Literary Criticism And Literary Biography from Glynn's Books

London: Andre Deutsch, 1974. Hb, xvii + 662pp, b/w illustrations. VG with clean contents in a Good(-) dj which has 1 cm loss at base of spine. Extensive selection of excerpts from the letters and diaries of the American novelist John Dos Passos, covering a period of sixty years from 1910 to 1970 , addressed to a range of people… Read more about this item

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Hb, xxxvii + 455pp, b/w illustrations. VG with clean contents in a Good dj which has a scratch on the front. A selection of letters by the American Pulitzer Prize winning author, addressed to a range of people including Samuel Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane and many others as well as family… Read more about this item

Oxford: Blackwell, 1993. Hb, laminated pictorial covers, xvii + 302pp. Good, light scratch on back cover, a few pages have pencilled underlining/notation. Part 1 Romantic and German Backgrounds ( e.g. Shelley and Nietzsche - reality as rhetoric; German Romantic irony; Johnson, Coleridge and Method). Part 2 Deconstructing Metaphysics ( e.g. William James; John Dewey's critique of traditional philosophizing; Jacques Derrida;… Read more about this item

Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Hb, xxii + 492pp, b/w illustrations. VG with clean contents in VG dj. Biography of the American journalist and novelist Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr (1870-1902), based on much new uncovered material.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Methuen, 1971. Pb, 205pp. Good, slight cover wear, clean contents. " Comprehensive, confident and optimistic, tracing Shakespeare's moral patterns from Titus Andronicus to Coralianus" (Times Literary Supplement). Soft Cover. Good.

London: Continuum, 2009. Pb, xii + 234pp. Good+, clean contents. Presents a detailed view of the issues and politics which preoccupied Shakespeare's audience and readers, using excerpts from contemporary documents as well as Shakespeare's work.. Soft Cover. Good.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1976. Hb, 156pp. Good with clean contents in a Good dj which has slightly sunned spine and back cover edges. . Hard Cover. Good/Good.

Book Club Associates, 1973. Hb, xi + 284pp. Good with clean contents in a VG dj. " First three-dimensional biography of Shakespeare, revealing him fully in his personal life at the crucial period of his autobiography in the Sonnets".. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good.

Longman, 1993. Pb, xii + 196pp, b/w photos. Good, a few pages have brief inked underlining or notation. Part 1 covers Forster's background and environemnt; Part 2 looks at the intellectual setting; Part 3 examines his novels; Part 4 is a reference section.. Soft Cover.

Macmillan, 1995. Pb, xiii + 170pp. Good, clean contents, slight yellowing to page edges. Contents : E.M. Forster self and neighbours; The suburban novels; The Indian novel; The BBC broadcasts; The lonely voice.. Soft Cover. Good.

London: Souvenir Press, 1978. Pb, 380pp. Good, light wear, clean contents. Biography of the great English playwright and poet.. Soft Cover. Good.

London: Hogarth Press, 1969. Hb, 164pp. Fair+ in a Good dj which has a couple of tears. Some pages have brief inked underlining. Includes a summary of Forster's work and intellectual position; his early life; recurrent themes in his writing; analyses of Forster's five novels and the more important essays.. Hard Cover. Fair/Good.

Routledge, 1992. Pb, xv + 266pp. Good, light wear, clean contents. A study of " the ordering and enforcing, the gaining and losing, of public power in the state" within Shakespeare's English and Roman history plays.. Soft Cover. Good.

N.Y./London: Norton Three volumes in the same series. Each is a Pb reprint, published circa 1999. Good with light wear and clean contents. They cover Hemingway's life in the 1920s and 1930s, his emergence and then maturity as a writer, the development of his public persona and his first two marriages, against a backdrop of Paris, Key West, Cuba, Africa… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 2009. Hb, x + 390pp, b/w photos. Good+ with clean contents in a VG dj, slightly skewed spine. Biography of the famous children's author Arthur Ransome. Long before he wrote the "Swallows and Amazons" series he was a journalist in Russia, sympathetic to the Boleshevik cause; a friend of Karl Radek and lover of Evgenia Shelepina… Read more about this item

London: Viking, 2006. Hb, xxv + 486pp, b/w illustrations. Good in a Good+ dj. Pages slightly tanned, contents clean. Biography of the great English novelist and poet.. Hard Cover. Good/Good.

London: Fourth Estate, 1984. Pb, xiv + 287pp. Good, previous owner's name on fep, light wear. Reprint with a new introduction by the author who was a friend and associate of Orwell's in the 1940s. Discusses Orwell the man, his novels, his complex political stance and his prose style. . Soft Cover.

Oxford University Press, 1969. Hb, vii + 589pp. Good+ with clean contents in a Good, price-clipped dj which has light wear. While Dryden receives extensive coverage, this volume covers writers of all the other genres, with drama and religion having the longest chapters. Contents : Drama (I & II); Poetry; Prose fiction; Essays, letters and journals; Biography, history, travel… Read more about this item

London: Hollis & Carter, 1973. Hb, viii + 272pp. Good with clean contents in a Good dj which has light wear. Discusses Pericles Prince of Tyre, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest.. Hard Cover. Good/Good.

Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pb, xv + 287pp, b/w plates. Good, light cover wear, clean contents, back cover darkened/sunned at edges. Part 1 The Sociology of the theatre; Part 2 Jacobean Shakespeare; Part 3 Caroline curtain act.. Soft Cover.