Previous owners inscription to ffep. Slight crease to corners. 186pp.
Indiana University Press, 1995, Paperback, Book Condition: Fine, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0253209927

Inventory #26044

Price: £ 7.50 GBP ($ 9.00 approx. - € 7.95 approx.)

Literature in Canada and from Canada is now achieving an international audience and wide global acclaim. This volume is a 'who's who' of the literary genre known as the short story. Each of these writers is known not just as a short story writer but also as novelist, poet, playwright, novelist. They all represent some of the best and most successful writers in Canada -- from the west coast, through to the east coast. Most of them are now renowned and best-selling authors internationally. 260pp.
Mosaic Press/International Publishers, Incorporated, 2003, Paperback, Book Condition: Like New, Jacket Condition: . . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0889627983

Inventory #18489

Price: £ 5.00 GBP ($ 6.00 approx. - € 5.30 approx.)

Papers from the Second International Hans Christian Andersen Conference 1996. The conference was held in English, and all 45 papers are also in English, reflecting the goal of making the Danish writer better known and understood elsewhere in the world. Besides the plenary lectures, they cover biography, affinities, and influences; cultural history and reception; language, and style, translation; genre, poetics, and art.576pp.
Odense University Press, 1999, Paperback, Book Condition: New, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 8778384494

Inventory #15566

Price: £ 20.00 GBP ($ 24.00 approx. - € 21.20 approx.)

Widely read in the age of British imperialism and still popular today, the five writers studied here have allowed millions to participate vicariously in the imperial project. Yet all of these writers, so instrumental in popularising the imperial agenda of power and dominance, bore deep emotional scars and as adults bolstered their fragile psychic states through fantasies of empire. While soldiers and politicians may know to bury or at least camouflage their fears and desires, inner fantasy is the necessary ingredient of literature, and popular fiction often offers the opportunity to probe the mind of an age. The connection between childhood loss and the desire for imperial escape, power and dominance is illuminated by De Quincey's mad screeds against the Chinese as both terrifyingly powerful and laughably weak, while Stevenson's romances, though written from an invalid's bed, are credited with 'selling' the idea of empire as manly adventure. Conan Doyle's tales of a Britain menaced at home by imperial blowback are models of Great Power paranoia that resonate today, and Kipling's stories of imperial Britain grow increasingly grandiose as childhood's psychic wounds are re-opened. Finally, Dinesen portrays plantation life in British East Africa as a gentle romance in which displaced African "squatters" serve as loyal and adoring retainers, providing the aristocratic aura for which the author yearns. It is sometimes said that, "Love's loss is empire's gain", and for these writers, Simmons shows, empire presented a magnificent opportunity to compensate for childhood calamity.148pp.
Sussex Academic Press, 2007, Cloth, Book Condition: New, Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 1845191560

Inventory #17826

Price: £ 30.00 GBP ($ 36.00 approx. - € 31.80 approx.)

Previous owners inscription on fep. 252pp.
The Windrush Press, 1991, Cloth, Book Condition: As New, Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0900075716

Inventory #20580

Price: £ 12.50 GBP ($ 15.00 approx. - € 13.25 approx.)