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1	Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement more books like this by Sylvia Plath add to wishlist As Sylvia Plath herself predicted, "I am writing the best poems of my life... They will make my name." Dragging herself out of a debilitating depression to look unflinchingly into her tortured soul, Plath managed to write the poems that would be published posthumously in the 1966 collection ARIEL, a work that cemented her reputation as a feminist ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £6.40! \| first editions
2	Mark Twain in the Margins: The Quarry Farm Marginalia and a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court more books like this by Joe B Fulton add to wishlist The common characterization of Mark Twain as an uneducated and improvizational writer took hold largely because of the novelist's own claims about his writing practices. This book argues that Twain approached his work with careful research and calculated design. see all copies from £4.95! new only from £7.42! \| first editions
3	The War of the Ring: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Three more books like this by Christopher Tolkien (Editor), J R R Tolkien add to wishlist This is the eighth volume of previously unpublished works in Tolkien's prehistory of Middle Earth, the setting of his famous "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit", among others. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £7.62!
4	Speaking Shakespeare more books like this by Patsy Rodenburg add to wishlist From the director of voice at the National Theatre in London, this guide to speaking the words of Shakespeare emphasizes breathing, rhythm, and--perhaps most important--an understanding of Shakespeare himself and his world. see all copies from £8.04! new only from £8.04! \| first editions
5	The Treason of Isengard more books like this by J R R Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (Editor) add to wishlist This is the seventh volume of previously unpublished works in Tolkien's prehistory of Middle Earth, the setting of his famous "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit", among others. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £7.21!
6	Treason of Isengard : the history of the Lord of the Rings, part two more books like this by J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien add to wishlist This is the seventh volume of previously unpublished works in Tolkien's prehistory of Middle Earth, the setting of his famous "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit", among others. see all copies from £4.92! new only from £6.60! \| first editions
7	Return of the Shadow more books like this by Christopher Tolkien (Editor), J R R Tolkien add to wishlist This is the sixth volume of previously unpublished works in Tolkien's prehistory of Middle Earth, the setting of his famous "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit", among others. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £7.69!
8	Sauron Defeated: The End of the Third Age: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Four more books like this by J R R Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (Editor) add to wishlist This is the ninth volume of previously unpublished works in Tolkien's prehistory of Middle Earth, including an alternate ending to "The Lord of the Rings". see all copies from £9.73! new only from £13.62! \| first editions
9	Song of myself more books like this by W Whitman add to wishlist The classic book of verse by one of America's greatest poets. First published in 1855, "Leaves of Grass" was subsequently revised and edited by Whitman many times. Editor Stephen Mitchell has returned to the earliest edition, which he maintains best captured the vigor and freshness of Whitman's style. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| first editions
10	The War of the Ring: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Three more books like this by J R R Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (Editor) add to wishlist This is the eighth volume of previously unpublished works in Tolkien's prehistory of Middle Earth, the setting of his famous "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit", among others. see all copies from £8.04! new only from £8.27! \| first editions
11 view cover	Shakespeare and the Book more books like this by Professor David Scott Kastan add to wishlist Shakespeare and the Book is a lively and learned account of Shakespeare's plays as they were transformed from scripts to be performed into books to be read, and eventually from popular entertainments into the centerpieces of the English literary canon. Kastan examines the motives and activities of Shakespeare's first publishers, the curious ... see all copies from £9.28! new only from £12.80! \| first editions
12 view cover	The Tempest: A Case Study in Critical Controversy more books like this by William Shakespeare, James D Phelan (Editor), Gerald Graff (Editor) add to wishlist Generally agreed to be Shakespeare's last play, THE TEMPEST was most likely written in 1610. Twelve years before the action begins, Prospero--Duke of Milan--and his daughter, Miranda, were stranded by Prospero's brother, Antonio, on a remote and idyllic island where Miranda has grown up happily among the beasts and flowers, never seeing any man ... see all copies from £4.05! new only from £9.88!
13 view cover	The Return of the Shadow: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part One more books like this by J R R Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (Editor) add to wishlist The first part of the history of the creation of "The Lord of the Rings" is a study of Tolkien's work from its inception to the end of the first volume, "The Fellowship of the Ring". In "The Return Of The Shadow" (the abandoned title of the first volume of "The Lord of the Rings") we see how Bilbo's "magic ring" evolved into the supremely ... see all copies from £4.42! new only from £13.62! \| first editions
14 view cover	Platonis Respublica more books like this by Plato, S R Slings (Editor) add to wishlist This is the first edition of Plato's Republic to be based on an exhaustive examination of all the textual evidence - manuscripts, including papyri; quotations and allusions in ancient authors; translations into Coptic, Arabic and Hebrew. The three primary manuscripts have been examined with particular care. Many new readings have been introduced ... see all copies from £24.74! new only from £24.74! \| first editions
15 view cover	O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life more books like this by Thomas Wolfe, Arlyn Bruccoli (Text by), Matthew J Bruccoli (Text by) add to wishlist An unabridged version of "Look Homeward, Angel". On original publication 66,000 words were omitted for reasons of propriety and publishing economics, using the carbon copy of the original typescript, the Bruccolis have established the original text. see all copies from £9.13! new only from £16.80! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts more books like this by D F McKenzie add to wishlist In Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts, D. F. McKenzie shows how the material form of texts crucially determines their meanings. He unifies the principal interests of both critical theory and textual scholarship to demonstrate that, as all works of lasting value are reproduced, re-edited and re-read, they take on different forms and meanings. ... see all copies from £17.01! new only from £17.01!
17 view cover	The End of the Third Age more books like this by J R R Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (Editor) add to wishlist The End of the Third Age is comprised of the first section of the hardcover volume published as Sauron Defeated, the ninth volume of The History of Middle-earth. It completes Christopher Tolkien's account of the creation of The Lord of the Rings begun in the earlier volumes, The Return of the Shadow, The Treason of Isengard, and The War of the ... see all copies from £2.57! new only from £4.76!
18 view cover	Coleridge and Textual Instability: The Multiple Versions of the Major Poems more books like this by Jack Stillinger add to wishlist Stillinger establishes and documents the existence of numerous different authoritative versions of Coleridge's best-known poems: sixteen or more of The Eolian Harp, for example, eighteen of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and comparable numbers for This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison, Frost at Midnight, Kubla Khan, Christabel, and Dejection: an Ode. ... see all copies from £19.19! new only from £53.12!
19 view cover	An introduction to bibliographical and textual studies more books like this by William Proctor Williams add to wishlist see all copies from £5.57! new only from £10.10!
20 view cover	Illuminating Texts: How to Teach Students to Read the World more books like this by Jim Burke add to wishlist Today's students face such a barrage of competing texts in so many different forms and media that it's almost impossible to know what to trust and where to turn anymore. So it's now up to teachers to help students determine not only what should be read, but how it should be read. Illuminating Texts, Jim Burke's most ambitious book yet, addresses ... see all copies from £13.45! new only from £25.88!
21 view cover	Unediting the Renaissance: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton more books like this by Leah S Marcus, Marcus Leah add to wishlist Many readers and students do not recognise the extent to which modern standard editions of Shakespeare, Milton, Marlowe and other Renaissance authors have been filtered through eighteenth-century and Victorian sensibilities. In Unediting the Renaissance Leah Marcus reveals the vast array of possibilities opened up by 'unediting' these texts. With ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £6.50! \| first editions
22 view cover	Rescripting Shakespeare: The Text, the Director, and Modern Productions more books like this by Alan C Dessen add to wishlist Building on almost 300 productions from the last 25 years, Alan Dessen focuses on the playtexts used when directors stage Shakespeare's plays: the words spoken, the scenes omitted or transposed, and the many other adjustments that must be made. Directors rescript to streamline the playscript and save running time, to eliminate obscurity, conserve ... see all copies from £8.16! new only from £20.67! \| first editions
23 view cover	The Textual Condition more books like this by Jerome J McGann add to wishlist Over the past decade literary critic and editor Jerome McGann has developed a theory of textuality based in writing and production rather than in reading and interpetation. These new essays extend his investigations of the instability of the physical text. McGann shows how every text enters the world under socio-historical conditions that set the ... see all copies from £10.06! new only from £21.23! \| first editions
24	The dramatic landscape of Steinbeck's short stories more books like this by John H Timmerman, PH.D. add to wishlist The evolution of Steinbeck's art occurred over a decade, from the stories written as a student at Stanford University through 1934, when he drafted the stories of "The Long Valley" collection. This decade represented a critical period in Steinbeck's life. He keenly desired to be a writer but was in the process of discovering the artistic means to ... see all copies from £6.01! new only from £7.66! \| signed copies \| first editions
25	Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons: Literary Authority in American Fiction more books like this by Professor Hershel Parker add to wishlist see all copies from £5.57! new only from £11.45! \| signed copies \| first editions

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