Literary Criticism from Monkey House Books

Boston: Ilex Foundation Series 3, 2010. Softcover. Good. Scholarly essays on Persian poetry, Iranian Jews, 19th century Iran, religious traditions, and other related topics. 381 pages, cover curl.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1874. Hardcover. Good. 203 pages. Biographical information, commentary on poetry, views, campaign/battles/life in Rome. Ancient Classics for English Readers series edited by Rev. W. Lucas Collins, M.A. Part of a uniform set, cabinet size. Rust-colored cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine. Wear to ends and corners.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1873. Hardcover. Good. 166 pages. Examines their lives and offers commentary on their works. Ancient Classics for English Readers series edited by Rev. W. Lucas Collins, M.A. Part of a uniform set, cabinet size. Rust-colored cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine. Wear to ends and corners.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1873. Hardcover. Good. 181 pages. Commentary on Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, the death of Ajax, the Maidens of Trachis, Philoctetes, and Electra. Ancient Classics for English Readers series edited by Rev. W. Lucas Collins, M.A. Part of a uniform set, cabinet size. Rust-colored cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine. Wear to… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1872. Hardcover. Good. 169 pages. Examines his life & works, the satires, morals, religion & philosophy, literature, women, town life of Ancient Rome. Ancient Classics for English Readers series edited by Rev. W. Lucas Collins, M.A. Part of a uniform set, cabinet size. Rust-colored cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine. Wear to ends and… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1874. Hardcover. Good. 136 pages, examinations of Penelope, Telemachus, and Ulysses. Ancient Classics for English Readers series edited by Rev. W. Lucas Collins, M.A. Part of a uniform set, cabinet size. Rust-colored cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine. Wear to ends and corners.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1874. Hardcover. Good. 180 pages, Lucian & the Pagan Olympus, Dialogues of the Dead, Lucian & the Philosophers, Satires on Society, Lucian as a Romance-Writer, Lucian & Christianity. Ancient Classics for English Readers series edited by Rev. W. Lucas Collins, M.A. Part of a uniform set, cabinet size. Rust-colored cloth boards, gilt-stamped… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1873. Hardcover. Good. 155 pages, The Ancient Comic Drama, Menander, Plautus, The Comedies of Plautus, Terence, The Comedies of Terence. Ancient Classics for English Readers series edited by Rev. W. Lucas Collins, M.A. Part of a uniform set, cabinet size. Rust-colored cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine. Wear to ends and corners.

New York: Evergreen Pilot Books; Grove Press, Inc., 1963. Softcover, mass market paperback. Good. 120 pages, moderate wear & creasing, some underlining. Commentary and criticism introducing the works of one of France's major early 20th century writers.

Philadelphia, New York, Jerusalem: The Jewish Publication Society, 1987 [5748]. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition very good. Analyzes the work of 20th century Jewish writers from Europe, America, and Israel, including Roth, Bellow, Malamud, Potok, and more. Themes include struggle, anxiety, and transforming identity. 198 pages. Light general wear.

New York: A Galaxy Book, Oxford University Press, 1962. Softcover, trade paperback. Good. 27 essays written in the early-mid 20th century, including works by T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, Frank Kermode, Cleanth Brooks, and Mark Van Doren, among others. 434 pages, some underlining.

New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket condition Fine. 538 pages, history and criticism of poetics from Plato & Aristotle to Pound & Eliot. Includes essays and critiques by Milton, Dryden, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Bryant, Emerson, Longfellow, Poe, Whitman, Kipling, and more. Collection of writing by great English and American poets about poetry.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960. Hardcover, brown cloth. Good. Underlining and marginalia. 319 pages, index. Investigates the extent to which Russian life and letters in the 18th century were concerned with national identity and culture and how that was expressed. Themes include national language, foreigners, manners & morals, and the search for a national character. Russian Research Center… Read more about this item

Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980. Hardcover. Good/Dust Jacket condition good. In contrast to the dominant idea of Thoreau as a solitary philosopher in a lonely cabin, this work presents a new interpretation of his passion for friendship, his country, and his belief in humanity's potential. 200 pages, notes. Ex-library in wraps with spine label & stamps.

New York: Collier Books, 1962. Softcover, mass market paperback. Very Good. First of its kind survey and examination of American literature and its role in the cultural history & national identity of its people, originally published in 1871. 541 pages. Complete in one volume. With a new Foreword by Perry Miller. Previous owner's stamp, else nice.

New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1984. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition very good. Literature and Life Series. Criticism and interpreation, introduction to his life and works, particularly his poetry and plays. 208 pages, wear to top edge of jacket, gift inscription on fep. Lorca, 1898-1936, was one of Spain's greatest writers of the 20th century. He was… Read more about this item

New York: Schocken Books, 1977. Softcover, mass market paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. The distinguished English crime writer & critic presents a literary history of detective stories and crime novels of 19th and 20th centuries. 269 pages, some age-toning but clean & square.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition very good. Critical study of Lawrence's writings, their relationship to his inner life, and his representation of America as a symbol of a 'new world' of liberated sexual experience. Publisher's review card and a newspaper article tucked in front, discoloring the endpaper and jacket flap. 232 pages,… Read more about this item

Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1985. Hardcover, beige cloth boards. Fine/No Jacket. Examines In Our Time, the Nick Adams stories, The Sun Also Rises, and A Farewell to Arms. Offers an unusual perspective and analysis of religion and ethics in Ernest Hemingway's early works. Revision of the author's dissertation for Emory University in 1974. 156 pages, index. Studies… Read more about this item

New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons; The Knickerbocker Press, 1897. Hardcover, purple cloth boards, library binding. Good/No Dust Jacket. Describes the evolution of French literature throughout the 19th century. Authorized English version by Anne Garrison Brinton with a General Introduction. Ex-university library, spine label, bookplate, card pocket. 504 pages, index. A few close tears to early… Read more about this item