Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 22 results for “stephen knight”
Skip side bar filters

  • Merlin

    Knowledge and Power through the Ages

    by Stephen Knight ...
    Merlin, the wizard of Arthurian legend, has been a source of enduring fascination for centuries. In this authoritative, entertaining, and generously illustrated book, Stephen Knight traces the myth of Merlin back to its earliest roots in the early Welsh figure of Myrddin. He then follows Merlin as he is imagined and reimagined through centuries of literature and art, beginning with Geoffrey of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Crime Reporter

    by Stephen Knight ...
    A fast paced novel about a Los Angeles Times crime reporter who takes on a local criminal kingpin billionaire Martin Nelson. Harry Walsh has been reporting on the murders of young women since the beginning of the year. Things really begin to heat up once he gets on the trail of those doing the killing. He tries to expose Nelson as being responsible for numerous criminal activities in Los Angeles, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Crime Fiction since 1800

    Detection, Death, Diversity

    by Stephen Knight ...
    Since its appearance nearly two centuries ago, crime fiction has gripped readers' imaginations around the world. Detectives have varied enormously: from the nineteenth-century policemen (and a few women), through stars like Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, to newly self-aware voices of the present - feminist, African American, lesbian, gay, postcolonial and postmodern.Stephen Knight's fascinating ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Requiem at Rogano

    by Stephen Knight ...
    London, 1902. A string of murders committed by a killer dubbed 'The Deptford Strangler' has the police mystified. The victims seem to have nothing in common, and the crimes appear random and motiveless. Meanwhile, retired Inspector Brough and his nephew, Nicholas Calvin, researching a book on the history of murder, unearth a series of killings committed in Rogano, Italy in 1454 identical in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Medieval Literature and Social Politics

    Studies of Cultures and Their Contexts

    by Stephen Knight ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    Medieval Literature and Social Politics brings together seventeen articles by literary historian Stephen Knight.The book primarily focuses on the social and political meaning of medieval literature, in the past and the present. It provides an account of how early heroic texts relate to the issues surrounding leadership and conflict in Wales, France and England, and how the myth of the Grail and ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Last Town

    by Stephen Knight ...
    It started in the Middle East. A flu-like plague that infected thousands and killed roughly ten percent of its victims. Those who died awoke once again, but they were no longer among the living--they came back as soulless carnivorous corpses who desired only one thing: to feed on living human flesh.As the infection spread, across Europe and the rest of the globe, cities were overwhelmed. Nations ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nature and Medieval Literature

    by Stephen Knight ...
    Series series New Century Chaucer
    This book begins by considering ecocritical approaches to literary texts and then moves to a discussion of the ways in which Welsh, French and English authors recount the Peredur/Perceval story. The study then embarks on full-chapter studies of the treatment of nature in a range of major authors and texts, including the work of Chaucer, the Scottish Chaucerians (Dunbar and Henryson), the medieval ... Read more

    $90.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • English Industrial Fiction of the Mid-Nineteenth Century

    The Voice of the People

    by Stephen Knight ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
    English Industrial Fiction of the Mid-Nineteenth Century discusses the valuable fiction written in mid-nineteenth-century Britain which represents the situations of the new breed of industrial workers, both the mostly male factory workers who operated in the oppressive mills of the midlands and north and, in other stories, the oppressed seamstresses who worked mostly in London in very poor and low ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Red Shadows On Liberty's Soil

    by Stephen Knight ...
    A fast paced action packed international thriller and ultimate espionage adventure. The action moves from the Kremlin, to the biggest nuclear missile sites in the then Soviet Union and the United States followed by their escape via Singapore to Australia. Following their arrest by INTERPOL and with their CIA Black Ops training they are sent Afghanistan. For several years Gerry Williams and Peter ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • G. W. M. Reynolds and His Fiction

    The Man Who Outsold Dickens

    by Stephen Knight ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
    George Reynolds is arguably the most prolific of all nineteenth-century English novelists, reaching an enormous audience through his thirty-six novels. Often selling in very large numbers in weekly one-penny installments, his works were known as by the most popular English novelist ever. Yet today, he remains almost unknown in the canon of English Literature.A serious radical, strongly pro-woman, ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Wilkie Collins

    The Complete Fiction

    by Stephen Knight ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
    This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the complete works of Wilkie Collins’s. Examining his vast array of novels and short stories, this volume includes analysis of the social, historical, and political commentary Collins offered within his works, illuminating Collins as more than a successful crime and sensation author, or the fortunate recipient of Dicken’s grand patronage, but ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Charges

    by Stephen Knight ...
    It Was the End of Days.The world had less than seven hours to prepare. When it hit, the coronal mass ejection from the sun rolled back hundreds of years of technological innovation. Airplanes fell from the skies. Power grids crashed. Even electrical cabling was turned to slag. No internet. No cable TV. No electricity. No modern day conveniences of any kind, from fancy European sedans to smart ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus