Product Description: Stanley Burnshaw began to publish poems in the 1920s and founded his own verse journal in 1925. After serving as coeditor and drama critic of the New Masses weekly (1934-1936), he entered book publishing, directing the Dryden Press until 1958, when he joined Henry Holt...read more

Product Description: The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin is one of the world's preeminent institutions for the study of literature, photography, and the humanities. The Ransom Center is renowned for its remarkable collections of literary manuscripts, rare books, photographs, art, and film and performing arts materials...read more

Writing the Lives of Writers ponders that strange ventriloquized dialogue between biographers and their subjects, a dialogue all the stranger when the subject is a writer. It contains 22 essays by internationally distinguished scholars and biographers. The focus moves from the "birth of the author" to such problems as life-writing without letters' or the isolated nature of the writer's professional life, the difficulties of writing about writing itself, and the necessity of showing how life of the writer can be used to show "the imaginative dynamic" (in Helen Wendler's phrase) of a writer, by which the reader makes sense of the writer's oeuvre, as well as the varieties of the writer's life.

Product Description: Stuart Gilbert's friendship with James Joyce began in Paris in 1927 after Gilbert read several pages from a forthcoming French translation of Ulysses in the window of Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company book shop and went in to tell Beach that the translation was poorly done...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The purpose of this book is to help employers and their advisers (especially their Quantity Surveyors) in drawing up all the contracts required on a normal UK building project.

Product Description: St. Martin's Press, 1989, Very good., Black cover. No dust jacket. 182 pages. Text very clean and bright. Binding tight. Library stamps on endpapers and top edge. Spine label. [Bibliography, Reference, James Joyce] Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933...read more

Product Description: This is the second DLB volume of a planned series on British mystery writers. Because there has been little scholarship devoted to individual mystery writers except for the most prominent, this volume is particularly useful as a stimulus to further study...read more

Essays analyze the novels of contemporary British women authors, such as Margaret Drabble, Doris Lessing, Muriel Spark, and P. D. James