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  • Elegy for Iris

    by John Bayley ...
    "I was living in a fairy story--the kind with sinister overtones and not always a happy ending--in which a young man loves a beautiful maiden who returns his love but is always disappearing into some unknown and mysterious world, about which she will reveal nothing."So John Bayley describes his life with his wife, Iris Murdoch, one of the greatest contemporary writers in the English-speaking world ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Magical Midlife Awakening [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Leveling Up 10

    by K.F. Breene ...
    Narrated by Full Cast, Karen Novack, Danny Gavigan, Dominique Salvacion, Dawn Ursula, DeJeanette Horne, Rayner Gabriel, R.J. Bayley, John Kielty, Henry W. Kramer, Crystal Lee, Kay Elúvian ...
    Series series Leveling Up

    Unabridged

    10 hours 18 min

    With Kingsley safe and Momar subdued for the moment, it's time for healing. Jessie and the gang take a much needed break.Or, at least, the gang does.The holidays are upon them and the ex has invited Jessie to meet his new fiancée. It's off to L.A. where Jessie will face her past and the wounds she didn't realize still lingered.Niamh, too, meets a blast from her past. This one, though, is ten times ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Foundling House

    by John A. Hoda ...
    Narrated by RJ Bayley, Maria Nicola Johnson ...
    Series series Jekyll & Murphy Mystery

    Unabridged

    7 hours 27 min

    A missing child. A deadly trade. A love caught between redemption and ruin.London, 1889. After surviving Jack the Ripper's reign of terror, Doctor Henry Jekyll and Francine Murphy dream of a peaceful future together. But their fragile hopes are shattered when Francine's estranged husband, Seamus, reappears—begging her to help find his sister's missing baby, stolen from a long-term foster home ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shakespeare and Tragedy

    by John Bayley ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Study of Shakespeare
    Every generation develops its own approach to tragedy, attitudes successively influenced by such classic works as A. C. Bradley’s Shakespearean Tragedy and the studies in interpretation by G. Wilson Knight. A comprehensive new book on the subject by an author of the same calibre was long overdue.In his book, originally published in 1981, John Bayley discusses the Roman plays, Troilus and Cressida ... Read more

    Was $49.99 USD Now $44.99 USD

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    Sin and Surrender [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Demigods of San Francisco 6

    by K.F. Breene ...
    Narrated by Full Cast, Yenni Ann, Yasmin Tuazon, Alex Hill-Knight, Sura Siu, Robb Moreira, Holly Adams, Rayner Gabriel, Danny Montooth, Christopher Walker, John Kielty, R.J. Bayley ...
    Series series Demigods of San Francisco

    Unabridged

    7 hours 44 min

    The sixth and final book in the #1 internationally bestselling Demigods of San Francisco series!It's the moment Kieran and Lexi have been preparing for. The Magical Summit.Ready or not, they will take their assembled team into the belly of the beast. The stakes couldn't be higher. If the powers that be don't approve of Kieran, he will not earn the official title of the Demigod of San Francisco.The ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Iris and Her Friends

    A Memoir of Memory and Desire

    by John Bayley ...
    A timeless work that will bring healing to anyone dealing with the loss of a loved one.John Bayley began writing Iris and Her Friends, a companion to the New York Times bestseller Elegy for Iris, late at night while his wife, the beloved novelist Iris Murdoch, succumbed to Alzheimer's Disease. As Iris was losing her memory, Bayley was flooded with vivid recollections of his own. In lyrical reverie ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Red Hat

    A Novel

    by John Bayley ...
    If Oscar Wilde were alive and well and writing in the 1990s, The Red Hat, by renowned critic John Bayley, is precisely the kind of playful, coyly erotic work of fiction he would have written.Set in Holland and in Provence, the first part of this elegant literary jaunt follows a trio of young Vermeer aficionados as they set forth for the Hague to see a Vermeer exhibition. What begins as a simple ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Widower's House

    A Study in Bereavement, or How Margot and Mella Forced Me to Flee My Home

    by John Bayley ...
    A hilarious comedy of errors and a delightful love story by England's most improbable sex symbol.Little did retired professor John Bayley realize when he lost Iris Murdoch, his beloved wife of forty-four years, that life would never be the same again. First came thousands of sympathy notes from lovers of Murdoch's novels and fans of Bayley's own poignant memoir, Elegy for Iris. But more alarming ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Born in Chains - Collected Slave Narratives

    First-Person Testimonies of Enslavement, Escape, Resistance, and the Fight for Freedom

    by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, William Grimes, Solomon Northup, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, Zamba Zembola, Boyrereau Brinch, Olaudah Equiano, Solomon Bayley, Henry Watson, John Brown, William Craft, Ellen Craft, J. W. Loguen, John Andrew Jackson, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner, Louis Hughes, Jacob D. Green, Elizabeth Keckley, Josiah Henson, Charles Ball, Austin Steward, Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, L. S. Thompson, James W. C. Pennington, Kate Drumgoold, Lucy A. Delaney, Moses Grandy, Leonard Black, Henry Box Brown, Phillis Wheatley, James L. Smith, Joseph Mountain, Peter Still, Annie L. Burton, Israel Campbell, Lewis Clarke, Francis Fedric, William Still, Moses Roper, Joseph Vance Lewis, Rev. Greensbury Washington Offley, John Thompson, Venture Smith, Isaac D. Williams, William Walker, Octavia Albert ...
    Born in Chains—Collected Slave Narratives assembles a capacious archive of bondage, flight, resistance, emancipation, and memory. Spanning autobiography, dictated testimony, spiritual reflection, political argument, and documentary recollection, the volume reveals the formal range of slave narrative traditions across the Atlantic world. Accounts of escape, family separation, literacy, labor, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Collected Shorter Fiction of Leo Tolstoy, Volume I

    Introduction by John Bayley

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Translated by Alymer Maude, Louise Maude, Nigel Cooper ...
    Written over a period of more than half a century, Leo Tolstoy’s stories reflect every aspect of his art and personality. They cover his experiences as a soldier in the Caucasus, his married life, his passionate interest in the peasantry, his cult of truth and simplicity, and his growing preoccupation with religion.The stories in Volume 1 of the Collected Shorter Fiction date from the period in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Collected Stories of Henry James

    Volume 2; Introduction by John Bayley

    by Henry James ...
    Encompassing a period of almost fifty years, the stories of Henry James represent the most remarkable feat of sustained literary creation in modern times. For sheer richness, variety and intensity, they have no equal in fiction, enabling us to trace the evolution of a great writer in the finest detail. This collection reprints all the major stories together with many unfamiliar but equally ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies on the Iraq Conflict

    Wording the War

    Edited by John Morley, Paul Bayley ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
    This volume seeks to illustrate the fundamental role of language in political action, focusing on the war in Iraq. It combines quantitative methods, based on a sophisticated modular corpus that was queried through special software with the aim of identifying regularly occurring lexical and semantic patterns, with classical discourse analysis, which seeks to investigate naturally occurring language ... Read more

    $82.99 USD