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 | Aneurin Bevan and the World of South Wales (ISBN 0708312160)
From 1880 onwards south Wales competed - in terms of economic and population growth and dynamic modernity - with any comparable area in the world; by the 1920s it was labelled 'American Wales'. Its population lived through one of the twentieth century's most significant urban and industrial experiences. Dai Smith's innovative and challenging book locates the culture of south Wales within that global framework. It presents Aneurin Bevan at the heart of that culture and as its finest exemplar.
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Price: £16.99
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After Raymond Williams: Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain (ISBN 9780708321539)
This book applies the Welsh academic writer and novelist Raymond Williams's theory of cultural materialism to a series of readings of literature and film produced in the years since Williams's death in 1988.
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Price: £18.99
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 | Angers, Fantasies and Ghostly Fears: Nineteenth-Century Women from Wales and English-language Poetry (ISBN 0708317642)
A ground-breaking study of writers all-too-often ignored by mainstream literary history. It will be essential reading for all those interested in the literary history of Welsh writing in English, women’s writing in the nineteenth century, and the discourse of insular imperialism.
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Price: £16.99
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The Angry Summer: A Poem of 1926 (hardback) (ISBN 0-7083-1090-7)
Through the voices of ordinary people caught up in the struggle, The Angry Summer graphically illustrates the plight of the miners and their families during the six-month-long miners' strike of 1926 - 'the summer of soups and speeches'.
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Price: £25.00
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 | Alexander Cordell (ISBN 0708314880)
This is the first biography of Alexander Cordell. It is written with energy and imagination by Mike Buckingham and Richard Frame, both of whom were close friends of Cordell. The book is based on Cordell's personal papers and on records of conversation with him. It offers a unique opportunity to look into the life of the man behind the books.
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Price: £11.99
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The Art of Richard Hughes: A Study of the Novels (ISBN 070831192X)
'This is an admirable and, in my opinion, seminal work of criticism and nobody with a serious interest in the twentieth-century novel can afford to ignore it.' (New Welsh Review)
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Price: £16.99
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 | Backgrounds to David Jones: A Study in Sources and Drafts (ISBN 0-7083-1051-6)
This is the first book to make extensive use of David Jones's drafts of poems and essays, his letters, and his own annotations to the books in his library. This book considers the philosophical and intellectual backgrounds and the historical sources that lie behind David Jones's poetry.
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Price: £35.00
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A Bibliographical Guide To Twenty-four Modern Anglo-Welsh Writers (ISBN 0708312330)
This is the most detailed guide in existence to a significant portion of the now extensive English-language literature of Wales.
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Price: £45.00
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 | A Bibliography of Welsh Literature in English Translation (ISBN 0708318827)
This is the first comprehensive bibliography of Welsh–English literary translation, complementing the online BWLET.net database (live since October 2002) as part of the AHRB-funded project.
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Price: £25.00
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Beyond The Difference: Welsh Literature in Comparative Contexts (ISBN 070831886X)
A celebration of the work of Wales's leading literary critic M. Wynn Thomas, with contributions from internationally acclaimed writers and poets, as well as significant critics working in the field.
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Price: £35.00
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 | Collected Stories of Gwyn Jones (ISBN 0708314570)
Evocative, powerful and vivid, Gwyn Jones's stories have that essential quality of arousing in the reader the desire to know what happens next. Set in two very different regions of Wales, the industrial valleys of the south and the rural west, they portray with disciplined artistry a world where cruelty and kindness, magic and menace, content and despair exist side by side.
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Price: £14.99
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Collected Poems: Emyr Humphreys (ISBN 0708315119)
Emyr Humphreys is best known as one of the most distinguished novelists that Wales has yet produced. He is also an accomplished poet, and this collection includes all the poems that he wishes to see preserved.
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Price: £45.00
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 | Compass Points: Jan Morris introduces a selection from the first hundred issues of Planet (ISBN 0708312209)
‘This anthology should be essential reading for anyone wanting to know how Wales and the Welsh are currently thinking.’ (Scots Independent)
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Price: £38.00
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The Collected Poems of Glyn Jones (ISBN 0708313884)
One of the most important writers of twentieth-century Wales, and a master of the short-story form, Glyn Jones regarded himself as primarily a poet. During a lifetime's devotion to his craft, he wrote poems of exquisite subtlety and great power about the places and people which meant most to him. Many are set in Merthyr Tydfil, where he was born and brought up, in Cardiff, where he was for many years a teacher, and in rural Carmarthenshire, where his father's people had their roots.
