wright's use of the psychological approach, his interest in the link between sex and racism, and his obsessive exploration of the unconscious determinants in so-called criminal behavior ... One essay examines Wright's poetry from the days when he wrote ideological poems published in New Masses and other radical magazines ... to his later composition of blues ... to his final mastery of the Japanese poetic form of haiku ... Included here is an interview with Simone de Beauvoir, who discusses her friendship with Wright ... In an essay never before published, Fabre explores the relationship of Wright ... as much a son of Mississippi as is William Faulkner ... not only to the South, but to his illiterate sharecropper father and Wright's use of both as negative metaphors in his work ... Also delves into Wright's view of his past, and his use of it in an ideological construction that asserts, in the best Afro-American literary tradition, the development of a Promethean will toward education and literacy ... Wright got an opportunity to write through the Federal Writers' Project,"The Ethics of Living Jim Crow" appearing in American Stuff: WPA Writers' Anthology. He published poetry & short stories in such magazines as Left Front, Anvil, and New Masses. He helped to launch the magazine New Challenge with his "Blueprint for Negro Writing" appearing in the first and only issue. " Uncle Tom's Children " was published to wide acclaim. "Fire and Cloud" won him the O. Henry Memorial Award. After winning a Guggenheim Fellowship, Wright resigned from the Federal Writers' Project. His " Native Son " published 1940 in March was a Book-of-the-Month Club main selection; even though it was banned in the libraries of Birmingham, Alabama , it brought Wright internatinal fame. In reaction to the American racism he experienced, Wright decided to become a resident of France; he had considerable company as an exile in Paris at the time, James Baldwin, Chester Himes & Ralph Ellison a few amongst the legendary presences of the era. Wright also met with Martin Luther King. He travelled extensively, even going to Argentina in 1951 to play Bigger in a film production of " Native Son ". Late in 1952, he began a novel about a white psychopathic murderer; The Outsider, his novel about a white psychopathic murderer, was published in 1953, and widely acclaimed as the first existential American novel. He wrote a play " Daddy Goodness " , which opened in Paris in the 50s, and an extensive collection of his haiku poetry. Subject to requests for editing, and sometimes maddening censorship, even in death, many of his pieces were shelved in his lifetime, and some of the 'steamy' passages from his posthumously published " American Hunger " were even cut completely in the first publication. Wright died in Paris at the too-young age of 52 ... but his work lives on with the best of 20th century American literature ... " The World of Richard Wright " ... by Michel Fabre ... published by the University of Mississippi Press, Jackson ... 1985 ... Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New/New . USD 44.95** [Appr.: EURO 30 \| £UK 27.25 \| JP¥ 3967] Book number: 6026 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	FREEDMAN, CARL / ISAAC ASIMOV Isaac Asimov , Conversations with . . . ( Literary Conversations Series ) USA: University Press of Mississippi, 2005. 2005 Printing. Soft Cover. 6 x 9 " 1578067383 2005 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher .... Never opened, Never owned ... small red feltpen dot bottom edge ... Gift Giving quality ... 170 pages with index ... Literary Conversations Series - writer Isaac Asimov ... Contents: Introduction ... Chronology ... Books by Isaac Asimov ... Science Fiction: The New Mythology by Thomas D. Clareson... Isaac Asimov: Man of 7,560,000 Words by Lewis Nichols ... Untitled Interview from Words and Their Masters by Israel Shenker ... A Conversation with Isaac Asimov by Earl G. Ingersoll ... An Interview with Isaac Asimov by James Gunn ... The Plowboy Interview: Isaac Asimov -- Science, Technology ... and Space! by Pat Stone ... and much more ... " Conversations with Isaac Asimov ( Literary Conversations Series)," edited by Carl Freedman, published by University Press of Mississippi, 2005 softcover ... *. NEW . USD 14.95** [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1319] Book number: 6199 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	GAMBONE, PHILIP ED. / ROBERT GIARD Something Inside - Conversations with Gay Fiction Writers , By Philip Gambone . . . Illustrated with Photographs By Robert Giard . . . Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. 2nd Printing. Soft Cover. Robert Giard Photographs. 6 x 9" 029916134X 1999 Softcover , 2nd printing ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Gift Giving quality ... 341 pages ... illustrated with B&W photos by Robert Giard ... Phillip Gambone offers a collective portrait of important gay fiction writers ... " Something inside - Conversations with Gay Fiction Writers " ... edited by Philip Gambone ... illustrated with photographs by Robert Giard ... published by the University of Wisconsin Press 1999 softcover *. NEW . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 3431 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	GARD, ROGER / REF: JANE AUSTEN Jane Austen's Novels - the Art of Clarity - Discussion of the Works of Austen London: Yale University Pub, 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 6-1/4 x 9-1/2 x 1" 0300054947 1992 Hardcover in DJ 1st Edition ... Brand new from publisher , imported from London ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... 261 pages with index ... This is a handsome boook; Midnight Blue cloth over boards, with Gold gilt titles on spine, in glossy color jacket with matching midnight blue inside flaps; Jacket cover illustration detail from J.M.W. Turner painting " Petworth : The Old Library, c. 1828 " ... Author Roger Gard, presently Reader in English at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, has previously written books on Jane Austen, as well as on Henry James, and on the subject of teaching of English literature and fiction in schools ... He is quoted as saying, with regard to Jane Austen : " it may sound absurd to say that a novelist sometimes needs to be protected from her admirers. Nevertheless ... " .... Although Jane Austen has long been England's best-loved novelist, much criticism in modern times has tended to ignore the sheer appeal and accessibility of her novels ... and instead to treat them as mere material ... the preserve of academics, feminists, historical specialists, and would-be radical theorists ... This book is at once a thoughtful and detailed discussion of Austen's oeuvre and a provocative and witty commentary , that will stimulate all readers ... This book offers lively and perceptive discussions of the six major novels .. Northanger Abbey ... Sense and Sensibility ... Pride and Prejudice ... Mansfield Park ... Emma ... and Persuasion ... together with the early " Lady Susan " ... and the unfinished " Sanditon " ... The precise nature and scope of Austen's realism ... her particularly English approach to the world ... and the characteristic blend in her work of a sharp scepticism about human nature and its banality .. with an idealism about human virtue ... are themes which recur throughout this study .... The book is moreover notable for the original and striking links it makes between Jane Austen and other notable authors ... ranging from Shakespeare to Flaubert, Lawrence, George Eliot and Barbara Pym ... Albeit on a much discussed topic, the beloved Jane Austen, this book nontheless has something new to say in every chapter, and the author says it with authority and with style ... Leonce Ormond at Kings College, University of London, says of this work that it is " ... sharp and exciting ... brilliant in the best sense " ... Kate Fullbrook of Bristol Polytechnic says it is " An extremely fine and elegantly written study of Jane Austen's novels. It should appeal to a wide range of readers ... " .... " Jane Austen's Novels - The Art of Clarity " ... by Roger Gard ... published by Yale University Press, London ... 1992 ... First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket *. New/New . USD 69.95** [Appr.: EURO 46.75 \| £UK 42.25 \| JP¥ 6174] Book number: 3247 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	GOLDBERG, JONATHAN Generation of Caliban, the . . . The 2001 Garnett Sedgewick Memorial Lecture Vancouver: Ronsdale Pub, 2002. First Printing. Soft Cover. 5-1/2 x 9 " 0921870930 Softcover .... