Literary Criticism

The Book of All Books

A splendid reimagining of key stories from the Bible, by the author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Ha...

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€31.40

Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy

Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden’s provoca...

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€22.00

How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education

How to Think like Shakespeare is a brilliantly fun exploration of the craft of thought—one that demo...

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€14.70

Dante

A new biography of Dante in time for the 700th anniversary of his death. An international bestsel...

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€24.50

How Literatures Begin: A Global History

Literature is such a familiar and widespread form of imaginative expression today that its existence...

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€33.50

The Neural Sublime: Cognitive Theories and Romantic Texts

Winner, 2011 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award in Literature and Fine ArtsThe Neural Sublime brings recent w...

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€35.00

The Philosophical Stage: Drama and Dialectic in Classical Athens

The Philosophical Stage offers an innovative approach to ancient Greek literature and thought that p...

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€37.80

Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI

In the modern world, why do we still resort to speculation? Advances in scientific and statistical r...

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€28.30

The Invention of Oscar Wilde

“One should either wear a work of art, or be a work of art,” Oscar Wilde once declared. In The Inven...

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€22.60

John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion

John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion explores the life of one of the most significant figures of th...

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€20.00

The Byzantine Sinbad

The Byzantine Sinbad collects The Book of Syntipas the Philosopher and The Fables of Syntipas, both...

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€33.00

Strange Antics: A History of Seduction

When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explo...

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€12.60

Nabokov and the Real World: Between Appreciation and Defense

Admirers and detractors of Vladimir Nabokov have viewed him as an ingenious contriver of literary ga...

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€18.90

Horror: A Very Short Introduction

Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, no...

€11.00

The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's 1984

Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2019Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Pol...