Literary Criticism - Page 2

Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver

An accessible and authoritative biography of Walter Benjamin that guides the reader through the comp...

€23.30 -10%

€20.90

James Joyce: A Political Life

The young James Joyce (1882–1941) was forged in the smithy of Irish political controversies, and he...

€54.00 -10%

€48.60

Past and Thoughts: An Annotated Critical Edition

An annotated translation of Alexander Herzen’s monumental memoir Past and Thoughts—the first new...

€37.30 -10%

€33.60

Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment

A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year A major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-...

€32.60 -10%

€29.40

Bookish: A Love Letter to Reading

‘A bookworm’s delight’ Sara Collins‘Funny, warm and charming’ Marian Keyes‘Like butter o...

€19.50 -10%

€17.50

Auden

Peter Ackroyd’s compelling portrait of W. H. Auden, poet of a restless century. Featured in New...

€34.50 -9%

€31.50

Thinking Through Shakespeare

In the eighteenth century, Samuel Johnson famously argued that Shakespeare is enduringly popular bec...

€41.00 -10%

€36.90

The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Language in Renaissance Italy

What is The Grammar of Angels: The Life of a Renaissance Prodigy and his Search for a Philosophy of...

€16.40 -10%

€14.80

Becoming George: The Invention of George Sand

Born Aurore Dupin in 1804, by the time she was thirty she was internationally renowned as George San...

€32.20 -10%

€29.00

Herman Melville: A Very Short Introduction

Best known as the author of Moby-Dick (1851), Herman Melville is one of America's greatest writers....

€12.00

George Orwell: Life and Legacy

George Orwell has never been more quoted and misquoted. Can he be rescued from the soundbites?George...

€22.50 -10%

€20.20

Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a New World

Albert Camus’s lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South America in th...

€19.80 -10%

€17.80

The Aeneid (Introduction by Emily Wilson)

The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ver...

€40.30 -10%

€36.20

Dante: The Essential Commedia

Prue Shaw’s absorbing, highly accessible introduction to the Commedia promises to be the essential e...

€37.80 -10%

€34.00

Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science

A New Yorker Best Book We've Read This Year Winner of the Hughes Prize, British Society for the H...

€26.80 -10%

€24.00