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Frances Burney _ the Life in the Works
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010. Paperback Octavo. Paperback. illustrated wraps, 441 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Very good .
San Francisco Book CompanyProfessional sellerBook number: 77550
€ 45.00 [Appr.: US$ 48.18 | £UK 38.75 | JP¥ 7622]
Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Literary Criticism , Literature
Poison in Athens.
London, Arrow Books, 2005, 16mo brossura con copertina illustrata a colori, pp. XI-480.
Libreria PianiProfessional sellerBook number: 3-32808
€ 8.00 [Appr.: US$ 8.56 | £UK 7 | JP¥ 1355]
Keywords: (Narrativa)
Samuel Richardson: Tercentenary Essays.
Cambridge, U.K., Cambridge University Press, 1989. Hardcover., G+ (See Description), Vg/G+ Faint Soiling to Page Edges. Dj Lightly Sunned at Spine, Lightly Soiled. Text Clean, Binding Tight. Dj in Mylar Wrap. Pages: 306.
Vintage BooksProfessional sellerBook number: MASTER305166I
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 | £UK 16.25 | JP¥ 3164]
Catalogue: Literature
The True Story of the Novel
London, HarperCollins. 1997, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9780002558020). Hardcover, with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 608pp hardback, brown boards gilt in wrapper. Very Good/Very Good.
Salsus BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 061499
GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 5.62 | JP¥ 890]
Keywords: 9780002558020 literary studies
The True Story of the Novel
New Brunswick [NJ], Rutgers University Press, (1996). orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, xx,580,(24) pp, PAPERBACK.. 24pp photoplates.. Minor rubbing. VG.
¶ One of the most successful literary lies", declares Margaret Anne Doody, "is the English claim to have invented the novel.... One of the best-kept literary secrets is the existence of novels in antiquity". In fact, as Doody goes on to demonstrate, the Novel of the Roman Empire is a joint product of Africa, Western Asia, and Europe. It is with this argument that The True Story of the Novel devastates and reconfigures the history of the novel as we know it. Twentieth-century historians and critics defending the novel have emphasized its role as superseding something else, as a sort of legitimate usurper that deposed the Epic, a replacement of myth, or religious narrative. To say that the Age of Early Christianity was really also the Age of the Novel rumples such historical tidiness - but so it was. From the outset of her discussion, Doody rejects the conventional Anglo-Saxon distinction between Romance and Novel. This eighteenth-century distinction, she maintains, served both to keep the foreign - dark-skinned peoples, strange speakers, Muslims, and others - largely out of literature and to obscure the diverse nature of the novel itself. This deeply informed and truly comparative work is staggering in its breadth. Doody treats not only recognized classics, but also works of usually unacknowledged subgenres - new readings of novels like The Pickwick Papers,Pudd'nhead Wilson, L'Assommoir, Death in Venice, and Beloved are accompanied by insights into Death on the Nile or The Wind in the Willows...." - Publisher's description.
¶ One of the most successful literary lies", declares Margaret Anne Doody, "is the English claim to have invented the novel.... One of the best-kept literary secrets is the existence of novels in antiquity". In fact, as Doody goes on to demonstrate, the Novel of the Roman Empire is a joint product of Africa, Western Asia, and Europe. It is with this argument that The True Story of the Novel devastates and reconfigures the history of the novel as we know it. Twentieth-century historians and critics defending the novel have emphasized its role as superseding something else, as a sort of legitimate usurper that deposed the Epic, a replacement of myth, or religious narrative. To say that the Age of Early Christianity was really also the Age of the Novel rumples such historical tidiness - but so it was. From the outset of her discussion, Doody rejects the conventional Anglo-Saxon distinction between Romance and Novel. This eighteenth-century distinction, she maintains, served both to keep the foreign - dark-skinned peoples, strange speakers, Muslims, and others - largely out of literature and to obscure the diverse nature of the novel itself. This deeply informed and truly comparative work is staggering in its breadth. Doody treats not only recognized classics, but also works of usually unacknowledged subgenres - new readings of novels like The Pickwick Papers,Pudd'nhead Wilson, L'Assommoir, Death in Venice, and Beloved are accompanied by insights into Death on the Nile or The Wind in the Willows...." - Publisher's description.
Expatriate Bookshop of DenmarkProfessional sellerBook number: BOOKS006895I
USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 37.5 | £UK 32.25 | JP¥ 6329]
Keywords: Literary Criticism, Fiction, Literature, History, , , , ,
The True Story of the Novel
United Kingdom: Harpercollins, 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0002558025. Advance Review Copy With Slip. Very Good 1st Edition hardcover (full numberline from 1) in Very Good dustjacket. Clean brown cloth boards with bumped spine ends. Edges toned. Internally, no writing or stamps. Clean, bright pages. Unclipped dustjacket bumped to spine ends, rubbed to corners. Some very light shelf-wear. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 608 pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .
The Old Bookshelf, UKProfessional sellerBook number: 60632
GBP 18.95 [Appr.: EURO 22.25 US$ 23.68 | JP¥ 3746]
Catalogue: Literary Criticism
Keywords: 0002558025
The Berlin Memorandum, Aristotle Detective and Penny Black
London, Collins; The Bodley Head; Macmillan , 1965-84. First edition. Cloth. Three first edition crime novels, in the original dust wrappers. The first edition for all with 'Aristotle Detective' being the first UK edition.  Three volumes. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrappers. This set features three crime thrillers. The set includes; 'The Berlin Memorandum' a suspenseful novel about Quiller, and his mission to eliminate Heinrich Zossen, 'Penny Black', a murder mystery following Penny who finds herself involved in murder when an old school friend disappears, 'Aristotle Detective', a mystery set in 332BD where an eminent citizen is murdered. Suspicion falls heavily on young Philemon, and, by Athenian law, his cousin Stephanos is elected to defend his name in court. In desperation, Stephanos seeks assistance from Aristotle, his former mentor - and Aristotle turns Detective. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally excellent with only slight fading to the extremities of the spine and boards to 'Aristotle Detective' and externally lovely to 'Penny Black' and 'Berlin Memorandum&apos. The wraps are very smart with fading to the spines to 'Berlin Memorandum' and 'Aristotle Detective' with slight rubbing to the rear of the latter and a small closed tear to the tail of the spine to the former. Internally firmly bound with clean and bright pages to all but 'Penny Black' which is clean with age toning to the extremities. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.
Rooke BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 890Z24
GBP 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 146 US$ 156.18 | JP¥ 24710]
Catalogue: Modern Fiction
Keywords: First edition Crime Margaret Doody Susan Moody Crime Fiction Modern None
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