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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good +. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Light normal dust jacket wear; a very nice copy of book. Illustrated. 454 pages. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good -. No Jacket. Some rub marks, edge wear and scuffs. A reference on the progression of technology in the media. 367 pages. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good+. 1st Edition thus. Trade paperback, pictorial covers, a bit of handling. No names, clean text. With b/w & color artwork. Stories: Dickens, Mabel Marlowe, Hugh Oliver, Sue Townsend, Olaf Ruhen, et al. 13731 shelf 224 p. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 5th Edition, Completely Revised & Update. INVALUABLE: INDISPENSABLE: FASCINATING: INSTRUCTIVE: STIMULATING: FINE virtually AS-NEW Fifth Edition hardcover (Orig. 1985) Printing Unstated (Assumed to be First), FINE handsomely-designed mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners BUT price-clipped neatly on the diagonal at lower right inside-front flyleaf, SUPERB AS-NEW Oxford-blue linen-over boards cover w/ Oxford crest stamped blue-on-blue at center of front panel & w/ titles BRIGHTLY gilt-stamped on spine, AS-NEW perfect binding w/ tightly-sewn signatures, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, DISTINCTIVE unblemished pearl-gray card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 6.25" x 9.50" x 2.50, 1.70 kg, xii+1156 (1168) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: "For students, toilers in intellectual fields, proletarians of the pen, scholars, general readers, anybody & everybody who reads or writes, it would be a daily companion of constant service, a desk book comparable in usefulness to the dictionary." This is how 'The New York Times Book Review' described an earlier edition of this classic reference work. The Fifth Edition represented the must substantial and significant revision in the book's history, including: (a) More than 9,000 total entries, alphabetically arranged in a clear two-column format; (b) Nearly 3,000 concise biographies of authors born up to 1939, ranging from Geoffrey Chaucer to Charles Dickens, from John Milton to William Golding; (c) Over 2,000 plot summaries of novels & plays & outlines of the themes of poems, from 'Tom Jones' to 'The Raj Quartet', from 'Beowulf' to 'The Waste Land'; (d) Extensive coverage of movements in literature & literary criticism, from Existentialism to the New Criticism, from Neo-Classsicism to Structuralism; (e) Information on prizes, periodicals, newspapers, & literary agents; (f) Entries on composers & artists whose work has a special relation to literature; (g) Articles on literary societies, clubs, & coffee houses; (h) Updated appendices on censorship, copyright, & the calendar; (i) Extensive system of internal cross-references. Ms. Drabble's revisions not only bring the book up to date; they both deepen & widen its appeal. Topics once regarded as non-literary--detective stories, science fiction, children's literature, comic strips, for example--are here included, as are numerous foreign-langaueg authors who have become well-known & influentail in translation. The book also perovides incisive coverage of all the important movements & critical theories, including the latest developments in Marxist criticism & Saussurean linguistics & its successors. What is more, the articles on classic works--from 'Beowulf' to 'The Canterbury Tales' to "The Fairie Queen' and so many others--now incorporate the findings of the latest scholarship. In yet another innovation, this splendid reference offers the reader a guide to further study & research by referring to the relevant biographies, memoirs critical studies, & standard scholarly editions of important works . . . * ABOUT THE EDITOR: MARGARET DRABBLE is one of the greatest English novelists of the late 20th-early 21st centuries with works including: 'The Middle Ground', 'The Realms of Gold', 'The Ice Age', "Thank You All Very Much', 'A Writer's Britain', 'The Radiant Way' (1987), 'A Natural Curiosity' (1989), 'The Witch of Exmoor' (1996), 'The Red Queen' (2004), & many others. In addition to her editorship of 'The Oxford Companion to English Literature' she is also author of an important critical biography of 'Angus Wilson'. She is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd and lives in London. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine reference work for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & to international destinations via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. Two 8 pp. illus. inserts of b-w photographs, etchings, line drawings, portraits &c. on gloss-laminated stock, respectively w/ 10 images between pp. 172 & 173 & w/ 10 images between pp. 332 & 333 Ilustrador. 1st Edition. BRILLIANT: ELOQUENT: FASCINATING: INSIGHTFUL: COMPELLING: FINE virtually AS-NEW First Edition hardcover (1986) w full no. line showing First Printing, AS-NEW unclipped mylar-protected jacket showing orig. $24.95 price at top right inside front flyleaf, EXCELLENT slate-blue library-durable linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles elegantly silver-stamped on front panel & spine, VERY GOOD smooth-cut text-block exterior MARRED w/ only slightest barely-perceptible rust-spotting on top edge, IMPECABLE pale-slate-green card-stock end-papers, NEW perfect binding w/ tight signatures & blue-yellow-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper w/ SUPERB presentation of extensive footnotes * ILLUSTRATIONS: Two 8 pp. illus. inserts of b-w photographs, etchings, line drawings, portraits &c. on gloss-laminated stock, respectively w/ 10 images between pp. 172 & 173 & w/ 10 images between pp. 332 & 333 * 6.36 x 9.50 x 1.54", 0.80 kg, xii+490 (502) pp. * Epilogue: 'Black-Coated Eros' (391), Bibliographic Essay (423), Illustrations & Sources (471), Acknowledgments (473), Index (479) * ABOUT THE BOOK: 'Education of the Senses', the first volume of Peter Gay's 'The Bourgeois Experience', was published in 1984 to enormous critical acclaim (& controversy). Two years later, in 'The Tender Passion', Gay continued his eloquent, psycho-analytically informed exploration of the Victorian era & its middle classes. Whereas 'Education of the Senses' focused on the sexual attitudes & practices of the 19th-century bourgeoisie, 'The Tender Passion' concentrates on their notions of love. No less revisionist than he was in his first volume, Gay argues here that the Victorians were able not only to enjoy their sexuality but to know love in its most exalted sense. The realities of love for the Victorians, he shows, came much closer to their ideals than many have thought. Gay delves into a huge body of material, from philosophical treatises to medical texts, from letters & diaries to works of fiction. The book is replete w/ fascinating insights into the lives & works of individual Victorians (Dickens, Stendhal, Wagner, Oscar Wilde, Beatrice Potter & Sydney Webb, among them) & his discussions range from the "discovery" of homosexuality to the ways love was diverted or disguised in music & religion. Particularly compelling is the opening section in which Gay analyzes in depth the separate love stories of 2 young men, one English and one German, stories which, in Gay's view, "dramatize some of the careers in love open to the middle class in the decades of Victoria and beyond." A work of remarkable learning, analytical sophistication, and stylistic verve, 'The Tender Passion' is an impressive addition to a monumental historical enterprise. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Peter Gay, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, is the author of many acclaimed books. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for our posted below-cost additional fee of $12.00 & to all international destinations via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 5th Edition. FINE virtually AS-NEW hardcover, Revised & Expanded Fifth Edition, FINE mylar-protected jacket, FINE steel-blue library-durable cover w/ EXCELLENT edges & corners & w/ titles gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, AS-NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & w/ blue & yellow cloth bands at spine-caps, IMPECCABLE white end-papers on heavy stock, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in two-column format on EXCELLENT paper * 7.74" x 9.50" x 2.16", 1.84 kg, viii+896 (904) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: For more than 70 years in successive editions, "The Oxford Companion to American Literature" has been a matchless guide through the myriad paths & by-ways of America's literary culture "past & present", "popular & polite." This highly respected Fifth Edition was completely redesigned & reset in a larger format, allowing freedom, as its author observed, "for a fresh & thoroughgoing revision." The changes & additions are indeed substantial. Included in this Fifth Edition are entries on some 250 authors who were not represented in the previous edition as well as numerous new entries on individual literary works. In addition to this, the author thoroughly revised the entries on some 590 previously treated authors & subjects previously treated w/ nearly all changes & additions pertain to authors, books & literary matters that came into prominence since the Fourth Edition was published in 1965. As w/ previous editions, the book is thoroughly cross-referenced & includes a chronological index. Ranging from Captain John Smith to John Updike, from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Dillard, from James Fenimore Cooper to James Baldwin, the scrupulously accurate & comprehensive Fifth Edition of "The Oxford Companion to American Literature" is a reliable reference for the student & scholar & is a delight for the casual reader. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condición: Like New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Like New. 177 pp. Flawless, fresh, sharp, tight copy and dj with crisp pages and clean text.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 4th Edition. Fine virtually as-new hardcover, excellent mylar-protected jacket, excellent navy blue linen cover w/ titles & Oxford crest gilt-stamped on spine, as-new sewn binding w/ tight signatures, immaculate text-block exterior, pristine interior printed w/ handsome clarity in 2-column format on very good unblemished paper* 6.5" x 9.5", 1.74 kg, ix+934 (943) pp. * Maintaining the primary purpose of preceding editions in providing a solid survey of the development of the theater from its beginnings in primitive ritual to the present day in all countries that have a continuing theatrical tradition, this new edition offers more information on contemporary writers, directors, players, companies & theaters, both metropolitan & regional. An extensive system of x-referencing leads the reader to entries containing related information, a generous bibliography offers guidance on further reading. Entries dealing w/ technical subjects emphasize the historical perspective, throwing light on the remarkable accomplishments of earlier practitioners of theatrical illusion: they are illustrated where necessary with diagrams. Over 200 other illustrations are placed in thematically arranged groups: functioning independently of the text, they show the changes in vision brought to bear on theatrical production over more than 2000 years. * An indispensable reference to theater in all its dimensions across two millenia of theater history.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. In near pristine condition; tiny nick at edge of spine; otherwise, as new. First printing per number line on data publication page. 279 numbered pages. 8 x 5 1/4 in.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Chance, Tony James Ilustrador. text clean and unmarked. binding tight. boards have some light wear. edges of pages have light wear. head of pages has some very light foxing. mylar-covered dust jacket has very light wear.

1st edition. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Wrappers slightly dust-toned. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: [vi], 104 p.; 18 cm. Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. [98]-101. Subjects: Dante Alighieri. Dante Alighieri 1265-1321 Criticism and interpretation. Italian literature Renaissance History and criticism. Poetry in Italian Dante Alighieri Critical studies. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine condition. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine dust jacket. First Edition. Oxford / New York / Melbourne / Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1980. Appears unread. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. The jacket is only very lightly rubbed. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO fading. NOT price clipped (£25.00 net). Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp -- apparently never read. 1980. First Edition. Name index. Title index. Subject index. Geographical index. Checklist of translations. Bound in the original silver-stamped black boards. From the dust jacket: "This is a new bibliography of the works of the late Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975). It supersedes the previous list of works compiled by Monica Popper and published under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in 1955. The present book is in three parts: Part I lists Toynbee's works, and includes critical material relating to particular books and articles; Part II covers more general works about Toynbee; and Part III provides indispensable cross-references between the various lists. The book has a foreword by Arnold Toynbee's widow, Veronica M. Toynbee.". First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. xi, 316pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Soft cover is rubbed on the surface and corners. The binding is tight. The inside is unmarked. The pages are clean but age-toned.