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  • Culture and Materialism

    Raymond Williams is a towering presence in cultural studies, most importantly as the founder of the apporach that has come to be known as “cultural materialism.” Yet Williams’s method was always open-ended and fluid, and this volume collects together his most significant work from over a twenty-year peiod in which he wrestled with the concepts of materialism and culture and their interrelationship ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Culture and Politics

    Class, Writing, Socialism

    Brand new collection of the essential essays from one of the founders of cultural studies, Raymond Williams.Raymond Williams was a pioneering scholar of culture and society, and one of the outstanding intellectuals of the twentieth century. In this, a collection of difficult to find essays, some of which are published for the first time, Williams emerges as not only one of the great writers of ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Resources of Hope

    Culture, Democracy, Socialism

    Collected essays and talks from one of Britain’s great thinkers, ranging across political and cultural theoryRaymond Williams possessed unique authority as Britain’s foremost cultural theorist and public intellectual. Informed by an unparalleled range of reference and the resources of deep personal experience, his life’s work represents a patient, exemplary commitment to the building of a ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Loyalties

    What is loyalty? What is treachery? What does it mean to find that one of your friends is a spy? Loyalties traces the fortunes of a group of friends, some from the Welsh valleys, some from Cambridge, from the Spanish Civil War to the 1984 miners' strike, combining the tension of a first-class thriller with a brilliant analysis of our age. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Country and the City

    Taking inspiration from classic authors from Jane Austen to Thomas Hardy, Williams shines a light on our society’s changing views of the rural and industrial landscapes in which we work and live.Our collective notion of the city and country is irresistibly powerful. The city as the seat of enlightenment, sophistication, power and greed is in profound contrast with an innocent, peaceful, backward ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Culture and Society

    Coleridge to Orwell

    Acknowledged as a masterpiece of materialist criticism, this book delves into the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination. Surveying two hundred years of history and English literature – from George Eliot to George Orwell – Williams provides insights into the social and economic forces that have shaped British culture and society. Provocative and revolutionary in its day, this work ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Keywords

    A Vocabulary of Culture and Society

    Raymond Williams’ seminal exploration of the meaning of some of the most important words in the English language.First published in 1976, and expanded in 1983, KEYWORDS reveals how the meanings of 131 words – including ‘art’, ‘class’, ‘family’, ‘media’, ‘sex’ and ‘tradition’ – were formed and subsequently altered and redefined as the historical contexts in which they were used changed.Neither a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • People Of The Black Mountains Vol.I

    The Beginning

    This proud and haunting novel is the last great work of Raymond Harris, his final testament.Here, in one vast, breathtaking sweep is his story of the land where he was born, the land he loved and left, but could never forget - the story of the people of Wales and the borders, not over one or two generations but many thousands, from the very beginning of recorded time.People of the Black Mountain ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Border Country

    Series series Library of Wales
    When railway signalman Harry Price suddenly suffers a stroke, his son Matthew, a lecturer in London, makes a return to the border village of Glynmawr. As Matthew and Harry struggle with their memories of personal and social change, a beautiful and moving portrait of the love between a father and son emerges. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The English Novel From Dickens To Lawrence

    Raymond Williams begins his brilliantly perceptive study of the English novel in the 1840s, a period of rapid social change brought on by the Industrial Revolution, the struggle for democratic reform, and the growth of cities and towns. Unsettling, indeed critical, for individuals and communities alike, this process of change prompted the novelists of the time to explore new forms of writing. The ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Drama From Ibsen To Brecht

    With typical critical flair, Raymond Williams examines the development of the dramatic form from Henrik Ibsen to Bertolt Brecht. Taking an expansive view of drama from around the world, he offers the reader profound insights into the role of theatre in society and into the workings of dramatic language. This is seminal reading for theatre-goers and literature students alike. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Innkeeper & The Scarlet Cord

    For two thousand years, Rahab of Jericho has carried a verdict stamped in red: harlot. Tradition repeated it until it became an unquestioned fact. This book reopens the case.Through ancient languages, archaeology, and early Jewish memory, this investigation reveals long-overlooked evidence - ambiguity in Hebrew, contradictions in the Talmud, and a scarlet tiqvah that means "hope," not "cord."This ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD