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1	The Age of Shakespeare more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode Noted critic Frank Kermode puts Shakespeare squarely into the world he inhabited, and summarizes what we know of it. His overview covers the Protestant Reformation and the succession of Elizabeth I to the throne of England, the vexing question of Shakespeare's own religious views, the theatrical world in Elizabethan England, the way the English ... see all copies from $4.48! new only from $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode Frank Kermode has long held a distinctive place among modern critics. He brings to the study of literature a fine and fresh critical intelligence that is always richly suggestive, never modish. He offers here an inquiry--elegant in conception and style--into the art of interpretation. His subject quite simply is meanings; how they are revealed and ... see all copies from $7.25! new only from $24.19! \| signed copies \| SVS
3	The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Two-Volume Edition Volume I: The Middle Ages Through the Eighteenth Century more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode (Editor), Professor John Hollander (Editor), J B Trapp (Editor) see all copies from $4.89! new only from $21.02! \| SVS
4	Pieces of My Mind: Essays and Criticism 1958-2002 more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode Celebrated English critic Frank Kermode collects many of his essays, which cover such diverse topics as the Bible, opera, Joyce, modern dance, and, of course, Shakespeare, on whom he is a noted authority. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
5	Selected Prose of T.S. Eliot more books like this by Professor T S Eliot (Adapted by), Sir Frank Kermode (Editor) Eliot was an influential critic; his criticism illuminated both the work of his literary predecessors and his own poetic aims. He fervently believed that it is essential for poets to reunite the two strands of human experience--rationality and emotion--which had, he felt, been dissociated in English poetry since the time of Donne and other 17th ... see all copies from $4.79! new only from $9.18! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Oxford Book of Letters more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode (Editor), Anita Kermode (Editor) More than 300 letters in English spanning three centuries chronicle the lives and thoughts of correspondents from Elizabeth I to Groucho Marx. Each letter is set in context and annotated. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.70! \| first editions
7	The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode Discussing authors such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Samuel Beckett, Kermode considers fiction, vision, and reality, particularly fiction concerning apocalyptic themes. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $69.62! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: 1800 to the Present more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode, Professor John Hollander, Professor Harold Bloom see all copies from $18.75! new only from $67.70! \| SVS
9	The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Volume II: The Literature of Renaissance England more books like this by Professor John Hollander (Editor), Sir Frank Kermode (Editor) see all copies from $3.45! new only from $53.45! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode A distinguished critic of English literature contributes a new epilogue to his collection of classic lectures on the relation of fiction to age-old concepts of apocalyptic chaos and crisis. "A packed, stimulating, highly original book."--David Lodge. see all copies from $17.88! new only from $18.87!
11 view cover	The Art of Telling: Essays on Fiction more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode Kermode assesses the revolutionary transformations in literary criticism over the last fifteen years and places them in historical perspective. Examining novels ranging in scope from a 1907 bestseller to the avant-garde works of various periods, he includes such writers as Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Michel Butor, and Thomas Pynchon. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $17.48! \| first editions \| SVS
12	The poems of John Donne. more books like this by John Donne, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson see all copies from $4.99! new only from $127.36! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	A Reader's Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers more books like this by Peter Parker (Editor), Sir Frank Kermode (Editor) Curious about the lives of Auden, Tennessee Williams, Hemingway, or Samuel Beckett? Need to know when James Baldwin published Notes of a Native Son? A Reader's Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers provides the answers. More than 1,000 biographical entries profile novelists, short-story writers, poets, and playwrights from the United States, Canada, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.33! \| first editions
14 view cover	Not Entitled more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode A memoir from one of the premier critics of English literature, in which he describes not only the details of his life, but his love for books and the connection between life and letters. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Lit Guide to the Bible P more books like this by Mr. Robert Alter (Editor), Sir Frank Kermode (Editor) Rediscover the incmparable literary richness and strength of the Bible. An International team of renowned scholars offers and book-by-book guide through the Old Testaments as well as general essays on the Bible as a whole, providing an enticing reintroduction to a work that has shaped our language and thought for thousands of years. see all copies from $7.50! new only from $21.91! \| SVS
16 view cover	Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel more books like this by R Alan Culpepper, Sir Frank Kermode (Foreword by) see all copies from $9.00! new only from $17.01! \| SVS
17 view cover	First Woman in Republic-PB more books like this by Carolyn L Karcher, Aina Pavolina Taylor (Translator), Sir Frank Kermode (Foreword by) For half a century Lydia Maria Child was a household name in the United States. Hardly a sphere of nineteenth-century life can be found in which Lydia Maria Child did not figure prominently as a pathbreaker. Although best known today for having edited Harriet A. Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Child pioneered almost every ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $3.99!
18 view cover	Andrew Marvell more books like this by Andrew Marvell, Sir Frank Kermode (Editor), Keith Walker (Editor) The Oxford Authors is a series of authoritative editions of major English writers. Aimed at both students and the general reader, each volume contains a generous selection of the best writings--poetry, prose, and letters--to give the essence of a writer's work and thinking. All the texts are complemented by essential notes, an introduction, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $26.42! \| first editions
19 view cover	The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Volume VI: Modern British Literature more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode (Editor), Professor John Hollander (Editor) This volume includes Shaw's St. Joan, twenty poems by Hardy, thirty by Yeats, Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Lawrence's The Prussian Officer, the complete St. Mawr, Pornography and Obscenity, and eleven poems. It also features Joyce's The Dead, excerpts from The Portrait of the Artist, Ulysses, and Finnegan's Wake, and works by T. S. Eliot, ... see all copies from $6.96! new only from $41.92!
20 view cover	History and Value: The Clarendon Lectures and the Northcliffe Lectures 1987 more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode Frank Kermode here returns to the literature of his youth to ask why we seem to have forgotten how urgent and powerful this literature was during a time of economic crisis and imminent world war. First examining bourgeois left-wing writing in England in the 1930s and, to a lesser extent, in the United States, Kermode explores the causes of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $29.94! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Not Entitled: A Memoir more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode A memoir from one of the premier critics of English literature, in which he describes not only the details of his life, but his love for books and the connection between life and letters. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $23.99! \| first editions
22 view cover	Essays on Conrad more books like this by Ian P Watt, Sir Frank Kermode (Foreword by) Landmark collection of Ian Watt's essays on Joseph Conrad. see all copies from $19.94! new only from $26.74! \| SVS
23 view cover	Pleasure and Change: The Aesthetics of Canon more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode, Mr. Robert Alter (Editor) The question of the canon has been the subject of debate in academic circles for over fifteen years. Pleasure and Change contains two lectures on this important subject by the distinguished literary critic Sir Frank Kermode. In essays that were originally delivered as Tanner Lectures at Berkeley in November of 2001, Kermode reinterprets the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
24	Criticism in Society more books like this by Imre Salusinszky, Professor Jacques Derrida (Photographer), Sir Frank Kermode see all copies from $2.95! new only from $22.02! \| first editions
25	John Clare more books like this by Eric Robinson (Editor), Sir Frank Kermode (Editor), David Powell (Editor) This ambitious collection of Clare's poetry and prose is based on thirty years' close study of the manuscripts and represents the full range of Clare's genius, including bird poems, nature observations, songs, ballads, social satire, reflections on folk customs, and intense expressions of the poet's search for identity. see all copies from $3.70! new only from $99.95! \| first editions

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