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A User’s Guide to Melancholy
$30.00 Add to cartA User’s Guide to Melancholy takes Robert Burton’s encyclopaedic masterpiece The Anatomy of Melancholy (first published in 1621) as a guide to one of the most perplexing, elusive, attractive, and affl… [more below]
- Author: Lund, Mary Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: February 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1108838847
- Language: English
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Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction
$18.95 Read moreA compelling ode to the essay form and the great essaysists themselves, from Montaigne to Woolf to Sontag.
Essayism is a book about essays and essayists, a study of melancholy and depression, a love l- Author: Dillon, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1681372827
- Language: English
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The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage
$17.95 Add to cart- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0156701766
- Language: English
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The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews
$21.00 Add to cart- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Welty, Eudora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 29 1990
- ISBN10: 0679730044
- Language: English
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Gothic Tales
$14.95 Add to cartArthur Conan Doyle was the greatest genre writer Britain has ever produced. Throughout a long writing career, he drew on his own medical background, his travels, and his increasing interest in spiritu… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Conan Doyle, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198734301
- Language: English
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Writings on Art and Poetical Theory
$20.00 Add to cartWritings on Art and Poetical Theory contains a selection of Fernando Pessoa’s writings (or those of his heteronyms) on art and poetical theory, originally written in English. In Pessoa’s oeuvre one fi… [more below]
- Author: Pessoa, Fernando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1940625505
- Language: English
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The Complete Tolkien Companion
$30.00 Add to cartFor all those who journey to Middle Earth, here is the complete guide to its lands, legends, histories, languages, and people. The Complete Tolkien Companion explains, translates, and links every sing
- Author: Tyler, J. E. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 1250023556
- Language: English
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Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse
$15.00 Add to cart“When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over–like this world, and some of the people in it.”
In 1819, the poet John Keats wrote six poems that would be- Author: Nersessian, Anahid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 022682652X
- Language: English
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A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce’s Masterwork
$21.95 Add to cartIn this edition of Campbell & Robinson’s seminal decoding of Joyce’s masterpiece, the authors analyse the novel page by page, stripping the layers of obscurity & offering interpretations through footn… [more below]
- Series: Collected Works of Joseph Campbell
- Author: Campbell, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: March 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1608681661
- Language: English
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The Plants of Middle Earth: Botany and Sub-Creation
$22.95 Add to cartBeautifully illustrated with dozens of original full-color and black-and-white drawings, The Plants of Middle-earth connects readers visually to the world of Middle-earth, its cultures and characters
- Author: Hazell, Dinah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1606352652
- Language: English
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Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories
$14.99 Add to cartA repackaged edition of the revered author’s treasury of essays and stories which examine the value of creative writing and imaginative exploration.
C. S. Lewis–the great British writer, scholar, lay
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0062643541
- Language: English
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Inklings and King Arthur: J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield on the Matter of Britain
$60.00 Add to cartIn the midst of war-torn Britain, King Arthur returned in the writings of the Oxford Inklings. Learn how Tolkien, Lewis, Williams, and Barfield brought hope to their times and our own in their Arthuri
- Author: Higgins, Sorina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 566
- Publish Date: December 22 2017
- ISBN10: 1955821453
- Language: English
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Negative Capability: On the Intuitive Approach in Keats
$16.00 Add to cartWalter Jackson Bate’s canonical 1939 study of Keats’s concept of negative capability is a genealogical treatise that unearths the socio-political, aesthetic, and intellectual composition of Keats’s mo… [more below]
- Author: Bate, Walter Jackson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 03 2012
- ISBN10: 098369723X
- Language: English
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Ear Training: Literary Essays
$29.95 Add to cart“These pieces reflect Pritchard’s abiding joy in literature, especially poetry … Included here are insightful appreciations of Anthony Trollope, Anthony Powell, and a sublime reading of Philip Larki… [more below]
- Author: Pritchard, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1589881826
- Language: English
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Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays
$18.99 Add to cartGeorge Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected–and illuminated–the fraught times in which he lived. “As soo
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0156033135
- Language: English
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The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
$29.17 Read moreNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – In this virtuosic, career-spanning collection, Martin Amis, “one of the most gifted novelists of his generation” (TIME), takes on James Joyce and Elvis Pres… [more below]
- Author: Amis, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 16 2002
- ISBN10: 0375727167
- Language: English
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Re Joyce
$21.95 Read moreA great and inventive writer enjoys himself immensely in discussing and explaining perhaps the most inventive and important writer of the twentieth century. Vigorous, humorous, and perceptive, Anthony
- Author: Burgess, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0393004457
- Language: English
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An Introduction to Fantasy
$24.99 Add to cart- Author: Sangster, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: September 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1009429949
- Language: English
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A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings
$6.95 Add to cart‘Love is nothing without feeling. And feeling is still less without love.’
Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of ‘a school of sentimental writers’, A Sentimental Journey (1768) has outlasted- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Sterne, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199537186
- Language: English
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Best of Myles
$15.95 Add to cartThe great Irish humorist and writer Flann O’Brien, aka Brian O’Nolan, aka Myles na Gopaleen, also wrote a newspaper column called “Cruiskeen Lawn.” The Best of Myles collects the best and funniest, co… [more below]
- Series: John F. Byrne Irish Literature
- Author: O’Brien, Flann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 01 1999
- ISBN10: 1564782158
- Language: English