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. AUTHORITATIVE: ENGAGING: LEARNED: LUCID: ELEGANT: WITTY: INDISPENSABLE: RELIABLE: CLEAR; ENLIGHTENING: NEW First Edition hardcover (orig. 1995) Fifth Printing (c. 2002), NEW unclipped mylar-protected jacket showing orig. $35.00 price at bottom right inside front flyleaf, NEW library-durable black linen-over-boards cover w/ NEW edges & corners & titles & Oxford crest elegantly gold-stamped on spine, EXCELLENT smooth-cut text-block exterior w/ slightest traces of shelf-dust soiling, IMMACULATE snow-white end-papers on heavy stock, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & olive & yellow-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 6.36" x 9.50 x 2.18", 1.66 kg, xx+1009 (1029) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: The most AUTHORITATIVE & ENGAGING philosophical reference book in English, "The Oxford Companion to Philosophy" gives CLEAR & RELIABLE guidance to all areas of philosophy & to the ideas of all notable philosophers from antiquity to the present day. The scope of the volume is not limited to English-language philosophy; it surveys the foremost philosophy from all parts of the world. Combining learning, lucidity, elegance & wit, 249 distinguished international contributors provide almost 2,000 alphabetically arranged entries which are not only instructive but also entertaining, w/ more than 50 extended entries of 3,000 words on the main areas of philosophy & the great philosophers, including essays by Paul Feyerabend on the history of the philosophy of science, Alasdair Macintyre on histories of moral philosophy, Jaegwon Kim on problems of the philosophy of mind, Ernest Sosa on problems of metaphysics, Anthony Quinton on philosophy itself, Anthony Kenny on Frege, Peter Singer on Hegel, John Cottingham on Descartes & Richard Schacht on Nietzsche. Shorter entries deal w key concepts (e.g. personal identity, time), theories (utilitarianism, holism), problems (the mind-body problem, the meaning of life) , schools of thought (Marxist philosophy, the Vienna Circle) & practical issues (abortion, vegetarianism). Individual thinkers past (including Pythagoras, Confucius, Galileo, Goethe, Burke, Santayana, de Beauvoir, Radhakrishnan, Popper) & present (over 150 contemporary figures, such as Chomsky, Derrida & Berlin) are profiled, & 80 of them are depicted in b-w portraits. Interspersed throughout are short explanations of particular philosophical terms (qualia, supervenience, itl), puzzles (the Achilles paradox, the prisoner's dilemma) & curiosities (the philosopher's stone, slime). A chronological chart of the history of philosophy is located at the end of the book, together w/ 15 diagrams showing the structure of philosophy & the relations between its subjects & theories. A comprehensive index & list of entries provides a helpful overall scheme of the book. This book will be an INDISPENSABLE guide & a constant source of stimulation & enlightenment for anyone interested in abstract thought, the eternal questions, & the foundations of human understanding. Including entries on the following topics & by the following contributors: the absurd, animals, anarchy, art, Isaiah Berlin, chaos, Chinese room, computers, Davidson, Dummett & Dworkin, euthanasia, eternity, evil, evolution, Feyerabend & Foot, ghost in the machine, God is dead, Jaakko Hintikka, Indian, Irish, Islamic & Italian philosophy, jaundice, judgment, justice, Kim Kymlicka & Kenny, language, laughter, life, love, loyalty, Alasdair MacIntyre, Thomas Nagel, oar in water, Ockham's razor, pain, paradoxes, paternalism, pineal gland, W. V.Quine, resentment, revenge & revolution, Searle & Singer, tarot, tar-water, time travel, twin earth unconscious & subconscious mind vagueness, value, vegetarianism, &c. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost fee & to international destinations via USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. 402pp., xii. First published in 1981; first OUP softcover in 1982; this copy, stated: "This printing: 9 8". Glossy white wraps with title lettering in large brown letters on upper 2/5 front cover, just above small black lettering for subtitle across upper middle front cover; Author name lettering in larger black letters across bottom front cover; illustration of Native American beadwork across lower middle front cover, featuring a dark human figure connected by a black line to a white human figure. Three black line remainder marks across bottom edge near spine; two minor spine creases down right spine edge and at 1/4" over from right spine edge: spine NOT cracked; very minor impact bump to top left rear cover corner, with tiny, diminishing echoing forward for about 100 pages to p. 299: describes much worse than it is, else Fine or virtually As New: Binding essentially still tight, no rubbing wear, corners still sharp; no previous owner names. Clean text. NO yellowing to pages: still crisp, white-new. Despite nugatory crease lines on spine, looks Unread, virtually As New.

