180p paperback, nice clean copy, a few notes to back endpaper, author inscription "John, with Compliments"

Pardoners Tale,The

Literature & Fiction

Moseley, Charles

History & Criticism

Penguin Uk

Tolkien was a specialist in a recherché field. He did not, at least initially, write for a mass audience. Yet for many in the 60s his books, particularly Lord of the Rings, became a political badge and an interpretative text. Widely translated, his fiction won the accolade both of parody and of its own learned journal; rock bands took names from his characters; and "Tolkien" - or how he was read - demonstrably affected modern fantasy, in writing, film, video- and board-game. This book explores how his work came to be so diversely received. Dr Moseley's critical discussion examines Tolkien's view of fiction as "sub-creation", exploring his analysis of mythopoeia and of the status of art and literature in relation to his own practice. It is argued that in the critical concerns of Tolkien and his circle lie the key to important issues in his fiction. His use of linguistic game and literary pastiche is explored without obscuring his emotional commitment to the making of myths that expressed some of h

J.R.R. Tolkien (Writers and Their Work)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Liverpool University Press

9 hours to fly

Moore Pub. co

Introduces the conclusions of recent scholarship and research into theatrical conditions, conventions and concepts in the time of Shakespeare. The book begins with a discussion of the origins of early modern English drama and of the theatres that were built for it. Attitudes to theatre and to players, and what audiences expected of both, are explored in the contexts of the constraints of the acting space and the political culture. The book then looks at the structure and dynamics of the theatrical companies before concluding with a discussion of the genres of plays and the expectations of them that people (including writers) held. Extensive Appendices list brief details of the major dramatists of the time, and summarise the main historical and dramatic events.

English Renaissance Drama

Dramas & Plays

Troubador Publishing Ltd

A Field Full of Folk: A Village Elegy

Aurum Press Ltd

Coming to Terms: An Intimate Portrait of the University and City of Cambridge

History

IndieBooks

This moving, thoughtful, wry book is memoir, social history, and elegy for an almost forgotten world. It looks steadily and honestly at the varied texture of that world, from gutting fish off Iceland to working on the buses, from having formal high tea with the Great Aunts to delivering meat on a bicycle, from sharp memories of a fifty-in-a-class primary school to trying for a scholarship to Cambridge University - and leaving that lost world for ever.

Between the Tides: A Lancashire Youth

Beaten Track Publishing

To Everything a Season is a beautifully crafted personal and reflective account of many years of the changing seasons, from autumn to autumn, in and around a village on the edge of the Cambridge Fenland. It is an uplifting reflection about change: what was, what is, what will be. 
It is about the miracle of the rich gift of life. It is also about death, loss, and the rebirth of the old into something rich and strange.\nBut it is also a book suffused with a gentle humor, with a deep love and sympathy for our fellow creatures. Charles Moseley tackles what we have done to the world of which we are not owners or masters but stewards, not only for our children but for the whole web of life on which everything depends.

To Everything a Season: A View from the Fen

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Merlin Unwin Books

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