Literary Criticism

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...

Lady Antonia Fraser / My History : A Memoir of Growing Up

 The childhood and early life memoir of Antonia Fraser, one of our finest narrative historians.Antonia Fraser's magical memoir describes growing up in the 1930s and '40s, but its real concern is with her growing love of history. A fascination that...

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,...

Dag Hammarskjold / Markings (Hardback)

  One of a series of titles first published by Faber between 1930 and 1990, and in a style and format planned with a view to the appearance of the volumes on the bookshelf. This is the personal and philosophical journal of the Swede who was...

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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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...

Rosalind Fergusson / The Complete Guide to Grammar

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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

Whether writing about the Beat Generation or Camille Paglia, Picasso's "Guernica" or the massacre in Tiananmen Square, this book uncovers the histories embedded in cultural moments and acts. Greil Marcus is the author of "Lipstick Traces", "Dead Elvis"...

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...