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Price: £45.00
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 | The Collected Poems of Roland Mathias (ISBN 070831760X)
Traces his poetic development, from his first collection to his most recent. Edited with the full cooperation of the author, it contains a number of previously unpublished works. In the introduction, Sam Adams discusses the fundamental stylistic and thematic aspects of the poetry, while his full annotations throw light on the composition of the poems, offer explanations of the many historical and topographical allusions they contain and help to elucidate occasional obscurities in the writing.
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Price: £45.00
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The Collected Short Stories of Roland Mathias (ISBN 0708316603)
Roland Mathias is one of the key figures of post-war Welsh writing in English. While his importance as a poet, editor, critic and scholar is widely recognized his contribution to the short story genre remains unassessed, as the bulk of his stories have long been out of print. This edition brings together material from The Eleven Men of Eppynt (1956), a handful of early stories that have not appeared previously in book form and three other important tales first published in magazines.
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Price: £14.99
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 | The Collected Stories of Glyn Jones (ISBN 0708314201)
This volume is the first to bring together all Glyn Jones's short stories. Set mainly either in the scruffy streets of his boyhood Merthyr or in the luxuriant Carmarthenshire countryside, the stories show the rich variety of tone that characterizes Glyn Jones's fiction.
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Price: £45.00
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The Complete Poems of Idris Davies (ISBN 0708312721)
'Print on demand'
Idris Davies is among the most important working-class poets to have written in English. Now, in the first truly comprehensive edition of his work, all Idris Davies's published poetry is presented in chronological order, together with a selection of his unpublished work.
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Price: £39.95
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 | The Complete Poems of T. H. Jones (1921-65) (ISBN 070831967X)
The Complete Poems will present something unique: an authenticated picture of the genesis, development and achievement of maturity of a significant artist.
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Price: £45.00
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Corresponding Cultures: Studies in the Relations between the Two Literatures of Wales (ISBN 0-7083-1531-3)
M. Wynn Thomas examines the way in which the two literatures of Wales, and the two cultures from which they originate, have long coexisted and sometimes corresponded.
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Price: £17.99
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 | Dangerous Diversity: The changing faces of Wales (ISBN 0708314503)
In this innovative collection of essays ranging in interest from Ben Jonson and Wordsworth to R. S. Thomas and Gillian Clarke, the traditional historian's impulse towards the construction of a grand narrative, a definitive and totalizing account of Welsh history and culture, is rejected in favour of a radical and often conoclastic erspectivism. "print on demand" subject to sufficient demand.
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Price: £25.00
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David Jones: A Commentary on Some Poetic Fragments (ISBN 0708309623)
A long-awaited reader's guide to eight of the more easily accessible poems by David Jones including seven from his sequence The Sleeping Lord and Other Fragments. It elucidates passages that may not be immediately clear, discusses the poetic value of the texts, and highlights their contemporary relevance. This study integrates previously published analyses in a general overview and also supplies original interpretations and will consequently be welcome reading not only for all specialists of David Jones's poetry but also non-specialists with an interest in contemporary poetry.
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Special sale price until 31 October 2001: £35.00
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| | David Jones: Diversity in Unity (ISBN 070831564X)
The literary and artistic work of David Jones (1895-1974) is characterised by its diversity and complexity, yet, at the same time, it demonstrates a powerful impulse towards unification. David Jones: Diversity in Unity demonstrates the coherence of Jones’s work and examines the artistic, psychological and moral impetus behind Jones’s quest for creative and spiritual integration.
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Distant Fields: Essays in Eighteenth century Fictions of Wales (ISBN 0708316956)
Moira Dearnley explores a selection of eighteenth-century texts that, while they record an important part of the history of the Welsh people, have received little critical attention in Wales. She looks at both familiar and less well-known authors, from Tobias Smollett to Mary ‘Perdita’ Robinson, and traces the varied ways in which ‘that principality contiguous to England’ was represented.
