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1	The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say about the Stages of Life more books like this by Edward Mendelson Mendelson, the professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, examines seven classic novels which tell life stories that are valuable to readers thinking about the course of their own lives. see all copies from $2.95! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Collected poems more books like this by W H Auden, Edward Mendelson (Editor) This collection of the poems of W.H. Auden includes three poems referred to by Auden as "posthumous poems", and others that he omitted from the "Collected Shorter Poems" of 1966, printed here in revised versions found among his papers. see all copies from $19.74! new only from $25.72! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Early Auden more books like this by Edward Mendelson Early Auden remains the most penetrating, detailed, and informative examination we have of the great work produced by the young W. H. Auden in EngLand before the war. Edward Mendelson writes with unrivaled knowledge of published texts, manuscripts, private papers, and essays in this most illuminating of critical works. see all copies from $4.35! new only from $13.78! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Later Auden more books like this by Edward Mendelson A history of W.H. Auden's poems from the time he moved to the USA in 1939, and of the events that went into them. It links the changes in Auden's intellectual, religious and domestic life with his shifting public roles, and reveals his struggles with the temptations of his growing fame. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.16! \| first editions
5	Comp Works Auden: Plays & Other Dramatic Writings, 1928-1938 more books like this by W H Auden, Edward Mendelson (Editor), Christopher Isherwood The Princeton Univesity Press edition of "The Complete Works of W. H. Auden" provides a unique opportunity to solve many of the complex textual problems connected with the severe revisions Auden made in his own works. The texts are newly edited from Auden's manuscripts by Edward Mendelson, the literary executor of the Auden estate. The edition ... see all copies from $9.41! new only from $66.79! \| first editions
6	W. H. Auden: Selected Poems more books like this by W H Auden, Edward Mendelson (Editor) Auden's poems are treasured for their wit and intelligence, their meticulous craftsmanship, and their deep feeling for social and moral issues as well as personal ones. In the words of Stephen Spender at Auden's memorial service in Oxford, "[T]hroughout the whole development of his poetry...his theme had been love: not Romantic love but love as ... see all copies from $9.62! new only from $9.62! \| SVS
7	As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks, and Other Light Verse more books like this by W. H. Auden A collection of W.H. Auden's light verse, assembled by his literary executor. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Edward Lear more books like this by Edward Lear, Edward Mendelson (Editor), Laura Huliska-Beith (Illustrator) Thirty-five examples of Edward Lear's finest and funniest poems make joyous and delightful reading for children and adults alike. His verses are ageless, with their exuberant nonsense and invigorating rhythms. The magnificent color paintings - as lively and irresitible as the poems they illustrate - will spark young imaginations. Ages 7+. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.46! \| first editions
9	Pynchon: A Collection of Critical Essays more books like this by Edward Mendelson see all copies from $1.99! first editions
10	Dyer's Hand and Other Essays more books like this by W. H. Auden This collection presents all the poems that Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. see all copies from $5.00! signed copies \| first editions
11	W. H. Auden's Book of Light Verse more books like this by W H Auden, Edward Mendelson (Preface by) Auden's celebrated anthology of light verse is packed with surprising finds while also offering a striking rethinking of the poetic canon. Commissioned by Oxford University Press in the 1930s, when Auden's own work was at its boldest, the book caught its original publisher off guard. For it is less a collection of humorous verses than a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.44! \| first editions
12 view cover	Lewis Carroll more books like this by Edward Mendelson (Editor), Eric Copeland (Illustrator) "Softly realistic, period-style watercolors effectively highlight the mood of each selection...vocabulary or context notes on just about every page, and the book opens with a brief but illuminating biography."--"School Library Journal" see all copies from $4.00! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The English Auden: Poems, Essays and Dramatic Writings, 1927-1939 more books like this by W H Auden, Edward Mendelson (Editor) Auden's poems are treasured for their wit and intelligence, their meticulous craftsmanship, and their deep feeling for social and moral issues as well as personal ones. In the words of Stephen Spender at Auden's memorial service in Oxford, "[T]hroughout the whole development of his poetry...his theme had been love: not Romantic love but love as ... see all copies from $7.94! first editions
14	W. H. Auden Collected Poems more books like this by W H Auden, Mendelson Edward (Editor) see all copies from $16.00! first editions
15 view cover	The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II. 1939-1948 more books like this by W H Auden, Edward Mendelson (Editor) This volume of Auden's prose presents the critical writing he undertook during his first 10 years in the United States. The autobiographical reflections, book reviews, and analyses of culture and history collected here have rarely been reprinted since first appearing in venues such as the Nation, the New Republic, Vogue, and the New York Times. see all copies from $78.93! new only from $84.59! \| SVS
16 view cover	The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: 5 more books like this by George Meredith, Edward Mendelson (Introduction by) "Of all nineteenth-century English novels, " claims Edward Mendelson in his Introduction to this edition, "The Ordeal of Richard Feverel is the most self-consciously literary in its style and structure and the most sexually explicit in its plot and theme." First published in 1859, Meredith's first and most controversial novel concerns Sir Austin ... see all copies from $2.87! new only from $99.00!
