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9781472508003 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 8, 2014, cover price $128.00

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Product Description: Admirers of the work of Sylvia Plath will welcome this new paperback edition of a study, first published by The Athlone Press in 1976, which provides coherent and persuasive readings of her poetry. Drawing upon the traditional skills of the literary critic, David Holbrook also deploys the illumination of both psychoanalysis and phenomenology in a pioneering work of literary, individual and cultural interpretation...read more

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9781472505897 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 8, 2014, cover price $128.00 | About this edition: Admirers of the work of Sylvia Plath will welcome this new paperback edition of a study, first published by The Athlone Press in 1976, which provides coherent and persuasive readings of her poetry.

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9780485120622 | Reprint edition (Athlone Pr, March 1, 1988), cover price $25.99

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Product Description: Book by Holbrook, David

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9781419672538 | Createspace, July 3, 2007, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Book by Holbrook, David

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Product Description: As the Air France 737 landed on the worn runway of the Tan Sun Nhut airport in a western suburb of Saigon and approached the rundown terminal building, I knew we were not going to be welcomed with open arms. As we passed through the arrival room, the customs officers were not disagreeable...read more

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9780595364930 | Iuniverse Inc, October 30, 2005, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: As the Air France 737 landed on the worn runway of the Tan Sun Nhut airport in a western suburb of Saigon and approached the rundown terminal building, I knew we were not going to be welcomed with open arms.

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Product Description: In this fascinating study, Holbrook draws on Carroll's own letters, as well as the work of 20th-century psychoanalysts, to step inside Alice's looking glass and examine what the books reveal about the author's own desires and conflicts and his relationships with those around him...read more

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9781871871494 | Open Gate Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: In this fascinating study, Holbrook draws on Carroll's own letters, as well as the work of 20th-century psychoanalysts, to step inside Alice's looking glass and examine what the books reveal about the author's own desires and conflicts and his relationships with those around him.

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Product Description: Under the influence of science, modern civilization has adopted the view that only things that can be verified empirically or arrived at rationally are true. Modern people tend to regard themselves as mechanisms, without any subjective aspects to their nature...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By John Attarian (introduced by) and David Holbrook

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9780765807328 | Transaction Pub, October 1, 2001, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Under the influence of science, modern civilization has adopted the view that only things that can be verified empirically or arrived at rationally are true.

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Product Description: An alcoholic man winds up in Florida after driving his mammoth Oldsmobile down from Oklahoma.

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9780759613799 | Authorhouse, March 1, 2001, cover price $20.23 | About this edition: An alcoholic man winds up in Florida after driving his mammoth Oldsmobile down from Oklahoma.

Product Description: This study examines the theory that MacDonald wrote his fantasies out of his private inner world. It throws light on the association in the human mind between woman and death. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780773477612 | Edwin Mellen Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $119.95 | About this edition: This study examines the theory that MacDonald wrote his fantasies out of his private inner world.

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Two men recall their inspiring story of the search for the biblical Mt. Sinai--a journey that took them trespassing into military installations late at night and other dangerous locales. (view table of contents)

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9780805420524 | B & H Pub Group, June 1, 2000, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: Two men recall their inspiring story of the search for the biblical Mt.
9780756765569 | Diane Pub Co, March 1, 2000, cover price $22.00

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9780765804020 | Reprint edition (Transaction Pub, June 1, 1998), cover price $30.95

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9781850758273 | Sheffield Academic Pr, November 1, 1997, cover price $99.95

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Product Description: Tolstoy openly despised women, yet in his greatest novels he created some of the most fascinating women characters. Holbrook draws on concepts and insights from object-relations and existentialist psycho-analysis to explain this bewildering contradiction...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780838637012 | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Tolstoy openly despised women, yet in his greatest novels he created some of the most fascinating women characters.

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Product Description: Why are the women Shakespeare created often so perplexing? Why do children fear witches in fairy tales? throughout literature these and other powerful and compelling images of women occur frequently: the enigmatic temptress, the supernatural goddess, and the earth mother...read more

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9780814734834 | New York Univ Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: How successful is Dickens in his portrayal of women?

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9780814734742 | New York Univ Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $18.50 | About this edition: Why are the women Shakespeare created often so perplexing?
9780814735282 | New York Univ Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: How successful is Dickens in his portrayal of women?

Product Description: This book is an attempt to offer a fresh basis for critical discrimination in the field of popular culture. Holbrook believes that commercial culture has found ways of exploiting the natural needs of children for symbolic enrichment by using children's comics, "pop" lyrics, and other modes...read more

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9780838634738 | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, June 1, 1994, cover price $42.50 | About this edition: This book is an attempt to offer a fresh basis for critical discrimination in the field of popular culture.

Product Description: Paul Grimmer tells the story of his childhood, from the age of three, when he climbed a ladder on a building site and found he couldn't move! He needed his mother then, as he does later, but his mother wasn't always up to a big crisis...read more

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9781853894428 | Large print edition (Dales Large Print, June 1, 1994), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Paul Grimmer tells the story of his childhood, from the age of three, when he climbed a ladder on a building site and found he couldn't move!

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Product Description: Lawrence is depicted everywhere as standing for life and as a champion of sexual fulfillment. Holbrook's analysis of D. H. Lawrence's novels and short stories uncovers a great deal of hate, a strong death-wish, and immense falsification of sexual truth.

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9780838752074 | Bucknell Univ Pr, January 1, 1992, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Lawrence is depicted everywhere as standing for life and as a champion of sexual fulfillment.

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Product Description: St. Martin's Press 1991. Hardcover with dust jacket. No marks, no issues. Professor's private library.

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9780312035655 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 1, 1991, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: St.

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9780907675761 | Reprint edition (Ashford Pr Pub, March 1, 1990), cover price $10.95

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Product Description: How successful is Dickens in his portrayal of women? Dickens has been represented (along with William Blake and D.H. Lawrence) as one who championed the life of the emotions often associated with the "feminine" Yet some of his most important heroines are totally submissive and docile...read more

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9780814734605 | New York Univ Pr, December 1, 1989, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: How successful is Dickens in his portrayal of women?

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9780521362597 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, August 25, 1988), cover price $18.95

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Product Description: Book by Holbrook, David

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9780566054198 | Gower Pub Co, June 1, 1988, cover price $68.95 | About this edition: Book by Holbrook, David

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Product Description: A thought-provoking work, The Novel and Authenticity examines such novels as Austen's Mansfield Park, Forster's A Passage to India, and Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning to demonstrate its thesis. The reader will come away from this book with a new perspective on the novel and on contemporary literary theorizing...read more

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9780389207115 | Barnes & Noble Imports, September 1, 1987, cover price $69.00 | About this edition: A thought-provoking work, The Novel and Authenticity examines such novels as Austen's Mansfield Park, Forster's A Passage to India, and Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning to demonstrate its thesis.

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