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  • The Profession of English Letters

    by J.W. Saunders ...
    Published in the year 2006, The Profession of English Letters is a valuable contribution to the field of Major Works. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • The Social Life of Books

    Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

    by Abigail Williams ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    "A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books."—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book ReviewTwo centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which ... Read more

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  • The Mysterious Mistress

    The Life and Legend of Jane Shore

    by Margaret Crosland ...
    Jane Shore often gets just a byline in history. We know her name, and that she was the mistress of a king. But who was this woman caputred for the stage by Shakespeare in 'Richard III', fictionalised by Jean Plaidy and others? Where did she come from? And how was it that having been mistress to the most powerful man in the land, she ended her years in prison and poverty? Jane Shore was born into a ... Read more

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  • A History of English Literature

    Traversing the Centuries

    by Aditi Chowdhury, Rita Goswami ...
    A History of English Literature: Traversing the Centuries provides a comprehensive outline of the course of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. In its fourteen chapters, the book covers all major literary periods with inclusive analyses of the political, social and intellectual developments which inevitably contribute to and influence literature in both overt and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Aphra Behn: A Secret Life

    by Janet Todd ...
    'Fascinating scholarship. Todd conveys Behn's vivacious character and the mores of the time' New York Times'All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn; for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds,' said Virginia Woolf. Yet that tomb, in Westminster Abbey, records one of the few uncontested facts about this Restoration playwright, poet of the erotic ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Ends of Life

    Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England

    by Keith Thomas ...
    How should we live? That question was no less urgent for English men and women who lived between the early sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries than for this book's readers. Keith Thomas's masterly exploration of the ways in which people sought to lead fulfilling lives in those centuries between the beginning of the Reformation and the heyday of the Enlightenment illuminates the central values ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Dr Johnson and Mr Savage

    by Richard Holmes ...
    A classic reissue of Richard Holmes’s brilliant book on Samuel Johnson’s friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography.Dr Johnson & Mr Savage is the story of a mysterious eighteenth-century friendship. Richard Savage was a poet, playwright and convicted murderer who roamed through the brothels and society salons of Augustan England creating a legend of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Life of Thomas More

    by Peter Ackroyd ...
    Peter Ackroyd's The Life of Thomas More is a masterful reconstruction of the life and imagination of one of the most remarkable figures of history. Thomas More (1478-1535) was a renowned statesman; the author of a political fantasy that gave a name to a literary genre and a worldview (Utopia); and, most famously, a Catholic martyr and saint.Born into the professional classes, Thomas More applied ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Hellfire Clubs

    by Evelyn Lord ...

    $23.79 USD

  • The Routledge History of Literature in English

    Britain and Ireland

    by Ronald Carter, John McRae ...
    The Routledge History of Literature in English covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, with accompanying language notes which explore the interrelationships between language and literature at each stage. With a span from AD 600 to the present day, it emphasises the growth of literary writing, its traditions, conventions and changing characteristics, and ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Albion

    The Origins of the English Imagination

    by Peter Ackroyd ...
    With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to the twentieth-century. Considering what is most English ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Oxford Companion to English Literature

    Edited by Dinah Birch ...
    Series series Oxford Companions
    The Oxford Companion to English Literature has long been established as the leading reference resource for students, teachers, scholars, and general readers of English literature. It provides unrivalled coverage of all aspects of English literature - from writers, their works, and the historical and cultural context in which they wrote, to critics, literary theory, and allusions. For the seventh ... Read more

    $107.99 USD