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A Personal Record
The Floating Press 1912; US$ 3.99A Personal Record is writer Joseph Conrad's autobiography. The writing is lyrical and atmospheric and commonly believed to be somewhat embellished. It does, however, give great insight into his Polish childhood, his sailing adventures and his aspirations in the eyes of the British public. It also documents the process of writing Almayer's Folly... more...
The Defeat of Youth
The Floating Press 1918; US$ 3.99By all accounts, Aldous Huxley was a brilliant and voracious thinker and artist whose creative output knew no literary bounds. This volume gathers some of his best-remembered verse, including the memorable title poem, which is a sequence of 22 thematically interwoven sonnets. more...
Notes on Life and Letters
The Floating Press 1921; US$ 3.99Polish-born author Joseph Conrad is best known as one of the finest prose stylists ever to have written in English. In addition to producing such masterpieces as Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim, Conrad also wrote prodigiously in his private life, producing a large body of correspondence. This fascinating collection brings together a large volume of... more...
East of Suez
The Floating Press 1922; US$ 3.99This play by prolific British author W. Somerset Maugham delves deeper into several subjects that preoccupied Maugham throughout his literary career: the way that our external environment can shape our personalities and choices, and the usually negative consequences that arise from the intermingling of two divergent cultural traditions. In the play,... more...
Selected Poems
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 22.95This generous, varied selection of poems by one of France's best-loved and most reviled poets is presented with facing originals, detailed notes, and a lively introduction to the author's life and work. Steven Monte presents more than eighty poems in translation and in the original French, taken from the earliest poetic publications of the 1820's,... more...
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 9.99The celebrated author explores new ways to view ourselves and the society we live in, and gives us fresh answers to such enduring questions as how to think for ourselves and understand what we know. more...
Samuel Beckett : trivial et spirituel
Editions Rodopi 2011; US$ 39.00Quoi dire, mal dire, ouïr, mal entendre, en-deçà du langage, à lécoute dun manque, mèr(e) morte ou « souffle-esprit » ? Dans et hors de la langue, triviale ou spirituelle, aimée ou haïe, anglaise ou française, exil ou patrie... Le travail de Beckett, dans ses pièces théâtrales,... more...
Eden Halt
The Lilliput Press 2013; US$ 10.19?We read, as if memory is being assembled in front of us. It is that precision, the beautifully executed detail, makes Eden Halt a deeply moving memoir.? RODDY DOYLE. Shaken by the end of his marriage and the pressures of his profession as lecturer in Trinity College Dublin, Ross Skelton embarks on the retrieval of his strange childhood, scribbled... more...
The New Bloomsday Book
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95Since 1966 readers new to James Joyce have depended upon this essential guide to Ulysses . Harry Blamires helps readers to negotiate their way through this formidable, remarkable novel and gain an understanding of it which, without help, it might have taken several readings to achieve. The New Bloomsday Book is a crystal clear, page-by-page,... more...









