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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Some light wear. In a Good jacket. Very readable copy.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. Explores how cricket has been portrayed in fiction from the 19th century to the 21st, examining shifts in the treatment of national, post-colonial and global themes.Following a short introduction, the book is arranged in seven chapters, each dealing with a specific genre and its main themes. The opening chapter considers how the village cricket story laid down the main tropes of cricket and fiction and established a defining relation between cricket, England's green and pleasant land and national identity, especially in times of war and its aftermath. The second chapter develops the cricket, war and nation theme in the public school cricket novel, especially in the period of the South African (Boer) and First World Wars when cricket and war were frequently dramatised in similar terms. It also discusses the recurring treatment of homosexuality in the public school cricket novel and how the language of cricket was used to write about same-sex attraction. The next chapter breaks new ground in discussing how cricket has featured in murder mysteries. It demonstrates how well suited to each other the sport and the genre are - cricket providing a kind of open-air closed-room setting for a murder narrative - and explores the formal similarities between the shape and structure of a game of cricket and the procedures of the novel.The following two chapters explore how amenable cricket fiction has proved as a medium for both comedy and tragedy. It discusses the inherent comic potential of cricket for fiction, the mishap and slapstick of a sport in which the box was introduced a century before the helmet. Cricket also has a long association with suicide as many observers of the game have noted. Fictional treatment of this tragic theme has focused on how a sport which is so time-consuming, both in the duration of a game and the extended career of those who play it, has made retirement difficult to manage and sometimes led to suicide.As the English cricket story declined into insularity and nostalgia, and cricket ceased to be a subject for serious literary fiction, the post-colonial cricket novel emerged. The penultimate chapter considers how contemporary post-colonial novelists have revived and expanded the fictional possibilities of cricket by extending its global range and replenishing its traditional narratives to include previously unspoken issues of migration and race, thereby creating new kinds of stories. The concluding chapter looks at several apocalyptic end-of-the-world cricket stories and develops into a discussion of how cricket is both contributing to and threatened by global heating, raising the question of its sustainability as a sport and as a subject for fiction.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Signed by Author(Unverified).

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Cricket, Fiction and Nation. Book.

Paperback. Condition: New. Explores how cricket has been portrayed in fiction from the 19th century to the 21st, examining shifts in the treatment of national, post-colonial and global themes.Following a short introduction, the book is arranged in seven chapters, each dealing with a specific genre and its main themes. The opening chapter considers how the village cricket story laid down the main tropes of cricket and fiction and established a defining relation between cricket, England's green and pleasant land and national identity, especially in times of war and its aftermath. The second chapter develops the cricket, war and nation theme in the public school cricket novel, especially in the period of the South African (Boer) and First World Wars when cricket and war were frequently dramatised in similar terms. It also discusses the recurring treatment of homosexuality in the public school cricket novel and how the language of cricket was used to write about same-sex attraction. The next chapter breaks new ground in discussing how cricket has featured in murder mysteries. It demonstrates how well suited to each other the sport and the genre are - cricket providing a kind of open-air closed-room setting for a murder narrative - and explores the formal similarities between the shape and structure of a game of cricket and the procedures of the novel.The following two chapters explore how amenable cricket fiction has proved as a medium for both comedy and tragedy. It discusses the inherent comic potential of cricket for fiction, the mishap and slapstick of a sport in which the box was introduced a century before the helmet. Cricket also has a long association with suicide as many observers of the game have noted. Fictional treatment of this tragic theme has focused on how a sport which is so time-consuming, both in the duration of a game and the extended career of those who play it, has made retirement difficult to manage and sometimes led to suicide.As the English cricket story declined into insularity and nostalgia, and cricket ceased to be a subject for serious literary fiction, the post-colonial cricket novel emerged. The penultimate chapter considers how contemporary post-colonial novelists have revived and expanded the fictional possibilities of cricket by extending its global range and replenishing its traditional narratives to include previously unspoken issues of migration and race, thereby creating new kinds of stories. The concluding chapter looks at several apocalyptic end-of-the-world cricket stories and develops into a discussion of how cricket is both contributing to and threatened by global heating, raising the question of its sustainability as a sport and as a subject for fiction.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Cricket, Fiction and Nation traces the historic arc of fiction dealing with cricket from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century to its emergence in the early twentieth century as a form of serious literature, its subsequent decline into genre writing and its rejuvenation in the global world of the twenty-first century. The writers discussed include Mary Russell Mitford, Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, P.G. Wodehouse, James Joyce, E.M. Forster, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Dorothy L. Sayers, C. Day Lewis writing as Nicholas Blake, L.P. Hartley, Simon Raven, J.L. Carr, Mike Marqusee, Nancy Spain, Caryl Phillips, Romesh Gunesekera, Anthony Quinn and Shehan Karunatilaka. It also considers how cricket has featured in the TV series Inspector Morse and Midsomer Murders. Cricket, Fiction and Nation examines how cricket has been used by fiction writers from the early nineteenth century to the present day to explore matters such as national identity, class, sexuality, murder, suicide, obsession, empire, race, migration and the global post-colonial world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. UK edition. A reduced version of the March 1950 US edition with 164 pages rather than 196. It excludes some stories that were in the US edition and also loses some of the features. Contains 'The Ultimate Peril' by Abernathy, 'The Man from Arbutus' by Hickey, 'Sun-Stuff' by Stanton, 'All Else is Dust' by Jarvis (Bloch), 'For Each Man Kills' by Temple, 'Space-Jaloppies' by Karney, 'Malignant Mentor' by Phelps, 'Refuge' by Miller, 'Sword of Peace' by Moore, 'Two Against Venus' by Browning (Phillips) and very short essays by Wainwright, Barry, Burt, Kedzie and Sinclair. The front cover has a few small edge tears and some chipping and creasing. The back cover has a ragged two inch tear with a little loss to the bottom right corner. There is a quarter inch piece missing at the base of the spine which also has a some chipping and tearing along the edges and a small chip at the top. Pages browned with creases to the bottom corners of a numbet of pages. Cover illustration by Robert Gibson Jones and interior illustrations by Ruth, Summers, Krupa and Swiatek. Jones, Robert Gibson; Ruth, Rod; Summers, Leo Ramon; Krupa, Julian S.; Swiatek, Edmond (illustrator).…

