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English Novel From the Earliest Days to the Death of Joseph Conrad
ISBN: PB: 9781857543582, Carcanet, August 1997
160 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm
Of all Ford Madox Ford's critical works, "The English Novel" (first published in 1930) is his most satisfying. He wrote it while travelling: memory plays a large part. It does not smell of the lamp or the library. Our guide-a major innovative novelis...
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£7,95
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Selected Prose and Dramatic Work
ISBN: PB: 9781857543094, Carcanet, July 1997
216 pp., 19.8x13 cm
John Lyly (1554?-1606) has come to seem an incidental player in a literary scene dominated by Shakespeare. But as the sixteenth century drew to a close, the relative status of the two writers was less defined. Lyly was the principal court dramatist...
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£12,95
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Selected Writings
ISBN: PB: 9781857543070, Carcanet, July 1997
80 pp., 19.7x13 cm
Izaak Walton (1593-1683) is best known for his graceful, lucid if not always practical book "The Compleat Angler". It has stayed in print since it first appeared in 1653. More than just a writer of devout pastoral, Walton is one of the fathers of mo...
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£9,95
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Professor Pfiglzz and His Strange Companion And Other Portuguese Stories, Volume 2
ISBN: PB: 9781857542417, Carcanet, June 1997
420 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm
The novella and conto, short forms that lend themselves to satire, social comment and the lyric impulse, are at the heart of Portuguese fiction. We can trace the history of the nation and of the Portuguese imagination in these vivid stories. "Profes...
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Anarchist Banker And Other Portuguese Stories, Volume 1
ISBN: PB: 9781857542066, Carcanet, June 1997
420 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm
"The Anarchist Banker", which starts in the nineteenth century, and the second volume, "Professor Pfiglzz and His Strange Companion", present English readers for the first time with a generous sampling of the best classic and new Portuguese writing....
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£14,99
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Textermination
ISBN: PB: 9781857542943, Carcanet, March 1997
220 pp., 21.6x13.7 cm
"...so that Emma found, on being escorted and followed into the second carriage by Mr Elton, that the door was to be lawfully shut on them, and that they were to have a tete-a-tete drive..." But which Emma? Jane Austen's or Flaubert's? Christine Bro...
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