Literature Essays

Hardcover. NY, Methuen Publishing , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 235 pages. Covers such subjects as black literature; the reconstruction of culture, changing arts, letters and sciences to include the topics of women and gender; and, the nature of family and the changing roles of women within society. As such, Catharine Stimpson employs a transdisciplinary approach, to encourage greater understanding of the differences among women, and thus socially-constructed differences in general. Where the Meanings Are tells of some of the arguments within feminism during the re-designing and designing of cultural spaces, as post-modernism began to change the boundaries of race, class, and gender. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 318 pages. Included here are everyday dishes of every meal from the simplest to the most esoteric: tidbits, appetizers, breads, pastries, fish and fowl, meats, soups, vegetables, desserts and a chapter on the casserole. Dust jacket with light stain to front cover, large chip at base of spine. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Edinburgh, John Grant, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 3 hardcover volumes: 351 pages, 400 pages, 600 pages. Brown boards with tan cloth spine. Leather spine labels with gilt lettering. Frontispiece in Vols 1 & 2. Previous owner's sticker front paste-down. Foxing on front paste-down. Previous owner's signature and bookplate in each book.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 145 pages. Gordimer examines the tension for a writer between life's experiences and narrative creations. She tries to unravel the mysterious process that breathes "real" life into fiction by exploring the writings of revolutionaries in South Africa and the works of Naguib Mahfouz, Chinua Achebe and Amos Oz. Ending on a personal note, Gordimer reveals her own experience of "writing her way out of" the confines of a dying colonialism.

Hardcover. NY, Carroll & Graf, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 427 pages. This substantial collection of nonfiction spans over two decades, from 1983 to 2005. It encompasses autobiographical essays, cultural commentary, book reviews, and introductory pieces to significant literary works. Notable inclusions are her reflections on reading Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse at nineteen, discussions on the influence of George Orwell's 1984 on The Handmaid's Tale, and her New York Times Book Review piece that contributed to the success of Orhan Pamuk's Snow. The collection also features a poignant Letter to America written after September 11, 2001, and a retrospective on a family trip to Afghanistan prior to the Soviet invasion. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 215 pages. Blue cloth cover, some wear to edges and corners. Dust jacket is price clipped, worn on edges. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Inside is bright and clean, with b&w decorations by E. H. Shephard. A nice copy. An assembly of articles which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author. arranged as 'a calendar of ideas such as I have often thought it would be pleasant to keep, hence arranged in chapters from January to December', each subject appearing in the appropriate month. The result might best be called Table Talk, on a wide range of themes from grave to gay, from lively to severe.