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1	The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Middle Ages Through the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century more books like this by Stephen Greenblatt (Editor) add to wishlist A best-seller for more than forty years, this is the survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. With 274 authors, the Eighth Edition deepens its representation of essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's translation of "Beowulf" to global twentieth-century classics. Over 75 colour plates and ... see all copies from $34.14! new only from $54.99! \| SVS
2	The Broadview Anthology of British Literature more books like this by Joseph Laurence Black add to wishlist see all copies from $8.88! new only from $23.09! \| first editions
3	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2: The Romantic Period Through the Twentieth Century more books like this by Stephen Greenblatt (Editor) add to wishlist A best-seller for more than forty years, this is the survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. With 274 authors, the Eighth Edition deepens its representation of essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's translation of "Beowulf" to global twentieth-century classics. Over 75 colour plates and ... see all copies from $24.84! new only from $50.14! \| SVS
4	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, the Major Authors more books like this by Stephen Greenblatt (Editor), M H Abrams (Editor), Barbara K Lewalski (Editor) add to wishlist Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published. see all copies from $13.92! new only from $22.75! \| SVS
5	Deutsch, Na Klar!: An Introductory German Course more books like this by Robert Di Donato add to wishlist This versatile and colorful program for introductory German courses motivates students through its outstanding integration and use of authentic materials to illustrate vocabulary in context, communicative functions of grammatical structures, and cultural points. A fully revised text-specific website offers a wide variety of interactive activities, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.40!
6	What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England more books like this by Daniel Pool add to wishlist Essays provide a view of British life during the nineteenth century. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Mimesis : the representation of reality in Western literature more books like this by Erich Auerbach add to wishlist Auerbach traces the representation of reality with well-developed readings of major writers in Western literature from antiquity to the 20th century. His analysis of the development of realism in Stendahl, Balzac, Flaubert and Proust is especially worth noting. He ends his book with Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse". see all copies from $4.50! new only from $17.50! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The discarded image; an introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature more books like this by C. S. Lewis add to wishlist C. S. Lewis's The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, as historical and cultural background to the literature of the middle ages and renaissance. It describes the 'image' discarded by later ages as 'the medieval synthesis itself, the whole organisation of their theology, science and history into a single, complex, ... see all copies from $5.25! new only from $15.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination more books like this by Professor Sandra M Gilbert add to wishlist This reissue of the groundbreaking study of female 19th-century writers contains a new introduction in which Gilbert and Guber address the origins of their own interest in feminist literary criticism. see all copies from $2.76! new only from $11.99! \| first editions
10	Experiment in Criticism more books like this by C S Lewis add to wishlist Professor Lewis believed that literature exists above all for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He doubted the use of strictly evaluative criticism, especially its condemnations. Literary criticism is traditionally employed in judging books, and 'bad taste' is thought of as a taste for bad ... see all copies from $7.99! new only from $11.86! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative more books like this by Vivian Gornick add to wishlist As Vivian Gornick puts it, "In every work of literature there's both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the story is the emotional experience that preoccupies the writer: the insight, the wisdom, the thing one has come to say." In addition to her own experience with the form, Gornick also ... see all copies from $4.78! new only from $5.03! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	In his own write more books like this by John Lennon add to wishlist This volume combines Lennon's two books of humorous poetry and prose, liberally illustrated with the author's own drawings. see all copies from $5.74! new only from $9.56! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Oxford Companion to English Literature more books like this by Margaret Drabble (Editor) add to wishlist The first edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature, edited by Sir Paul Harvey, was published in 1932, and quickly established itself as as the standard source of reference for scholars, students, and general readers alike. In 1985, under the editorship of Margaret Drabble, the text was thoroughly and sensitively revised to bring it up ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Reflections on the Revolution in France more books like this by Edmund Burke add to wishlist "Reflections on the Revolution in France" was written in 1790 and has remained in print ever since. Edmund Burke's analysis of revolutionary change established him as the chief framer of modern European conservative political thought. This new edition of the "Reflections" presents Burke's famous text along with a historical introduction by Frank ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.81! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's Seafaring Tales more books like this by Dean King add to wishlist Readers of Patrick O'Brian's novels will get a lot of use out of this book. The staff who assembled A SEA OF WORDS have compiled over 2000 terms with clear, accessible definitions and cross-references. In addition, the book includes diagrams, maps, and short essays that offer the reader a clearer understanding of the structure and customs of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.78! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Cambridge Companion to Dante more books like this by Rachel Jacoff (Editor) add to wishlist This book is designed to provide an introduction to Dante that is at once accessible and challenging. Fifteen specially commissioned essays by distinguished North American and European scholars provide background information and up-to-date critical perspectives on Dante's life and work, focusing on areas of central importance. They explore the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Norton Anthology English Literature, Volume E: The Victorian Age more books like this by Stephen Greenblatt (Editor), M H Abrams (Editor), Carol T Christ (Editor) add to wishlist A best-seller for more than forty years, this is the survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. With 274 authors, the Eighth Edition deepens its representation of essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's translation of "Beowulf" to global twentieth-century classics. Over 75 colour plates and ... see all copies from $4.41! new only from $30.74!
