New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1993. Second, revised edition. Softcover. This Norton Critical Edition presents the work of one of America's foremost poets. It moves well beyond the scope of its predecessor, Adrienne Rich's Poetry (1975), in giving proper recognition to Rich's extraordinary achievements in both poetry and... More
Totowa, NJ: Littlefield, Adams & Co, 1967. Reprint. Paperback. "Thoughtful Essays of a Profound Thinker". An inspiring collection of essays, in which Albert Einstein addresses the topics that fascinated him as a scientist, philosopher, and humanitarian Divided by subject matter—“Science,” “Convictions and Beliefs,” “Public Affairs,” etc.—these essays consider everything..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. First paperback edition. More
Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1996. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. Is there a future for sociology? To many, sociology seems to have lost its way. Born of the ideas of Auguste Comte in the nineteenth century, sociology established itself as 'the science of modernity', linked to a progressive view of... More
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1975. John Sewell (cover illustration). Paperback. A Pelican book. #A1581. A biography and overview of Wittgenstein and his philosophy. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. More
London: Faber and Faber, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Sceptre Books, 1986. Reprint. Paperback. It was a great relief to many when in October 1982 Bernard Levin returned to the pages of The Times. In his eighteen months' leave from regular journalism (during which he was alarmed to discover that he didn't miss it) there were those less fortunate... More
London: Penguin Books, 1991. Reprint. Paperback. More
London: Penguin Books, 1998. Revised. Paperback. It begins with an account of the social and intellectual context of English Literature during the Romantic period, followed by a survey of the literature itself with essays detailing Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Crabbe, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Burns, Jane Austen, Scott and the Essayists. More
London: Penguin Books, 1996. Revised. Paperback. Includes essays on Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope, the Brontes, George Eliot, Hardy, Carlyle, Ruskin, Tennyson, Matthew Arnold and others. More
London: Penguin Books, 1997. Revised. Paperback. This fourth volume covers the period from Dryden to Johnson. It begins with a survey of the social context of English Literature during this period, followed by a survey of the literature itself, much of it of a series of essays dealing with detail... More
London: Penguin Books, 1996. Revised. Paperback. Contains essays concerning Henry James, W.B. Yeats, Conrad, E.M. Forster, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, Shaw and other matters. More
London: Penguin Books, 1988. Revised. Paperback. "This volume covers the period from the 1940s to the present" and discusses the context and the literary and cultural scene, followed by essays such as George Orwell, Patrick White, Beckett, Wilson, Anthony Powell, Dylan Thomas, Nadine Gordimer, Ted Hughes, Naipaul, Nigerian writers and others. More
London: Penguin Books, 1993. Revised. Paperback. Essays discuss the social aspects of the period, the works of Spenser, Sidney, Marlowe, Jonson, Chapman, and Shakespeare, and Elizabethan acting, stagecraft, comedy, and language. More
London: Penguin Books, 1997. Revised. Paperback. A series of essays concerning Donne, Ben Jonson, Herbert and the devotional poets. the Cavalier poets, Milton, Hobbes, Bunyan and Cowley. More
London: Penguin Books, 1997. Reprint. Paperback. With an Anthology of Medieval Poems and Drama. Covers the period from Chaucer to Thomas More and the Court of Henry VIII. More
New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1961. Menten Inc. (cover design). Reprint. Revised with a new introduction. Softcover. This 1961 edition is a verbatim reprint of the first 310 pages and chapters of Refractory and Conformity of Sense to Sound of Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-Fields of Literature, third... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Four essays about DeVoto: The Historian by Catherine Drinker Bowen, The Writer by Edith R. Mirrielees, The Citizen, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and The Personality by Wallace Stegner. Introduction by Wallace Stegner. More
Scribner, 2004. Paperback. More
West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1989. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Locust Hill Literary Studies No. 3. About the author: Claude Prance (1906-2002) was born in Portsmouth, England, and was educated at the Philological School and St John’s College at Southsea. He joined the Midland Bank in 1923... More
London: Verso, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. The essays in this book develop a socialist-feminist perspective on a wide range of crucial and diverse issues in feminist theory and cultural criticism. They explore the present and past of feminist debates on sexuality, from Wollsontecraft through Millett and Rich. Using both psychoanalysis... More
The New Press, 1995. Softcover. More
New York: Mason & Lipscomb Publishers, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. The definitive and authorized biography of one of the greatest literary humorists of all time. More
New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc, 1967. First Edition. Paperback. An encyclopedic handbook of facts and allusions in Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. More
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