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The Age of Shakespeare

Product Description: 'The greatest literary scholar of his generation' (Independent) explains how the history of the Elizabethan era is the backdrop to William Shakespeare and his plays. Shakespeare made his unique contribution to British and world culture in the midst of Elizabeth's great reign...read more

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9780679642442 | Modern Library, February 1, 2004, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Offers insight into the life of William Shakespeare and the writing of his plays through an analysis of the Elizabethan era, describing the religious and dynastic events that defined Tudor England.

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9780812974331 | Reprint edition (Modern Library, May 10, 2005), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Offers insight into the life of William Shakespeare and the writing of his plays through an analysis of the Elizabethan era, describing the religious and dynastic events that defined Tudor England.

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9781435292826 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: 'The greatest literary scholar of his generation' (Independent) explains how the history of the Elizabethan era is the backdrop to William Shakespeare and his plays.

Andrew Marvell

Product Description: Andrew Marvell lived through some of the most momentous events in English history, but his poetry is detached and private, mostly lyrical, strikingly original in its combining of existing traditions, and seemingly untouched for the most part by what was happening around him...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Frank Kermode and Keith Walker

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9780192541833 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 1991, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: It took a long time for Marvell's fame as a poet to match, and then to eclipse, his celebrity as a politician and defender of civil liberties, but in the present century he has been regarded as perhaps the most important seventeenth-century poet after his friend John Milton.

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9780192822710 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1994, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Andrew Marvell lived through some of the most momentous events in English history, but his poetry is detached and private, mostly lyrical, strikingly original in its combining of existing traditions, and seemingly untouched for the most part by what was happening around him.

9780192813473 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 1991, cover price $19.95

Appetite for Poetry

Examines the styles of such notables as T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and Milton and analyzes debates on literary canon and biblical criticism

By Frank Kermode

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9780674040939 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 1, 1989, cover price $54.50 | About this edition: Examines the styles of such notables as T.

The Art of Telling: Essays on Fiction

Discusses the English novel, literary themes, the nature of reading, narrative sequence, and rules of modern literary criticism

By Frank Kermode

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9780674048287 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 7, 1983, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Discusses the English novel, literary themes, the nature of reading, narrative sequence, and rules of modern literary criticism

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9780674048294 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, March 1, 1985), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Discusses the English novel, literary themes, the nature of reading, narrative sequence, and rules of modern literary criticism

Brideshead Revisited

Product Description: (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Soon to be a major motion picture from Miramax Films, starring Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Ben Whishaw, and Matthew Good, and directed by Julian Jarrold. Opens July 2008.Evelyn Waughâs most celebrated novel is a memory drama of extraordinary richness and depth...read more

By Frank Kermode (introduced by)

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9780307269966 | Mti edition (Everymans Library, June 24, 2008), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Soon to be a major motion picture from Miramax Films, starring Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Ben Whishaw, and Matthew Good, and directed by Julian Jarrold.

Bury Place Papers: Essays from the London Review of Books

By Frank Kermode

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9781873092040 | Gardners Books, November 20, 2009, cover price $25.35

The Classic: Literary Images of Permanence and Change

Attempts to determine the criteria for classical literature through an analysis of the social and intellectual importance of great works of the past

By Frank Kermode

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9780674133983 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, September 1, 1983), cover price $29.00 | About this edition: Attempts to determine the criteria for classical literature through an analysis of the social and intellectual importance of great works of the past

Collected Poetry and Prose

The only complete anthology of the twentieth-century American modernist's poetry includes more than fifty poems not previously collected, early versions of famous poems, and the most comprehensive selection of his prose writings yet published. (view table of contents)

By Frank Kermode (editor), Joan Richardson (editor) and Wallace Stevens

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9781883011451 | Reprint edition (Library of America, October 1, 1997), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Selected works celebrate the writer's poetic response to life

Concerning E. M. Forster

By Frank Kermode

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Hardcover:

9780374298999 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 8, 2009), cover price $24.00

Concerning E.m. Forster: Em Forster and His Contemporaries

By Frank Kermode

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9780753823361 | Orion Pub Co, November 25, 2010, cover price $16.60

D. H. Lawrence

Sketches Lawrence's early life and studies the way in which he attempted to incorporate his ideals and convictions in his prose

By Frank Kermode

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9780670271306 | Penguin USA, September 1, 1973, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Sketches Lawrence's early life and studies the way in which he attempted to incorporate his ideals and convictions in his prose

The Duchess Of Malfi: Seven Masterpieces Of Jacobean Drama

An intriguing anthology of eight great dramatic works--including six lyrical tragedies and two urban comedies--performed during the early seventeenth-century reign of King James includes Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness, Ben Jonson's Volpone, The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster, and others. Original. 20,000 first printing.

