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Swann's Way

By D. J. Enright

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9781439571309 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 5, 2008), cover price $23.00

The Oxford Book of Death

Product Description: The inescapable reality of death has given rise to much of literature's most profound and moving work. D.J. Enright's wonderfully eclectic selection presents the words of poet and novelist, scientist and philosopher, mystic and sceptic...read more

By D. J. Enright (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780192141293 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 2, 1983, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Explores the meaning of and attitudes toward death, probing such topics as suicide, mourning, funerals, immortality, and the hereafter in a collection of prose and poetry

Paperback:

9780199556526 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 15, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The inescapable reality of death has given rise to much of literature's most profound and moving work.

9780192803801 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 28, 2002, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: "Reading for this anthology," writes D.

9780192820136 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 1987), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Explores the meaning of and attitudes toward death, probing such topics as suicide, mourning, funerals, immortality, and the hereafter in a collection of prose and poetry

By Blows: Uncollected Poems

Product Description: By-Blows: Uncollected Poems by D.J. Enright New poems from the British author of numerous books. Born in 1920, D.J. Enright has written numerous books, including Instant Chronicles: A Life (Oxford University Press, 1985), The Alluring Problem: An Essay On Irony (OUP, 1986), Fields of Vision (OUP, 1988), Under the Circumstances (OUP, 1991) and Old Men and Comets (OUP, 1993)...read more

By D. J. Enright

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9781861711502 | Crescent Moon Pub, February 28, 2008, cover price $7.49 | About this edition: By-Blows: Uncollected Poems by D.

Injury Time

Product Description: D.J. Enright died soon after putting the finishing touchesÂ on this memoir and commonplace book in which he muses upon his own condition and that of the world he knows he is leaving. With his legendary humanity and wit, he contemplates literature, manners, morals, people and especially the English language in all its glories and eccentricities...read more

By D. J. Enright

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9781844133154 | Pimlico, October 1, 2003, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: D.

Signs and Wonders: Selected Essays

Product Description: D.J. Enright's essays - on Goethe, Mann, Nusil; on Hesse, Werfel, Svevo; on Heine, Brecht, Heym, Celan, Canetti, Grass; on Milosz, Cavafy, Stevie Smith and Japanese Women Diarists; on the Devil, Flaubert and Robertson Davies - are all humanist rather than theoretical...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By D. J. Enright

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9781857545487 | Carcanet Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: D.

Play Resumed: A Journal

Product Description: This volume has the same breadth, the same wide range of reference, the same revealing pronouncements as its successful predecessor, Interplay: a Kind of Commonplace Book (OUP 1995). It's very funny, very serious,and notable for its good sense and wisdom...read more

By D. J. Enright

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9780192881083 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: This volume has the same breadth, the same wide range of reference, the same revealing pronouncements as its successful predecessor, Interplay: a Kind of Commonplace Book (OUP 1995).

The Captive and the Fugitive: The Fugitive

The narrator recounts his complicated relationship with Albertine

By D. J. Enright (editor), Terence Kilmartin (trans), Marcel Proust and C. K. Scott-Moncrieff (trans)

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9780375753114 | Modern Library, March 1, 1999, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The narrator recounts his complicated relationship with Albertine

Collected Poems 1948-1998

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By D. J. Enright

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9780192880772 | Carcanet Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $13.95

Telling Tales: Paradise Illustrated & A Faust Book

Product Description: Telling Tales brings D.J. Enright's two renowned poetical sequences together in one volume. The first, Paradise Illustrated, is a contemporary telling of Milton's Adam and Eve and their fall from grace in Paradise. The second is A Faust Book, again a retelling of a perenially relevant tale of mankind's arrogance and ambition...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By D. J. Enright

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9780192880291 | Carcanet Pr, November 1, 1997, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Telling Tales brings D.

Interplay: A Kind of Commonplace Book

By D. J. Enright

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Hardcover:

9780192824936 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9780192880307 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1997), cover price $15.95

George Herbert

Product Description: Both MP and Herbert wrote devotional poetry which is deceptively simple. It is a subtle expression of the conflicts and complications of a spiritual life.

By D. J. Enright

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9780460877954 | Everyman, January 1, 1997, cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Both MP and Herbert wrote devotional poetry which is deceptively simple.

The Oxford Book of the Supernatural

Product Description: From the eerie visitation of Scrooge by Marley's ghost, to the three witches brewing evil on the heath in Macbeth, to the deadly lust for blood of Bram Stoker's Dracula, we have always been fascinated by things that go "bump in the night...read more

By D. J. Enright (editor)

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9780192142016 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 1994, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: From the eerie visitation of Scrooge by Marley's ghost, to the three witches brewing evil on the heath in Macbeth, to the deadly lust for blood of Bram Stoker's Dracula, we have always been fascinated by things that go "bump in the night.

Paperback:

9780192832030 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: From the eerie visitation of Scrooge by Marley's ghost, to the three witches brewing evil on the heath in Macbeth, to the deadly lust for blood of Bram Stoker's Dracula, we have always been fascinated by things that go "bump in the night.