Soft cover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. NEW First Edition paperback (Orig. 1992) Seventh Printing (c. 2016) * 6.50" x 9.00" x 1.50", 1.12 kg, xxviii+1597+xxvii (color maps)+vi (index to maps)1658 pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: This volume combines a cultural guide to the biblical world and an annotated Bible. This complete revision of "The New English Bible" now includes fully updated textual annotations w/ notes featuring the reflections of Protestant, Roman Catholic, & Jewish scholars. It includes: (a) 23 insightful articles on aspects of the history, literary background, and culture of the biblical era written by some of today's foremost biblical scholars; (b) A special index of people, places, & themes of the Bible; (c) 36 pp of full-color New Oxford Bible Maps, w/ index. * ABOUT THE EDITORS: M. Jack Suggs is at Brite Divinity School, Texas. Katharine Doob Sakenfeld is at Princeton Theological Seminary. James R. Mueller is at the University of Florida. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a nominal additional fee & via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international shipments at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. Book Club Edition. SPLENDID: MONUMENTAL: COMPELLING: HISTORY IN THE GRAND MANNER: POWERFUL: DRAMATIC: FASCINATING: VIVID: ASTUTE: MEMORABLE: NEW: BOOK CLUB EDITION (Off-printed from the First printing of the OUP First Edition) hardcover: NEW handsomely-designed color-illustrated jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW chocolate paper-over-boards cover w sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, NEW perfect binding w/ tightly-gathered sheets & chocolate cloth banding at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 6.30" x 9.50" x 1.76, 0.96 kg, xviii+606 (624) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: It is one of the great questions of American history--Why did the southern states bolt from the Union and help precipitate the Civil War? In final volume of his MONUMENTAL work--"The Road to Disunion"--acclaimed historian William W. Freehling offers a COMPELLING new answer. Here is history in the grand manner, a POWERFUL narrative peopled with dozens of MEMORABLE portraits, telling this important story with skill and relish. Freehling highlights all the key moments on the road to war, including the violence in Bleeding Kansas, Preston Brooks's beating of Charles Sumner in the Senate chambers, the Dred Scott Decision, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, & much more. As Freehling shows, the election of Abraham Lincoln sparked a political crisis, but at first most Southerners took a cautious approach, willing to wait & see what Lincoln would do--especially, whether he would take any antagonistic measures against the South. But at this moment, the extreme fringe in the South took charge, first in South Carolina & Mississippi, but then throughout the lower South, sounding the drum roll for secession. Indeed, "The Road to Disunion" is the first book to fully document how this decided minority of Southern hotspurs took hold of the secessionist issue &, aided by a series of fortuitous events, drove the South out of the Union. Freehling provides compelling profiles of the leaders of this movement--many of them members of the South Carolina elite. Throughout the narrative, he evokes a world of FASCINATING characters & places as he captures the drama of one of America's most important--& least understood--stories. The long-awaited sequel to the award-winning "Secessionists at Bay", which was hailed as "the most important history of the Old South ever published," this volume concludes a major contribution to our understanding of the Civil War. A COMPELLING, VIVID portrait of the final years of the antebellum South, "The Road to Disunion" will stand as an important history of its subject. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "This sure-to-be-lasting work--studded with pen portraits and consistently ASTUTE in its appraisal of the subtle cultural and geographic variations in the region--adds crucial layers to scholarship on the origins of America's bloodiest conflict." -The Atlantic Monthly "SPLENDID, painstaking account . & so a work of history reaches into the past to illuminate the present. It is light we need, & we owe Freehling a debt for shedding it." -Washington Post " A masterful, dramatic, breathtakingly detailed narrative." -The Baltimore Sun * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: WILLIAM W. FREEHLING is one of the most distinguished American historians of the Civil War era. He is Singletary Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at the University of Kentucky & Senior Fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. He is the author of "Prelude to Civil