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[James, The Scenic Art.

[James, The Scenic Art.

Lawrence, The Trial of Lady Chatterley – Edited from official transcripts

Lawrence, The Trial of Lady Chatterley – Edited from official transcripts by C.H

Crowley, In West Cork Long Ago.

Crowley, In West Cork Long Ago.

Lowell, Gerald Manly Hopkins.

Lowell, Gerald Manly Hopkins.

Flöer, Altêr uuîn in niuuen belgin. Studien zur Oxforder

Flöer, Altêr uuîn in niuuen belgin. Studien zur Oxforder lateinisch-althochdeuts

Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter.

Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter.

Montes de Oca – Poesia reunida (1953-1970).

Montes de Oca, Poesia reunida (1953-1970).

English Literature

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Ambler, The Ability to Kill: True Tales of Bloody Murder. Ambler, Eric. The Ability to Kill: True Tales of Bloody Murder. Limited Edition. New York / London, The Mysterious Press, 1987. 14 cm x 21.5 cm. XXI, 214 pages. Original hardcover with original slipcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Signed by the author.

Includes for example the following essays and stories: The Reporter / Dr. Finch and Miss Tregoff / James Hanratty / The Lizzie Borden Memorial Lectures / Spy Haunts of the world / The Legend of the rue Royale / The Novelist and the Film-Maker etc.

″Eric Ambler was born into a family of entertainers and in his early years helped out as a puppeteer. However, he initially chose engineering as a full time career, although this quickly gave way to writing. In World War II he entered the army and looked likely to fight in the line, but was soon after commissioned and ended the war as assistant director of the army film unit and a Lieutenant-Colonel. This experience translated into civilian life and Ambler had a very successful career as a screen writer, receiving an Academy Award for his work on ‘The Cruel Sea’ by Nicolas Monsarrat in 1953. Many of his own works have been filmed, the most famous probably being ‘Light of Day’, filmed as ‘Topkapi’ under which title it is now published. He established a reputation as a thriller writer of extraordinary depth and originality and received many accolades during his lifetime, including two Edgar Awards from The Mystery Writers of America (best novel for ‘Topkapi’ and best biographical work for ‘Here Lies Eric Ambler’), and two Gold Dagger Awards from the Crime Writer’s Association (‘Passage of Arms’ and ‘The Levanter’). Often credited as being the inventor of the modern political thriller, John Le Carre once described Ambler as ‘the source on which we all draw’. A recurring theme in Ambler’s works is the success of the well meaning yet somewhat bungling amateur who triumphs in the face of both adversity and hardened professionals. He wrote under his own name and also during the 1950’s a series of novels as Eliot Reed, with Charles Rhodda. These are now published under the ‘Ambler’ umbrella.” (Publisher)

Keywords: American Literature, Crime, English Literature, Mystery, Novel

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[Amis, The Life of Kingsley Amis. [Amis, Kingsley] Leader, Zachary. The Life of Kingsley Amis. London, Jonathan Cape, 2006. 16 cm x 24 cm. XII, 996 pages. With many photographs. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s – Mylar. Excellent condition.

Includes the following chapters: Introduction / Family / Reading and Writing / City of London / CLS at Marlborough / Wartime Oxford / The War / Post-war Oxford / Newly Married: Oxford and Enysham / Swansea / Making Lucky Jim / Fame and Friendship / Uncertain Feelings / “Fun” / Abroad / Widening Horizons / Princeton / Patrick and Dai / Cambridge / Waking Beauty / Break-up / Divisions / Lefties, Toffs and Bigots / Lemmons / Dissolution / Nadir / Return / Ending Up / Afterlife etc.

″In this authorised biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but a dominant figure in post-war British writing, as novelist, poet, critic and polemicist. Drawing not only on interviews with a range of Amis’ friends, relatives, fellow writers, students and colleagues, many of them never before consulted, but also on hundreds of previously unpublished letters, Leader’s biography will for the first time give a full picture of Amis’ childhood, school days, life as a teacher, critic, political and cultural commentator, professional author, husband, father and lover. He explores Amis’ fears and phobias, and the role that drink played in his life. And of course he pays due attention to Amis’ work. As the editor of “The Letters of Kingsley Amis”, hailed in the “Sunday Telegraph” as ‘one of the last major monuments to the epistolary art’, Leader is more than qualified to be his authorised biographer. His book will surprise, entertain and illuminate.” (Amazon)

Keywords: Amis, Kingsley, Biography, English Literature, Post-war Britain, Twentieth Century

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Austen, Pride and Prejudice. Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Edited with an Introduction by Tony Tanner. Middlesex, Penguin Books, 1983. 11 x 18cm. 399 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear and age darkening to edges. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. [The Penguin English Library].