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Gift Giving quality ... 36 pages ... The Sedgewick lecture is named in honour of Garnett G. Sedgewick, who was the first Head of the Department of English, and the first lecture was given in 1955 , six years after his death) ... Over the years, many distinguished scholars and writers have given the Sedgewick Lecture - Robert Heilman, Harry Levin, Hugh MacLennon, Northrop Frye, Robert Bringhurst, and Sandra Djwa, to name a few ... 2002's Sedgewick lecturer is Dr. Jonathan Goldberg, Sir William Osler Professor of English Literature at Johns Hopkins University ... In his University of British Columbia Sedgewick lecture for 2001, Professor Jonathan Goldberg explores the ways in which contemporary writers and critics have identified with Shakespeare's figure of Caliban in his play The Tempest as a means of exploring the relationship of the colonized to the colonizer. Examining the work of the great Barbadian novelist and critic George Lamming, Goldberg details the various ways in which contemporary writers have re-interpreted Caliban and the language imposed on him. In its simplest articulation, language is seen merely as a means of exploiting the colonial - Caliban being able to use language only for cursing - but in its more sophisticated usage, language can be employed by the colonized as a means of understanding their condition and as an opening to futurity ... Nor is this "futurity" in terms of social relations only since, as Goldberg points out, Lamming imagines generation as outside the normal heterosexual roles ... The readings of The Tempest offered by Lamming and others (including Sylvia Wynter and Michelle Cliff), Goldberg suggests, invite us to return to Shakespeare's play and to see in it new possibilities. Included also in the pamphlet are a number of black and white illustrations of Caliban, dating from a 1736 Hogarth to present-day stage representations, and a portrait of George Lamming ... Author Jonathan Goldberg is Sir William Osler Professor of English Literature at the Johns Hopkins University. The author of seven books, he is known for his work in the Renaissance and in the relation between the Renaissance and Queer Studies ... " The Generation of Caliban - The 2001 Garnett Sedgewick Memorial Lecture " ... by Jonathan Goldberg ... published by Ronsdale Publishing , Vancouver ... 2002 softcover first *. NEW . USD 9.95** [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 878] Book number: 4725 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	GROBEL LAWRENCE ED. / SAUL BELLOW , RAY BRADBURY, ALLEN GINSBERG ET AL Endangered Species - 12 Writers Talk About Writing & Their Lives - Interviews with Saul Bellow , Ray Bradbury , Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, Neil Simon & More . . Massachusetts: Da Capo Pub, 2001. First Thus. Soft Cover. 6 x 9 " 0306810042 2001 Softcover ... Brand new from the publisher ... Never opened , Never owned ... feltpen mark bottom edge ... Gift Giving quality ... 416 pages ... Interviews with writers ... Saul Bellow ... Ray Bradbury ... J.P. Donleavy ... James Ellroy ... Allen Ginsberg ... Andrew Greeley ... Alex Haley ... Joseph Heller ... Elmore Leonard ... Norman Mailer ... Joyce Carol Oates ... Neil Simon ...Twelve writers memorably state their case for what they do ... and how they do it ... And they even offer an opinion or two about other writers ... and about the entire publishing food chain ... from agents ... to publishers ... to booksellers ... to critics ... to readers ... " Endangered Species - Writers Talk About their Craft , their Visions , their Lives " ... edited by Lawrence Grobel ... published by Da Capo , Massachusettes ... 2001 softcover *. NEW . USD 16.95** [Appr.: EURO 11.5 \| £UK 10.25 \| JP¥ 1496] Book number: 2812 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	HALL, K.G. Exalted Heroine and the Triumph of Order , the - Class , Women and Religion in the English Novel 1740 - 1800 Maryland: Barnes & Noble, 1994. Reprint. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 6 x 8 " 0389210013 1994 Hardcover in DJ ... This is the B&N reprint of the 1982 edition ... Brand new from publisher ... last one ... Never opened , Never owned ... feltpen mark bottom edge .... Jacket protected in New, non-stick clear mylar sleeve ...Gift Giving quality ... 172 pages ... The first part of this study provides background information to the 18th century English novel ... and includes discussion of the relationship between literature and ideology ... literary realism ... the fiction reading and purchasing public ... and authorial attention and technique ... The second puts the focus on 7 diverse, yet representative, novels of the period .... paying particular attention to the presentation of class, women and religion in the works examined ...Part I: Literature and Ideology; The Novel and Society: 1740-1800; Part II: Samuel Richardson: "Pamela" (1740); Sarah Fielding: "David Simple" (1744); Henry Fielding: "Amelia" (1751); Oliver Goldsmith: "The Vicar of Wakefield" (1766); Richard Graves: "The Spiritual Quixote" (1773); Fanny Burney: "Evelina" (1778); Robert Bage: "Hermsprong" (1796); The Exalted Heroine and the Triumph of Order ... " The Exalted Heroine and the Triumph of Order - Class , Women and Religion in the English Novel 1740 - 1800 " ... by K.G. Hall ... published by B&N , Maryland 1994 Hardcover in Dustjacket *. New/New . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 3754 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	HAYMAN, RONALD / REF : TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Tennessee Williams - Everyone Else Is an Audience New Haven / London: Yale University Press, 1994. First. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 x 1 " 0300054149 1994 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... BRAND NEW from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Still sealed in original publisher's shrinkwrap ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 288 pages ... illustrated with photographs ... ' Williams modeled his theater on his life and on the childhood that had made him into a neurotic who ran away from private confrontations by making his life into a nonstop performance ... More autobiographical than they seem, his plays are full of outcasts, misfits, and fugitives ... the typical heroes are no less frighened , difficult, odd, and lonely ' .... ' Ronald Hayman analyzes the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Tennessee Williams ( 1911-1983 ) , in a study that emphasizes the extent to which Williams based his plays on the events of his life ... Born into a Mississippi family with an alcoholic father and a mentally ill sister, Williams, a homosexual, subsequently found his adult relationships difficult ... He conducted numerous casual affairs and abused his long-term lovers emotionally ... Hayman theorizes that the disturbed and violent characters in such plays as The Glass Menagerie , A Streetcar Named Desire and other works were based on the playwright's family and friends, as well as on Williams himself ... After his initial theatrical successes in the 1940s and '50s, Williams became addicted to drugs and alcohol and led a self-destructive life ' ... Thomas E. Luddy of Salem State College, Massachusettes, says of this book : ' Hayman's scholarly biography examines the connection between the people in Williams's life and his plays. Filled with photographic memorabilia that is most touching, the book shows that the subject's family, lovers, and companions who accompanied him on his journey through success to failure and decline turn up thematically in his work. As a chronicle of guilt, sexual excess, and drug abuse, this life is more than a detached narrative. It argues that Williams was a fugitive from loneliness and fear all his life, continually moving, with no permanent address, seeking comfort and peace in all the wrong places. By the end, the story becomes an image of American culture at its most fragile. For serious theater collections ' ... Tennessee Williams - Everyone Else is an Audience ' ... by Ronald Hayman ... published by Yale University Press, New Haven & London ... 1994 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... still sealed in original publisher's shrinkwrap ... *. New/New . USD 39.95** [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3526] Book number: 6077a Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.

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	ALEXANDER , CAROLINE / REF : SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Xanadu , the Way to - Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's Xanadu - a Quest Across 3 Continents to Discover the Source of His Literary Inspiration London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 6 x 8 " 0297813137 1993 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... 194 pages ... with illustration from the 1618 edition of Purchas Pilgrimage reproduced courtesy of the British Library ... As a British child growing up in North Florida , author Caroline Alexander first read the masterpiece of Samuel Taylor Coleridge , ' Kubla Khan ' ... Coleridge himself later claimed that the poem was composed in an opium reverie ... brought on " at the moment he was reading the following sentence in Purcha's Pilgrimage : ' Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace to be bu ilt, and a stately garden thereunto ' " ... Scholars have discussed the other contemporary works that influenced Coleridge ever since ... Was there really a place called Xanadu ... with its ' walls and towers ' ? ... What inspired the ' caves of ice ' ... ' the mighty fountain momently forced ' ... and the ' Abyssinian maid singing of Mount Abora ' ? ... In this brilliantly written literary travel book ... the author recounts a quest across 3 continents to discover ... ' the miracle of rare device ' ... the sources of Coleridge's inspiration ... " The Way to Xanadu " ... by Caroline Alexander ... published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson , London ... 1993 First Edition Hardcover in dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New/New . USD 29.95** [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2643] Book number: 1051 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	BELL-VILLADA, GENE H. / GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ Gabriel Garcia Marquez , Conversations with . . . ( Literary Conversations Series ) USA: University Press of Mississippi, 2006. 2006 Printing. Soft Cover. 6 x 9 " 1578067847 2006 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher .... Never opened, Never owned, never marked ... Gift Giving quality ... 200 pages with index ... Introduction ... Chronology ...The Yellow Trolley Car in Barcelona: An Interview by William Kennedy ... Journey Back to the Source by Ed Manifiesto ... Playboy Interview: Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Claudia Drifus ... Building a Compass by Gene H. Bell-Villada ... Love and Age: A Talk with Gabriel Marquez by Marlise Simons ... Much, much more ... " Conversations with Gabriel Garcia Marquez... ( Literary Conversations Series )," by Gene H. Bell-Villada, published by University Press of Mississippi, USA 2006 softcover ... *. NEW . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 6219 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	BERTON, PIERRE Joy of Writing, the . . a Guide for Writers, Disguised As a Literary Memoir - By Pierre Berton Toronto: Doubleday, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Illustrated. 6 -1/4 x 9 -1/2" 0385659970 2003 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... Brand new ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 317 pages ... Pierre Berton 's wise and witty writers' guide covers every aspect of creative non-fiction from the design of a best-selling book jacket to the care and feeding of editors ... The author of some fifty books, most of them best-sellers, Berton calls on half a century of writing experience to examine his craft, from the opening sentence of a major work to its closing paragraphs ... His discussions of prose style, cadence, and rhythm will prove invaluable to anyone contemplating a literary career ... Illustrated with actual facsimiles from his own typewritten manuscripts, the book shows how a narrative can change from draft to draft ... He discusses research procedures, his method of annotating and filing his notes, and the technique of recycling used material ... Berton uses lively anecdotes from his own career and those of others to outline an author's learning processes; and he doesn't shrink from confessing his own failures and blunders on the road to success ... Fellow writers will find his section on literary critics both rewarding and amusing, along with his technique for avoiding the dreaded "writer's block": and his method for battling insomnia during intensive periods of creation ... The Joy of Writing is replete with letters from would-be authors as well as harsh criticism Berton has received from tough editors (with which he agrees) ... Scattered throughout the book are thirty of Berton's own Rules for Writers, ranging from No. 1: Understand your audience to No. 30: Flatter your media host .. Anyone of any age, who has ambitions to write, will find The Joy of Writing invaluable and Berton's legions of fans will find it revealing ... "The Joy of Writing ... A guide for writers, disguised as a literary memoir" ... by Pierre Berton... published by Doubleday, Canada ... in English only ... 2003 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving condition *. New/New . USD 59.95** [Appr.: EURO 40 \| £UK 36.25 \| JP¥ 5291] Book number: 5216 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	BERTON, PIERRE Joy of Writing, the . . a Guide for Writers, Disguised As a Literary Memoir - By Pierre Berton Toronto: Doubleday, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Illustrated. 6 -1/4 x 9 -1/2" 0385659970 2003 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 317 pages ... Pierre Berton's wise and witty writers' guide covers every aspect of creative non-fiction from the design of a best-selling book jacket to the care and feeding of editors ... The author of some fifty books, most of them best-sellers, Berton calls on half a century of writing experience to examine his craft, from the opening sentence of a major work to its closing paragraphs ... His discussions of prose style, cadence, and rhythm will prove invaluable to anyone contemplating a literary career ... Illustrated with actual facsimiles from his own typewritten manuscripts, the book shows how a narrative can change from draft to draft ... He discusses research procedures, his method of annotating and filing his notes, and the technique of recycling used material ... Berton uses lively anecdotes from his own career and those of others to outline an author's learning processes; and he doesn't shrink from confessing his own failures and blunders on the road to success ... Fellow writers will find his section on literary critics both rewarding and amusing, along with his technique for avoiding the dreaded "writer's block": and his method for battling insomnia during intensive periods of creation ... The Joy of Writing is replete with letters from would-be authors as well as harsh criticism Berton has received from tough editors (with which he agrees) ... Scattered throughout the book are thirty of Berton's own Rules for Writers, ranging from No. 1: Understand your audience to No. 30: Flatter your media host .. Anyone of any age, who has ambitions to write, will find The Joy of Writing invaluable and Berton's legions of fans will find it revealing ... "The Joy of Writing ... A guide for writers, disguised as a literary memoir" ... by Pierre Berton... published by Doubleday, Canada ... in English only ... 2003 First Edition Hardcover in original Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving condition *. New/New . USD 49.95** [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4408] Book number: 5216c Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	BLADES, JOE ED. Jive Talk - George Fetherling ( Douglas ) in Interviews & Documents New Brunswick: Broken Jaw Pub, 2001. First. Soft Cover. 5 -1/2 x 8 -1/2 " 1896647545 2001 Softcover ... Brand New from publisher ... feltpen line and dot bottom edge ... 88 pages ... In the course of promoting and discussing the 50 books he's written or co-edited, George ( formerly Douglas ) Fetherling, once called "our ranking man of letters" by Books in Canada, has found himself interviewed about writers, trends and issues, as he's observed them from his extraordinary insider / outsider prospective ... Most such sessions have been of topical interest, but others, the ones collected and annotated in Jive Talk, evidence postdated testimony in Canadian literaary history ... By scouring sources both obvious and obscure ( from the Globe and Mail and Queen's Quarterly to defunct little magazines and the archives of community radio stations ), Joe Blades has pulled together highlights from three decades of this discontinuous commentary on Canada's writing life ... " Jive Talk " ... edited by Joe Blades ... 