War", which won a Bancroft Prize, "The Road to Disunion, Volume I: Secessionists at Bay & Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant", & "The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War." * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. BRILLIANT: INNOVATIVE: ANIMATED: PERCEPTIVE: REVEALING: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1988) w/ no. line showing Fifth Printing, NEW unpriced handsomely-illustrated mylar-protected color-jacket w/ NEW edges & corners, SUPERB NEW cover w/ library-durable British-green linen wrapping spine & extending 1.36" onto front & back panels handsomely covered in rich-brown paper, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & green-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 9.50" x 6.36" x1.22", 0.70 kg, x+310 (320) pp. * Acknowledgments (v), Introduction: The Quest for the Historical Calvin (1), Conclusion (230), Notes (235), Bibliography (295), Index (303) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Calvinism has been widely credited (or blamed) for much that is thought to characterize the modern world: for capitalism & modern science, for secularization & democracy, for individualism & utilitarianism. But John Calvin the man has been largely ignored by historians; most of us, if we think of him at all, tend to view him as little more than the joyless tyrant of Geneva & the source of an abstract theology as forbidding as its author. This book, by an eminent historian whose career has been devoted to understanding the larger patterns of early modern European history, aims to make Calvin come alive by putting him back in his own time & understanding how he dealt with its problems. A Frenchman, an exile, & a humanist in the tradition of Erasmus, Calvin was unusually sensitive to the complexities & contradictions of later Renaissance culture. The Calvin who emerges from this eloquent study is a surprisingly human, more plausible, more ecumenical & often sympathetic figure, whose achievement was both more & less than (& at the same time quite different from) the way it has commonly been portrayed. The result is a brilliant interpretation not only of Calvin but also of the Reformation & its relationship to the movements of the Renaissance. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "This book merits a doxology. At last someone has rescued the great reformer of Geneva from the stony grayness to which he has been so wrongly consigned & has drawn an animated picture of a passionate & complex man. Bouwsma knows there is no better way to grasp the spirit of an age than to see it in the life of someone who was deeply immersed in its fiercest currents. This book is not just about Calvin or about his age, but about the intermeshing of the two. It now stands as the best biography of Calvin available." -Harvey Cox, Harvard Divinity School -- "This is a great book. It is difficult for an author to write innovatively, freshly, & creatively about a subject whose life & thought have been so thoroughly studied. Yet Bouwsma has done so. In Calvin's own writings he has discovered themes & continuities & contradictions & tensions which have never been exposed before. Future students of Calvin will be hard pressed either to ignore or refute Bouwsma's theses." -M. Howard Rienstra (deceased) Former Director, H.H. Meeter Center for Calvin Studies, Calvin College & Seminary * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: WILLIAM J. BOUWSMA is Sather Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. One of the foremost American scholars of the Renaissance & Reformation, he is also the author of "Venice & the Defense of Republican Liberty: Renaissance Values in the Age of the Counter-Reformation", acclaimed by 'Renaissance Quarterly' as "among the handful of the most significant studies of the history of ideas produced in the 1960s." * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE custom wraps, labels & packages this fine book w/ our greatest care for secure prompt FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the United States (or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a nominal additional $12.00 fee) & via USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international destinations at our posted below-cost rates.