Literary Criticism

John Tyerman Williams / Pooh and the Psychologists

  'Winnie-the-Pooh lived in the forest all by himself under the name of Sanders and he had the name over the door in gold letters.' Why Sanders and why gold letters? Is the first letter of his title, which is hidden by the doorbell an M for Mr or...

Simon Schama / Wordy (Large Paperback)

 'Wordy is about the intoxication of writing; my sense of playful versatility; different voices for different matters: the polemical voice for political columns; the sharp-eyed descriptive take for profiles; poetic precision in grappling with the...

Irish Pages - PB - Seamus Heaney Memorial Issue - Volume 8 : Number 2

Light edgewear , scuff to side pof page block, wraparoud contents flap is present.  Contents Four Poems by Seamus Heaney Sven Birkerts and Helen Vendler on the man and the poet A Suite of Obituaries & Global...

Ruth Robbins - York Notes Advanced - PB - Importance of Being Earnest ( Oscar Wilde)

Packed with features designed to help students get the most from the text they are studying:- Summaries with detailed commentaries- Extended commentaries on key passages- Discussion of themes and literary techniques- Author biography- Historical and...

Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide

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Alain De Botton / How Proust Can Change Your Life

 'What a marvellous book this is . . . de Botton dissects what [Proust] had to say about friendship, reading, looking carefully, paying attention taking your time, being alive and adds his own delicious commentary. The result is an intoxicating as...

Showers, Brian ( Editor) - The Green Book - Writings on Irish Gothic, Supernatural and Fantastic Literature PB - 1ssue 13 - Bealtaine 2019

The Green Book 13Edited by Brian J. ShowersPrintings: Spring 2019 (250)Cover image: Paul Nash's Dark WeepingBinding: PaperbackLength: 108 pagesISSN: 2009-6089Contents"Editor's Note"    Brian J. Showers"Thomas Parnell...

Showers, Brian ( Editor) - The Green Book - Writings on Irish Gothic, Supernatural and Fantastic Literature PB - 1ssue 14 - Samhain 2019

The Green Book 14Edited by Brian J. ShowersPrintings: Autumn 2019 (250)Cover image: Stephen J. Clark's SaturnineBinding: PaperbackLength: 108 pagesISSN: 2009-6089Contents"Editor's Note"    Brian J. Showers"Who Marvels at the...

Showers, Brian ( Editor) - The Green Book -Writings on Irish Gothic, Supernatural and Fantastic Literature PB - 1ssue 16 - Samhain 2020

The Green Book 16Edited by Brian J. ShowersPrintings: Autumn 2020 (250)Cover image: The Harlot's House (Plate 4) by Althea Gyles (1904)Binding: PaperbackLength: 108 pagesISSN: 2009-6089Contents"Editor's Note"    Brian J...

Arielle Eckstut / Pride And Promiscuity (Hardback)

  In 2002, two amateur Jane Austen scholars, while staying at a Hertfordshire estate, stumbled upon a hidden cache of manuscript pages and made an extraordinary literary discovery - lost scenes from Jane Austen's novels that reveal an altogether...

Maeve Binchy / The Copper Beech (Hardback)

 Carved on the trunk of the mighty copper beech that embraces the school yard in Shancarrig are declarations of love, hope, and identity - the youthful dreams of the children who played there. Now grown, yet shaped by their years in the schoolhouse,...

John Carey / The Unexpected Professor

 'Among the wealthy elders, my views gave some offence. Two or three people walked out of my lecture in Hamburg. At a dinner in Oldenburg I was seated next to a senior academic who berated me for my leftist leanings - not what he expected of an...

The Dublin Review - Issue 36 - Autumn 2009 - PB

Contents - Issue 36 - Winter 2009. Paperback in pale green covers, internally unmarked, mark on back covers from where a label was.  Robert Cremins  My life in Irish ‘… in the few words of my native tongue that are upon me...

The Dublin Review - Issue 37 - Winter 2009-10 - PB

Contents - Issue 37 - Winter 2009-10. Paperback in pale yellow covers, internally unmarked, mark on back covers from where a label was.  Neil Burkey  Dogfish ‘”You need to get out of here.” That is what she had said...

Boris Ford / From Blake to Byron ( New Pelican Guide to English Literature - Volume 5 )

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Wake, Paul - Waterstones's Guide to Science Fiction , Fantasy & Horror PB

A guide to the best writers of  classic Science fiction, fantasy and horror, on both sides of the Atlantic More than 200 authors and almost 1400 titles are listed. Also includes an introductory survey of the genre by John Clute, a discussion with...

Ó Fiannachta, Pádraig ( Eagarthóir) Léachtaí Cholm Cille XIV - Gaeilge - Ár Scéalaíocht 1983 - Litríócht

As Gaeilge in iomlán atá an leabhar - Eagraithe ag Pádraig Ó Fiannachta , Foilsithe ag An Sagart , Maigh Nuad, 1983, clúdach crua.  Contents; Scela Muicce Meic Da Tho, Sceal Dheirdre, An tExemplum in Tri...

Jim O'Donnell / Wordgloss : A Cultural Lexicon (Large Paperback)

"Wordgloss" is a lively, comprehensive reference work, first published to acclaim in 1990, now reworked and extended. This invaluable compendium consists of a series of mini-essays, informed by Latin and Greek and a deep knowledge of the humanities. It...

Robin Flower - The Irish Tradition - PB ( 1978 Reprint)

First published in 1947, these celebrated lectures and introductions to the medieval and modern Gaelic-speaking culture, which was drawing to a close when Flower first came to Ireland in 1910, form a primary source for generations of scholars and...

Greil Marcus / The Dustbin of History

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Goldstone, Herbert - in Search of Community : The Achievement of Seán O'Casey PB Mercier

Published by Mercier, cork 1972, a critical study and commentray of the dramas of Seán O'Casey, including detailed analaysis of his three great early worsk, The Plough and teh Stars, Juno and the Paycock, and Shadow of a Gunman. 

Boris Ford ( Editor) - The Age of Chaucer - Penguin Pelican Guide To English Literature - Vintage 1959 PB

The first ( standalone)  book in the The Pelican Guide to English Literature, ( and literature in English ) under the general editor Boris Ford. Essays on each period, further reading, individual essays on authors by noted critics.  (1) The...

Bill Bryson / Mother Tongue

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Adrian Poole - Gissing in Context - HB - 1975

A literary study of the Victorian Author George Gissing , hardcover. Gissing is best known to modern readers for his 1890 novel 'New Grub Street' Published by Macmillan Uk, 1975 Inyernally unmarked, but ghost marks - remains of (library? ) labels to...