Edinburgh, Scotland: T. Nelson & Sons Ltd. Reprint. Hardcover. Charles Dickens’s powerful black comedy of of hypocrisy and greed The greed of his family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world. And..... More
Edinburgh, Scotland: T. Nelson & Sons Ltd. Reprint. Hardcover. Charles Dickens’s powerful black comedy of of hypocrisy and greed The greed of his family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world. And..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. Abby Weintraub and Barbara de Wilde (jacket design), Luke Fildes and Charles Collins (illustrations). Everyman's Library Edition. Second Printing. Hardcover. Central to the plot is John Jasper: in public he is a man of integrity and benevolence; in private he is an opium addict..... More
Edinburgh, Scotland: T. Nelson & Sons Ltd. Reprint. Hardcover. More
Edinburgh, Scotland: T. Nelson & Sons Ltd. Reprint. Hardcover. More
Edinburgh, Scotland: T. Nelson & Sons Ltd. Reprint. Hardcover. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2020. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. “Robert Douglas-Fairhurst’s new edition of A Tale of Two Cities sets the reader down in the midst of Dickens’s vibrant life and times. Douglas-Fairhurst, a gifted biographer of Dickens, has created an edition rich in biographical and..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Robert B Stepto, Jennifer Rae Greeson (eds). First Edition. Paperback. Fourteen conjure tales by one of America’s most influential African American fiction writers. This Norton Critical Edition of The Conjure Stories arranges the tales chronologically by composition date, allowing readers to discern..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Werner Sollors (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. The Norton Critical Edition of this hugely influential novel gives readers the fullest possible sense of its historical background and critical assessment. Inspired by the 1898 Wilmington Riot and the eyewitness accounts of Charles W. Chesnutt’s..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. Deborah Lutz (ed.). Fourth Edition. Paperback. "The Brontës' gifted biographer provides us with another superlative Norton Critical Edition of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel. For the classroom and for the general reader, there's no better way to experience the context in which Jane Eyre..... More
Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1991. Paul E. Kennedy (cover design). Reprint. Softcover. A reprint of Ptolemy's classic text Guide to Geography first published by the New York Public Library in 1932. Translated and edited by Edward Luther Stevenson. With an introduction by Prof. Joseph Fischer. More
London: Dennis Dobson, 1968. Second, revised edition. Hardcover. The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry is a 1947 collection of essays by Cleanth Brooks. It is considered a seminal text in the New Critical school of literary criticism. More
Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1983. Reprint. Paperback. The Analects express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius, one of the most humane thinkers of all time, believed everyone should live. Upholding the ideals of wisdom, self-knowledge, courage and love of one's fellow man, he argued that the pursuit of..... More
W.W. Norton, 1981. The Revenger's Tragedy (1607) shows a brilliant court culture against a sombre background; although fashionably Italianate in appearance, the play is concerned with substantial issues in the Britain of King James I, an open homosexual. More
The Viking Press, 1961. Compass Books Edition. Softcover. More
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979. Reprint. Paperback. More
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1949. Softcover. Rinehart Editions book no. 25. More
Oxford: Oxford World Classics, 1998. Paperback. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. First Trade Paperback Edition, Fourth Printing. Softcover. In this first of a planned five-volume set, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a...... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. First Trade Paperback Edition, Third Printing. Softcover. In this first of a planned five-volume set, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a...... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. In this third volume of a planned five-volume series, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of His-men Ch'ing, a corrupt..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. In this second of a planned five-volume series, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of His-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2020. Milton A. Cohen (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. “This ample, authoritatively edited collection represents Cummings’s work in all its variety and dynamism. We find here not only Cummings the poet—rebel and curmudgeon, lyric writer and satirist—but also Cummings the painter, the memoirist, the playwright..... More
London: The Folio Society, 1990. Anne Scott (lithographs; Collins); Michael Ayrton (monotypes; Poe). Folio Society Reissue Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Rare. Reissue of 1957 Folio Society edition 2 volume set Tales of Mystery and Imagination edited by Herbert van Thal Contains 21 stories, including "William..... More
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