When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life. [Penguin Books]

Keywords: Chuck Kruger Cape Clear Collection, English Authors, English Literature, Literature, Literature of the 19th Century

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Halperin, The Life of Jane Austen. [Austen, Jane] Halperin, John. The Life of Jane Austen. Sussex, The Harvester Press, 1986. 16 cm x 24 cm. 400 pages with several illustrations and photographs. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Clean inside with solid binding.

Includes for example the following: A Partial Pedigree of Jane Austin / Steventon, 1775-1787 / The Juvenilia and Beyond, 1787-1795 / The Years of the First “Trilogy”, 1796-1799: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey / The Treacherous Years, 1800-1806 / The Years of the Second “Trilogy”, 1811-1816: Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion etc.

″An excellent book, agreeably and lucidly written, detailed without being repetitive, exhaustive without being exhausting… a book for the informed but not necessarily academic reader”. Fay Weldon, author of Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen.

″Halperin… does indeed make us see Jane Austen in a different way. He takes her right out of the incestuous love or hate embrace in which Janeites and anti-Janeites have concealed her for so long. That is quite an achievement .” Professor John Bayley, in The New York Review of Books.

Keywords: 18th Century, 18th Century Literature, Biography, English Literature, Jane Austin

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Kaplan, Jane Austen among Women. [Austen, Jane] Kaplan, Deborah. Jane Austen among Women. Baltimore and London, The John Hopkins University Press, 1994. 15.5 cm x 22.5 cm. X, 245 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Clean inside with solid binding.

Includes for example the following chapters: The Women’s Culture / Circles of Support / The Juvenilia: Convenient Ambiguities / The “Middle” Fictions: Visible Conflicts / Pride and Prejudice: Cultural Duality and Feminist Literary Criticism etc.

″In an age when genteel women wrote little more than personal letters, how did Jane Austen manage to become a novelist? Was she an isolated genius who rose to fame through sheer talent? Did she draw strength from the support of her family, or from woman writers who went before her? In Jane Austen among Women Deborah Kaplan argues that these explanations are either misleading or insufficient. Austen, Kaplan contends, participated actively in a women’s culture that promoted female authority and achievement – a culture that not only helped her become a novelist but also influenced her fiction. Kaplan shows that women of Jane Austen’s family and community endorsed their society’s male-dominated culture and its “domestic ideology” while also in their intimate friendships with other women expressing distance from it. Drawing on this framework of women’s dual perspectives, Kaplan offers new insights about Austen’s life and work, including her decision not to marry and her attempts to keep her writing secret. She also examines Austen’s fictional representations of loyalties divided between the dominant patriarchal values of her community and the unconventional, even subversive, values and expressions that circulated privately among women. Jane Austen among Women presents a fresh, interdisciplinary approach to feminist literary studies. The discussion of Austen and her family and community is based on extensive research in letters, diaries, poems, and memoirs. Much of this material, discovered by the author in British record offices and in private hands, has never before been published. Kaplan also provides new readings of Austen’s fiction, including detailed discussions of the often-ignored juvenilia and the transitional producations Lady Susan and The Watsons.” (Googlebooks)

Keywords: 19th Century, Biography, English Literature, English Novelists, Feminist Literary Studies, Literary Studies, Novelist, Women and Literature

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Barrie, Mary Rose. Barrie, J. M. Mary Rose. “The Cheapest Edition of this Famous Play” (Dustjacket title) London, Hodder and Stoughton, No date [1942]. 12 x 18 cm. 192 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Hodder & Stoughton’s Black Jacket Books included 50 or so titles of current fiction and non fiction with an emphasis on travel and exploration in addition to the publisher’s back catalog titles.

The jackets built on the Hodder and Stoughton logo and varied the illustration or text on the book in the logo for each title in the series. (Source; A Series of Series)

Keywords: English Literature, Play, Plays, Playwrights

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Bennett, The Human Machine. Bennett, Arnold. The Human Machine. London, New York and Toronto, Hodder and Stoughton, 1914. 13 cm x 19 cm. 151 pages. Original hardcover. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Spotting on initial and final pages. Clean inside with solid binding.

Includes the following chapters: Taking Oneself for Granted / Amateurs in the Art of Living / The Brain as a Gentleman-At-Large / The First Practical Step / What ‘Living’ Chiefly is / The Daily Friction / Mischievously Overworking it / Success and Failure / L.S.D. / Reason, Reason! etc.

″Arnold Bennett was born on May 27, 1867 in Hanley, Staffordshire, England. He began his working career as a law clerk and later he left the legal field and became an editor for the magazine Woman. His first novel was ‘A Man from the North.’ He wrote several novels set in Hanley, the town where he was born. These are known as the Five Town novels. Other titles include ‘The Babylon Hotel,’ ‘The Truth about an Author,’ and ‘How to Live on 24 Hours a Day.’ Bennett won the 1923 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel ‘Riceyman Steps.’ ‘The Journal of Arnold Bennett’ was published posthumously in three volumes. Bennett was also the author of ‘Hugo’ which was made into a major motion picture in 2011 starring Jude law and Ben Kingsley, directed by Martin Scorsese. During WWI, Bennett was Director of Propaganda for France at the Ministry of Information. (At that time ‘propaganda’ did not have the negative connotations it would have later in the twentieth century.) This appointment was based on the recommendation of Lord Beaverbrook, who also recommended him as Deputy Minister of that department at the end of the war. Bennett refused a knighthood in 1918. He died in London of typhoid fever on March 27, 1931.” (Google Books)

″As well as Bennett’s novels, his non-fiction work has withstood the test of time, and is widely read today. In the Human Machine, Bennett explores the vital questions about how we can operate to our optimum potential. His answers are efficient and practical, and they work for the common man and woman.” (Amazon)

Keywords: 20th century, English Literature, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Self Help

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Bennett, Sketches for Autobiography. Bennett, Arnold / Hepburn, James (editor). Sketches for Autobiography. London / Boston / Sydney, George Allen & Unwin, 1979. 14 cm x 22 cm. XVII, 182 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

Includes for example the following essays: Earliest Dealings with Literature / How I Was Educated / A Visit from Mr Hurley / Editing a Woman’s Paper / In Watling Street / A Tale of Tyranny / Finishing a Book / The Secret of Content / Marriage / The Hanbridge Empire / Paris Streets / Graphic Art in Paris / My Religious Experience etc.

Keywords: Autobiography, English Literature

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Benson, The Freaks of Mayfair. Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic). The Freaks of Mayfair. With illustrations by George Plank. London, The Folio Society, 2009. 15 x 23 cm. vii, 148 pages. Original Hardcover with protective slip-in case. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Keywords: 19th Century Literature, 20th Century Literature, English Literature

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Brontë, Jane Eyre. Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Edited by Margaret Smith, with an introduction and revised notes by Sally Shuttleworth. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000. 13 x 19.5cm. (51), 488 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. [Oxford World’s Classics].

Includes: Introduction / Textual Note / Bibliography / Chronology / Appendix: Opinions of the Press / Explanatory Notes

Jane Eyre is a novel of passion – of anger, defiance and of overwhelming desire. No novel, before or since, has caught so precisely the complex emotions of childhood, where feelings of powerlessness can mix with rage, and a bitter sense of injustice. From the early scenes, where Jane is locked in the red room and learns to defy her aunt, through the oppresive regime of Lowood School, we follow the turbulent swell of Jane’s feelings and her psychological struggles into adulthood.
Drawing on feminist and post-colonial theory, and Victorian medical writings on the female mind and body, Sally Shuttleworth’s introduction to this edition places Jane Eyre firmly within the context of 19th century political and social culture. The text is that of the authoritative Clarendon edition. [From jacket notes]

Keywords: 19th Century Literature, British Author, British Literature, classics, English Authors, English Literature, Victorian Literature

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