MIlton: Paradise Lost, A Casebook
Hampshire: Macmillan, 1986. Fifth Printing. Paperback. More
Literary Criticims/Essays
The Key to "The Name of the Rose": Including Translations of All Non-English Passages
Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan Press, 1999. Eighth Printing. Trade Paperback. Originally published in 1987, The Key to 'The Name of the Rose' remains the only commentary on Umberto Eco's historical novel available in English. With over twenty translations of The Name of the Rose available there was..... More
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes at Athens
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2018. Joshua Billings (ed.), Oliver Taplin (tr.). First Edition. Paperback. “This vivid and accessible translation captures the drama of Aeschylus’ poetry and the excitement of the action in performance.” —VICTORIA WOHL, University of Toronto “This critical edition provides a lavish and fulsome picture..... More
The Architecture of Happiness
London: Penguin Books, 2014. Cat Johnston (cover illustrations). Reissued Edition. Sixth Printing. Paperback. One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we’re surrounded by. And yet a concern for architecture..... More
Music, Sense and Nonsense: Collected Essays and Lectures
London: Biteback Publishing, 2017. UK Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Alfred Brendel, one of the greatest pianists of our time, is renowned for his masterly interpretations of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Liszt, and has been credited with rescuing from oblivion the piano music of Schubert's last years. Far from having..... 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
Women, Race & Class
UK: Penguin Classics, 2019. First Penguin Classics Edition. Sixth Printing. Paperback. Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories..... More
Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader
London: Faber and Faber, 1965. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Rare. “My book does not pretend to scholarship, only to a desire to help the average reader who sees all his works available in paperback and is scared more of their content then their price. The appearance of difficulty is part..... 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
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Joyce E Chaplin (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. The only edition of the celebrated Autobiography that includes the long-missing and recently identified “Wagon Letters.” Written during the most eventful years of Benjamin Franklin's life (1771–90), the Autobiography is one of the most influential..... More
The Epic of Gilgamesh
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. Second Edition. Paperback. “This scrupulous new translation of The Epic of Gilgamesh manages to convey much of the archaic power and even something of the occasional humor of the ancient Mesopotamian poem. What is especially valuable is that the translators, by collating passages..... 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
Design as Art
UK: Penguin Classics, 2008. Bruno Munari (cover art), YES (cover design). Reissued Penguin Classics Edition. Reprint. Paperback. One of the last surviving members of the futurist generation, Bruno Munari's Design as Art is an illustrated journey into the artistic possibilities of modern design translated by Patrick Creagh published as part..... 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
Imprint 19: The Annual Anthology of Women in Publishing Society Hong Kong
Hong Kong: WIPS Women In Publishing in Hong Kong, 2020. Paperback. An exciting collection of new fiction, essays, memoir, poetry, travelogue, commentary, humour and artwork and much more. The literary and artistic skills of over 50 members combine in our 19th and latest high quality issue. "Women..... 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
Hard Times
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. Fred Kaplan (ed.). Fourth Edition. Paperback. “An excellent collection of critical and social commentary that will help to make Dickens’ image of Victorian England meaningful to all students.” —John Howard Wilson, Dakota Wesleyan University This Norton Critical Edition includes: - Sylvère Monod’s..... More
Tale of Two Cities
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
The Conjure Stories
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
The Marrow of Tradition
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
Jane Eyre
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
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
Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine Issue 49
Hong Kong: Musical Stones Publishing Ltd, 2020. September 2019. Softcover. Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine is a Hong Kong-based print poetry publication. In each issue, we publish Chinese-language poems and critique pieces on poetry. We also have a section of English-language poems. 本刊為雙月刊，創作園地包括詩作、評論、專欄。全年公開徵稿；風格、字數不拘。 https://vvpoetry.com/ 第49期 No. 49..... More
Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine Issue 50
Hong Kong: Musical Stones Publishing Ltd, 2019. November 2019. Softcover. Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine is a Hong Kong-based print poetry publication. In each issue, we publish Chinese-language poems and critique pieces on poetry. We also have a section of English-language poems. 本刊為雙月刊，創作園地包括詩作、評論、專欄。全年公開徵稿；風格、字數不拘。 https://vvpoetry.com/ 第50期 No..... More
