Literary Reference

Twayne, New York, 1993.. 136 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0805770216 "Born into a privileged family in Kent in 1886, Sassoon spent a largely unremarkable childhood. Upon completing his last year at the distinguished secondary school Marlborough Col. lege, a schoolmaster wrote of him: 'shows no particular intelligence or aptitude for any branch of his work; seems unlikely to adopt any special career'. After two years at Cambridge and a few more pursuing gentlemanly pastimes, Sassoon decided . t o concentrate on his poetry, which remained mediocre. This was to change with his entry into the army, just a few days before Britain entered the (First World War), and the inspiration the horrors of trench warfare provided him. His war poems w. er e t o have an immediacy and vibrancy unmatched by any he had written before. In this study, Sanford Sternlicht examines not only this poetry but Sassoon's other literary endeavours, including the widely acclaimed 'The Complete Memoirs of George . She rs to n', to create the most comprehensive study of him to date. The first book to profit from the publication of the Sassoon diaries in the 1980s, (it) is an authroitative and well-balanced introduction to the life and work of a fascinating wr. iter . It also provides strong evidence against the popular view that Sassoon was a purely Georgian poet, placing his combat poetry squarely in the modernist tradition. Sassoon' copious post-World War I satirical and religious poetry is fully expli. cated a nd evaluated." Fine/Fine. more information

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National Book League / Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1958.. 32 pp, 7 1/4" H, stapled in wraps. Contents: Introduction; Titles Mentioned in the Introduction; Reading List - The Old Masters; The Moderns; Books about Detective Fiction; Index of Titles. Interior - staples are rusty, othewise clean and tight. E. xterior - top corner of book is bumped causing light creases throughout, light fading to spine, minor rubbing. Good.. more information

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Forum House, (Toronto, 1971).. 168 pp, 8vo, soft cover. Contents: Some Definitions of Romanticsm; Robert Burns; MacPherson and the Ossianic Poems; William Blake; Goethe's Faust; Goethe's 'The Sorrows of Young Werther'; The French Revolution; William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Co. leridge; George Gordon, Lord Byron; William Hazlitt; Thomas de Quincy; Charles Lamb; John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley; Emily Bronte - 'Wuthering Heights'; Gustave Flaubert - 'Sentimental Education'. Interior - pages very lightly browned, other. w i s e clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - moderate edgewear, light rubbing, reading creases at hinges, tiny corner creases, spine flat and uncreased. A sound reference copy. Good. more information

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Modern Canadian Library, Toronto, (1973).. 189 pp, small 8vo (7 1/2" H), soft cover. "...a comprehensive anthology of Canadian literature from its humble pioneer beginnings to the present day. Sometimes serious, often light-hearted, here is a vivid cross-section of Canadian thought and exp. erience. Arranged alphabetically by subject matter, a great variety of subjects - art, customs, politics, money, women, youth, loneliness, work, old age, to mention but a few - are covered. In fact, practically the entire spectrum of human expe. r i e nce is explored..." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wear, soft crease to bottom corner of front cover, very light browning to spine and rear cover, spine flat with one crease. VG-. more information

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Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, 1999, first edition.. 130 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0809322560 "Through careful analysis of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road", Omar Swartz sets out to show that Kerouac's influence on American society is largely rhetorical. Kerouac's signifi. cance as a cultural icon can be best understood, Swartz asserts, in terms of traditional rhetorical practices and principles...." Contents: Preface; Rhetorical Transformations; Kerouac in Context; Kerouac's Rhetorical Situation; Fantasy, Rhetori. c a l Vision, and the Critical Act; The Vision of Social Deviance; The Vision of Sexuality; Dean as Vision; Conclusion: Kerouac and Liminality; Notes; Bibliography; Index. Fine/Fine. more information

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Press of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (1954), second printing.. 85 pp, small 8vo, HC in dust jacket. "The volumes from Newton D. Baker's personal library cited in this book represent a small selection from a much larger collection. The selection is limited to those books from which Mr. Baker's marginal and fly. -leaf notes were drawn." Contents: Newton D. Baker and his Reading; His Comments; His Books. Minor edgewear. Dust jacket has moderate edgewear, tiny chips, small tears, moderate soiling, 1/2" x 1/8" hole on back panel near spine. Scan ava. i l a b l e on request. VG/Fair. more information

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Forum House, Toronto, 1971.. 269 pp, 8vo (8 3/8" H), soft cover. Contents: Introduction; The Romantic Movement (Form in Romantic Poetry - A Note on Romantic Oppositions and Reconciliations - Romanticism: Devil's Advocate); Wordsworth (Wordsworth: The Mind's Excursive Power - W. ordsworth and the Quality of Man - Wordsworth's Significance for Us); Coleridge (Coleridge as Artist - The Thought of Coleridge - Coleridge Redivivus); Byron (Irony and Image in Byron's 'Don Juan' - Byron and Some Current Patterns of Thought - Byr. o n and the Modern Spirit); Shelley (Shelley the Artist - The Bottom of the Night - Present Values in Shelley's Art - Shelley's Philosophy); Keats (Keat's Style: Evolution Towards Qualities of Permanent Value - Keats and His Ideas - The Artistry of. K ea ts: A Modern Tribute - Keat's Thought: A Discovery of Truth); Index. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - book slightly twisted, light edge wear/wrinkling, old price blacked out and ghost sticker mark on fr. ont co ver, slight fading and light crease on spine. Good+. more information

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University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1990.. 333 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 080006122587 "(This) is the first study to make extensive use of Steinbeck's notebooks and ledgers in examining the entire body of the writer's short stories in their chronological developmen. t. Using both textual and literary criticism, Timmerman discerns a great deal about Steinbeck's growth as a literary artist, his ideas about art, and his literary achievement. Steinbeck operated dangerously as an artist, working from ideas and a. c t ual events to literary art. Yet the substantial risks he took as an artist and the resiliency of his craft, tested, developed, and proven through his short stories, became the characteristics of his achievement. In a letter to Louis Paul in 19. 62 , Steinbeck wrote, 'Let's face it. In 60 years I've left a lot of tracks'. If one were to apply the writer's comment metaphorically to the short stories, the early years were sometimes like a wandering maze, riddled by dead ends and doglegs as . Ste in beck's peripatetic mind investigated new possibilities. Eventually, however, the path became more certain, the artwork more sinewy and muscular, the destination more clearly in view. Examined from beginning to end, it is a most remarkable j. ourn ey. " Light waviness to edges of textblock. Dust jacket has minor rubbing. Very Good+/Very Good+. more information

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Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1920, 1st edition.. 316 pp, small 8vo (7 13/16" H), hard cover (dark blue cloth with gold lettering and decorations on spine and front board) - no dust jacket. Tissue-covered frontispiece. Contents: Preface; The First Flight; The Palace of Art; Milton and Tennyson; . The Princess and Maud; In Memoriam; Idylls of the King; The Dramatic Trilogy; The Bible in Tennyson; Fruit from an Old Tree; Chronology and Bibliography; A List of Biblical References. Very light browning to pages, light browning to endpapers, gift. inscription on free front endpaper, pages vii to x roughly opened, small piece missing from bottom corner of contents page, heavy browning to edges of textblock, light edge wear, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, tiny tear at bottom edge of. p ages 309 to 316, faint thin watermark at lower fore-edge from approx, page 280 to end of book, slight bump to board corners - some migration into pages. Very Good-. more information

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University of Toronto Press, Toronto, (2001), first edition.. 344 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN: 0802047858. "...combines reflection, criticism, and memoir to illustrate a curious and longlasting connection between Scottish and Canadian literary traditions. Examples drawn from genres i. ncluding lyric poetry, narrative romance, war fiction, children's literature, sentimental fiction, thrillers, domestic novels, and short stories link Canadian writers such as John Richardson, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Sinclair Ross, Hugh MacLenn. a n , Margaret Laurence, and W.O. Mitchell to Scottish writers such as Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle, J.M. Barrie, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Buchan, and George Mackay Brown. Each chapter traces the connections from directly imitati. ve n in eteenth-century Canadian writers to modern Canadian works where Scottish tradition persists, sometimes transformed and sometimes distorted. Lively biographical sketches and close analysis of particular passages by Scottish and Canadian wri. ter s a re set in the context of multicultural, narrative, postmodern, and post-colonial theories. This study illuminates the way Scottish ideas and values still wield surprising power in Canadian politics, education, theology, economics, and socia. l mo res. " Tiny bump at top of front hinge. Dust jacket has small areas of light edge wrinkling - mainly at top of spine, two small dints on rear hinge, very light rubbing, several light scratches at bottom rear panel. VG+/VG. more information

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Twayne, New York, (1992), first edition.. 212 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0805782648 B&w illustrations. "Waterston's informative study brings to life Canadian history and culture and illuminates a unique literary community in which acclaimed adult writers like Mar. garet Atwood, Margaret Laurence, and Mordechai Richler are also the authors of children's books. Waterston demonstrates the distinctly Canadian elements of such works as 'The Young Fur Traders' (1856), 'Anne of Green Gables' (1908), and 'Alligat. o r Pie' (1974). This study delineates the developmental stages through which children progress and discusses the various literary genres that appeal to them at each stage, from picture books and nursery rhymes to historical tales and science fict. io n. In addition to her focus on the response of the child to various genres, Waterston provides sophisticated literary analysis of the works that have endured as classics, demonstrating how their continuing relevance is rooted in their literary . mer it. She examines literary styles, themes, and motifs and shows how many of the perennial favorites embrace quintessentially Canadian virtues: honesty, a strong will to survive, humor, passion, and genuine kindness. American and Canadian teach. ers, lib r arians, and parents will find in this complete guide a resource for expanding their young readers' literary universe." Minor edge wear, light remainder mark on bottom of textblock, tiny foxing mark on top of textblock. Dust jacket has . light colo r fading and wrinkling on spine, minor rubbing. VG/VG. more information

