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Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will feature writing in English from various genres and differing times. Learning to Swim by Graham Swift is edited by Richard Hoyes, Head of Sixth Form at Farnham College.
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Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread.
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The men and women in these spare, Kafkaesque stories are engaged in struggles that are no less brutal because they are fought by proxy. In Graham Swift's taut prose, these quiet combative relationships--between a mismatched couple; an aging doctor and his hypochondriacal patient; a teenage refugee swept up in the conflict between an oppressively sentimental father and his rebellious son--become a microcosm for all human cruelty and need.
"Swift proves throughout this ambitious collection that he is a master of his language and the construction of provocative situations."--Houston Chronicle
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- PublisherLondon Magazine Editions
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0904388468
- ISBN 13 9780904388466
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages146
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Learning to Swim and Other Stories
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Green cloth, 146 pp. Book has previous owner's name written in small letters on bottom of endpaper but book is otherwise as new, clean and sharp and tight all around. Dust jacket is also in great shape, price-clipped but otherwise as new. now protected in mylar cover. Seller Inventory # 200736
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LEARNING TO SWIM AND OTHER STORIES
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ISBN 10: 0904388468
ISBN 13: 9780904388466
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First Edition Signed by Author. A very nice copy with clean, bright interior pages and solid binding. Review type sticker on flyleaf "Georges Borchardt, Inc. LiteraryD Agency, New York. DJ in very nice condition, original price on jacket flap in protective mylar cover. Rare. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 146 pages; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 45413
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Learning To Swim [signed copy]
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ISBN 10: 0904388468
ISBN 13: 9780904388466
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First Edition. His first collection of short stories and his third book. Signed with a gift inscription to the title page. Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Seller Inventory # 16409
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LEARNING TO SWIM AND OTHER STORIES (First edition, first impression)
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ISBN 10: 0904388468
ISBN 13: 9780904388466
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Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First impression of this true first edition of Graham Swift's third published book, after his first two novels "The Sweet-Shop Owner" and "Shuttlecock". Scarce - only 750 copies printed. ***Near fine in bright green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. No bumps or creases - just very slight creasing to the corner tips. Page block edges clean. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean and bright. No creases or tears. ***In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £7.95. The dustwrapper is complete with no discernible faults, except for slight fading to the green colour on the spine and back panel near the spine. No other creases, chips or tears. Dustwrapper bright. ***220mm x 144mm. 146 pages. ***'Graham Colin Swift FRSL (born 4 May 1949) is an English writer. Born in London, England, he was educated at Dulwich College, London, Queens' College, Cambridge, and later the University of York. Some of Swift's books have been filmed, including "Waterland" (1992), "Shuttlecock" (1993), "Last Orders" (1996) and "Mothering Sunday" (2021). His novel "Last Orders" was joint-winner of the 1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and a controversial winner of the 1996 Booker Prize, owing to the many similarities in plot and structure to William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying". ***'"Learning to Swim and Other Stories" is the first collection of stories by English author Graham Swift published in 1982. All eleven stories were first published in British magazines. The collection was well received in England but was not as favourable in America. In Contemporary Authors (V.122) "more than one critic remarked that some of the tales seemed too studied and even uncompelling." Many of his works, especially short stories, leave the reader with many unanswered questions. Most questions are easily answered by considering Swift's work as a whole. "Learning to Swim" is not a collection of happy, light tales. One critic writes, "A list of themes reads like a microcosm of the Sunday morning newspapers: infidelity to partner (three), sexual traumas (two), incest (one), age (three), suspected bestiality (one), murder and mayhem (one)." (Wiki) ***A nice collectable copy of the scarce first edition of Graham Swift's third published book. We also have a near fine copy of the second edition of this work, published by Picador in 1993, listed on ABE. All the London Magazine Edition publications had relatively small print runs and are very hard to find today. A beautiful copy. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 7205
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LEARNING TO SWIM AND OTHER STORIES (First edition, first impression)
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ISBN 10: 0904388468
ISBN 13: 9780904388466
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Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First impression of this true first edition of Graham Swift's third published book, after his first two novels "The Sweet-Shop Owner" and "Shuttlecock". Scarce - only 750 copies printed. ***Near fine in bright green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. No bumps or creases - just very slight creasing to the corner tips. Page block edges clean. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean and bright. No creases or tears. ***In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £7.95. The dustwrapper is complete with no discernible faults, except for a very slight crease to the top corner of the front panel, and to the tail of the spine of the dustwrapper. No other creases, chips or tears. Dustwrapper bright. No fading. No tears. In bright, near fine, collectable condition. ***220 mm x 144 mm. 146 pages. ***'Graham Colin Swift FRSL (born 4 May 1949) is an English writer. Born in London, England, he was educated at Dulwich College, London, Queens' College, Cambridge, and later the University of York. Some of Swift's books have been filmed, including "Waterland" (1992), "Shuttlecock" (1993), "Last Orders" (1996) and "Mothering Sunday" (2021). His novel "Last Orders" was joint-winner of the 1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and a controversial winner of the 1996 Booker Prize, owing to the many similarities in plot and structure to William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying". ***'"Learning to Swim and Other Stories" is the first collection of stories by English author Graham Swift published in 1982. All eleven stories were first published in British magazines. The collection was well received in England but was not as favourable in America. In Contemporary Authors (V.122) "more than one critic remarked that some of the tales seemed too studied and even uncompelling." Many of his works, especially short stories, leave the reader with many unanswered questions. Most questions are easily answered by considering Swift's work as a whole. "Learning to Swim" is not a collection of happy, light tales. One critic writes, "A list of themes reads like a microcosm of the Sunday morning newspapers: infidelity to partner (three), sexual traumas (two), incest (one), age (three), suspected bestiality (one), murder and mayhem (one)." (Wiki) ***A nice collectable copy of the scarce first edition of Graham Swift's third published book. We also have a near fine copy of the second edition of this work, published by Picador in 1993, listed on ABE. All the London Magazine Edition publications had relatively small print runs and are very hard to find today. A beautiful copy. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 1572z
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Learning to Swim and Other Stories
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ISBN 10: 0904388468
ISBN 13: 9780904388466
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First edition. Hardcover. The first collection of short stories from the Booker Prize winning author of "Last Orders." A very good plus but for a small moisture stain to the top corner in a bright very good plus dust jacket with the same stain. A rather uncommon book. Seller Inventory # 106608
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Learning to Swim
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ISBN 10: 0904388468
ISBN 13: 9780904388466
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. London Magazine Editions 1982, First Edition first impression. Fine in Fine unclipped dustjacket, a very handsome clean, tight copy which appears to be unread. Clear removable protective sleeve. Photos available. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 000222
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ISBN 13: 9780904388466
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition 1st printing hardback in unclipped dustjacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page with no other inscriptions. Book in near fine condition, jacket with slight crease top right front. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. Am happy to supply scans. (K18). Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # ABE-15546334705
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