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Books in the Berkshire Classics series

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  • by Marvin Mudrick
    £22.49

    A collection such as Books Are Not Life, But Then What Is? is an invitation to meet some of them. We meet heroes and monsters and plenty of people in between: Chaucer, Pepys, Rochester, Boswell, Jane Austen (and Anne Elliot), Dickens (and Pecksniff), Pushkin, Tolstoy, Kafka, Edmund Wilson, and many other novelists, scholars, and critics.

  • by Marvin Mudrick
    £22.49

    The man the Village Voice called ""the Mickey Spillane of Belles Lettres"" and the Washington Post called a ""literary curmudgeon, randy iconoclast, and a delight"" outdoes himself in his fifth book, an outrageous and virtuoso display of literary and historical portraiture.

  • by Marvin Mudrick
    £22.49

    The Man in the Machine consists of new assessments of major writers and critics by the author of whose last book Roger Sale wrote: ""T. S. Eliot was not so good a reviewer as Marvin Mudrick is.

  • - Irony as Defense and Discovery
    by Marvin Mudrick
    £22.49

    In this thoughtful appraisal of the novels and writings of Jane Austen, Mr. Mudrick shows her to be a writer of acute and irreverent sensibilities who, despite the constricted circumstances of her life, managed to create in her novels an enduring microcosm of the larger world.

  • - Classes and Talks
    by Marvin Mudrick
    £25.49

    Mudrick Transcribed contains transcripts made in the early 1980s, when several students of Marvin Mudrick made tape-recordings of some of his classes and talks.

  • by Marvin Mudrick
    £22.49

    In On Culture and Literature Marvin Mudrick explores the work of major figures in a wide range of fields: literature, political and musical criticism, autobiography, the novel and science.

  • - Yuan Mei's Manual of Gastronomy
    by Yuan Mei
    £98.99 - 114.49

    Provides the first English edition of one of the world's most famous books about food. The Manual of Gastronomy is a treatise and cookbook written in the late eighteenth century by the Qing dynasty poet and official Yuan Mei.

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