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  • The Walker

    On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City

    by Matthew Beaumont ...
    From Charles Dickens’ London to today’s megacities, a fascinating exploration of what urban walking tells us about modern life—for fans of Rebecca Solnit, Olivia Laing’s The Lonely City, and literary history.“A labyrinthine journey into the literature of walking and thinking,” as seen in the lives and works of Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Ray Bradbury, and other literary greats (Guardian) ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Nightwalking

    A Nocturnal History of London

    by Matthew Beaumont ...
    A captivating literary portrait of London explored at night by some of the city’s most iconic writers throughout history“Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night,” wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today – home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew Beaumont recounts an alternative ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Studies in the History of the Renaissance

    by Walter Pater ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake' In Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), a diffident Oxford don produced an audacious and incalculably influential defence of aestheticism. Through his highly idiosyncratic readings of some of the finest paintings, sculptures, and poems of the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • How We Walk

    Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body

    by Matthew Beaumont ...
    **"In this fascinating and wide-ranging book, Beaumont reminds us that walking is far from a neutral activity. With the help of Frantz Fanon, Beaumont locates freedom at the level of the body; free from the systems of oppression, exploitation, and harassment."–Lauren Elkin, author of FlâneuseHow race, class, and politics influence the way we move**You can tell a lot about people by how they walk. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Invisible Man

    A Grotesque Romance

    by H. G. Wells ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The man's become inhuman ... He has cut himself off from his kind. His blood be upon his own head.' One night in the depths of winter, a bizarre and sinister stranger wrapped in bandages and eccentric clothing arrives in a remote English village. His peculiar, secretive activities in the room he rents spook the locals. Speculation about his identity becomes horror and disbelief when the villagers ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Lev Shestov

    Philosopher of the Sleepless Night

    by Dr Matthew Beaumont ...
    A 2021 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Jewish philosopher Lev Shestov (1866-1938) is perhaps the great forgotten thinker of the twentieth century, but one whose revival seems timely and urgent in the twenty-first century. An important influence on Georges Bataille, Albert Camus, Gilles Deleuze and many others, Shestov developed a fascinating anti-Enlightenment philosophy that critiqued the ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • G.K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

    Edited by Dr Matthew Beaumont, Dr Matthew Ingleby ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in the City
    G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • The Gorse Trilogy

    by Patrick Hamilton ...
    'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. All his novels are terrific' Sarah Waters'If you were looking to fly from Dickens to Martin Amis with just one overnight stop, then Hamilton is your man' Nick HornbyPatrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The Midnight Bell ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Looking Backward 2000-1887

    by Edward Bellamy ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity.' Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-siècle Boston, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year 2000. America has been turned into a rigorously centralized democratic society in which everything is controlled by a humane and efficient state ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

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    The Gorse Trilogy

    by Patrick Hamilton ...

    Unabridged

    'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. All his novels are terrific' Sarah Waters'If you were looking to fly from Dickens to Martin Amis with just one overnight stop, then Hamilton is your man' Nick HornbyPatrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The Midnight Bell ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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