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  • The Things That Matter

    What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life

    by Edward Mendelson ...
    She felt rather inclined just for a moment to stand still after all that chatter, and pick out one particular thing; the thing that mattered . . .—Virginia Woolf, To The LighthouseAn illuminating exploration of how seven of the greatest English novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Between the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Early Auden, Later Auden

    A Critical Biography

    by Edward Mendelson, Edward Mendelson ...
    Presented in one volume for the very first time, and updated with new archival discoveries, Early Auden, Later Auden reintroduces Edward Mendelson's acclaimed, two-part biography of W. H. Auden (1907–73), one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. This book offers a detailed history and interpretation of Auden’s oeuvre, spanning the duration of his career from juvenilia to his ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • The Inner Life of Mrs. Dalloway

    by Edward Mendelson ...
    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    Mrs. Dalloway is a novel about almost everything. The story of a single day in London after the First World War, it travels backward and forward in time and consciousness, venturing beyond the ordinary world into epic, mythic, and mystical modes. The novel is a work of extraordinary richness, as much for its interwoven webs of meaning as for its moral and psychological vision.Edward Mendelson ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers

    by Edward Mendelson ...
    A deeply considered and provocative new look at major American writers—including Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and W.H. Auden—Edward Mendelson’s Moral Agents is also a work of critical biography in the great tradition of Plutarch, Samuel Johnson, and Emerson. Any important writer, in Mendelson’s view, writes in response to an idea of the good life that is inseparable from the life the writer lives ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Mrs. Dalloway

    The First-Edition Text with the Authors Revisions

    by Virginia Woolf ...
    **Virginia Woolf's most famous novel, now in a new edition that reflects all of the author's revisions to the work.This is the definitive edition of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, complete with a cover inspired by the original Hogarth Press design to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the original 1925 publication.**Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf’s tale of a day in the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • To the Lighthouse

    The First-Edition Text with the Author's Revisions

    by Virginia Woolf ...
    A new centennial edition of Virginia Woolf’s finest novel—a story about life and death, time and perception, family and the self—that incorporates all of the author's corrections and revisions to the text.To the Lighthouse, whose centenary falls in 2027, is widely viewed as the greatest novel by Virgina Woolf, one of greatest, and most beloved, of the great English novelists. It is a tale of youth ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Tono-Bungay

    by H. G. Wells ...
    Presented as a miraculous cure-all, Tono-Bungay is in fact nothing other than a pleasant-tasting liquid with no positive effects. Nonetheless, when the young George Ponderevo is employed by his Uncle Edward to help market this ineffective medicine, he finds his life overwhelmed by its sudden success. Soon, the worthless substance is turned into a formidable fortune, as society becomes convinced of ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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    The Mask of Apollo

    A Virago Modern Classic

    by Mary Renault ...
    Narrated by Barnaby Edwards, Joan Walker ...
    Series Audiobook 327 - Virago Modern Classics

    Unabridged

    15 hours 32 min

    THE ANCIENT GREEK STAGE BROUGHT THRILLINGLY TO LIFE BY THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL FICTION, PERFECT FOR FANS OF THE WOMEN OF TROY AND THE ODYSSEY'Mary Renault has made the classical era alive' GORE VIDAL'Her books have stood the test of time' INDEPENDENTThe artist flows into the mask the poet offers him; only so will the god possess him.Greece, fourth century ... ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    The Last of the Wine

    A Virago Modern Classic

    by Mary Renault ...
    Narrated by Barnaby Edwards, Joan Walker ...
    Series Audiobook 326 - Virago Modern Classics

    Unabridged

    16 hours 47 min

    A VIVID, SWEEPING SAGA OF QUEER LOVE AND POLITICS IN ANCIENT GREECE, FROM THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL FICTION, FOR FANS OF SONG OF ACHILLES AND THE ODYSSEY'Renault's eye for intimacy is amazing' DOUGLAS STUART'Arresting and beautiful and moving . . . decades ahead of its time' LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKSYour love made me. Do not take it away; for without love I am a temple forsaken by i... ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    The Praise Singer

    A Virago Modern Classic

    by Mary Renault ...
    Narrated by Joan Walker, Tim Bentinck ...
    Series Audiobook 329 - Virago Modern Classics

    Unabridged

    11 hours 17 min

    AN ODYSSEY OF ART AND POWER, BY THE CLASSIC QUEEN OF ANCIENT GREEK RETELLINGS, FOR FANS OF THE WOMEN OF TROY, SONG OF ACHILLES AND THE ODYSSEY'Mary Renault is an exceptional storyteller' CHARLOTTE MENDELSON'A song of praise, a work of love, a serene, deliberate book, full of wisdom, rich in character, incident and description' WALL STREET JOURNALEach generation has its own drea... ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    The Bull from the Sea

    A Virago Modern Classic

    by Mary Renault ...
    Narrated by Kris Dyer ...
    Series Audiobook 322 - Virago Modern Classics

    Unabridged

    11 hours 29 min

    THE ANCIENT GREEK STAGE BROUGHT THRILLINGLY TO LIFE BY THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL FICTION, PERFECT FOR FANS OF THE WOMEN OF TROY AND THE ODYSSEY'Mary Renault is a shining light' HILARY MANTEL'Mary Renault's portraits of the ancient world are fierce, complex and eloquent' MADELINE MILLERThe sequel to The King Must Die, The Bull from the Sea continues the story of the hero Theseus after... ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    Funeral Games

    A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic

    by Mary Renault ...
    Narrated by Kris Dyer, Roger May ...
    Series Audiobook 317 - Virago Modern Classics

    Unabridged

    13 hours 38 min

    THE ANCIENT GREEK STAGE BROUGHT THRILLINGLY TO LIFE BY THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL FICTION, PERFECT FOR FANS OF THE WOMEN OF TROY AND THE ODYSSEY'The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renault's finest writing. Lyrical, wise, compelling: the novels are a wonderful imaginative feat' SARAH WATERSThe heavens say it begins with the death of the King . . .Alexander the Great, conqueror of an empire ... Read more

    $31.99 USD