In 1942, aged 24, the great and defiant Canetti began to write notes, aphorisms and meditations about death - he was dead against it - and, by extension, about and for life; he only stopped... read more
A dazzling critical history of games and game theory, ancient and modern, by a neuroscientist who, alongside stints at MIT, Berkeley and UCL, claims to have 'spent her childhood being repeat... read more
A memoir by this most communicative classicist about her own experiences of suicide, and how she found consolation and understanding of herself and her family through close readings of clas... read more
From the earliest printing to C21st zines: a very engaging account. The author is Prof of Eng Lit at Balliol when not noodling about with like-minded eggheads and a Model 4 letter press.
How did Oxford colleges, chapels, pubs, societies, nooks and crannies inspire Lewis and his friends? By the Professor of English Language and Literature at Magdalen. Some illustrations.
A collection of diary entries, essays and reflections from the American poet and scholar. Wang is one of the foremost writers on race, prisons and political surveillance. These writings - br... read more
Vol. 1: The Modern Movement
A first edition, first printing. This book is in very good condition with a tight page block and minimal shelf wear. The front cover has some minor scratching a... read more
First edition, first printing. The book is in near fine condition with a near fine dust jacket. Mild shelf wear visible to cover. Very slight spotting to top edges. Previously unpublished sh... read more
The 40-year relationship between the prodigious writer and scholar (biographer of Gandhi, amongst other things, and a JS customer) and his original editor at Oxford University Press.
A rich study of the gulf between Hardy's fictional women, with whom he seems to have empathised, and the real women around him... who needed a certain hardiness (?) in their troubled relatio... read more
Looks back to a group of brave women in the later C18th and onwards - at a time when women had no property and no rights: Elizabeth Montagu, who took on Voltaire and won; Catherine Macauley,... read more