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  • A Preface to Oscar Wilde

    de Anne Varty ...
    Series series Preface Books
    A Preface to Oscar Wilde provides a detailed study of the cultural, personal and political influences that shaped Wilde's writing. The study concentrates primarily on his fiction, critical dialogues and plays that were published between 1890 and 1895, and detailed accounts of Wilde's lesser known works such as his poetry, journalism and letters are also presented. The first section places his work ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Eve's Century

    A Sourcebook of Writings on Women and Journalism 1895-1950

    Edición de Anne Varty ...
    This unique collection of extracts is taken from women's journals and magazines - both British and American - on the eve of the twentieth century. Arranged by subject, the collection focuses on what this pivotal moment represented for women and includes an introduction to women's journalism of the period. The rapidly changing conditions then surrounding a woman's world are illustrated here by ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

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  • Oscar Wilde

    Pulitzer Prize Winner

    de Richard Ellmann ...
    Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar Wilde is the definitive biography of the tortured poet and playwright and the last book by renowned biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann. Ellmann dedicated two decades to the research and writing of this biography, resulting in a complex and richly detailed portrait of Oscar Wilde. Ellman captures the wit ... Leer más

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  • The Novel

    A Biography

    de Michael Schmidt ...
    The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa; influenced by great novelists working in other languages; and encompassing a range of genres, the story of the novel in English unfolds like a richly varied ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

  • The History of Mary Prince

    A West Indian Slave

    de Mary Prince ...
    The History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first narrative of a black woman to be published in Britain. It describes Prince's sufferings as a slave in Bermuda, Turks Island and Antigua, and her eventual arrival in London with her brutal owner Mr Wood in 1828. Prince escaped from him and sought assistance from the Anti-Slavery Society, where she dictated her remarkable story to Susanna Strickland ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • What the Butler Saw

    Two Hundred and Fifty Years of the Servant Problem

    de E. S. Turner ...
    'A book which goes on a special shelf in my library.' P.G. WodehouseWhat the Butler Saw (1962) is one of E.S. Turner's most pertinent and illuminating 'social histories', an exploration of the 'upstairs/downstairs' relationship across three centuries of English life. Drawing on literature, contemporary accounts and household manuals, Turner describes in fascinating detail how it came to be that ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • The Routledge History of Literature in English

    Britain and Ireland

    de Ronald Carter, John McRae ...
    The Routledge History of Literature in English covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, with accompanying language notes which explore the interrelationships between language and literature at each stage. With a span from AD 600 to the present day, it emphasises the growth of literary writing, its traditions, conventions and changing characteristics, and ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • The Young Rebecca

    Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17

    de Rebecca West ...
    A collection of Rebecca West's early journalistic writings reveals her clarity of mind, severity of wit, and relevancy in today's modern worldIn this collection of early writings, beginning when Rebecca West was just eighteen years old, Jane Marcus sheds light on one of the foremost feminist and political thinkers of our time. West's essays, reviews, and public correspondence tackle many subjects, ... Leer más

    $8.09 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Inconvenient People

    Lunacy, Liberty, and the Mad-Doctors in England

    de Sarah Wise ...
    The phenomenon of false allegations of mental illness is as old as our first interactions as human beings. Every one of us has described some other person as crazy or insane, and most all of us have had periods, moments at least, of madness. But it took the confluence of the law and medical science, mad–doctors, alienists, priests and barristers, to raise the matter to a level of "science," ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Pleasing Myself

    From Beowulf to Philip Roth

    de Frank Kermode ...
    Sir Frank Kermode is acknowledged as one of the greatest critics of our time, renowned for the wit humanity and good sense of his writing. Pleasing Myself brings together the very best of his shorter pieces, on topics ranging from Donne and Yeats to modern art and money. ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Roads to Ruin

    The Shocking History of Social Reform

    de E. S. Turner ...
    'It is a salutary thing to look back at some of the reforms which have long been an accepted part of our life, and to examine the opposition, usually bitter and often bizarre, sometimes dishonest but all too often honest, which had to be countered by the restless advocates of 'grandmotherly' legislation...'Contemporary readers of a progressive bent may like to think it elementary that certain ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Art of Biography (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Modernist Reflections on Life-Writing, Truth, and Imaginative Portraiture

    de Virginia Woolf, Cora Tallowmere ...
    In The Art of Biography, Virginia Woolf offers a lucid meditation on biography as a form poised between factual record and imaginative creation. Written in her supple, essayistic prose, the piece considers how the biographer must negotiate evidence, personality, and narrative shape without violating truth. Situated within modernism's broader suspicion of Victorian certainties, Woolf's essay ... Leer más

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