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  • The Fall of the House of Wilde

    Oscar Wilde and His Family

    by Emer O'Sullivan ...
    The first biography of Oscar Wilde that places him within the context of his family and social and historical milieu--a compelling volume that finally tells the whole story.It's widely known that Oscar Wilde was precociously intellectual, flamboyant, and hedonistic--but lesser so that he owed these characteristics to his parents.Oscar's mother, Lady Jane Wilde, rose to prominence as a political ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature

    by Emer O'Sullivan ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    History is constantly evolving, and the history of children’s literature is no exception. Since the original publication of Emer O’Sullivan’s Historical Dictionary of Children’s Literature in 2010, much has happened in the field of children’s literature. New authors have come into print, new books have won awards, and new ideas have entered the discourse within children’s literature studies ... Read more

    $153.99 USD

  • Imagining Sameness and Difference in Children's Literature

    From the Enlightenment to the Present Day

    Edited by Emer O'Sullivan, Andrea Immel ...
    Series series Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
    This book investigates how cultural sameness and difference has been presented in a variety of forms and genres of children’s literature from Denmark, Germany, France, Russia, Britain, and the United States; ranging from English caricatures of the 1780s to dynamic representations of contemporary cosmopolitan childhood. The chapters address different models of presenting foreigners using examples ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Comparative Children's Literature

    by Emer O'Sullivan ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    WINNER OF THE 2007 CHLA BOOK AWARD!Children's literature has transcended linguistic and cultural borders since books and magazines for young readers were first produced, with popular books translated throughout the world.Emer O'Sullivan traces the history of comparative children's literature studies, from the enthusiastic internationalism of the post-war period – which set out from the idea of a ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature

    by Emer O'Sullivan ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    Children's literature comes from a number of different sources-folklore (folk- and fairy tales), books originally for adults and subsequently adapted for children, and material authored specifically for them-and its audience ranges from infants through middle graders to young adults (readers from about 12 to 18 years old). Its forms include picturebooks, pop-up books, anthologies, novels, ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

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  • A Little History of Literature

    by John Sutherland, John ...
    Series series Little Histories
    A much-loved author brings the world of literature alive for all agesThis 'little history' takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. John Sutherland is perfectly suited to the task. He has researched, taught, and written on virtually every area of literature, and his infectious passion for books and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Oscar Wilde

    Pulitzer Prize Winner

    by Richard Ellmann ...
    Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar Wilde is the definitive biography of the tortured poet and playwright and the last book by renowned biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann. Ellmann dedicated two decades to the research and writing of this biography, resulting in a complex and richly detailed portrait of Oscar Wilde. Ellman captures the wit ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Oscar Wilde

    A Life in Letters

    by Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde ...
    Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, but apparently it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost and his autobiography was never written, but his letters reveal him at his spontaneous, sparkling best.Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, yet it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Two-Way Mirror

    The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    by Fiona Sampson ...
    **Finalist for the 2022 Plutarch AwardLonglisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyA Washington Post Best Book of 2021“An elegant act of rehabilitation.”—New York Times Book Review, Editors’ ChoiceA "nuanced and insightful" (New Statesman) portrait of Britain’s most famous female poet, a woman who invented herself and defied her times.**"How do I love thee? Let me count the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Tale of Ginger and Pickles

    by Beatrix Potter ...
    The Tale of Ginger and Pickles is a children's book written and illustrated by the famous author of children's stories: Beatrix Potter: Ginger, a yellow tomcat, and Pickles, a terrier, are partners in operating a village shop that offers a variety of goods including red spotty handkerchiefs, "sugar, snuff, and goloshes". Ginger inspires fear in their mouse customers and Pickles their rabbit ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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  • De Profundis and Other Prison Writings

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    De Profundis and Other Prison Writings is a new selection of Oscar Wilde's prison letters and poetry in Penguin Classics, edited and introduced by Colm Tóibín.At the start of 1895, Oscar Wilde was the toast of London, widely feted for his most recent stage success, An Ideal Husband. But by May of the same year, Wilde was in Reading prison sentenced to hard labour. 'De Profundis' is an epistolic ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Sidetracks

    by Richard Holmes ...
    In this beautiful reissue, the author of 'Footsteps' collects the biographical curiosities he discovered while researching the romantic poets, creating a captivating mixture of biography and memoir.‘Sidetracks' is a sister book to 'Footsteps', conjured up from decades of 'wanderings from the straight and narrow' of his major biographies of Shelley and Coleridge. As Holmes himself says, 'to be ... Read more

    $5.99 USD