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9781405192446 | Blackwell Pub, January 25, 2011, cover price $680.00
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9781444320886 | Pck edition (Blackwell Pub, January 8, 2011), cover price $1800.00
Product Description: In Understanding Kazuo Ishiguro, Brian W. Shaffer provides the first critical survey of the life and work of the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day. One of the most closely followed British writers of his generation, the Japanese-born, English-raised and -educated Ishiguro is the author of six critically acclaimed novels, including A Pale View of Hills (1982, Winifred Holtby Prize of the Royal Society of Literature), An Artist of the Floating World (1986, Whitbread Book of the Year Award), The Remains of the Day (1988, Booker Prize), and The Unconsoled (1995, Cheltenham Prize)...read more
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9781570032158 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: In "Understanding Kazuo Ishiguro", Brian W.
Paperback:
9781570037948 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, July 15, 2008, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: In Understanding Kazuo Ishiguro, Brian W.
Written in clear, jargon-free prose, this introductory text charts the variety of novel writing in English in the second half of the twentieth century. An engaging introduction to the English-language novel from 1950-2000 (exclusive of the US). Provides students both with strategies for interpretation and with fresh readings of selected seminal texts. Maps out the most important contexts and concepts for understanding this fiction. Features readings of ten influential English-language novels including Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Kazuo Ishiguroâs Remains of the Day and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.
Hardcover:
9781405101134 | Blackwell Pub, October 7, 2005, cover price $133.95 | About this edition: Written in clear, jargon-free prose, this introductory text charts the variety of novel writing in English in the second half of the twentieth century.
Paperback:
9781405101141 | Blackwell Pub, September 15, 2005, cover price $46.95 | About this edition: Written in clear, jargon-free prose, this introductory text charts the variety of novel writing in English in the second half of the twentieth century.
Miscellaneous:
9780470997062 | Onl edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, April 25, 2008), cover price $120.00
Miscellaneous:
9781405148801 | Blackwell Pub, February 24, 2009, cover price $36.95
9780470997369 | Blackwell Pub, April 15, 2008, cover price $104.95
Product Description: A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 serves as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and Irish novel between the close of World War II and the turn of the millennium. Covers a wide range of authors from Samuel Beckett to Salman Rushdie Provides readings of key novels, including Graham Greeneâs âHeart of the Matterâ, Jean Rhysâs âWide Sargasso Seaâ and Kazuo Ishiguroâs âThe Remains of the Dayâ Considers particular subgenres, such as the feminist novel and the postcolonial novel Discusses overarching cultural, political and literary trends, such as screen adaptations and the literary prize phenomenon Gives readers a sense of the richness and diversity of the novel during this period and of the vitality with which it continues to be discussed...read more
Hardcover:
9781405113755 | Blackwell Pub, January 4, 2005, cover price $234.00
Paperback:
9781405167451 | Blackwell Pub, January 22, 2007, cover price $60.95 | About this edition: A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 serves as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and Irish novel between the close of World War II and the turn of the millennium.
Miscellaneous:
9781405156165 | Blackwell Pub, February 28, 2005, cover price $183.95
Product Description: Conrad's Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer are among the most taught and studied works of twentieth-century British fiction. Noted for their psychological depth and stylistic artistry, the two stories have been celebrated as exemplars of modernism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780873529020 | Modern Language Assn of Amer, December 1, 2002, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Conrad's Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer are among the most taught and studied works of twentieth-century British fiction.
Paperback:
9780873529037 | Modern Language Assn of Amer, December 1, 2002, cover price $19.75 | About this edition: Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and "The Secret Sharer" are among the most taught and studied works of twentieth-century British fiction.
Product Description: From the end of the nineteenth century until World War II, questions concerning the ideal nature and current state of "civilization" preoccupied the British public. In a provocative work of both cultural and literary criticism, Brian W...read more
Hardcover:
9780870238314 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, June 1, 1993, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: From the end of the nineteenth century until World War II, questions concerning the ideal nature and current state of "civilization" preoccupied the British public.
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