Literature, Poetry & Plays.
The English Religious Lyric in the Middle Ages
$14.10 USD
By: Rosemary Woolf
The Excellence of the Arabs (Library of Arabic Literature, 39)
$28.20 USD
– Sold Outby : Ibn Qutaybah (Author), James E. Montgomery (Editor), Peter Webb
The Excellence of the Arabs (Library of Arabic Literature, 51)
$18.33 USD
– Sold Outby : Ibn Qutaybah (Author), Sarah Bowen Savant (Translator)
The External Evidence for Interpolation in Homer (Oxford Reprints)
$14.10 USD
by : G. M. Bolling A painstaking reconstruction of the earliest texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey based on the identification and elimination of interpolations and an understanding of...
The Fable of the Bees: Or Private Vices, Publick Benefits
$42.30 USD
by : Bernard Mandeville
The Forsyte Saga (Wordsworth Classics)
$7.05 USD
– Sold OutWhen The Forsyte Saga was shown on television in 1967 it was hugely successful. The nation was gripped by the masterful visual telling of the Forsyte family's troubled story and...
The Golden Bowl (Wordsworth Classics)
$7.05 USD
– Sold OutAbout the book: Henry James's last completed novel, The Golden Bowl, is the story of two flawed marriages. The lives and relationships of Maggie Verver and her widowed American millionaire...
The Hour Before Dawn: Poems of love and losing
$18.33 USD
Abdullah Abu-Sheikh is a 22-year-old award-winning Jordanian entrepreneur. Upon graduating from Dalhousie University in Canada, Abu-Sheikh immersed himself in the business world and became one of the youngest successful leaders...
The House of the Spirits: A Novel
$26.79 USD
– Sold Outby : Isabel Allende (Author)
The House on Mango Street
$21.15 USD
– Sold Outby : Sandra Cisneros (Author)
The Humanist Comedy
$12.69 USD
by : Alexander Welsh For about three thousand years comedy has applied a welcome humanist perspective to the world’s religious beliefs and practices. From the ancient Greek comedies of Aristophanes,...
The Idiot (Oxford World's Classics)
$21.15 USD
– Sold Outby : Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author), Alan Myers (Translator), William Leatherbarrow (Introduction
The Interpretation of Mycenaean Greek Texts (Oxford University Press academic monograph reprints)
$14.10 USD
by : L. R. Palmer Intended as an introduction to the information contained in the Linear B texts from Mycenaean sites and addressed to the non-specialist, this book provides a...
The Island of Sheep (Wordsworth Classics)
$7.05 USD
In this, his final adventure, Buchan's hero Richard Hannay becomes embroiled in one of the most hazardous escapades of his life. Two men are honour bound to help the tormented...
The Jump Artist
$8.46 USD
by: Austin Ratner A beautifully scrupulous, intricately detailed novel about joy and despair, anti-Semitism and assimilation, and like a great photograph, it seems to miss nothing, and to catch its...
The King's Pardon for Homicide before AD 1307
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by : Naomi D. Hurnard This study seeks to explain why the man who committed homicide by misadventure or in self-defence needed a pardon. It examines the working of the...
The Kural: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural
$21.15 USD
by : Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma (Author, Preface), Archana Venkatesan (Introduction),
The Life and Times of Abū Tammām (Library of Arabic Literature, 59)
$31.02 USD
by : Abū Bakr al-Ṣūlī (Author), Beatrice Gruendler (Translator)
The Life and Times of Abū Tammām (Library of Arabic Literature, 59)
$18.33 USD
by : Abū Bakr al-Ṣūlī (Author), Beatrice Gruendler (Translator)
The Love Poems of Rumi: Translated by Nader Khalili (V)
$23.97 USD
– Sold Outby : Rumi (Author), Nader Khalili (Translator)
The Luzumiyat of Abu'l-Ala;Selected from his Luzum ma la Yalzam and Suct us-Zand
$50.76 USD
– Sold Outby : Abu Al-Ala Al-Maarri (Author)
The Mayor of Casterbridge
$7.05 USD
– Sold OutN one of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than the Mayor of Casterbridge. Set in the heart of Hardys Wessex, the partly real, partly dream country...
The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800
$28.20 USD
– Sold OutBy: Steven Moore In the acclaimed first volume of his history of the world's most popular literary form, Steven Moore unearthed and told the stories of remarkable works of fiction that...
The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volume Two (Library of Arabic Literature, 24)
$31.02 USD
by : Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī (Author), Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh (Author), Bilal Orfali (Editor)
The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology
$35.25 USD
– Sold Outby : Nathalie (ed.) Handal (Author) Arab women poets work within one of the oldest literary traditions in the world, yet they are virtually unknown in the West. In assembling...
The Practice of Reading
$11.28 USD
– Sold Outby : Denis Donoghue This lucid and elegantly written book is a sustained conversation about the nature and importance of literary interpretation. Distinguished critic Denis Donoghue argues that we must...
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Wordsworth Classics)
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– Sold OutIn the 1920s the eminent French novelist and critic André Gide was given a copy of James Hogg's neglected masterpiece, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, and...