Literary Criticism

Dickens the Enchanter: Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller

'Dickensian is a language, not an adjective. Conrad speaks it fluently.' -- Spectator World'Marvello...

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€14.20

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys through Ancient Literature

Emily Wilson reflects on the power of language to evolve our understanding of the past 'Enthralli...

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€15.70

How to Think Like a Poet: The Poets That Made Our World and Why We Need Them

'An entertaining guide to the rhyme and reason of poetry' -- The IdlerHow history's most influential...

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€14.20

Frieze Frame: How Poets, Painters, and their Friends Framed the Debate Around Elgin and the Marbles of the Parthenon

"Frieze Frame is a lucidly brilliant, learned read that wears its learning lightly, inviting the rea...

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€24.30

Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King

An exploration of Stephen King's writing from the first academic granted full access to King's archi...

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€21.80

Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS BOOK AWARD 2025 ‘Strikingly accomplished . . . utterl...

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€17.50

Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver

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

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€20.90

James Joyce: A Political Life

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

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€48.60

Past and Thoughts: An Annotated Critical Edition

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

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€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-...

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€29.40

Bookish: A Love Letter to Reading

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

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€17.50

Auden

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

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€31.50

Thinking Through Shakespeare

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

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€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...

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€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...

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€29.00