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  • Agatha Christie

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Gill Plain ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Agatha Christie is a global bestseller. Her work has been translated into over 100 languages and adapted for stage and screen. Christie's writing life ran from 1920 to the 1970s, and she didn't just write puzzles, she wrote plays, supernatural stories, thrillers, satires, and domestic noir. She also commented obliquely but perceptively on the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Agatha Christie

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Gill Plain ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Agatha Christie is a global bestseller. Her work has been translated into over 100 languages and adapted for stage and screen. Christie's writing life ran from 1920 to the 1970s, and she didn't just write puzzles, she wrote plays, supernatural stories, thrillers, satires, and domestic noir. She also commented obliquely but perceptively on the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Prosthetic Agency

    Literature, Culture and Masculinity after World War II

    by Gill Plain ...
    Prosthetic Agency: Literature, Culture and Masculinity after World War II examines the social and psychic upheaval of demobilisation. It maps the rapid transition from wartime regimentation to individual responsibility, from intense homosociality to heteronormative expectations, from normativity to disability and from uniformed masculinity to domestic citizenship. This book considers some of the ... Read more

    $95.19 USD

  • Literature of the 1940s: War, Postwar and 'Peace'

    Volume 5

    by Gill Plain ...
    Series series The Edinburgh History of Twentieth-Century Literature in Britain

    $31.99 USD

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    Agatha Christie

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Gill Plain ...
    Narrated by Lucy Rayner ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 44 min

    Agatha Christie is a global bestseller. Her work has been translated into over 100 languages and adapted for stage and screen. Christie's writing life ran from 1920 to the 1970s, and she didn't just write puzzles, she wrote plays, supernatural stories, thrillers, satires, and domestic noir. She also commented obliquely but perceptively on the social and cultural changes of a troubled century. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • British Literature in Transition, 1940–1960: Postwar

    Edited by Gill Plain ...
    Series series British Literature in Transition
    'Postwar' is both a period and a state of mind, a sensibility comprised of hope, fear and fatigue in which British society and its writers paradoxically yearned both for political transformation and a nostalgic re-instatement of past securities. From the Labour landslide victory of 1945 to the emergence of the Cold War and the humiliation of Suez in 1956, this was a period of radical political ... Read more

    $118.09 USD

  • Scotland and the First World War

    Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Bannockburn

    by Fran Brearton, Michael Brown, Caroline McCracken-Flesher, Robert Crawford, Stefan Goebel, David Goldie, Margaret R. Higonnet, Peter Mackay, Graeme Morton, Carol Symes, Catriona M.M. MacDonald ...
    Series series Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
    What did war look like in the cultural imagination of 1914? Why did men in Scotland sign up to fight in unprecedented numbers? What were the martial myths shaping Scottish identity from the aftermath of Bannockburn to the close of the nineteenth century, and what did the Scottish soldiers of the First World War think they were fighting for? Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory and the ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

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  • The Women Are Up to Something

    How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics

    by Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb ...
    The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch. On the cusp of the Second World War, four women went to Oxford to begin their studies: a fiercely brilliant Catholic convert; a daughter of privilege longing to escape her stifling upbringing; an ardent Communist and aspiring novelist with a ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

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  • The Flyer

    British Culture and the Royal Air Force 1939-1945

    by Martin Francis ...
    Between 1939 and 1945, the British public was spellbound by the martial endeavours and dashing style of the young men of the RAF, especially those with silvery fabric wings sewn above the breast pocket of their glamorous slate-blue uniform. Martin Francis provides the first scholarly study of the place of 'the flyer' in British culture during the Second World War. Examining the lives of RAF ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Genders

    by David Glover, Cora Kaplan ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes lively debate. In this fully revised and updated second edition, David Glover and Cora Kaplan offer a lucid and illuminating introduction to ’gender’ and its implications, including:an overview of the critical language and concepts ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A Brief Take on the Australian Novel

    by Jean-François Vernay ...
    Grab the popcorn, sit back and let the story of Australian literature roll ... From Jean-Francois Vernay, "A Brief Take on the Australian Novel" offers a sweeping view of Australian writing since colonialism. Written from an outsider's perspective, this single-authored overview will appeal to readers through its playful, jargon-free and potentially contentious account of the Australian novel. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Rewriting the Victorians

    Modes of Literary Engagement with the 19th Century

    by Andrea Kirchknopf ...
    The 19th century has become especially relevant for the present--as one can see from, for example, large-scale adaptations of written works, as well as the explosion of commodities and even interactive theme parks. This book is an introduction to the novelistic refashionings that have come after the Victorian age with a special focus on revisions of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens ... Read more

    $16.39 USD