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This new guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish Literature uniquely charts some of the main features of literary language development and highlights key language topics. Clearly structured and highly readable, unlike traditional histories of literature it spans over a thousand years of literary history from AD 600 to the present day. It emphasizes the growth of literary writing, its traditions, conventions and changing characteristics, and includes literature from the margins, both geographical and cultural. Key features of the book are: * an up-to-date guide to the major periods of literature in English in Britain and Ireland * extensive coverage of post-1945 literature * language notes spanning AD 600 to the present * extensive quotations from poetry, prose and drama * a timeline of the important historical and political events This will be essential reading for all students of English literature and language.

Hardcover:

9780415839747 | 3 revised edition (Routledge, October 24, 2016), cover price $240.00
9780415243179 | 2 sub edition (Routledge, May 29, 2001), cover price $150.00
9780415123426 | Routledge, July 1, 1997, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: This new guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish Literature uniquely charts some of the main features of literary language development and highlights key language topics.

Paperback:

9780415243186 | 2 edition (Routledge, July 1, 2001), cover price $46.95
9780415123433 | Routledge, June 1, 1997, cover price $29.95 | also contains The Day My Brain Exploded: A True Story; Library Edition

Miscellaneous:

9780203137673 | Routledge, January 4, 2002, cover price $27.95

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Product Description: In the first or second century CE, Chinese officials began to hear rumours of a powerful new deity somewhere in the far off ‘western region’. Golden hued, able to fly through the air, and of superhuman size, he was the source of unspeakable power...read more

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9780415391344 | Routledge, February 28, 2013, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: In the first or second century CE, Chinese officials began to hear rumours of a powerful new deity somewhere in the far off ‘western region’.

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9780415391351 | Routledge, February 28, 2013, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: In the first or second century CE, Chinese officials began to hear rumours of a powerful new deity somewhere in the far off ‘western region’.

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Product Description: In 1963 President John F. Kennedy was shot, Sylvia Plath published The Bell Jar, and the Beatles were in their prime. This was a changing world, which British and Irish writers both contributed to and reflected in drama, poetry and prose...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780415286367 | Routledge, January 1, 2004, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: In 1963 President John F.

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9780415286374 | Routledge, December 1, 2003, cover price $25.95

The Language of Poetry:* develops the student's ability to read and evaluate poetic texts of many kinds* includes activities, commentaries and extensions to each extract* covers a variety of poetic language, ranging from songs, advertisements and spoken language to the more traditional forms of the sonnet, ode and free verse* includes poetry from Philip Larkin, Maya Angelou, Dylan Thomas and Tony Harrison.

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9780415169288 | Routledge, April 1, 1998, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: The Language of Poetry:* develops the student's ability to read and evaluate poetic texts of many kinds* includes activities, commentaries and extensions to each extract* covers a variety of poetic language, ranging from songs, advertisements and spoken language to the more traditional forms of the sonnet, ode and free verse* includes poetry from Philip Larkin, Maya Angelou, Dylan Thomas and Tony Harrison.

Miscellaneous:

9780203018316 | Routledge, October 4, 2003, cover price $25.95

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Inspired by the growing links between Eastern and Western spirituality, this foray into the often underexposed methods of Chinese Buddhist meditation explores the connections between the Three Higher Trainings--ethical conduct, meditation, and wisdom--and reveals how they can be integrated into a modern life. Original. IP.
By Tom Graham (trans), Hsing-Yun-Ta-Shih and John McRae (introduced by)

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9780861711482 | Wisdom Pubns, April 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Inspired by the growing links between Eastern and Western spirituality, this foray into the often underexposed methods of Chinese Buddhist meditation explores the connections between the Three Higher Trainings--ethical conduct, meditation, and wisdom--and reveals how they can be integrated into a modern life.

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Product Description: Now Read On brings together literatures in English from around the world, combining an excellent choice of texts with sound methodological guidance.It contains approximately eighty texts and extracts from countries andcontinents including:*Africa*Australia*Great Britain*India*Malaysia*New Zealand*Philippines*SingaporeDesigned as course for both native and non-native English-speakers in how to read literature, this anthology begins with shorter starter texts and questions, and develops in complexity as the reader progresses through the book...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780415182164 | Routledge, April 1, 1999, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: Now Read On brings together literatures in English from around the world, combining an excellent choice of texts with sound methodological guidance.

Miscellaneous:

9780203977255 | Routledge, February 11, 1999, cover price $36.95 | also contains Now Read on: A Course in Multicultural Reading

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Product Description: Language, Literature and the Learner is an edited volume evolving from three international seminars devoted to the teaching of literature in a second or foreign language. The seminars explicitly addressed the interface between language and literature teaching to investigate the ways in which literature can be used as a resource for language growth at secondary, intermediate and upper-intermediate level...read more

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9780582293236 | Taylor & Francis, October 1, 1996, cover price $73.95 | About this edition: Language, Literature and the Learner is an edited volume evolving from three international seminars devoted to the teaching of literature in a second or foreign language.

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9781569010990 | Northwest Pub, April 1, 1994, cover price $9.95

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9780858198531 | Morehouse Pub Co, October 1, 1993, cover price $4.95

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Product Description: Love, bravery and death amid the savage fury of winter in the high Rockies....one of the greatest tragedies of the American frontier.

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9780875797526 | Deseret Book Co, September 1, 1993, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Love, bravery and death amid the savage fury of winter in the high Rockies.

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Paperback:

9780854490387 | Alyson Pubns, June 1, 1986, cover price $5.95

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9780080315348 | Janus Book Pub/Alemany Pr, August 1, 1985, cover price $8.95

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Product Description: Literary texts and extracts can provide a stimulating basis for classwork on language appreciation and oral fluency. This book for upper-intermediate and more advanced students contains a wide range of texts with related exercises which aim to make literature more accessible while developing general fluency...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780521277891 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1984, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Literary texts and extracts can provide a stimulating basis for classwork on language appreciation and oral fluency.

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Product Description: Literary texts and extracts can provide a stimulating basis for classwork on language appreciation and oral fluency. This book for upper-intermediate and more advanced students contains a wide range of texts with related exercises which aim to make literature more accessible while developing general fluency...read more

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9780521259927 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1984, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Literary texts and extracts can provide a stimulating basis for classwork on language appreciation and oral fluency.

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Product Description: Literary texts and extracts can provide a stimulating basis for classwork on language appreciation and oral fluency. This book for upper-intermediate and more advanced students contains a wide range of texts with related exercises which aim to make literature more accessible while developing general fluency...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780521277907 | Tch edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1984), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Literary texts and extracts can provide a stimulating basis for classwork on language appreciation and oral fluency.

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