2001 Softcover ... published by Broken Jaw Pub, New Brunswick ... in English only *. NEW . USD 9.95** [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 878] Book number: 4801 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	BYATT, A.S. On Histories and Stories - Selected Essays . . . A.S. Byatt on the Renaissance of the Historical Novel , the Wartime Experience Novels , the Darwinian Novel , the Myth , Folk & Fairy Tale Revival , Arabian Nights & Shakespeare, William Golding & More London: Chatto & Windus, 2000. Later Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 070116946X 2000 Hardcover in DJ , later printing ... Brand new from publisher ... Last one ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked .. Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 196 pages ... In recent years many novelists have become increasingly interested in history as fiction ... and fiction as history ... In her powerful opening essays - ' Fathers ', ' Forefathers ' and ' Ancestors ' - writer A .S. Byatt considers the renaissance of the historical novel ... She discusses particularly the novel of wartime experience ... the surprising variety of distant pasts that British writers have invented ... and the new ' Darwinian novel ' , which has been stimulated in part by the discovery of DNA ... These afford new readings of writers from Elizabeth Bowen and Henry Greene ... to Anthony Burgess ... William Golding and Muriel Spark ... and other contemporary authors, including Penelope Fitzgerald, Julian Barnes, Martin Amis, John Fuller, Hilary Mantel and Pat Barker ... This book also offers a fascinating insight into the author's own translation of historical fact into fiction ... in the two novellas which make up " Angels and Insects " ... while in ' Old Stories, New Forms, ' she explores the recent European revival of interest in myth, folk tales and fairy tales ... Also two short peices look in detail at at the perennial appeal of Particular Stories : The Arabian Nigh ts ... ' the greatest stories ever told ' and a cluster of tales of ice, snow, and glass, from ' Snow White ' and ' The Snow Queen ' to the mysterious, ' stony ' women of Shakespeare and George Eliot ... Vivid, profound, and full of original insig hts, this fascinating book redraws the map of the boundaries of fiction today ... " On Histories and Stories - Selected Essays " ... by A.S. Byatt ... published by Chatto & Windus , London 2000 ... Hardcover in Dustjacket ... *. New/New . USD 29.95** [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2643] Book number: 4480 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	CONTAG, KIMBERLY Mockery in Spanish Golden Age Literature - Analysis of Burlesque Representation - Text in English Only Maryland: University Press of America, 1996. First. Hard Cover. 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 " 0761803734 1996 Hardcover 1st Edition ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned ... * Please Note ; thick red feltpen mark bottom edge , with tiny bit of bleed through to bottom tip of blank part of pages, does not affect any text. Otherwise handsome book; black lightly textured boards with gold gilt tittles on spine ... 214 pages ... index and bibliography ... all in English only ... includes : Burlesque & the literatue of the Golden Age of Imperial Spain ... Burlesque & the Meaningful Coincidence of Brilliant Letters & Miserable Realities ... The Artifice of Burlesque ... Modes of Representing the Critical Issues of Imperial Spain ... Burlesque & The Modern Battlefield of Literary Theory and Cultural Historiography ... Arguments for a Model of MBurlesque Literature - A Case for Don Quixote ... Strategies toward Burlesque - Toward a Common Denominator, the Intimacy , History, Historical Uses & Abuses, and Age of Burlesque ... Literature of the Spanish Baroque ... Laughter and Serious Concern ... The Case of Two Sonnets - Gongora's Entrando en Valladolid & estando alli la Corte ... Representation in the Quevedesque Tradition ... Social Issues El descasamentero ... Entertainment & Social Consequences Retablo de las Maravillas ... Burlesque & Scholarly Enquiry ... and a chapter devoted to Don Quixote ... Mockery & Reason, Cervantes ' working definition of Burlesque mockery , patters in DQ ... Counterfeit & mock-heroic ... locating patterns, seriocomic and economy of Burlesque mockery & more ... " Mockery in Spanish Golden Age Literature - Analysis of Burlesque Representation " in the literature of Spain ... edited by Kimberly Contag , Associate Professor of Spanish at Mankato State University in Minnesota ... published by the University Press of America , Maryland 1996 Hardcover First Edition ... *. New . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 1410 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	COOTE, STEPHEN / REF. SAMUEL PEPYS ) Samuel Pepys - a Life London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 0340751231 2000 First Edition HARDCOVER in DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 397 pages ... illustrated with 8 pages glossy B&W photographs ... This biography of one of the most popular and interesting figures in English history, was long overdue ... Famed diarist Samuel Pepys was a highly energetic man, closely involved in his strenuous and exciting times ... Here is an irresistable combination of public events and private passions, but above all this is a story of warmth and achievement, of affections and sadnesses, and of great things done by a man from no very special background who had to make his own way in the world ... ' Coote brings off Pepys's turbulent life colorfully and with sympathy. As biographer of Charles I, Coote had consulted the 1660-1669 diaries of Pepys and, for good reason, could not put the volumes down. As Clerk of the Works, Pepys was the efficient bureaucrat who administered the navy and managed, in the process, to be involved in nearly every major event in post-Cromwell Britain and to know everyone who counted, either as ally or enemy. Shrewd and nimble, he was exhaustingly convivial, constantly curious and calculatingly ambitious. As Coote writes, "Public office was indeed a way to private riches." Little of it failed to make his diary. The reader lives through the Great Plague, the Great Fire of London, the restoration of the king and the wars for regional supremacy. But Pepys lived on until 1703, 34 years after the diary stopped, battling to keep Charles II in power and clinging to his own perquisites as long as he could. As a boy he had pushed through the crowd to watch the execution of Charles I. Later, as a toppled officeholder "so dangerously able and so loud in the assertion of his own virtues," he nearly lost his own head. Coote informs as he entertains. One even learns such things as what "umble pie" really was. No academic read, Samuel Pepys will appeal to a broad, and broad-minded, audience.' ... " Samuel Pepys - A Life " ... by Stephen Coote ... published by Hodder & Stoughton , London 2000 ... First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. NEW/NEW . USD 49.95** [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4408] Book number: 4804 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	CRABBE, GEORGE / FELIX PRYOR , ED. Voluntary Insane , the - the Long - Suppressed Poem of George Crabbe ( 1754 - 1832 ) - the Favorite Poet of Byron & of Jane Austen . . . First Publication of a Masterpiece of the Romantic Age London: Richard Cohen Pub, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 9 x 5 - 1/2 " 1860660258 1995 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Gift Giving quality ... Never opened , Never owned ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear Mylar sleeve ... 