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Mnemosyne MASTERPIECE of Literary Biography: ESSENTIAL: BRILLIANT: FINE / AS-NEW hardcover First Edition w/ full no. line at "1" showing First Printing, FINE handsomely-illustrated mylar-protected jacket w/ EXCELLENT edges & corners & showing orig. $35.00 pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, SUPERB AS-NEW Oxford blue buckram cloth over boards cover w/ titles & Oxford crest ELEGANTLY gilt-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE color-illus. card-stock end-papers, AS-NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & uncreased spine & blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * Illustrations * 6.24" x 9.50" x 1.92", 0.84 kg, xxxii+640 (672) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: William Butler Yeats has cast his long shadow over the history of both modern poetry & modern Ireland for so long that his preeminence is taken for granted. Now, in the first authorized biography of Yeats to appear in over 50 years, leading Irish historian R.F. Foster travels beyond Yeats's towering image as arguably the century's greatest poet to restore a real sense of Yeats's extraordinary life as Yeats himself experienced it--what he saw, what he did, the passions & the petty squabbles that consumed him, & his alchemical ability to transmute the events of his crowded & contradictory life into enduring art. In the first volume of this long-awaited biography, Foster covers the poet's first 50 years, bringing new light to bear on Yeats's heroic & often ruthless efforts to invent himself as a poet & public figure. Drawn from a fascinating archive of personal & contemporary documents w/ the cooperation of surviving members of the Yeats family, it dramatically alters long-held assumptions about the poet's background, his relationship w/ Maud Gonne & other women, & his roles in the great cultural & political upheavals that transformed Ireland in his lifetime. A rich & entertaining account of Yeats's boyhood days amidst the talented but troubled members of the Yeats and Pollexfen clans provides important insight into the poet's deep & lifelong connection to the Irish landscape, his early, impassioned embrace of the nationalist cause, & his later retreat to the traditions of the once grand Protestant aristocracy. In his own day Yeats attracted enemies & admirers w/ equal passion, & Foster vividly recreates the friendships, love affairs, & simmering rivalries that swirled about the poet's circles in London, Dublin, & Coole Park. Complementing his meticulous scholarship w/ a shrewd wit & a novelist's eye for detail, he chronicles the romantic disappointments, financial difficulties, experimentation w/ hashish & mescal, & the growing preoccupation w/ the occult that prefaced Yeats's attempt to unite Irish politics w/ high culture & his creation of an Irish national theater. Here are the poet's memorable encounters w/ many of the most interesting people of his time, including Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Lady Gregory, J.M. Synge, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, & the wildly diverse leaders of the Irish independence movement. And here at last is a full accounting of the complex bond between Yeats & the incomparable Maud Gonne, revealed as an influence eternally recreated 'like the phoenix,' affecting almost everything he did. Poet, playwright, mystic & revolutionary, lover, confidant, & friend: This brilliant account of the public & private lives of William Butler Yeats illuminates not only the wellspring of his artistic vision, but the modern Irish identity he helped to create. It is essential reading for anyone intrigued by one of the most original & influential voices of the 20th century. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted rates.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Pages are somewhat darkened. First softcover edition. Crisp clean covers, tight binding, clean pages and inside covers. No dust jacket, as published. Previous owner's name in ink at front. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. ISBN: 0192875779. ISBN/EAN: 9780192875778. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 11321081026. All our books are sent by tracked mail.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. "The whole of Keats's known works in verse are included in this volume; and the foot-notes contain a large selection of varorum readings." --- Oxford Edition. --- Original dark apricot cloth boards, lettered and elaborated decorated gilt on spine, lettered gilt and blind embossed top board (18.9 cm height). Spine faded, upper corner bumped. Previous owner signature front free endpaper. Tissue-guarded Frontispiece (Portrait of Keats, Drawing by Joseph Severn). Pp. lvi, 491 including Prefatory Note, Contents, List of Illustrations (Frontispiece + 1), Introduction (by Forman), List of Principal Works Consulted, Chronology of Principal Events, &c., Poems [published in 1817], Endymion: A Poetic Romance, Lamia, Isabella, &c. [published in 1820], Posthumous and Fugitive Poems, Poems Written Late in 1819, Index of First Lines.

Pictorial Boards. Condición: VG. Slight musty odor. Light edgewear. Lacks dustjacket; Binding is tight, pages clean and unmarked; Color Illustrations; 8.75x12".

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. 2nd Edition.