17 view cover	Drugs & the Brain more books like this by Edward Edelson, Solomon Halbert Snyder (Photographer), Jack H Mendelson (Introduction by) Examines the effects of both beneficial and potentially damaging psychoactive drugs on the human brain. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
18 view cover	The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955 more books like this by W H Auden, Edward Mendelson (Editor) This volume contains all of W. H. Auden's prose works from 1949 through 1955, including many little-known essays that exemplify his range, wit, depth, and wisdom. The book includes the complete text of Auden's first separately published prose book, "The Enchafed Flood, or, The Romantic Iconography of the Sea," followed by more than one hundred ... see all copies from $40.00! new only from $48.02! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Nutrition and the Brain more books like this by Edward Edelson, Nancy K. Mello (Designed by), Jack H. Mendelson (Designed by) An analysis of how and why the types of foods we eat can affect normal brain functioning. Also discusses how diets can be manipulated to alter mental and emotional states in human beings. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
20 view cover	The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Libretti and Other Dramatic Writings, 1939-1973 more books like this by W H Auden, Charles Kallman, Edward Mendelson (Editor) W. H. Auden called opera the "last refuge of the High Style," and considered it the one art in which the grand manner survived the ironic levelings of modernity. He began writing libretti soon after he arrived in America in 1939; opera gave him the opportunity to rise to the high style in public, not in an attempt to elevate his own status as a ... see all copies from $39.98! new only from $99.00!
21	W. H. Auden, 1907-1973: An Exhibition of Manuscripts, Books, and Photographs Selected from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature more books like this by Edward Mendelson see all copies from $18.00! first editions
22 view cover	The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose and Travel Books in Prose and Verse: Volume I. 1926-1938 more books like this by W H Auden, Edward Mendelson (Editor) The Princeton University Press edition of "The Complete Works of W. H. Auden" provides a unique opportunity to solve many of the complex textual problems connected with the severe revisions Auden made in his own works. The texts are newly edited, from Auden's manuscripts, by Edward Mendelson, the literary executor of the Auden estate. The edition ... see all copies from $102.09! new only from $102.09!
23	As I walked out one evening : songs, ballads, limericks and light verse more books like this by W. H. Auden, Edward Mendelson A collection of W.H. Auden's light verse, assembled by his literary executor. see all copies from $26.70! first editions
24 view cover	Libretti and other dramatic writings by W.H. Auden, 1939-1973 more books like this by W. H. Auden, Chester Kallman, Edward Mendelson Contains the text of "Paul Bunyan", "The Rake's Progress", "Delia", "Elegy for Young Lovers", "The Bassarids", an adaptation of "Love's Labour's Lost", the translation of "The Magic Flute", and "The Entertainment of the Senses". There are also two radio plays - "The Dark Valley" by Auden alone and "The Rocking Horse Winner" by Auden and James ... see all copies from $50.00! first editions
25 view cover	Prose by W. H. Auden, Edward Mendelson W.H. Auden's first ten years in the US were marked by rapid and extensive change in his life and thought. He became an American citizen, fell in love with Chester Kallman, and began to reflect on American culture and to explore the ideas of Reinhold Niebuhr and other Protestant theologians. This volume contains every piece of prose that Auden ... see all copies from $45.20!

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