110 pages ... with illustrated end pages & dustjacket ... This fascinating book is the first publication of one of the masterpieces of the Romantic Age .... George Crabbe ( 1754-1832) was a favorite poet of Byron ... Scott and ... particularly ... of Jane Austen ... This is a highly dramatic and acutely-observed tragedy ... describing the murder of a baby by a young girl ... and the ' voluntary ' insanity that follows ... The poem is edited by Felix Pryor ... who discovered it among the papers of an ancestor ... Sarah Hoare ... who was Crabbe's closest friend at the end of his life ... and also his unofficial literary executor ... The editor's introduction by Pryoar explores the extraordinary links between the shocking subject matter of the poem ... and the tragedies that affected Crabbe himself ... which included his drug addiction ... the madness of his wife following the death of her children ... and a tainted inheritence ... He argues that it was these autobiog raphical origins ... as well as the shocking nature of the story itself ... that led to the poem's original suppression for so many years ... even though in it Crabbe succeeds ... where many of his greatest contemporaries failed ... in producin g a tragedy of Shakespearian power .... Editor Felix Pryor is editor of The Fabor Book of Letters and author of The Mirror and the Globe, a study of the ' little eyases ' in Hamlet ... he has also contributed an article on ' Nelson the Letter Writer ' to the Royal Naval Museum's Nelson Companion ... He is descended from the sister of Sarah Hoare, the original owner of the manuscript of this long-lost poem ... The front cover of the pictorial dj shows a detail of a portrait of Sarah Hoare, the original owner of the manuscript, by an unknown artist ... as well as a copy made by Sarah Hoare of the portrait of George Crabbe by Thomas Phillips R.A. on the back ... decorated end pages are illustrated with with watercolor by Sarah Hoare, showing Samuel Hoare at Heath House, Hamstead, in an imaginary gallery hung with portraits of his friends ... " The Voluntary Insane " ... by George Crabbe ... edited by Felix Pryor ... published by Richard Cohen Books, London ... 1995 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality . NEW/New . USD 19.95 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 906 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	DAVIES, HUNTER / ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Robert Louis Stevenson , in Search of the Teller of Tall Tales . . . Places Associated with Rls , from Birthplace in Scotland , to France, California & Samoa . . . With Photographs London: Sinclair - Stevenson Pub, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 6 x 9-1/2 " 1856192636 1994 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Jacket protected in New clear non-stick mylar sleeve ... 290 pages ... illustrated with 16 pages of historical B&W photographs ... Robert Louis Stevenson gave travel writing a good name ... He also gave it one of its best-known observations ... ' to travel hopefully is a better t hing than to arrive ' ... He travelled in the past ... producing his historic adventure stories ... such as Kidnapped ... Catriona ... and Treasure Island ... He travelled in his imagination ... creating Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ... And he travel led in real life ... on a donkey in the Cevennes ... and across the Pacific to Samoa ... where he died in 1894 ... To mark the centenniel of Stevenson's death ... the author went travelling with him ... searching out the man and his motivation ... following him in the past and in the present ... He visited those places which will always be associated with Stevenson ... from his birthplace in Edinburgh, Scotland ... to France ... to California ... and then his final home in the Pacifi c ... His book is half travel, half biography ... And all of it is entertaining, amusing and informative ... " The Teller of Tales - In Search of Robert Louis Stevenson " ... by Hunter Davies ... published by Sinclair-Stevenson Publishing, London ... 1994 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New/New . USD 49.95** [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4408] Book number: 987a Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	DAVIES, HUNTER / ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Robert Louis Stevenson , in Search of the Teller of Tall Tales . . . Places Associated with Rls , from Birthplace in Scotland , to France, California & Samoa . . . With Photographs London: Sinclair - Stevenson Pub, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 6 x 9-1/2 " 1856192636 1994 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Jacket protected in New clear non-stick mylar sleeve ... 290 pages ... illustrated with 16 pages of historical B&W photographs ... Robert Louis Stevenson gave travel writing a good name ... He also gave it one of its best-known observations ... ' to travel hopefully is a better t hing than to arrive ' ... He travelled in the past ... producing his historic adventure stories ... such as Kidnapped ... Catriona ... and Treasure Island ... He travelled in his imagination ... creating Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ... And he travel led in real life ... on a donkey in the Cevennes ... and across the Pacific to Samoa ... where he died in 1894 ... To mark the centenniel of Stevenson's death ... the author went travelling with him ... searching out the man and his motivation ... following him in the past and in the present ... He visited those places which will always be associated with Stevenson ... from his birthplace in Edinburgh, Scotland ... to France ... to California ... and then his final home in the Pacific ... His book is half travel, half biography ... And all of it is entertaining, amusing and informative ... " The Teller of Tales - In Search of Robert Louis Stevenson " ... by Hunter Davies ... published by Sinclair-Stevenson Publishing, London , 1994 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket *. New/New . USD 49.95** [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4408] Book number: 987 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	DELILLO, DON / THOMAS DEPIETRO Don Delillo , Conversations with . . . Jackson: University Mississippi Press, 2005. First. Soft Cover. 6 x 9 " 1578067049 2005 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ..... tiny faint crease top some pages back ... Gift Giving quality ... 183 pages with index and Chronolgy of DeLillo's life & works ... Don DeLillo says " There are so many temptations for American writers to become part of the system and part of the structure that now, more than ever, we have to resist. American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous " ... This fascinating book contains besides the introduction 17 interviews with DeLillo , from 1982 to 2001 ... with many writers, such as Jody McAuliffe, Robert Harris, William Goldstein, Kevin Connolly, and many more ... " Conversations with Don DeLillo " ... compiled & with introduction by Thomas Depietro ... published by the University of Mississippi Press, Jackson *. NEW . USD 14.95** [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1319] Book number: 5876 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	DISCH, THOMAS M. Dreams Our Stuff Is Made of, the - How Science Fiction Conquered the World - By Thomas M. Disch - Sci Fi 's Impact on Technology, Fashion, Lifestyle , Miltary , Media & More - Through the Books, Movies & T.V. Shows That Have Shaped Us New York: Touchstone, 1998. First. Soft Cover. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2" 0684859785 1999 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned ... short thin feltpen mark bottom edge ... Gift Giving quality ... 256 pages ... From one of science fiction's most acclaimed novelists ... comes this engrossing journey through the books ... movies ... and television TV programs that have shaped our perspective ... of both the present & the future ... In an uncompromising ... often irrever ent survey of the genre of sci fi ... from Edgar Allan Poe ... to Philip K. Dick ... to Star Trek ... author Thomas M. Disch analyzes science fiction's impact on technological innovation ... fashion ... lifestyle ... military strategy ... the me dia ... & much more ... An illuminating look at the art of science fiction ... with a practitioner's insight into the craft ... as well as a work of pointed literary and cultural criticism ... this book reveals of how this " pulp genre " has captured the popular imagination ... while transforming the physical and social world in which we live ... " The Dreams Our Stuff is Made of - How Science Fiction Conquered the World " ... by Thomas M. Disch ... published by Touchstone , New York ... 1998 Softcover *. NEW . USD 9.95** [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 878] Book number: 1783 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	ELLIS, JOHN M. Literature Lost - Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities New York: Yale University Pub, 1997. First. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 x 1 " 0300069200 1997 Hardcover in DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 262 pages with index ... In the span of less than a generation, university humanities departments have experienced an almost unbelievable reversal of attitudes, now attacking & undermining what had previously been considered best and most worthy in the Western tradition ... John M. Ellis here scrutinzes the new regime in humanistic studies ... He offers a careful, intelligent analysis that exposes the weaknesses of notions that are fashionable in humanities today. In a clear voice, with forceful logic, he speaks out against the orthodoxy that has installed race, gender, and class perspectives at the center of college humanities curricula ... Ellis begins by showing that political correctness is a recurring impulse of Western society and one that has a discouraging history. He reveals the contradictions and misconceptions that surround the new orthodoxy and demonstrates how it is most deficent just where it imagines itself to be superior ... Ellis contends that humanistic education today, far from being historically aware, relies on anachronistic thinking;far from being skeptical of Western values, represents a ruthless and unskeptical Western extremism; far from being valuable in bringing political perspectives to bear, presents politics that are crude and unreal; far from being sophisticated in matters of "theory," is largely ignorant of the range and history of critical theory; far from valuing diversity, is unable to respond to the great sweep of literature ... In a concluding chapter, Ellis surveys the damage that has been done to higher education and examines the prospects for change ... " Literature Lost - Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities " ... by John M. Ellis ... published by Yale University Press, New York ... 1997 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New/New . USD 22.95** [Appr.: EURO 15.5 \| £UK 14 \| JP¥ 2026] Book number: 5925 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	EMERSON, EVERETT ED. Major Writers of Early American Literature Wisconsin: University Wisconsin Press, 1976. First. Soft Cover. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2" 0299061949 1976 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned, Never marked ... Gift Giving quality ... 310 pages ... " An outstanding collection of original critical essays ... by distinguished specialists ... this book is both a chronological survey of nearly 200 years of American literature ... and an exciting reappraisal of the major figures of that period ... indispensable for undergraduate and gr aduate collections ... this book makes solid, documented claims for our early writers ... while resisting the temptation to overpraise and to distort ... Each essay contains a bibliography ... and an index is provided " ... " Major Writers of Early American Literature " ... edited by Everett Emerson ... published by the University of Wisconsin Press ... 1976 softcover ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New/New . USD 14.95** [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1319] Book number: 3473 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	ENRIGHT, DOMINIQUE Euphemisms -the Meanings and Memoirs of . . . In Other Words London: Michael O'Mara Pub, 2005. Later Printing 2005. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 5 - 1/2 x 8 - 1/2 " 1843171449 2005 Hardcover in DJ, later printing ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned, Never marked ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Jacket protected in New, clear non-stick mylar sleeve ... 160 pages ... From sex and superstition to warfare and death, euphemisms exist for all sorts of subjects and every kind of communication ..Be your aim the dirty joke, the cover-up, an explanation of 'the birds and bees' or a victory in the next election, euphemism is the secret weapon that illuminates even as it obscures, and obscures even as it illuminates ... 'In Other Words' is the indespensible guide to the euphenism, steering you through the multiplicity of evasions on offer, while also providing defintiions and histories for a host of well-known phrases ... Learn to see your estate agent's sychophantic speil at the first mention of 'bijou'; be blinded no more by politicians' doublespeak and duplicity; discover just how many euphenisms there are for 'toilet'; and, perhaps most importantly, get up to speed with yout naughty bits and sexual quips ... So whether you're about to 'meet your maker,' or even make the beast with two backs', 'In Other Words' explains and celebrates the humble euphemism ... Arranged thematically, it's a one-stop shop for 'Jiminy Cricket' and 'Rose Palm' (not to mention her five beautiful daughters) ... Confused? ... This book explains all - cutting to the chase, calling a spade a spade ... and divulging a whole lot more besides ... " In Other Words : The Meanings and Memoirs of Euphemisms" ... by Dominique Enright ... published by Michael O'Mara Publishing , London ... 2005 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. NEW/New . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 5700 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	EVANS, JOHN D. / MARK TWAIN Tom Sawyer Companion , a - an Autobiographical Guided Tour with Mark Twain - Illustrated Maryland: University Press of America, 1993. First. Hard Cover. Photos. 6 x 9 " 0819190594 1993 Hardcover 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned ... feltpen mark bottom edge ... Gift Giving quality ... 113 pages ... illustrated with B&W photographs ... Mark Twain wrote from his own richly varied experiences in life, and, luckily for his readers and fans, left a great deal of autobiographical material richly detailing his experiences. His autobiography as well as all his letters, notebooks, and text of his speeches, show us many events similar to those in "Tom Sawyer" and he has been seen as the personal embodiment of a grown up ( well, almost ! ) Tom. This book gives excerpts from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" in juxtaposition with excerpts from Twain's own personal writings, to show that delightful admission of Twain coming true. Evans presents 46 episodes, in order of occurrence, from "Tom Sawyer" & adds editorial commentary only in order to clarify the links presented between plot synopsis of Twain's "fiction" writing & his autobiographical material. This is a delightful, and insightful, look at Twain's childhood with a focus on the events that shaped not only his later life but his art, in the form of the classic literature that has been beloved by generations of readers of all ages ... Many hours of happy enjoyment, picturing the grown-up Twain, who was always nattily attired in his later years in white suit and mustache, paradoxically barefoot with a fishing line tied to his toe on the banks of the Mississippi River, watching the paddlewheelers go by ... A worthwhile read for Sawyer studies, Twain scholars, and great fun for those fans of Twain , and of Tom and Huck , who will always be kids at heart ... " A Tom Sawyer Companion - An Autobiographical Guided Tour with Mark Twain " ... edited by John D. Evans ... published by University Press of America , Maryland ... 1993 Hardcover *. New . USD 29.95** [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2643] Book number: 3172 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	FABRE, MICHEL J. / REF: RICHARD WRIGHT Richard Wright , the World of . . . 1908 - 1960 - Critical Essays on Wright, Wright's Poetry & Early Prose , By Michel J. Fabre - Center for the Study of Southern Culture Series Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 6 x 9-1/4 x 3/4 " 0878052585 1985 Hardcover in DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... This is a handsome book ... Black cloth over boards with Gold gilt title on spine, in glossy black photographic jacket, with B&W photo of Richard Wright, from the Archives of the Special Collections at the University of Mississippi ... Author Michel Fabre is Professor of American Studies and director for Afro-American Studies and New Literatures in English at the Universite de la Sorbonne Nouvelle ... He is author of " The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright " ...and coeditor, with Ellen Wright, of the " Richard Wright Reader " ... Richard Wright , 1908 - 1960 , the Mississippi-born black writher, saw himself as ' an outsider between two cultures ' ... a man searching ... In these 12 essays written over the last two decades, Michel Fabre, Wright's biographer, follows Wright's search in an investigation of the novelist's life and career ... Although the essays were not originally intended as a collection their organization here underscores Wright's literary and intellectual development ... The pieces here range in time from a bibliographical study of Wright's first scanty personal library, to his interest at the end of his life in Negritude and African writing ... Other essays probe his first use of the Gothic and his subsequent first efforts at ' naturalistic ' fiction, in which he moved away from the ideology of the American Communist Party , to which he had belonged for some 10 years after 1933, to more personal modes of self-expression ... Also explored here are Wright's use of the psychological approach, his interest in the link between sex and racism, and his obsessive exploration of the unconscious determinants in so-called criminal behavior ... One essay examines Wright's poetry from the days when he wrote ideological poems published in New Masses and other radical magazines ... to his later composition of blues ... to his final mastery of the Japanese poetic form of haiku ... Included here is an interview with Simone de Beauvoir, who discusses her friendship with Wright ... In an essay never before published, Fabre explores the relationship of Wright ... as much a son of Mississippi as is William Faulkner ... not only to the South, but to his illiterate sharecropper father and Wright's use of both as negative metaphors in his work ... Also delves into Wright's view of his past, and his use of it in an ideological construction that asserts, in the best Afro-American literary tradition, the development of a Promethean will toward education and literacy ... Wright got an opportunity to write through the Federal Writers' Project,"The Ethics of Living Jim Crow" appearing in American Stuff: WPA Writers' Anthology. He published poetry & short stories in such magazines as Left Front, Anvil, and New Masses. He helped to launch the magazine New Challenge with his "Blueprint for Negro Writing" appearing in the first and only issue. " Uncle Tom's Children " was published to wide acclaim. "Fire and Cloud" won him the O. Henry Memorial Award. After winning a Guggenheim Fellowship, Wright resigned from the Federal Writers' Project. His " Native Son " published 1940 in March was a Book-of-the-Month Club main selection; even though it was banned in the libraries of Birmingham, Alabama , it brought Wright internatinal fame. In reaction to the American racism he experienced, Wright decided to become a resident of France; he had considerable company as an exile in Paris at the time, James Baldwin, Chester Himes & Ralph Ellison a few amongst the legendary presences of the era. Wright also met with Martin Luther King. He travelled extensively, even going to Argentina in 1951 to play Bigger in a film production of " Native Son ". Late in 1952, he began a novel about a white psychopathic murderer; The Outsider, his novel about a white psychopathic murderer, was published in 1953, and widely acclaimed as the first existential American novel. He wrote a play " Daddy Goodness " , which opened in Paris in the 50s, and an extensive collection of his haiku poetry. Subject to requests for editing, and sometimes maddening censorship, even in death, many of his pieces were shelved in his lifetime, and some of the 'steamy' passages from his posthumously published " American Hunger " were even cut completely in the first publication. Wright died in Paris at the too-young age of 52 ... but his work lives on with the best of 20th century American literature ... " The World of Richard Wright " ... by Michel Fabre ... published by the University of Mississippi Press, Jackson ... 1985 ... Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New/New . USD 44.95** [Appr.: EURO 30 \| £UK 27.25 \| JP¥ 3967] Book number: 6026 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	FREEDMAN, CARL / ISAAC ASIMOV Isaac Asimov , Conversations with . . . ( Literary Conversations Series ) USA: University Press of Mississippi, 2005. 2005 Printing. Soft Cover. 6 x 9 " 1578067383 2005 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher .... Never opened, Never owned ... small red feltpen dot bottom edge ... Gift Giving quality ... 170 pages with index ... Literary Conversations Series - writer Isaac Asimov ... Contents: Introduction ... Chronology ... Books by Isaac Asimov ... Science Fiction: The New Mythology by Thomas D. Clareson... Isaac Asimov: Man of 7,560,000 Words by Lewis Nichols ... Untitled Interview from Words and Their Masters by Israel Shenker ... A Conversation with Isaac Asimov by Earl G. Ingersoll ... An Interview with Isaac Asimov by James Gunn ... The Plowboy Interview: Isaac Asimov -- Science, Technology ... and Space! by Pat Stone ... and much more ... " Conversations with Isaac Asimov ( Literary Conversations Series)," edited by Carl Freedman, published by University Press of Mississippi, 2005 softcover ... *. NEW . USD 14.95** [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1319] Book number: 6199 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	GAMBONE, PHILIP ED. / ROBERT GIARD Something Inside - Conversations with Gay Fiction Writers , By Philip Gambone . . . Illustrated with Photographs By Robert Giard . . . Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. 2nd Printing. Soft Cover. Robert Giard Photographs. 6 x 9" 029916134X 1999 Softcover , 2nd printing ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Gift Giving quality ... 341 pages ... illustrated with B&W photos by Robert Giard ... Phillip Gambone offers a collective portrait of important gay fiction writers ... " Something inside - Conversations with Gay Fiction Writers " ... edited by Philip Gambone ... illustrated with photographs by Robert Giard ... published by the University of Wisconsin Press 1999 softcover *. NEW . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 3431 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	GARD, ROGER / REF: JANE AUSTEN Jane Austen's Novels - the Art of Clarity - Discussion of the Works of Austen London: Yale University Pub, 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 6-1/4 x 9-1/2 x 1" 0300054947 1992 Hardcover in DJ 1st Edition ... Brand new from publisher , imported from London ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... 261 pages with index ... This is a handsome boook; Midnight Blue cloth over boards, with Gold gilt titles on spine, in glossy color jacket with matching midnight blue inside flaps; Jacket cover illustration detail from J.M.W. Turner painting " Petworth : The Old Library, c. 1828 " ... Author Roger Gard, presently Reader in English at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, has previously written books on Jane Austen, as well as on Henry James, and on the subject of teaching of English literature and fiction in schools ... He is quoted as saying, with regard to Jane Austen : " it may sound absurd to say that a novelist sometimes needs to be protected from her admirers. Nevertheless ... " .... Although Jane Austen has long been England's best-loved novelist, much criticism in modern times has tended to ignore the sheer appeal and accessibility of her novels ... and instead to treat them as mere material ... the preserve of academics, feminists, historical specialists, and would-be radical theorists ... This book is at once a thoughtful and detailed discussion of Austen's oeuvre and a provocative and witty commentary , that will stimulate all readers ... This book offers lively and perceptive discussions of the six major novels .. Northanger Abbey ... Sense and Sensibility ... Pride and Prejudice ... Mansfield Park ... Emma ... and Persuasion ... together with the early " Lady Susan " ... and the unfinished " Sanditon " ... The precise nature and scope of Austen's realism ... her particularly English approach to the world ... and the characteristic blend in her work of a sharp scepticism about human nature and its banality .. with an idealism about human virtue ... are themes which recur throughout this study .... The book is moreover notable for the original and striking links it makes between Jane Austen and other notable authors ... ranging from Shakespeare to Flaubert, Lawrence, George Eliot and Barbara Pym ... Albeit on a much discussed topic, the beloved Jane Austen, this book nontheless has something new to say in every chapter, and the author says it with authority and with style ... Leonce Ormond at Kings College, University of London, says of this work that it is " ... sharp and exciting ... brilliant in the best sense " ... Kate Fullbrook of Bristol Polytechnic says it is " An extremely fine and elegantly written study of Jane Austen's novels. It should appeal to a wide range of readers ... " .... " Jane Austen's Novels - The Art of Clarity " ... by Roger Gard ... published by Yale University Press, London ... 1992 ... First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket *. New/New . USD 69.95** [Appr.: EURO 46.75 \| £UK 42.25 \| JP¥ 6174] Book number: 3247 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	GOLDBERG, JONATHAN Generation of Caliban, the . . . The 2001 Garnett Sedgewick Memorial Lecture Vancouver: Ronsdale Pub, 2002. First Printing. Soft Cover. 5-1/2 x 9 " 0921870930 Softcover .... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Gift Giving quality ... 36 pages ... The Sedgewick lecture is named in honour of Garnett G. Sedgewick, who was the first Head of the Department of English, and the first lecture was given in 1955 , six years after his death) ... Over the years, many distinguished scholars and writers have given the Sedgewick Lecture - Robert Heilman, Harry Levin, Hugh MacLennon, Northrop Frye, Robert Bringhurst, and Sandra Djwa, to name a few ... 2002's Sedgewick lecturer is Dr. Jonathan Goldberg, Sir William Osler Professor of English Literature at Johns Hopkins University ... In his University of British Columbia Sedgewick lecture for 2001, Professor Jonathan Goldberg explores the ways in which contemporary writers and critics have identified with Shakespeare's figure of Caliban in his play The Tempest as a means of exploring the relationship of the colonized to the colonizer. Examining the work of the great Barbadian novelist and critic George Lamming, Goldberg details the various ways in which contemporary writers have re-interpreted Caliban and the language imposed on him. In its simplest articulation, language is seen merely as a means of exploiting the colonial - Caliban being able to use language only for cursing - but in its more sophisticated usage, language can be employed by the colonized as a means of understanding their condition and as an opening to futurity ... Nor is this "futurity" in terms of social relations only since, as Goldberg points out, Lamming imagines generation as outside the normal heterosexual roles ... The readings of The Tempest offered by Lamming and others (including Sylvia Wynter and Michelle Cliff), Goldberg suggests, invite us to return to Shakespeare's play and to see in it new possibilities. Included also in the pamphlet are a number of black and white illustrations of Caliban, dating from a 1736 Hogarth to present-day stage representations, and a portrait of George Lamming ... Author Jonathan Goldberg is Sir William Osler Professor of English Literature at the Johns Hopkins University. The author of seven books, he is known for his work in the Renaissance and in the relation between the Renaissance and Queer Studies ... " The Generation of Caliban - The 2001 Garnett Sedgewick Memorial Lecture " ... by Jonathan Goldberg ... published by Ronsdale Publishing , Vancouver ... 2002 softcover first *. NEW . USD 9.95** [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 878] Book number: 4725 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	GROBEL LAWRENCE ED. / SAUL BELLOW , RAY BRADBURY, ALLEN GINSBERG ET AL Endangered Species - 12 Writers Talk About Writing & Their Lives - Interviews with Saul Bellow , Ray Bradbury , Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, Neil Simon & More . . Massachusetts: Da Capo Pub, 2001. First Thus. Soft Cover. 6 x 9 " 0306810042 2001 Softcover ... Brand new from the publisher ... Never opened , Never owned ... feltpen mark bottom edge ... Gift Giving quality ... 416 pages ... Interviews with writers ... Saul Bellow ... Ray Bradbury ... J.P. Donleavy ... James Ellroy ... Allen Ginsberg ... Andrew Greeley ... Alex Haley ... Joseph Heller ... Elmore Leonard ... Norman Mailer ... Joyce Carol Oates ... Neil Simon ...Twelve writers memorably state their case for what they do ... and how they do it ... And they even offer an opinion or two about other writers ... and about the entire publishing food chain ... from agents ... to publishers ... to booksellers ... to critics ... to readers ... " Endangered Species - Writers Talk About their Craft , their Visions , their Lives " ... edited by Lawrence Grobel ... published by Da Capo , Massachusettes ... 2001 softcover *. NEW . USD 16.95** [Appr.: EURO 11.5 \| £UK 10.25 \| JP¥ 1496] Book number: 2812 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	HALL, K.G. Exalted Heroine and the Triumph of Order , the - Class , Women and Religion in the English Novel 1740 - 1800 Maryland: Barnes & Noble, 1994. Reprint. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 6 x 8 " 0389210013 1994 Hardcover in DJ ... This is the B&N reprint of the 1982 edition ... Brand new from publisher ... last one ... Never opened , Never owned ... feltpen mark bottom edge .... Jacket protected in New, non-stick clear mylar sleeve ...Gift Giving quality ... 172 pages ... The first part of this study provides background information to the 18th century English novel ... and includes discussion of the relationship between literature and ideology ... literary realism ... the fiction reading and purchasing public ... and authorial attention and technique ... The second puts the focus on 7 diverse, yet representative, novels of the period .... paying particular attention to the presentation of class, women and religion in the works examined ...Part I: Literature and Ideology; The Novel and Society: 1740-1800; Part II: Samuel Richardson: "Pamela" (1740); Sarah Fielding: "David Simple" (1744); Henry Fielding: "Amelia" (1751); Oliver Goldsmith: "The Vicar of Wakefield" (1766); Richard Graves: "The Spiritual Quixote" (1773); Fanny Burney: "Evelina" (1778); Robert Bage: "Hermsprong" (1796); The Exalted Heroine and the Triumph of Order ... " The Exalted Heroine and the Triumph of Order - Class , Women and Religion in the English Novel 1740 - 1800 " ... by K.G. Hall ... published by B&N , Maryland 1994 Hardcover in Dustjacket *. New/New . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 3754 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	HAYMAN, RONALD / REF : TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Tennessee Williams - Everyone Else Is an Audience New Haven / London: Yale University Press, 1994. First. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 x 1 " 0300054149 1994 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... BRAND NEW from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Still sealed in original publisher's shrinkwrap ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 288 pages ... illustrated with photographs ... ' Williams modeled his theater on his life and on the childhood that had made him into a neurotic who ran away from private confrontations by making his life into a nonstop performance ... More autobiographical than they seem, his plays are full of outcasts, misfits, and fugitives ... the typical heroes are no less frighened , difficult, odd, and lonely ' .... ' Ronald Hayman analyzes the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Tennessee Williams ( 1911-1983 ) , in a study that emphasizes the extent to which Williams based his plays on the events of his life ... Born into a Mississippi family with an alcoholic father and a mentally ill sister, Williams, a homosexual, subsequently found his adult relationships difficult ... He conducted numerous casual affairs and abused his long-term lovers emotionally ... Hayman theorizes that the disturbed and violent characters in such plays as The Glass Menagerie , A Streetcar Named Desire and other works were based on the playwright's family and friends, as well as on Williams himself ... After his initial theatrical successes in the 1940s and '50s, Williams became addicted to drugs and alcohol and led a self-destructive life ' ... Thomas E. Luddy of Salem State College, Massachusettes, says of this book : ' Hayman's scholarly biography examines the connection between the people in Williams's life and his plays. Filled with photographic memorabilia that is most touching, the book shows that the subject's family, lovers, and companions who accompanied him on his journey through success to failure and decline turn up thematically in his work. As a chronicle of guilt, sexual excess, and drug abuse, this life is more than a detached narrative. It argues that Williams was a fugitive from loneliness and fear all his life, continually moving, with no permanent address, seeking comfort and peace in all the wrong places. By the end, the story becomes an image of American culture at its most fragile. For serious theater collections ' ... Tennessee Williams - Everyone Else is an Audience ' ... by Ronald Hayman ... published by Yale University Press, New Haven & London ... 1994 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... still sealed in original publisher's shrinkwrap ... *. New/New . USD 39.95** [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3526] Book number: 6077a Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.