By Frank Kermode (editor)

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9780679642435 | Modern Library, May 10, 2005, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: An intriguing anthology of eight great dramatic works--including six lyrical tragedies and two urban comedies--performed during the early seventeenth-century reign of King James includes Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness, Ben Jonson's Volpone, The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster, and others.

Edward Upward Bibliography: A Bibliography

Product Description: This comprehensive bibliography lists Edward Upward's publications over an eighty year period. In his preface, Professor Sir Frank Kermode refers to Upward's longevity and distinction as a novelist and short story writer, and describes the bibliography as 'an account of a virtually unique achievement â¦ Upward has been for so long a major, though neglected, figure in English literature, it is appropriate that he should now be made the subject of a bibliography of the kind normally provided for writers of exceptional importance...read more

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9781900564328 | Enitharmon Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: This comprehensive bibliography lists Edward Upward's publications over an eighty year period.

English Pastoral Poetry, from the Beginnings to Marvell: From the Beginnings to Marvel

By Frank Kermode (editor)

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9780393006124 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 1972, cover price $5.00

Forms of Attention

By Frank Kermode

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9780226431703 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, January 1, 1987), cover price $5.95

The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative

Analyzes in detail the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John to understand how meaning is concealed and how it is revealed

By Frank Kermode

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9780674345256 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 1, 1979, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Analyzes in detail the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John to understand how meaning is concealed and how it is revealed

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9780674345355 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 15, 1980, cover price $31.00 | About this edition: Analyzes in detail the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John to understand how meaning is concealed and how it is revealed

Guilt: Revenge, Remorse and Responsibility After Freud

By Susan Budd, Ian Harvey (trans), Frank Kermode (foreword by) and Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca

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Hardcover:

9781583919637 | Routledge, July 1, 2004, cover price $125.00

Guilt: Revenge, Remorse, and Responsibility in Psychonalysis After Freud

By Susan Budd, Ian Harvey (trans), Frank Kermode (foreword by) and Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca

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9781583919644 | Routledge, July 1, 2004, cover price $45.95

He Knew He Was Right

Rumor and jealousy cause Louis Trevelyan to mistakenly question his wife's loyalty, ultimately ruining his life and marriage.

By John Sutherland (editor)

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9780199537709 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 31, 2009, cover price $12.95 | also contains He Knew He Was Right

9780140433913 | Reissue edition (Penguin Classics, April 1, 1996), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Rumor and jealousy cause Louis Trevelyan to mistakenly question his wife's loyalty, ultimately ruining his life and marriage.

History and Value: The Clarendon Lectures and the Northcliffe Lectures 1987

By Frank Kermode

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9780198122241 | Reprint edition (Clarendon Pr, July 20, 1989), cover price $48.95

Life.after.theory

By Jacques Derrida (contributor), Frank Kermode (contributor), Toril Moi (contributor), Christopher Norris (contributor), Michael Payne (editor) and John Schad (editor)

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9780826473172 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 30, 2004, cover price $25.95

The Literary Guide to the Bible

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By Robert Alter and Frank Kermode (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780674875302 | Belknap Pr, October 1, 1987, cover price $65.00

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9780674875319 | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, September 1, 1990), cover price $34.50

London Review Of Books: A 25th Anniversary Anthology

Product Description: Erudite, witty, and provocative, the London Review of Books offers a fortnightly dose of the best and the liveliest in all things cultural. In this anniversary anthology the most memorable pieces from the past 25 years are brought together in one volume...read more

By Vanessa Coode (editor) and Frank Kermode (foreword by)

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9781861976130 | Profile Books Ltd, March 30, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Erudite, witty, and provocative, the London Review of Books offers a fortnightly dose of the best and the liveliest in all things cultural.

Modern British Literature

Works by such authors as Hardy, Conrad, Eliot, Huxley, and Lawrence focus on man's relation to the intellectual developments and social upheavals of the twentieth century.

By John Hollander (editor) and Frank Kermode (editor)

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9780195016529 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 5, 1973, cover price $76.95 | About this edition: Works by such authors as Hardy, Conrad, Eliot, Huxley, and Lawrence focus on man's relation to the intellectual developments and social upheavals of the twentieth century.

Not Entitled: A Memoir

Traces the literary critic's childhood on the Isle of Man, his work on ferryboats around Liverpool, his editorship of 'Encounter,' and his embattled years at Cambridge University

By Frank Kermode

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9780374181031 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 1, 1995, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Traces the literary critic's childhood on the Isle of Man, his work on ferryboats around Liverpool, his editorship of 'Encounter,' and his embattled years at Cambridge University

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9780374525927 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1999, cover price $21.00

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