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  • The Unexpected Professor

    An Oxford Life in Books

    by John Carey ...
    Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, John Carey describes in this warm and funny memoir the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected, age 40, to Oxford's oldest English ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Violent Effigy

    A Study of Dickens' Imagination

    by John Carey ...
    An exploration of the strange poetry of Dickens's imagination by leading academic and critic John Carey.Setting aside the usual interpretations of Dickens's work, A Violent Effigy delves into the wonderful, terrible fantasy world it inhabited. It shows Dickens torn between the appeal of violence and a fanatical orderliness: he was attracted by characters who commit murder or burst into flame or ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • 100 Poets

    A Little Anthology

    by John Carey ...
    A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of PoetryA poem seems a fragile thing. Change a word and it is broken. But poems outlive empires and survive the devastation of conquests. Celebrated author John Carey here presents a uniquely valuable anthology of verse based on a simple principle: select the one-hundred greatest poets from across ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Working Bassist

    What You Really Need to Know to Survive in New York City

    by John Carey ...
    The Working Bassist, What You Really Need to Know to Survive in New York City Written for bassists and musicians alike, The Working Bassist, What You Really Need to Know to Survive in New York City, is designed to inform musicians and bassists interested in coming to New York City to pursue their musical endeavors. In addition to being informative, the series of interviews has been geared towards ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • John Donne

    Life, Mind and Art

    by John Carey ...
    'Donne is perhaps the most intellectual of English poets, and John Carey is perhaps the most intelligent of contemporary English literary critics. The encounter, as one might expect, is fierce and enthralling... This book is sensitive, searching, powerful, exciting, provocative and witty. It is a superb achievement.' Christopher Hill, TLSJohn Donne: Life, Mind and Art is a unique attempt to see ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Swords Against the Moon Men

    by Christopher Paul Carey ...
    Narrated by John McLain ...
    Series series The Wild Adventures of Edgar Rice Burrou

    Unabridged

    7 hours 46 min

    The reincarnated Julian 7th teams up with John Carter of Mars himself in thrilling novel in the Wild Adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs series!In 2076 AD, Earth has been conquered and humanity brutally enslaved under the cruel tyranny of the Kalkar invaders whose evil was spawned from Va-nah, the Moon’s hollow interior. But when a desperate plea comes from the planet Barsoom, Julian 7th—descendant ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Duck Soup and Swansongs

    by John Carey ...
    ‘Witty, finely crafted, genuinely funny, Carey’s poems surprise with their clever double takes on society’s faults and foibles. At once erudite and bitingly topical, Carey has a keen eye for the humorous detail and the deeper resonances of global stupidity. Carey shows himself adept at both the brief political quip like the Tony Abbot-inspired “Captain’s Pick Haiku” or the longer reflective ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • A Little History of Poetry

    by John Carey ...
    Series series Little Histories
    A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the year by the London Times“[A] fizzing, exhilarating book.”—Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London“Delightful.’”—New York Times Book ReviewWhat is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    A Little History of Poetry

    by John Carey ...
    Narrated by Ralph Lister ...
    Series series The Little Histories Series

    Unabridged

    9 hours 52 min

    A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literatureWhat is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work—over the centuries countless thousands of poems have been ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • William Golding

    The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies

    by John Carey ...
    In 1953, William Golding was a provincial schoolteacher writing books on his breaks, lunch hours and holidays. His work had been rejected by every major publisher—until an editor at Faber and Faber pulled his manuscript off the rejection pile. This was to become Lord of the Flies, a book that would sell in the millions and bring Golding worldwide recognition.Golding went on to become one of the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Life among the Apaches

    Insights into Apache culture and frontier life from a former Indian Affairs agent

    by John Carey Cremony ...
    In "Life among the Apaches," John Carey Cremony provides a captivating and ethnographically rich account of Apache society and culture in the mid-19th century. Through a unique blend of firsthand observation and narrative storytelling, Cremony offers insights into the customs, beliefs, and daily lives of the Apache people. His literary style is both descriptive and immersive, allowing readers to ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Essential Paradise Lost

    by John Carey ...
    After its publication in 1667, John Milton's Paradise Lost was celebrated throughout Europe as a supreme achievement of the human spirit.Now it is little read. To bring readers back to Milton's masterpiece, John Carey has shortened it to a third of its original length. In this fascinating reinterpretation, Carey reveals new insights about Milton's sources of inspiration, while exploring divided ... Read more

    $19.99 USD