All Old Books

J.P. Sullivan
£35.00

Ezra Pound & Sextus Propertius: A Study in Creative Translation

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Uses Pounds translation from the Latin as an example of superlative creative translation, as opposed to the purely literal.

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Ken Ireland
£20.00

Thomas Hardy, Time and Narrative

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The first book length study of all hardy's fourteen novels from narratological perspectives.

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Tim Armstrong
£20.00

Haunted Hardy: Poetry, History, Memory

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An academic work investigating ghosts, history and loss in the novels of Thomas Hardy.

Julian Worfroys
£45.00

Dickens's London, Perception, Subjectivity and Phenomenal Urban Multiplicity

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This phenomenological exploration of the streets of Dickens's London opens up new perspectives on the city and the writer.

Henry Staten
£40.00

Spirit Becomes Matter, The Brontes, George Eliot, Nietzsche

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Traces the development of critical moral psychology in the central novels of the Brontes and George Eliot.

Robert Miles
£30.00

Gothic Writing 1750-1820, A Genealogy

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Drawing on the ideas of Foucault, the author places the Gothic at the centre of the debate about Romanticism.

Gillian Piggott
£50.00

Dickens and Benjamin, Moments of Revelation, Fragments of Modernity

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Arguing that Charles Dickens and Walter Benjamin display a shared vision of Modernity.

Rene Girard
£30.00

"To double business bound" Essays on Literature, Mimesis and Anthropology

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Essays cover topics including strategies of madness and the plague in literature and myth.

George Paston
£20.00

At John Murray's 1843-1892, Records of a Literary Circle

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A history of the literary circle that formed around the publisher John Murray, including Gladstone, Salisbury, Livingstone, Borrow and Isabella Bird.

Francis and Vera Meynell, Editors.
£25.00

The Weekend Book (1939 Nonesuch edition decorated by Edward Bawden)

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A lovely edition of the famous anthology. Containing poetry, music, maps cocktails and all manner of other pleasantries.

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Josephine Tey
£40.00

The Singing Sands

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On a train to the Highlands, the mystery of dead passenger takes over Inspectors hoped for holiday.

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Josephine Tey
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Miss Pym Disposes

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Miss Lucy Pym, Psychologist, finds herself swept in to college intrigues and a suspicious accident in the gym.

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Josephine Tey
£45.00

To Love and be Wise

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"Was he murdered? Was it suicide? Was he even dead?" Inspector Grant eventually alights on the right trail.

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Josephine Tey
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The Franchise Affair

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The Mother and daughter occupants of the unusually named house "The Franchise," are victims of an amazing accusation.

Georges Simenon
£24.00

The Door

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Not Maigret, but a study in jealousy by the French master of crime.

Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood
£25.00

The Bat

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A "country house" mystery in rural New York, the indomitable Miss Van Gorder leads an assorted cast of characters.

Gil North
£32.00

The Methods of Sergeant Cluff

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"... the Sergeant, from the moment he strolls unhurriedly on to the scene of the crime, his dog Clive at his heels, has his own ideas as usual..."

Gil North
£32.00

Sergeant Cluff and the Madmen

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"Sergeant Cluff, unorthodox, compassionate and essentially human, fighting a battle against himself as well as against crime, is torn from his cottage by call of duty."

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