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 about Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose
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 about Out of My Later Years
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. First paperback edition. More about Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida
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 about In Defence of Sociology (Essays, Interpretations & Rejoinders
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1975. John Sewell (cover illustration). Paperback. A Pelican book. #A1581. A biography and overview of Wittgenstein and his philosophy. More about Wittgenstein
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. More about Ben's Jonson's Plays and Masques (Texts of the Plays and Masques, Jonson On His Work,...
London: Faber and Faber, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. More about Beyond East & West: Memoirs, Portraits & Essays
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 about The Way We Live Now
London: Unwin Books, 1975. Reprint. Paperback. Bertrand Russell was regarded as one of the twentieth century’s greatest minds. Well known for his profound knowledge and controversial approach to a myriad of different issues and subjects, his prolific works also exhibited great intellectual wit and humour. Bertrand Russell’s Best is a...... More about Bertrand Russell's Best: Sillhouettes in Satire
London: Penguin Books, 1991. Reprint. Paperback. More about American Literature (Volume 9 of the New Pelican Guide to English Literature
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 about From Blake to Byron (Volume 5 of the New Pelican Guide to English Literature
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 about From Dickens to Hardy (Volume 6 of the New Pelican Guide to English Literature
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 about From Dryden to Johnson (Volume 4 of the New Pelican Guide to English Literature
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 about From James to Eliot (Volume 7 of the New Pelican Guide to English Literature
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 about From Orwell to Naipaul (Volume 8 of the New Pelican Guide to English Literature
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 about The Age of Shakespeare (Volume 2 of the New Pelican Guide to English Literature
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 about From Donne to Marvell (Volume 3 of the New Pelican Guide to English Literature
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 about Medieval Literature: Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition (Volume 1 Part One of the New Pelican...
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 about Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature (Gleanings for the Curious
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 about Bernard de Voto: Four Portraits and One Subject (with a bibliography of his writings
New York: Monarch Press, 1984. Second Printing. Paperback. More about How to Analyze Drama
Scribner, 2004. Paperback. More about Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs
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 about Essays of a Book Collector: Reminiscences on Some Old Books and Their Authors
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 about Sea Changes: Essays on Culture and Feminism (Questions for Feminism series
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