Books on Criticism & Theory
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1660 - 1780).
viii 415p cloth fresh, clean and firm copy without name or stamps, nice early edition with a few ...
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A History of Epic Poetry. (Post-Virgilian)
xvii 327p hardback, fresh green cloth, good condition, light wear only, binding firm, some foxing ...
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A History of Erotic Literature.
192p hardback, dustjacket, notes, index, bibliography, many illustrations, chapters on 17, 18, 19, ...
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A History of German Literature.
752p dark red hardback, New and Revised edition, spine faded otherwise very well preserved, prize ...
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A History of Greek Literature.
vi 327p black cloth fresh, yellow dustjacket worn and aged, minimal library markings, very good ...
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A History of Roman Classical Literature.
591p rebound in plain cloth, from a Cambridge college library, text clean and bright, presumed ...
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A I Gertsen: literaturno-khudozhestvennoe nasledie.
131p paperback with card cover, red and brown lettering, paper yellowing, portrait, pencil marks to ...
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A Journey of Discovery: On Writing for Children.
102p hardback with dustjacket, occasional marginal pencil marks, from a Cambridge college library
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A Kammu Story-Listener's Tales.
112p paperback, green and white cover, good condition, light wear, binding firm, pages clean and ...
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A Key to Old Poems. The Oral-Formulaic Approach to the Interpretation of West-Germanic Verse.
224p hardback with very good olive green dustjacket, some faint pencil markings to margins, ...
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A Layman's Love of Letters: Being the Clark Lectures delivered at Cambridge Oct-Nov 1953.
126p hardback, green jacket, clean copy
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A Life with Books and Children.
16p stapled pamphlet, very good, printed in blue ink, issued by Childrens Literature New England
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A Literal Translation of the Meno of Plato: A Dialogue on the Nature and Origin of Virtue. With introduction, Analysis and English Notes, Arranged for Interleaving (if Desired) by a First Class Man of Balliol.
63p bound in publisher's green cloth with printed title label to front board, interleafing sequence ...
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A Literary History of Persia: Volume 1: From the Earliest Times until Firdawsi.
xiv 521p hardback, bright red cloth with Cambridge arms to foot of spine, top edge gilt, a tight ...
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A Literary History of Persia: Volume 3: The Tartar Dominion 1265 - 1502.
xiv 586p hardback, bright red cloth with Cambridge arms to foot of spine, top edge gilt, a tight ...
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A Literary History of Rome. From the Origins to the Close of the Golden Age,.
xvi 695p large format hardback, spine well gilt with tree design, title printed in red and black, ...
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A Literary History of the Arabs.
xxxi 506p hardback, navy cloth, very good condition, light wear, a few light dots to cover, pages ...
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A Look at Tradition. The English Association, Presidential Address 1965.
9p pamphlet, sewn binding, grey card cover, a fresh item, unused, like new
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A Los Cien Anos de la Muerte del Poeta Gustavo Adolfo Becquer. (= Special Issue of Quaderni Ibero-Americani, No 39-40)
approx 120p large paperback, adverts, nice clean copy with related newspaper cutting inserted, very ...
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A Lytell Cronycle.
lx 202p hardback, orange cloth, like new condition, little to no wear, binding firm, pages clean ...
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A Manifold Voice: Studies in Commonwealth Literature.
218p hardback, dustjacket, a clean and fresh copy, first edition
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A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare.
84p blue paperback with red title band and inset illustrated cover panel, little use, paper ...
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A Modernist Reader: Modernism in England, 1910 - 1930.
172p paperback with burgundy cover, nice clean copy, no names or stamps
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A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, Daughter of Colley Cibber.
223p blue cloth with gilt lettering, pages clean and unmarked, very good condition
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A New Approach to Joyce. The Portrait of the Artist as a Guidebook.
212p paperback, good condition, bright blue cover with white spine, light wear to covers with one ...
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A New Look at Pioneer Women. (Hecate, A Women's Interdisciplinary Journal. Volume 5, No 2, 1979)
104p journal with blue card cover, pages beginning to brown but clean with articles on domestic ...
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A New View of the Plays of Racine.
xiv 255p green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustjacket, well preserved, nice copy
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A New Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms.
91p hardback, dustjacket, with protective plastic cover, written in the style of Swift: "Being the ...
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A Novelist on His Novels. (London Magazine, October 1968, Vol 8, No 7)
116p paperback with silver illustrated cover, well preserved, pages clean, also contains essays on ...
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A Paladin of Philantropy and other Papers.
vi 361p green cloth, spine gilt (dull), illustration on titlepage, first edition, very good
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A Picture of Shakespeare's Tragedies.
180p sunned orange paperback, very good condition for age, binding firm, text clean and bright, a ...
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A Pilgrimage Through Medieval English Literature.
499p hardback with colour illustrated dustjacket, as new, excellent copy, Festschrift for Isamu ...
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A Preface to Hardy. Second Edition.
200p blue paperback, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, many b&w illustrations, index, as new
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A Preface to James Joyce.
xiii 202p blue paperback, contains numerous black and white images, binding firm, name to endpaper ...
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A Preface to James Joyce. Second Edition.
226p large paperback, figures in text, bibliography, index, fresh & unused copy
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A Preface to Jane Austen.
xii 173p paperback, private paper jacket, frontispiece, illustrations, index, very good, Japanese ...
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A Preface to the Faerie Queene.
240p paperback, adhesive film to cover, a few pencil marks, a nice and useful copy
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A Preface to Wordsworth.
xii 203p large paperback, frontispiece, 23 other halftone plates, indices, nice clean copy
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A Preface to Yeats.
212p blue paperback with illustrated wrap around illustration to cover, little use, pages clean ...
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A Preface. (The Cornhill, No 968, Autumn 1946).
Well preserved single issue of journal, pages clean, also includes work by Robert Graves and Saki, ...
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A Private Commission. New Verses by Shakespeare.
27p green cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine, unread, gilt edging, excellent condition
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A Provisional Translation of the Early Lives of Dante and of His Poetical Correspondence with Giovanni Virgilio.
112p pink paperback, a very good copy from a Cambridge college library, binding weak, cover ...
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A Question of Taste.
20p pamphlet, grey card cover, sewn, faint library stamp, very good, clean copy
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A Reading of Paradise Lost. The Alexander Lectures at the University of Toronto 1962.
x 131p paperback, bright orange cover, white lettering to front and spine, contains several plates, ...
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A Return to Vision.
xxi 400p large paperback, anthology of philosophical rhetoric, criticism, narrative and poetry, ...
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A Revoluçao das Moscas. Ensaios de Literatura Ibero-Americana.
50p stapled booklet, yellow and black card cover a little faded near spine otherwise very good, ...
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A Rhetoric of the Unreal. Studies in Narrative and Structure, especially of the Fantastic.
vii 446p large paperback, black cover, very good condition, spine tight, binding firm, pages clear ...
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A S Griboedov v vospominaniiakh sovremennikov.
448p white boards with gilt lettering, nice fresh copy with bookplate, plates, excellent condition
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