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Secondhand book for saleR. W. Chambers.
Man’s Unconquerable Mind: Studies of English Writers, from Bede to A. E. Housman and W. P. Ker.
Published London: Jonathan Cape, 1939.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Alden press, Oxford; A. W. Bain & Co.
Size: 152×226×36mm.
Page count: text 414pp; plates 4pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy has no dustjacket; a slight kink on the outside edge of the pages; a few grubby marks inside, and at least 4 pages have some pencilled marks in the margins.
This item £6.00
P&P inc. within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)Weight without packaging: 862g.
Contents:
Bede;
Beowulf & the “heroic age” in England;
Piers Plowman — a comparative study;
Martyrs of the Reformation — More & Tyndale;
The Elizabethan & the Jacobean Shakespeare;
Measure for measure;
Ruskin (& others) on Byron;
Philologists at University College, London — the beginnings, Platt, Housman, Ker.Illustrations: 4 monochrome plates
Maps & plans: noNotes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes[063/C]
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