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Price: £45.00
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| | The Dragon Has Two Tongues (ISBN 0-7083-1693-X)
Essays on Anglo-Welsh Writers and Writing
Glyn Jones. Edited by Tony Brown
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Echoes to the Amen: Essays After R. S. Thomas (ISBN 0708317898)
Essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century poetry and contemporary Welsh writing in English,
Echoes to the Amen allows us to see how the concerns of this icon of modern Wales illuminate a global predicament.
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Price: £29.99
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| | Echoes to the Amen: Essays After R. S. Thomas (paperback) (ISBN 978-0-7083-2191-1)
". . . an impressive range of critical and comparative approaches . . . This collection demonstrates clearly that the poet has as much, and more, to say to us than the cultural icon." Gwales.com
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Price: £19.99
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Emyr Humphreys: Conversations and Reflections (ISBN 0-7083-1735-9)
This selection of the most important essays published by Emyr Humphreys over a fifty-year period reveals the commanding range of his interests and confirms his stature as Wales's leading man of letters.
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Price: £14.99
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 | Frontiers in Anglo-Welsh Poetry (ISBN 0708313957)
In this impressive and important work, Conran examines the impact on a selection of prominent Anglo-Welsh poets, Idris Davies, Dylan Thomas and David Jones among them, of an awareness of 'frontier' - between the Welsh and their dominant partners in Great Britain and within Wales itself, where two ways of life, two civilizations and two languages both divide and subtly interconnect.
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Goronwy Rees: Sketches in Autobiography (ISBN 0-7083-1676-X)
This edition of Goronwy Rees: Sketches in Autobiography is augmented with extensive introductory matter, full background and explanatory notes, and also includes ‘A Winter in Berlin’, a brilliantly effective evocation of Berlin under Nazi rule in 1934.
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 | Imagining Wales: A view of modern Welsh writing in English (paperback) (ISBN 0-7083-1636-0)
A pioneering exploration of a few of the images used by 20th century Welsh writers writing in English to portray the Welsh culture and identity.
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Price: £17.99
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Imagining Wales: A view of modern Welsh writing in English (hardback) (ISBN 0-7083-1635-2)
A pioneering exploration of a few of the images used by 20th century Welsh writers writing in English to portray the Welsh culture and identity.
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Price: £45.00
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 | Internal Difference: Literature in Twentieth-Century Wales (ISBN 0-7083-1152-0)
'Yet once again he seems to have read every text and heard every argument, so that his account of these writers is informed, balanced and sparkling in its insights.' (Planet)
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Price: £25.00
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Island of Apples (paperback) (ISBN 0-7083-1176-8)
Glyn Jones. Introduction by Belinda Humfrey
pp xxxiv256 paperback reprinted 2000
The Island of Apples (1965), Glyn Jones' third novel, is a beautifully idiosyncratic study of early romanticism, a romanticism that is yet without sex and its accompanying angst. It is a study of the pre-adolescence of a grammar school boy called Dewi, living in an industrial valley. The child is imaginative and sensitive, but his surroundings seem to him commonplace and drab. His parents die and he, an only child, falls under the spell of Karl, a strange older boy of exotic origin and life-style, who has come mysteriously to live in the valley. Gradually, under the impact of romantic Karl's mesmeric and imperious personality, and his vivid romancing about his strange, alien and fascinating existence, the brittle division between reality and the world of the imagination breaks down for Dewi and he becomes unable to distinguish between them.
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Price: £8.99
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| | Island of Apples (hardback) (ISBN 0-7083-1177-6)
Glyn Jones. Introduction by Belinda Humfrey
pp xxxiv256
The Island of Apples (1965), Glyn Jones' third novel, is a beautifully idiosyncratic study of early romanticism, a romanticism that is yet without sex and its accompanying angst. It is a study of the pre-adolescence of a grammar school boy called Dewi, living in an industrial valley. The child is imaginative and sensitive, but his surroundings seem to him commonplace and drab. His parents die and he, an only child, falls under the spell of Karl, a strange older boy of exotic origin and life-style, who has come mysteriously to live in the valley. Gradually, under the impact of romantic Karl's mesmeric and imperious personality, and his vivid romancing about his strange, alien and fascinating existence, the brittle division between reality and the world of the imagination breaks down for Dewi and he becomes unable to distinguish between them.
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Price: £15.95
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