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This selection contains 37 title(s) on 2 pages.
This is page 1 with nrs. 1 to 25
BALES, JACK, MARY WASHINGTON COLLEGE,  Kenneth Roberts.
NY, Twayne Pubs, (1993). VG in VG DJ ex-library. From the late 1930s to his death in 1957, Roberts was one of the most popular historical novelists in the U.S. A globe-. trotting journalist for the Saturday Evening Post and other popular periodicals, Roberts channeled his enthusiasm for American history into 8 novels, vivid depictions of some of the grimmest moments in Revolutionary battle to a staunch defense of Maine's merits all the way to its cooking.
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: BOOKS042110I
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BELL, MILLICENT,  Meaning in Henry James.
Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ Press, (1991). 2nd ptg. VG lg sz PB. Oscillation in his writing between hope and fatalism, indeterminacy and form, uncertainty and meaning.
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: BOOKS040758I
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AND BIBLIOGRAPHY BY,  William Faulkner: three decades of criticism.
NY, Harbinger/Harcourt Brace, (1963). G PB. Once spoken of as immoral practicising a cult of cruelty in a slapdash manner, Faulkner has come to be called a man of moral. vision and a poet in prose. Here is some of the best criticism of him and also includes his famous "Stockhom Address" and an interview he gave to the Paris Review. Some tanning of page edges but supple.
USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 | £UK 5 | JP¥ 706] Book number: BOOKS043945I
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BOYER, PAUL S.,  Purity in Print: book censorship in America.
NY, Scribner, (1968). VG in VG DJ. Contains news release from Scribners about Purity in Print dated July 1968, "changing attitudes toward book censorship.".
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: BOOKS021907I
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BROMBERT, VICTOR,  Victor Hugo and the Visionary Novel.
Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ Press, (1984). 2nd ptg. VG lg sz PB. Sl edge wear.
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: BOOKS028329I
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BROOKS, CLEANTH,  William Faulkner: First Encounters.
New Haven, Yale Univ Press, (1983). 3rd ptg. VG PB. Authoritative introduction to Faulkner's most important novesl and short stories, written for the general reader by "the best. critic of our best novelist." Slight marking on fore-edge, owner name ft endpaper.
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: BOOKS044388I
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BUTLER, LANCE ST. JOHN,  Thomas Hardy.
Cambridge, Cambridge Univ Press, (1979). G ex-library.
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: BOOKS025352I
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COLETTI, THERESA,  Naming the Rose: Eco, medieval signs, and modern theory.
Ithaca, Cornell Univ Press, (1988). 1st ptg. VG lg sz PB. Coletti asserts that Eco, by means of a concrete rendering of medieval social & intellectual life, has made a significant. contemporary statement about language, meaning, responsible intellectual activity, and the nature of critical discourse. Explores implications of unusual status of Eco's novel (The Name of the Rose). Helps reader identify & decode the multiple signs & symbols in Eco's book while demonstrating how it historicizes the Middle Ages and links moder & medieval linguistic theories.
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: BOOKS036544I
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COLLINGS, MICHAEL,  Stephen King as Richard Bachman: Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism no. 10.
Mercer Island, WA, Starmont House, 1985. G PB. Collings zeros in on the Bachman phenomenom, gives historical pro & con from critics & synopsis of each Bachman book. Bibliography of sources used. Book does not lie flat, sl edge wear.
USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1236] Book number: BOOKS035570I
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DREISER, THEODORE, EDITED BY DONALD PIZER,  Sister Carrie: Norton Critical Edition.
NY, Norton, (191970). 1st pt. VG PB.
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: BOOKS029163I
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DUPEE, F. W.,  Henry James: The American Men of Letters Series.
NY, Morrow, 1974. 1st PB ed. G PB. A portrait of James the man & a critical evaluation of his work Few spots back cover & fore edge, edge wear, owner notations.
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: BOOKS029164I
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ELIOT, T. S.,  Selected Essays.
NY, Harcourt Brace World, (1960). VG. Eliot writes about John Dryden, William Blake, Swinburne as Poet, Lancelot Andrewes, John Bramhall, Lambeth, Pascal,. Baudelaire, Arnold & Pater, Francis Herbert Bradley, Marie Lloyd, Wilkie Collins, Dickens, Humanism of Irving Babbitt, Charles Whibley, Modern Education, Shakespeare, Hamlet and Dickens. Black binding (rubbed), gilt lettering on spine.
USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1236] Book number: BOOKS041840I
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GARDNER, HELEN, EDITED BY,  John Donne: a collection of critical essays.
NJ, Prentice Hall, (1962). 11th ptg. VG PB. 17th century poetic genius, sensualist, cynic, sardonic charmer & mystic Donne has captured today's audience. Sl edge wear.
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: BOOKS028856I
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GRAY, DONALD J., EDITED BY, LEWIS CARROLL,  Alice in Wonderland: a Norton critical edition.
NY, Norton, (1971). 3rd ptg. VG PB. Authoritative texts of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and The Hunting of the Snark,. backgrounds including accounts of the early life of Carroll and writings and his later life, entries from his diaries, selections from early poems and reminiscences and other biographical sources, and essays in criticism considering the texts as 19th century children's literature, as manifestations of characteristic Victorian sensibilities, as a game using ideas about language, philosophy, mathematics, and as a basis for psychoanalytic investigation: materials for a balanced study of the texts and of the several interests they engage.
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: BOOKS042322I
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HERZBERG, MAX J.,  Great Expectations: a discussion guide to the photoplay based on the novel by Charles Dickens.
Newark, NJ, Self published, nd (ca 1940s). VG PB. Photos from movie, 2 page listing of movie credits, bibliography. Sl edge wear, back cover creased top outer corner.
USD 28.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 | £UK 17 | JP¥ 2471] Book number: BOOKS041640I
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HILLWAY, TYRUS,  Herman Melville (Twayne's U.S. Authors Series).
Boston, Twayne, (1979). Revised ed. G ex-library.
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: BOOKS026352I
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HUGHES, RANDOLPH,  Lesbia Brandon by Algernon Charles Swinburne: an historical & critical commentary largely a study of Swinburne as novelist etc.
London, Falcon Press, (1952). 2nd imp. G. Part of copyright info blacked out. Edge wear, spine faded.
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: BOOKS030773I
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JOHNSTON, CAROL INGALLS,  Of Time and the Artist: Thomas Wolfe, his novels and the critics.
Columbia, SC, Camden House, (1996). VG in VG DJ. Wolfe wrote that there is no such thing as an artistic vacuum and Johnston follows the premise that literature is as much. the product of the social and critical community in which it evolves as it is the product of any individual's experience.
USD 32.00 [Appr.: EURO 21.5 | £UK 19.25 | JP¥ 2824] Book number: BOOKS042581I
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KRZYZANOWSKI, JERZY R., OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY,  Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont.
NY, Twayne Pubs Inc., (1972). VG. Nobel Prize winner in 1924, Reymont remains practically unknown. Red binding, gilt lettering & decoration. While some of his novels remain in print, particularly The Peasants, the body of criticism devoted to Reymont is conspicuously meager. This book is a discussion of his major works.
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: BOOKS042255I
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LOTH, DAVID,  The Erotic in Literature: historical survey of pornography.
NY, Messner, (1961). VG in G DJ. DJ edge wear. From Golden Age of Greece to today, excerpts show how erotic literature has shaped our actions & thoughts.
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: BOOKS021905I
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LOWELL, AMY,  Tendencies in Modern American Poetry.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1931). 7th ptg. VG. Green binding, gilt lettering (rubbed), back cover mottled, sl edge wear, owner bookplate & name ft endpaper.
USD 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.25 | £UK 14.5 | JP¥ 2118] Book number: BOOKS039269I
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MCCLAVE, HEATHER, EDITED BY,  Women Writers of the Short Story: a collection of critical essays.
NJ, Prentice-Hall, (1980). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. DJ edge wear, few owner notations.
USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1236] Book number: BOOKS025709I
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MINTER, DAVID L., EDITED BY,  Twentieth Century Interpretataions of Light in August: a collection of critical essays.
NJ, Prentice Hall, (1969). 1st ptg. VG PB. "the fecundity of his imagination, the range of his compassion and the reach of his courage as an artist". Minter.
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: BOOKS044395I
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MORLEY, JOHN,  Critical Miscellanies (vol. III only).
London, Macmillan, 1886. G ex-library. Red binding.
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: BOOKS021297I
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PARRINDER, PATRICK AND CHRISTOPHER ROLFE, EDITED BY,  H. G. Wells under Revision: proceedings of the International H. G. Wells Symposium, London, July 1986.
London, Susquehanna Univ Press, (1990). VG in VG DJ.
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: BOOKS043399I
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