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  • Bleak House

    by Charles Dickens, Terry Eagleton ...
    'Perhaps his best novel ... when Dickens wrote Bleak House he had grown up' G. K. ChestertonAs the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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  • Why Marx Was Right

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    **One of the foremost Marxist critics of his generation forcefully argues against Marx's irrelevancy"Reading a book by Terry Eagleton is like watching fireworks."—Dennis O'Brien, Christian Century"[Eagleton is] a witty, insightful thinker with a penchant for glib asides and wry dashes of humor. It’s probably the only book that makes references to Tiger Woods and Mel Gibson along with Charles ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Meaning of Life

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    We have all wondered about the meaning of life. But is there an answer? And do we even really know what we're asking? Terry Eagleton takes a stimulating and quirky look at this most compelling of questions: at the answers explored in philosophy and literature; at the crisis of meaning in modern times; and suggests his own solution to how we might rediscover meaning in our lives. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Critical Revolutionaries

    Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    Terry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literatureBefore the First World War, traditional literary scholarship was isolated from society at large. In the years following, a younger generation of critics came to the fore. Their work represented a reaction to the impoverishment of language in a commercial, utilitarian society ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Archipelago: A Reader

    by Fiona Stafford, Mark Cocker, John Brannigan, Rose Ferraby, David Douglas, Douglas Dunn, Norman Ackroyd, Tim Dee, John Elder, Moya Cannon, Roger Deakin, John Eifion Jones, Peter Davidson, Terry Eagleton ...
    Explore the Isles Through Art and Literature. This collection gathers the best poetry, prose, and visual art from Archipelago, reimagining the relationship between the islands of Ireland and Britain. Journey from the Shetlands to Cornwall, and the Aran Islands to Yorkshire, tracing the cultures of diverse zones through contemporary writing about place and people.Discover the beauty and complexity ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Walter Benjamin

    Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    From our finest radical literary analyst, a classic study of the great philosopher and cultural theorist. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Archipelago

    A Reader

    by Andrew McNellie, Norman Ackroyd, John Brannigan, Moya Cannon, Mark Cocker, Peter Davidson, Roger Deakin, Tim Dee, David Douglas, Douglas Dunn, Terry Eagleton, John Eifion Jones, John Elder, Rose Ferraby, Barbara Greg, Ivor Gurney, Alexandra Harris, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Sally Huband, Roger Hutchinson, Mick Imlah, Kathleen Jamie, John Kerrigan, Philip Lancaster, David Lea, Angela Leighton, Gwyneth Lewis, Michael Longley, James Macdonald Lockhart, Robert Macfarlane, Angus Macmillan, Derek Mahon, Gail McNeillie, Sinéad Morrisey, Richard Murphy, Les Murray, Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, Alice Oswald, Bernard O'Donoghue, Jem Poster, Angharad Price, John Purser, Alan Riach, Tim Robinson, Katherine Rundell, Richard Sharland, Jos Smith, Mary Wellesley ...
    Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary magazines of the lasttwenty years. Running to twelve editions, it was edited by Andrew McNeillie, with theassistance later of James McDonald Lockhart, and began as an attempt to reimagine therelationships between the islands of Ireland and Britain. Archipelago has brought togetherestablished and emerging artists in creative ... Read more

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  • How to Read Literature

    by Terry Eagleton, Terry ...
    A literary master’s entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasureWhat makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full of concealed loathing, resentment, and aggression? In this accessible, delightfully entertaining book, Terry Eagleton addresses these intriguing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • How to Read a Poem

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader.Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relation to content.Takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the present day and submits them ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    Terry Eagleton’s witty and polemical Reason, Faith, and Revolution is bound to cause a stir among scientists, theologians, people of faith and people of no faith, as well as general readers eager to understand the God Debate. On the one hand, Eagleton demolishes what he calls the “superstitious” view of God held by most atheists and agnostics and offers in its place a revolutionary account of the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Great Philosophers: Marx

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    'We are free when, like artists, we produce without the goad of physical necessity' Karl MarxFor Marx, freedom entailed release from commercial labour. In this highly engaging account, Eagleton outlines the relationship between production, labour and ownership which lie at the core of Marx's thinking. Marx's utopia was a place in which labour is increasingly automated, emancipating the wealth of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Why Marx Was Right

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    One of the foremost Marxist critics of his generation forcefully argues against Marx's irrelevancyIn this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism—that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and ... Read more

    $12.29 USD