18 view cover	The Complete Romances of Chra(c)Tien de Troyes more books like this by Chretien de Troyes, David Staines (Editor) add to wishlist "[A]n eminently readable text, done clearly and accurately... it gives as good an idea as a translation can of the complexity and subtlety of ChrA(c)tien's originals.... [T]his translation should attract a wide audience of students and Arthurian enthusiasts." -- Speculum "[A] significant contribution to the field of medieval studies [and] a ... see all copies from $5.74! new only from $11.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Poetic Edda more books like this by Carolyne Larrington (Translator) add to wishlist Young were the years when Ymir made his settlement, there was no sand nor sea nor cool waves; earth was nowhere nor the sky above, chaos yawned, grass was there nowhere. The sun turns black, earth sinks into the sea, the bright stars vanish from the sky; steam rises up in the conflagration, a high flame plays against heaven itself. Seeress's ... see all copies from $3.86! new only from $4.87! \| SVS
20 view cover	Goodbye to all that more books like this by Robert Graves add to wishlist Robert Graves, English novelist, poet and essayist, describes the events of his youth, and how he came--along with the rest of the world--to the end of his innocence during World War I. see all copies from $2.44! new only from $10.31! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Medea more books like this by Euripides add to wishlist The Greek Tragedy in New Translations series is based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves, or who work in collaboration with poets, can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of the great Greek writers. These new translations are more than faithful to the original text, going beyond the literal ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Life of Samuel Johnson more books like this by James Boswell add to wishlist The classic biography of Dr. Johnson, by his disciple, James Boswell. The already great reputation of Johnson was sealed with the publication of this book in 1791, and it is largely due to this book that Dr. Johnson is still so well-remembered today. This was long considered the standard English biography of a man of letters, against which all ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Testament of Youth more books like this by Vera Brittain add to wishlist Written in 1933, this is a personal account of life during World War I. Based on diaries and letters written at the time, Brittain brings the years 1900 to 1925 to life with sharp perception and a lack of sentimentality. She bears witness to the loss of a generation of men including her brother and her fiance. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.50! \| SVS
24 view cover	Wheelwrights Shop more books like this by George Sturt add to wishlist George Sturt's frank and moving account of his trade as a wheelwright in the late nineteenth century offers a unique glimpse into the working lives of craftsmen in a world since banished by technology. The wheelwright's shop where he entered business had been operating for two centuries; this chronicle, first published in 1923, is a poignant ... see all copies from $8.70! new only from $23.61! \| SVS
25 view cover	Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence more books like this by Geoff Dyer add to wishlist After trying and failing to write a conventional biography of Lawrence, Geoff Dyer instead tackles his own writer's block by focusing on his personal responses to his subject. In the process, he travels to the places where Lawrence lived--Taos, Sardinia, Paris, Oaxaca, England--in an attempt to understand both Lawrence and himself. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $5.96! \| signed copies \| first editions

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