London and New York: Routledge, 2008. Soft Cover.

Highlighting on a couple dozen pages, spine lightly creased, minor wear to corners.

xii, 452 pp. The Routledge Critical and Cultural Theory Reader brings together 29 key pieces from the last century and a half that have shaped the field. Topics include.....

US: Russell & Russell, 1957. Hard Cover.

Small chips and tears to jacket edges.

366 pp. Naturalism is a literary movement beginning in the late nineteenth century, similar to literary realism in its rejection of Romanticism, but distinct in its embrace of determinism, detachment, scientific objectivism, and social commentary.

Ohio / Washington, D.C. National Cash Register / Microcard Editions, 1969. Hard Cover.

Ink gift note from SUNY literature professor on front endpaper with original receipt laid in, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square, text clean and unmarked.

146 pp. A yearly publication of articles written about F......

St. Louis: F.L. Rand Company, 1927. Small Hard Cover.

Pages toned, pencil name on front endpapers.

324 pp. A dictionary released as an advertising premium by Buster Brown Shoe Company. Abbott's Selected Webster Dictionary of the English Language: Modernized, Self-pronouncing, and with Illustrations for School and Commercial Use [Buster Brown.....

New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1885. Seventh Edition. Hard Cover.

Seventh edition. Front joint starting, loss to spine head, board corners rubbed.

191 pp. Khaki boards with red and gilt titles and decor, decorative floral endpapers. George Eliot (born November 22, 1819, Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England—died December 22, 1880, London).....

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. 4th Printing. Trade Paperback.

4th printing. An exceptional copy.

168 pp. "Michael Collier's book is refreshing in its refusal to push for one particular aesthetic. He regards his own preference for realism over abstraction as more a matter of temperament than of considered.....

Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. Hard Cover.

No jacket. Article adhered to paste-down endpapers, ink name on front endpaper, pencil underlining.

xvi, 238 pp. This book is primarily concerned with Henry David Thoreau's relation to nature and is further concerned with his relationship to history, to man.

New York: Norton, 2007. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.

1st printing. Remainder mark.

302 pp. Scholar Andrew Dalby delves into the world that first heard the Odyssey and the Iliad, asking new questions about the poet named Homer. Rediscovering Homer follows the growth of the legend of Troy from a kernel.....

United States: 2022. Reissue. Trade Paperback.

Print-on-demand reissue. Ink underlining.

139 pp. “Remy de Gourmont, like all the very great critics--Goethe, Ste. Beuve, Hazlitt, Jules Lemaitre--knew the creative instinct and exercised the creative faculty. Hence he understood, what the mere academician, the mere scholar, can never grasp, that literature is.....

Boston: James Munroe & Co., 1846. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. Spine head and bottom fore edge corner slightly exposed, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked.

475 pp. 8vo. A collection of essays focusing on philosophical and literary topics. Everett's translations of European literature influenced.....

New York: Random House, 1978. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.

Second printing. One inch tear along bottom edge of front jacket panel.

xv, 168 pp. ...gives the richest account to date of the Fitzgerald/Hemingway relationship. Not only does it set the dates, but it also provides psychological profiles of two of.....

DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. Ink gift note on front endpaper, minor ink marginalia, jacket edges rubbed and lightly stained.

ix, 133 pp. A study of the writings of William Butler Yeats. A key figure in the Irish Literary Revival, he won the.....