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Ryerson Press, Toronto, n.d.. 132 pp, 16mo (6 5/8" H), hard cover in blue cloth with gold letter/decoration on spine - no dust jacket. Contains a biography, anthology of Norwood's work, an appreciation and a bibliography. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership m. arks. Exterior - top of textblock browning, tiny bump to top rear corner, light edge wear, light rubbing. VG. more information

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Clarendon Press, Oxford, (1996), 3rd. printing.. 614 pp, large 8vo 9 3/8"H), hard cover in dust jacket. Maps at rear. ISBN 0198661584 "In over 2,000 entries, (this book) surveys the Irish literary landscape across some sixteen centuries, describing its features and landmarks. Entries range fro. m ogam writing, developed in the fourth century, to the fiction, poetry, and drama of the 1990s; and from Cu Chulainn to James Joyce..." Slight waviness to top/bottom of textblock. Dust jacket has minor edge wrinkling, very light rubbing - main. l y on rear panel. NF/VG+. more information

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Yale University Press, New Haven, 1957, Ist edition.. 319 pp, 8vo (8 1/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "...examines a line of major writers - Shakespeare, the chief authors of the flourishing period of the English novel, and Proust and Kafka - to pursue and clarify the enigmatic, recurring theme of . the nature of man and his universe, with which in one fashion or another they have all become involved. (West) explores the worlds of Hamlet - of Renaissance man - and his relation to authority, to the true king, and to the usurper; of the heroes a. nd heroines making their way in the changing societies of the 18th- and 19th-century novelists; of the men and women of Proust living in 'time...not in eternity', and of Kafka among the symbols and intimations of doom and the glimpses of impossib. l e salvation..." Bequest bookplate on free front endpaper, small book store label on rear pastedown, tiny tear at top of rear inside hinge, very faint small water mark at top of both boards, light browning to edges of textblock, minor edge wear. . D us t jacket has light/moderate edge wear, small chips and tears - mainly at top/bottom of spine, very light browning, ight rubbing/soiling on rear panel, light scuffing on spine. VG-/G. more information

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University of Chicago, Chicago, 1995.. 311 pp, large 8vo (9" H), soft cover. ISBN 0226899071 (A)n ambitious attempt to describe the principles governing Gothic literature. Ranging across five centuries and including tales as diverse as Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene', Shelley's 'Franken. stein', Pope's 'Eloisa to Abelard', Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', the 'plots' of Sigmund Freud, and the recent 'Alien' films, Anne Williams proposes three new premises: that Gothic is 'poetic', not novelistic, in nature; that ther. e are two parallel Gothic traditions, Male and Female; and that the Gothic and the Romantic represent a single literary tradition. Building on the psychoanalytic and feminist theory of Julia Kristeva, Williams argues that Gothic conventions such a. s t he haunted castle and the family curse signify the fall of the patriarchal family. She then identifies distinct Male and Female Gothic traditions: in the Male plot, the protagonist faces a cruel, violent, and supernatural world, without hope of. s al vation. The Female plot, by contrast, asserts the power of the mind to comprehend a world that, though mysterious, is ultimately sensible. By showing how Coleridge and Keats used both Male and Female Gothic, Williams challenges accepted noti. ons ab out gender and authorship among the Romantics. Lucidly and gracefully written, (this book) alters our understanding of the Gothic tradition, of Romanticism, and of the relations between gender and genre in literary history." Interior - cle. an a nd t ight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - one very tiny corner crease. Near Fine. more information

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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1964, Ist pb edition.. 143 pp, 7 3/16" H, soft cover. "Dr Dover Wilson examines Falstaff's role in the two parts of 'Henry IV' and his relationship to the Prince." Interior - lightly cracked at pages 22/23, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exter. ior - light edge wear, very light rubbing/soiling to rear cover, light browning to edges of textblock, spine flat and uncreased. VG-. more information

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Methuen, London, 1987.. 95 pp, 7 3/4" H, soft cover. ISBN 0416347002 "John Barth represents most completely what has been termed postmodernism, not because his work comprises more postmodernist features than other contemporary writers but because for Barth 'life' and 'ar. t' are two sides of the same coin. In this brief study Heide Ziegler examines all Barth's novels. She argues that each pair of novels first 'exhausts' and then 'replenishes' those literary genres that hinge on a particular world view....Barth's. h e roes have to live according to the conditions of the respective genres they inhabit: thus they replenish the genres while their 'Author' exhausts them. Through this division of labor between character and author Barth manages to develop a new . m od e of literary parody which projects itself beyond the mocked literary model and even self-parody into the realm of future fiction." Interior - pages browning very lightly, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior -. v ery m inor edge wear. VG+. more information

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