MIlton: Paradise Lost, A Casebook
Hampshire: Macmillan, 1986. Fifth Printing. Paperback. More
Literary Criticims/Essays
Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose
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
The Portable Anais Nin
San Antonia, Texas: Sky Blue Press, 2015. Compiled, edited and introduced by Benjamin Franklin V. Seconding Printing. Paperback. The Portable Anais Nin is the first comprehensive collection of the author's work in nearly 40 years, during which time her catalogue has doubled with the release of the erotica and unexpurgated..... More
The Author
London: Routledge, 2005. First UK Edition. Paperback. More
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. Susan Mitchell (jacket design). Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found..... More
In Defence of Sociology (Essays, Interpretations & Rejoinders)
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
Wittgenstein
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1975. John Sewell (cover illustration). Paperback. A Pelican book. #A1581. A biography and overview of Wittgenstein and his philosophy. More
Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1951. Reprint. Paperback. Translated from the Greek and with critical notes by S.H. Butcher. This book contains the celebrated Butcher translation of Aristotle's Poetics, faced, page by page, with the complete Greek text. The editor's 300-page exposition and interpretation follows. A...... More
Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1970. First Edition. Second Impression. Paperback. In Poetic Closure, distinguished literary scholar Barbara Herrnstein Smith explores the provocative question: How do poems end? To answer it, Smith examines numerous individual poems and examples of common poetic forms in order to reveal the relationship between..... More
Ben's Jonson's Plays and Masques (Texts of the Plays and Masques, Jonson On His Work, Contemporary Readers on Jonson, Criticism)
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. More
Beyond East & West: Memoirs, Portraits & Essays
London: Faber and Faber, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. More
The Way We Live Now
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
Mao Zedong's 'Talks at the Yan'an Conference on Literature and Art': A Translation of the 1943 Text with Commentary
Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1992. Second Printing. Paperback. More
Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature (Gleanings for the Curious)
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
Hemingway: The Writer as Artist
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1973. Fourth Edition, Ninth Printing. Softcover. In this fourth edition of the best-known critical study of Hemingway’s work Carlos Baker has completely revised the two opening chapters, which deal with the young Hemingway’s career in Paris, and has incorporated material uncovered after the publication..... More
Bernard de Voto: Four Portraits and One Subject (with a bibliography of his writings)
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
Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine Issue 47 (May 2019)
Hong Kong: Musical Stones Publishing Ltd, 2019. Steven Schroeder (cover art). Softcover. In Issue 47 of Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine (May 2019), we will publish an English-language section on "Loneliness in the City". What are some of the possible relationships between the individual and a city? What are cultural..... More
How to Analyze Drama
New York: Monarch Press, 1984. Second Printing. Paperback. More
Essays of a Book Collector: Reminiscences on Some Old Books and Their Authors
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
The Well Wrought Urn
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
Sea Changes: Essays on Culture and Feminism (Questions for Feminism series)
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
Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement
The New Press, 1995. Softcover. More
World Literature Today, Spring 2019 (The City Issue: Hong Kong)
Norman: University of Oklahoma, 2019. Volume 93, Number 2. Journal. World Literature Today is an American magazine of international literature and culture, published bimonthly at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. The magazine presents essays, poetry, fiction, and book reviews from all over the world in a format accessible to a...... More
P.G. Wodehouse: A Portrait of a Master
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
Bicycle Diaries
London: Faber and Faber, 2010. David Byrne (photo and illus.). Reprint. Paperback. Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bicycle as his principal means of transportation in New York City. A few years later he discovered folding bikes, and started taking them with him on music tour..... More