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Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Galen Rowell (Cover Photo) Ilustrador. 340 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Relevant newspaper article included from previous owner.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. 218 pp. First published in 1977; this copy, Stated: "Reprinted 1978". [There appears to be a "Rev. Ed." published in February, 1978, with 224 pp., but neither the OUP, nor Amazon, provide detailed information about the contents of the additional 6 pp. of the second 1978 edition. Perhaps the Rev.Ed. is little more than the 1st printing with corrections, which is the same as this copy, the 2nd printing. Perhaps only a new Preface or Introduction accounts for the additional 6 pp.] Following the Introduction, Contents divided into 24 Essays in three sections: I. BASIC CONCEPTS (1) "Culture"; (2) "Language"; (3) "Literature"; (4) "Ideology"; II. CULTURAL THEORY (1) "Base and Superstructure"; (2) "Determination"; (3) "Productive Forces"; (4) "From Reflection to Mediation"; (5) "Typification and Homology"; (6) "Hegemony"; (7) "Traditions, Institutions, and Formations"; (8) "Dominant, Residual, and Emergent"; (9) "Structures of Feelings"; (10)"The Sociology of Culture"; III. LITERARY THEORY (1) "The Multiplicity of Writing"; (2) "Aesthetic and Other Situations"; (3) "From Medium to Social Practice"; (4) "Signs and Notations"; (5) "Conventions"; (6) "Genres"; (7) "Forms"; (8) "Authors"; (9) "Alignment and Commitment"; (10) "Creative Practice"; Booklist and Abbreviations, pp. 213-217; Index, p. 218. Glossy white wraps with Author Name and Title lettering, respectively, in black and red letters across top fourth front cover over white background; colorful abstract geometrical design in black, blue, yellow, orange, purple and green on most of front cover. Thin lines of intermittent white down spine edges; tanned textblock edges; age-toning to text pages with slightly more on perimeters than beneath text itself. Binding tight (NO cracks); corners sharp (NO bumps or curls); miniscule tip wear at front cover corners, else looking unread; NO previous owner names; NO remainder marks. Clean text.The way to read a Marxism Classic more than 50 years-old, remarkably well-preserved.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. COMPREHENSIVE: AUTHORITATIVE: REVISED: UPDATED: INDISPENSABLE: ENRICHING: FINE: First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2002) First Printing * 7.50" x 9.50" x 2.50", 2.14 kg, xiv+1434 (1448) * ABOUT THE BOOK: First published in 1938, The Oxford Companion to Music has been the first choice for authoritative information on all aspects of music. Now, 17 years since the last edition, the Companion is here to serve a new generation of students, teachers, performers, concert goers, record collectors, & music lovers. Completely revised and updated by a distinguished team of contributors, the Oxford Companion to Music features more than 1,000 new entries than the previous edition; more than 70 percent of the entire text is either new or entirely rewritten. Here, in articles that range from clear, concise definitions of musical ideas & terms to extended surveys of musical forms & styles, is authoritative coverage of virtually every musical subject. Embracing the world of music in all its variety--including jazz, popular music, & dance--the Companion offers a concentrated focus on the Western classic tradition, from the Middle Ages to the present day. More than 8,000 articles sweep across an extraordinary range of subjects: composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments & notation, forms & genres. From the study of music--theory, aesthetics, scholarship--to the way it is performed & disseminated, the Companion provides comprehensive, accessible coverage of music in all its artistic, historical, cultural, & social dimensions. Comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date, and designed throughout for clarity & accessibility, the new Oxford Companion to Music, like every edition before it, will immediately become an indispensable resource for all who wish to enrich their love and knowledge of music. * ABOUT THE EDITOR: Alison Latham is a well-known editor of music reference works. She has edited The Musical Times and for over ten years was publications editor at the Royal Opera House, Convent Garden. She was assistant editor of The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music and the co-editor of The Cambridge Guide to Music and Verdi in Performance. * SHIPPING: Mnemosyne carefully wraps, labels & packages this unrivaled reference work w/ our greatest care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the United States & its territories w/ expedited delivery available via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below cost fee & international service (due to its hefty weight) via Mandatory USPS INTERNATIONAL PRIORTY MAIL w/ our below-cost rates available on request.

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Reprint with corrections, 24 cm, 907 Seiten, dunkelblaues Leinen, goldgeprägter Rückentitel, gelber Kopfschnitt, Original-Schutzumschlag. Schutzumschlag mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, Buch gut erhalten. Sprache: Englisch.

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