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Can Jane Eyre Be Happy? by J.A. Sutherland
$6.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Series: World's Classics
John Sutherland investigates 35 literary conundrums, ranging from Daniel Defoe to James Joyce. Why does Robinson Crusoe find only "one" footprint? And how does Magwitch swim to shore with a great iron on his leg? These questions and more are answered.
Is Heathcliff A Murderer by J.A. Sutherland
$6.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Series: World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
This volume investigates 34 conundrums of 19th-century fiction. Applying "real world" questions to fiction is not in any sense intended to catch out the novelists. Typically, one finds a reason for the seeming anomaly. Not blunders, that is, but unexpected justifications.
By the Book: Writers on Literature and Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review by Pamela Paul
$16.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
Every Sunday, readers of The New York Times Book Review turn with anticipation to see which novelist, historian, short story writer, or artist will be the subject of the popular By the Book feature. These wide-ranging interviews are conducted by Pamela Paul, the editor of the Book Review, and here she ...Show more
This is Not the End of the Book - Two great men discuss our digital future by Umberto Eco & Jean-Claude Carrière
$16.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
Every Book Its Reader: The power of the printed word to stir the world by Nicholas A. Basbanes
$15.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
Inspired by a landmark exhibition mounted by the British Museum in 1963 to celebrate five eventful centuries of the printed word, Nicholas A. Basbanes offers a lively consideration of writings that have "made things happen" in the world, works that have both nudged the course of history and fired the im ...Show more
Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore by Nancy Goldstone
$10.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: good
The Trinity Apocalypse by David McKitterick; Nigel J. Morgan; Ian Short; Teresa Webber
$40.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Series: British Library Studies in Medieval Culture | Reading Level: near fine
The Trinity Apocalypse has long been considered the finest manuscript of its kind. Containing the text of the Book of Revelation, accompanied by a commentary and a remarkable series of illustrations that depict the dream of John in vivid detail, it was written and illustrated in England in the mid-thirt ...Show more
Tolkien's Gown and Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books by R.A. Gekoski
$10.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: good
Rick Gekoski has been described as the Bill Bryson of the book world. Rare book dealer, academic, publisher, critic, bibliographer, and broadcaster, his BBC Radio series Rare Books, Rare People was acclaimed by The Daily Telegraph as 'one of the gems of Radio 4'. In Tolkien's Gown, a book based loosely ...Show more
Sebastian Walker,1942-91 - A Kind of Prospero by Mirabel Cecil
$16.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
A biography of Sebastian Walker (1942-91), who founded the internationally acclaimed publishing house Walker Books.
Annotated Bibliography for the History of Health & Medicine in New Zealand by Derek A Dow
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good