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  • Miss Julie and Other Plays

    by Johan August Strindberg ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Father; A Dream Play; Miss Julie; The Ghost Sonata; The Dance of Death `Ibsen can sit serenely in his Doll's House,' Sean O'Casey remarked, `while Strindberg is battling with his heaven and his hell.' Strindberg was one of the most extreme, and ultimately the most influential theatrical innovators of the late nineteenth century. The five plays translated here are those on which Strindberg's ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Miss Julie and Other Plays

    by Johan August Strindberg ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Father; A Dream Play; Miss Julie; The Ghost Sonata; The Dance of Death `Ibsen can sit serenely in his Doll's House,' Sean O'Casey remarked, `while Strindberg is battling with his heaven and his hell.' Strindberg was one of the most extreme, and ultimately the most influential theatrical innovators of the late nineteenth century. The five plays translated here are those on which Strindberg's ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • Aspects of the Novel

    by E. M. Forster ...
    First published in 1927, E. M. Forster’s “Aspects of the Novel” compiles a series of lectures given to Trinity College at the University of Cambridge in that same year. By utilizing examples from other classic works Forster puts forward a standard theory on the writing of fictional prose. The book takes turns tackling the issues of story and plot, character, fantasy, prophecy, pattern and rhythm ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • Diaries, 1910-1923

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Series series The Schocken Kafka Library
    **The diaries of the acclaimed author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial—one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century—provide a penetrating look into Prague and the life and dreams of one of the most important writers of the twentieth century.These diaries cover the years 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka’s death at the age of forty. They provide a look into Kafka’s accounts of his ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Outsider

    by Colin Wilson ...
    The classic study of alienation, creativity and the modern mind'Excitingly written, with a sense of revelation' GUARDIAN'Exhaustive, luminously intelligent' OBSERVERTHE OUTSIDER was an instant literary sensation when it was first published in 1956, thrusting its youthful author into the front rank of contemporary writers and thinkers. Wilson rationalised the psychological dislocation so ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • DELIGHT

    Special 60th anniversary edition

    by J.B. Priestley ...
    DELIGHTbyJ.B. PriestleySpecial 60th anniversary edition60th anniversary edition of one of Priestley’s most acclaimed and best loved collections of short essays.Best known today as a novelist, playwright and a social commentator J.B. Priestley first found fame as a master of the short essay – a form he described as his favourite. Delight is a superb collection of one hundred and fourteen brief ... Read more

    $12.03 CAD

  • A Hunger Artist and Other Stories

    by Franz Kafka, Ritchie Robertson ...
    Translated by Joyce Crick ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'In recent decades, interest in hunger artists has greatly diminished.' Kafka published two collections of short stories in his lifetime, A Country Doctor: Little Tales (1919) and A Hunger Artist: Four Stories (1924). Both collections are included in their entirety in this edition, which also contains other, uncollected stories and a selection of posthumously published works that have become part ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Sinister Resonance

    The Mediumship of the Listener

    by David Toop ...
    Sinister Resonance begins with the premise that sound is a haunting, a ghost, a presence whose location is ambiguous and whose existence is transitory. The intangibility of sound is uncanny – a phenomenal presence in the head, at its point of source and all around. The close listener is like a medium who draws out substance from that which is not entirely there.The history of listening must be ... Read more

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  • Believe in People

    The Essential Karel Capek

    by Karel Capek ...
    Translated by Šárka Tobrmanová-Kühnová ...
    Playful and provocative, irreverent and inspiring, Capek is perhaps the best-loved Czech writer of all time. Novelist and playwright, famed for inventing the word 'robot' in his play RUR, Capek was a vital part of the burgeoning artistic scene of Czechoslovakia of the 1920s and 30s. But it is in his journalism - his brief, sparky and delightful columns - that Capek can be found at his most ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Irresponsible Self

    On Laughter and the Novel

    by James Wood ...
    "James Wood has been called our best young critic. This is not true. He is our best critic; he thinks with a sublime ferocity."--Cynthia OzickFollowing the collection The Broken Estate--which established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation-- The Irresponsible Self confirms Wood's preeminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator of contemporary novels.In twenty ... Read more

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  • The Expelled/The Calmative/The End with First Love

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    These four stories or 'nouvelles' date from 1945, though all were published much later, in French and subsequently in English. All make use of a first-person narrator, and relish its vagaries - the inability to remember facts, the uncertainty as to why he is speaking in the first place, the loss of heart when explanations seem called for... Above all, the stories crisply plot the narrator's ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Hugging the Shore

    Essays and Criticism

    by John Updike ...
    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD“Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea,” writes John Updike in his Foreword to this collection of literary considerations. But the sailor doth protest too much: This collection begins somewhere near deep water, with a flotilla of short fiction, humor pieces, and personal essays, and even ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD