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  • The Bible: Authorized King James Version

    Edited by Robert Carroll, Stephen Prickett ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation reflecting passionately-held views that have affected not merely religion, but politics, art, and even science. This unique edition offers an exciting new approach to the most influential of all English ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Education! Education! Education!

    by Stephen Prickett ...
    The essays in this book criticise the new positivism in education policy, whereby education is systematically reduced to those things that can be measured by so-called 'objective' tests. School curricula have been narrowed with an emphasis on measurable results in the 3 R's and the 'quality' of university departments is now assessed by managerial exercises based on commercial audit practice. As a ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Secret Selves

    A History of Our Inner Space

    by Professor Stephen Prickett ...
    Who are we and how do we define our inner selves?In his last work, Professor Stephen Prickett presents a literary and cultural exploration of our inner selves – and how we have created and written about them – from the Old Testament to social media.What he finds is that although our secret, inner, sense of self – what we feel makes us distinctively 'us' – seems a natural and permanent part of ... Read more

    $34.09 USD

  • European Romanticism

    A Reader

    Edited by Professor Stephen Prickett ...
    Romanticism was always culturally diverse. Though English-language anthologies have previously tended to see Romanticism as predominantly British, the term itself actually originated in Germany, where it became the banner of a Europe-wide movement involving the profound intellectual and aesthetic changes which we now associate with modernity. This anthology is the first to place British ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • The Romantics

    Edited by Stephen Prickett ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Romanticism
    First published in 1981. This book aims to show Romanticism as a response to certain questions – in literature, art, religion, philosophy and politics – that were being asked increasingly towards the end of the eighteenth century. The essays focus on growth and change (in society and the individual), nature, feeling and reason, and subjectivism – examining how these questions arose, why they were ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • The Pilgrim's Progress

    by John Bunyan ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'As I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Denn; And I laid me down in that place to sleep: And as I slept I dreamed a Dream.' So begins one of the best-loved and most widely read books in English literature. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Robinson Crusoe

    by Daniel Defoe, James Kelly ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I made him know his Name should be Friday, which was the Day I sav'd his Life...I likewise taught him to say Master' Robinson Crusoe's seafaring adventures are abruptly ended when he is shipwrecked, the solitary survivor on a deserted island. He gradually creates a life for himself, building a house, cultivating the land, and making a companion from the native whose life he saves. Daniel Defoe's ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • A History of English Literature

    Traversing the Centuries

    by Aditi Chowdhury, Rita Goswami ...
    A History of English Literature: Traversing the Centuries provides a comprehensive outline of the course of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. In its fourteen chapters, the book covers all major literary periods with inclusive analyses of the political, social and intellectual developments which inevitably contribute to and influence literature in both overt and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Pieces of My Mind

    Essays and Criticism 1958–2002

    by Frank Kermode ...
    A career-spanning collection of thought-provoking analyses from the renowned literary critic.Sir Frank Kermode has been writing peerless literary criticism for more than a half-century. Pieces of My Mind includes his own choice of his major essays since 1958, beginning with his extraordinary study of "Poet and Dancer Before Diaghilev" and ending with a marvelous consideration of Shakespeare's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Routledge History of Literature in English

    Britain and Ireland

    by Ronald Carter, John McRae ...
    The Routledge History of Literature in English covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, with accompanying language notes which explore the interrelationships between language and literature at each stage. With a span from AD 600 to the present day, it emphasises the growth of literary writing, its traditions, conventions and changing characteristics, and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Pleasing Myself

    From Beowulf to Philip Roth

    by Frank Kermode ...
    Sir Frank Kermode is acknowledged as one of the greatest critics of our time, renowned for the wit humanity and good sense of his writing. Pleasing Myself brings together the very best of his shorter pieces, on topics ranging from Donne and Yeats to modern art and money. ... Read more

    $6.09 USD

  • English Literature

    A Student Guide

    by Martin Stephen ...
    Now appearing in its third edition, Martin Stephen's classic text and course companion to English literature has been thoroughly revised and updated, taking account of the changes which have occurred in the subject since publication of the second edition. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD