English Literature from KALAMOS BOOKS
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Strife : A Drama in Three Acts
by Galsworthy, John [1867-1933]
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- 1939
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- Hardcover
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Toronto / London: Copp Clark Co/ Duckworth, 1939 Book. Good>Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. Strife is a three-act play by the English writer John Galsworthy. It was his third play, and the most successful of the three. It was produced in 1909.In the play, there is a prolonged unofficial strike at a factory; as the trade union and the company directors… Read more about this item Item Price
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Villette
by Bronte, Charlotte
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- Used - Fine
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- First Thus
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- 1973
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- Paperback
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- 9780330237123
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London: Pan Books, 1973 Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Thus. First published in 1853, "Villette" is Bronte's most accomplished and deeply felt work... Her narrrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There, she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as… Read more about this item Item Price
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Memoirs
by Amis,Kingsley
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- As New
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- New
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- 1st US Edition
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- 1991
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- Hardcover
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- 9780671749095
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New York: Summit Books, 1991 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st US Edition. "As Sir Kingsley writes in his preface, these memoirs 'depend largely on a good memory for anecdotes and anecdotal detail. ' The book describes Amis's family in South London, his schooldays, Oxford, his joining the Army midway through the war, Swansea, Cambridge, and his decision to leave the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Grecian Taste. Literature in the Age of Neo-Classicism, 1740 - 1820
by Buxton, John
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- As New
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- As New
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- 1978
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- Hardcover
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- 9780064908450
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New York: Barnes & Noble, 1978 Book. As New. Hardcover. "The "Greek Revival" has long been recognkised by architectural historians, but literary historians and critics have neglected the parallel movement in the literature of the time, in spite of the fact that the neo-classicism of the period from 1740-1820 was primarily of literary inspiration. . this book .examines the response… Read more about this item Item Price
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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew : From Fox-Hunting to Whist -The Facts of Daily Life in 19th.Century England
by Pool,Daniel
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- As New
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- Fine
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- 1st.US Edition.
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- 1993
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- Hardcover
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- 9780671793371
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st.US Edition.. "this lively guide...clarifies the sometimes bizarre maze of rules and customs that governed life in Victorian England. For anyone who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl, when to yell "Tally Ho!" at a fox hunt, or how one landed in "debtor's prison," This book serves… Read more about this item Item Price
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Geoffrey Chaucer
by Howard, Edwin J. [Edwin Johnston]
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Good with slight chips & Tear
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- 1st US Edition
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- 1964
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- Hardcover
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Twayne Publishers, 1964 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st US Edition. Twaynels English Authors Series #1. 219p, bibliography,index Neat,crisp tight copy. Small school library stamps - otherwise looks unread.. Item Price
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A Portrait of Jane Austen
by Cecil, David
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- As New
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- Near Fine - Price Clipped
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- Reprint.
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- 1979
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- Hardcover
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- 9780094624009
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London: Constable, 1979 Book. As New. Hardcover. Reprint.. " He has combined biography, criticism and social history in a delightful narrative which all jane Austen's admirers will wish to enjoy" Second impression. 207pp. illus (some col) index. Item Price
€23.52
Mother Tongue : English and How it Got That Way
by Bryson,Bill
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- As New
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- Re-issue
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- 2001
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- Paperback
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- 9780349101989
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New York: HarperPerennial, 2001 Book. As New. Pbk.. Re-issue. "With dazzling wit and astonishing insight . Bryson brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, re silience and sheer fun of the English language . the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's largest growth industries" 270p. bibliography.index. Item Price
€11.76
Elizabethan Fiction
by Ashley, Robert & Moseley, Edwin M [eds]
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- Used - Fair > Good
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- 4th Printing
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- 1962
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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962 Book. Fair > Good. Soft cover. 4th Printing. Includes [1] George Gascoigne: The Adventures of Master F.J. [2] John Lyly : Euphues : The Anatomy of Wit [3}]Sir Philip Sidney: The Arcadia (excerpt) [4] Thomas Nassssshe: The Unfortunate Traveller [5] Thomas Deloney: Jack of Newbury. Introduction and notes. 443p. Vintage copy, neat and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Villette
by Bronte, Charlotte
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- As New
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- First Thus
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- 1973
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- Paperback
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- 9780330237123
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London: Pan Books, 1973 Book. As New. Soft cover. First Thus. First published in 1853, "Villette" is Bronte's most accomplished and deeply felt work... Her narrrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There, she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing… Read more about this item Item Price
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Collected Poems 1934-1952
by Thomas, Dylan
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- 1964
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- Hardcover
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London: J.M.Dent & Sons, 1964 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. 182p, frontis. Crisp tight copy, name of previous owner on ffep, else fine.. Item Price
€19.75
The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, Abridged Edition
by Balfour, Graham
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First Thus
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- 1911
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- Hardcover
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. An abridged version of the biography written by his cousin, issued in the series "The Biographical Collection of Robert Louis Stevenson" 364p. Blind stamped maroon cloth over boards. Neat copy unmarked except for name of previous owner on ffep.. Item Price
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Virginibus Puerisque And Other Papers
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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- First Thus
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- 1911
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- Hardcover
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. Virginibus Puerisque (1881) was the first collection of Stevenson's essays on various topics previously published in the Cornhill Magazine This copy issued in the series "The Biographical Collection of Robert Louis Stevenson" 264p .Blind stamped maroon cloth over boards. Neat unmarked copy except for the name of… Read more about this item Item Price
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New Arabian Nights
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First Thus
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- 1909
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. A volume of short stories first published in 1882, is a collection of short stories previously published in magazines between 1877 and 1880. The collection contains Stevenson's first published fiction, and a few of the stories are considered by some critics to be his best work, as well… Read more about this item Item Price
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Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First Thus
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- 1909
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- Hardcover
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. Some of his travels, beginning with an account of his railway journey across the USA. memories of Monterey and including essays about other places and topics. Issued in the series "The Biographical Collection of Robert Louis Stevenson" 295p.Blind stamped maroon cloth over boards. Neat unmarked copy except for… Read more about this item Item Price
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Familiar Studies of Men and Books
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First Thus
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- 1908
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. This volume of articles and essays inludes Victor Hugo, Robert Burns, Walt Whitnman,Henry David Thoreau, Yoshida Torajiro, Francpis Villon, Charlrd of Orleans, Samual Pepys, John Knox. Issued in the series "The Biographical Collection of Robert Louis Stevenson" 342p. Blind stamped maroon cloth over boards.Neat copy, unmarked except for… Read more about this item Item Price
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Mr. Oddity : Samuel Johnson, LL. D
by Norman, Charles
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- Used - Very Good+
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- 1st Pbk Edition
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- 1961
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- Paperback
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New York: Collier Books, 1961 Book. Very Good+. Pbk. 1st Pbk Edition. A biography of Samuel Johnson "that includes material unavailable to Boswell..including...Johnson's manuscript account of himself ...letters.. and dialogues recorded by other contemporaries' 288p. index, Tight clean copy, some scuffing to paper covers.. Item Price
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Barchester Towers (Oxford World's Classics)
by Trollope, Anthony
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- Used - Fine
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- Re-issue
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- 1998
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- Paperback
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- 9780192834324
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998 Book. Illus. by Edward Ardizzone. Fine. Soft cover. Re-issue. Barchester Towers, Trollope's most popular novel, is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Chronicles follow the intrigues of ambition and love in the cathedral town of Barchester. In this novel Trollope continues the story, begun in The Warden, of Mr. Harding and his… Read more about this item Item Price
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Dickens and the Rhetoric of Laughter
by Kincaid, James r
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- Used - Fine
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- Near Fine - Slight Chip
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- 1st UK Edition
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- 1972
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- Hardcover
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- 9780198120162
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition. Kincaid argues that the funny Dickens and the "dark" Dickens are one, and that our response to his humour is no less important in Little Dorrit than in Pickwick.264p, bibliography, Index. Item Price
€28.22
English Prose 1600-1660
by Harris, Victor & Husain, Itrat
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- Used - Very Good
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- Reprint.
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- 1965
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- Paperback
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- 9780299876548
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San Francisco: Rhinehart Press, 1965 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Reprint.. ".designed to offer a substantial introduction to the prose of nine major writers of the 17th. century" it includes selections from Francis Bacon, Robert parsons, Lancelot Andrewes, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Thomas Hobbes, Sir Thomas Browne , Jeremy Taylor. 514p. Bibliography. Clean tight text.. Item Price
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