The Way of the Cat

Ninety-six four-color paintings complement a story that follows the sage cat Kuching as he takes the young and inexperienced Sunshine under his wing. 25,000 first printing. National ad/promo. BOMC & Homestyle Bk Club.

By Emma Chichester Clark (illustrator) and D. J. Enright

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Hardcover:

9780060169688 | Icon, November 1, 1992, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Ninety-six four-color paintings complement a story that follows the sage cat Kuching as he takes the young and inexperienced Sunshine under his wing.

Paperback:

9780060924317 | Perennial, November 1, 1993, cover price $12.00

Old Men and Comets

Product Description: Old Men and Comets is a new collection of poems and prose poetry from one of the premier poets of our age. The poems include rememberances of things and people past, as well as rueful glances at things present. Here, especially, are the peculiar preoccupations of age, and some consoliong thoughts on death, all in all well-wrought in Enright's inimitable, melancholic, and ironic voice...read more

By D. J. Enright

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9780192831767 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 20, 1994, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Old Men and Comets is a new collection of poems and prose poetry from one of the premier poets of our age.

Time Regained: A Guide to Proust

The narrator returns to Paris after World War I, and reflects on his past life as the raw material for literature

By D. J. Enright (contributor), Joanna Kilmartin (contributor), Terence Kilmartin (trans), Andreas Mayor and Marcel Proust

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Hardcover:

9780679424765 | Rev sub edition (Modern Library, April 1, 1993), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The narrator returns to Paris after World War I, and reflects on his past life as the raw material for literature

The Oxford Book of Friendship

Product Description: "Friendship, friendship, just a perfect blendship"--so wrote Cole Porter for the musical DuBarry Was A Lady--a song and a sentiment we all can harmonize with. We all have friends, and if some writers have been more than a bit cynical--Emerson thought that friendship resembled the immortality of the soul "in that it is too good to be true," and Schopenhauer compared friendship to a sea serpent, "no one knows whether they are fabulous or really exist somewhere"--for the most part the world's literature and our own experience are filled with fine examples...read more

By D. J. Enright and David H. Rawlinson (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780192141903 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 21, 1991, cover price $74.00

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9780192829672 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 1992), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: "Friendship, friendship, just a perfect blendship"--so wrote Cole Porter for the musical DuBarry Was A Lady--a song and a sentiment we all can harmonize with.

Under the Circumstances: Poems and Proses

By D. J. Enright

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9780192828347 | Carcanet Pr, May 1, 1991, cover price $9.95

Memoirs of a Mendicant Professor

By D. J. Enright

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9780856358593 | Carcanet Pr, March 1, 1990, cover price $21.95

Fields of Vision: Essays on Literature, Language, and Television

Discusses adaptations, soap operas, the influence of television, TV commercials, and books by Grass, Milosz, Singer, and Heine

By D. J. Enright

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Hardcover:

9780192122698 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 1, 1989, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Discusses adaptations, soap operas, the influence of television, TV commercials, and books by Grass, Milosz, Singer, and Heine

Paperback:

9780192826985 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 1990), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Discusses adaptations, soap operas, the influence of television, TV commercials, and books by Grass, Milosz, Singer, and Heine

Collected Poems, 1987

Including all the poems D. J. Enright wishes to retain, this collection features works from each of his books published between 1953 and 1975

By D. J. Enright

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9780192820617 | Subsequent edition (Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 1987), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Including all the poems D.

Instant Chronicles: A Life

Product Description: A new poem which is at times a critique of modern biography and at other times an autobiographical memoir. "Enright is a major poet who quietly but insistently reminds us that civilization still matters."--John Russell Taylor, The Times (London)...read more

By D. J. Enright

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9780192119711 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 1985, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A new poem which is at times a critique of modern biography and at other times an autobiographical memoir.

Fair of Speech: The Uses of Euphemism

Sixteen original essays by leading writers, including Joseph Epstein, Diane Johnson, Robert Nisbet, and Robert Burchfield, ruminate on the role of euphemism in general and in specific areas, such as sex, politics, medicine, religion, and death

By D. J. Enright (editor)

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9780192122360 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1985, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Sixteen original essays by leading writers, including Joseph Epstein, Diane Johnson, Robert Nisbet, and Robert Burchfield, ruminate on the role of euphemism in general and in specific areas, such as sex, politics, medicine, religion, and death

Collected Poems

Including all the poems D. J. Enright wishes to retain, this collection features works from each of his books published between 1953 and 1975

By D. J. Enright

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Hardcover:

9780192119414 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 3, 1981, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Including all the poems D.

The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse, 1945-1980

By D. J. Enright

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Hardcover:

9780192812605 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 1980, cover price $8.95 | also contains The Tao of Success: The Five Ancient Rings of Destiny

The Terrible Shears: Scenes from a Twenties Childhood

Autobiographical poems about childhood and adolescence.

By D. J. Enright

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Hardcover:

9780819520739 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, January 1, 1974, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Autobiographical poems about childhood and adolescence.

Paperback:

9780819510730 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, October 1, 1974, cover price $13.95

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