Cockshut anthony oliver (10 risultati)

Softcover. 1st paperback. 220 p.; 20.5 cm. (Harvest books ; HB 328) [First printed in 1974] VG in orig. illus. sepia on ivory wrapper. An unread copy.

VG orig. red cloth in good, price-clipped dj. 128 p.; 21.5 cm. Jacket illustration: Bishop Colenso, by Ape. Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introductory -- 2. Doctrine and authority: the agnostic version -- 3. The Erastian crisis -- 4. The doctrinal crisis -- 5. The crisis of authoity -- 6. Conclusion -- Note -- Index. Binding is Hardcover. …

Hardcover. 2nd printing. 216 p.; 23.5 cm. [First printed in 1969] Contents -- Preface -- Part one. The literary personality: 1 Sketch of a career, 2 The two voices, 3 The prophetic and the social, 4 Cause and effect, 5 Mediaevalist and entertainer -- Part two. The major novels: 1 Waverley, 2 Old Mortality, 3 Rob Roy, 4 The Heart of Midlothian, 5 Redgauntlet. -- From the Preface: `This book is written out of three simple convictions. I am convinced that Scott wrote a number of books which deserve to have an enduring classic states. I am convinced that to see this it is necessary to discriminate very sharply. Few, if any, of our greatest authors wrote such a mass of careless and inferior work. Moreover, the lines of division, in the main, are strikingly clear. The second half of this volume discusses in detail the five books which form the core of achievement. To these can be added without reservation The Two Drovers and The Highland Widow, and, with various exceptions and allowances, The Bride of Lammermoor and A Legend of Montrose. In addition, there are two books which are masterly in part, but contain inferior or discordant elements--Guy Mannering and The Antiquary. Of the rest of Scott's voluminous writings, much is sensible, superficial stuff, written by a busy, intelligent, man of the world in the spirit of a journalist, much was exciting at the time it was written but can never, so far as we can see, be so again, and some is downright sensational and trashy. The third conviction is that we understand Scott best by concentrating on his strength and passing lightly over his weakness.' Good orig. red cloth, spine sl. dull.…

VG orig. blue boards in torn dj. 191, [1] p.; 21.5 cm. Binding is Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of largely green and brown jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed, not price clipped (25s), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and almost square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 216pp. Anthony Oliver John Cockshut (1927-2021), published as A. O. J. Cockshut, was a British academic and writer. He wrote extensively about nineteenth century English literature and also published books about the history of religious thought. This is his influential literary history of Scottish author Sir Walter Scott. Jacket by Kenneth Farnhill (illustratore).…

Half title. Paperback; sl. dulled.

Half title. Paperback. v.g.

Half title. Paperback. A paperback reprint of Anthony Trollope: A critical study.

Half title. Orig. blue cloth; spine sl. faded, otherwise vg.

Half title, front. port. Orig. blue cloth. v.g. in sl. dusted d.w. "Mr Cockshut has skilfully drawn on his understanding of Trollope's personality to illuminate his writing, and on his knowledge of the novels to trace the development of the author's personality." First published in 1955.