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How to Read a Book
Touchstone 2011; US$ 16.99How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated. You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve them -- from elementary reading, through... more...
The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 18.00A student-friendly guide to the life, work, context and reception of the author of Wide Sargasso Sea. more...
Kazuo Ishiguro
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 75.00Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the finest and most accomplished contemporary writers of his generation. The short story author, television writer and novelist, included twice in Granta’s list of Best Young British Writers , has over the past twenty-five years produced a body of work which is just as critically-acclaimed as it is popular with the general... more...
Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day
Continuum International Publishing 2001; US$ 65.00Continuum Contemporaries will be a wonderful source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and readings groups, as well as for literature students.The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed, and most influential novels of recent years. A team of contemporary... more...
The Real History of Tom Jones
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 34.00The Real History of Tom Jones revivifies historical materials from which Henry Fielding constructed the greatest comic novel of the eighteenth century. This study recovers and explores the contexts necessary to understand Fielding's subtle art, such as the bloody conflict for the throne between Stuarts and Hanoverians, a contradictory class system,... more...
The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 22.00A unique overview of two centuries of short stories from Britain and other English-speaking countries. more...
Anthropologische Literatur - Literarische Anthropologie?
Diplomica Verlag 2009; US$ 35.59Menschen, die von ihrem Leben in Armut erzählen und uns so Teil haben lassen an ihren Erlebnissen und ihrem Verständnis der Welt haben mit ihren Geschichten oft fasziniert und ein großes Publikum erreicht. Von sozialistischen Regierungen als zentrales Werkzeug zur Integration der Ärmsten in die Gesellschaft gefeiert, und von Kritikern als literarisch... more...
The Gothic Body
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 36.00The popularity of the Gothic in the British fin de siècle, and its links with scientific and social theories. more...









