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The Reader's Companion to the Twentieth Century Novel
by Parker, Peter (consulting ed.: Frank Kermode)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine, 1st edition, clipped d/j (vg in protective sleeve); black clothbound boards, gilt spine titling; text block firm (gut
- ISBN 10
- 1857022092
- ISBN 13
- 9781857022094
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Fourth Estate, 1994. 1st. h/b. Near fine, 1st edition, clipped d/j (vg in protective sleeve); black clothbound boards, gilt spine titling; text block firm (gutters a little loose); pages crisp and unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A unique guide to the twentieth century novel surveys and synopsizes 750 significant novels written in English, chronologically arranges them from earliest to most recent, and provides background on novelists, excerpts, and a calendar of world events for each year.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC133409
- Title
- The Reader's Companion to the Twentieth Century Novel
- Author
- Parker, Peter (consulting ed.: Frank Kermode)
- Format/Binding
- H/b
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine, 1st edition, clipped d/j (vg in protective sleeve); black clothbound boards, gilt spine titling; text block firm (gut
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1857022092
- ISBN 13
- 9781857022094
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1994
- Pages
- 748
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6"")
- Keywords
- 1st, literary criticism, literature, fiction, novels, Parker, Kermode
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- X weight
- 1.33 g
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About Inklings & Yarnspinners
INKLINGS & YARNSPINNERSA new online bookshop forFIRST & SIGNED EDITIONS, RARE BOOKSA particular focus on:- The Oxford Inklings with their Friends & Influences (C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Barfield, Williams, Chesterton, Macdonald, Sayers, etc)- Great 20th Century Novelists (e.g. Graham Greene & John le Carré; Anthony Powell & Evelyn Waugh; P. D. James etc)- Great 20th Century Poets (e.g. T. S. Eliot, John Masefield, Walter de la Mare, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Stevie Smith, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, etc)- Christian Theology (e.g. from library sales)
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