paperback. Condition: New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 24-48 hours from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. A VG or better 9" x 12" program book. 44 pages. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 130 pp. General wear. Cover art by Robert Gibson Jones; interiors by: Robert Gibson Jones; Henry Sharp; EDmond B. Swiatek; Rod Ruth; Julian S. Krupa; and Virgil Finlay. This issue contains: Secret of the Flaming Ring - a novelette by P. F. Costello; Death Has Green Eyes - a short short story by John W. Jakes; Let's Do It Again - a short story by William Campbell Gault; Pink Wind - a short story by Frances M. Deegan; Social Obligation - a short short story by Roy L. Clough Jr.; and The Master Ego - a novelette by Peter Worth; along with the usual features; including a letter from W. Paul Ganley. Size: 8vo. Robert Gibson Jones; Henry Sharp; EDmond B. Swiatek; Rod Ruth; Julian S. Krupa; Virgil Finlay; (illustrator). Book. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. 162 pp. General wear. Cover art by Robert Gibson Jones; interiors by: Robert Gibson Jones; Rod Ruth; Julian S. Krupa; Edmond Swiatek; and W. E. Terry. This issue contains: Diana and the Golden Ring - a novelette by S. M. Tenneshaw (house name used by an assortment of writers including Charles Beaumont, Randall Garrett, Edmond Hamilton, John Jakes, Milton Lesser, Robert Silverberg and others); Girl from Mars - a short story by Robert Bloch; Detour from Tomorrow - a short story by Rog Phillips (Roger Phillips Graham); Inoculation - a short story by Roger Flint Young (Peter Grainger); Mr Destiny Follows Through - a novelette by Gilbert Grant; and The World of the Lost - a novel by Paul Lohrman (Richard S. Shaver); along with the usual features; including letters from Robert Silverberg and W. Paul Ganley. Size: 4to. Robert Gibson Jones; Rod Ruth; Julian S. Krupa; Edmond Swiatek; W. E. TErry; (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. 146 pp. General wear. Cover art by Robert Gibson Jones. This issue contains; Exiles of the Elfmounds - a novelette by Richard S. Shaver (Paul Lohrman); Coffin of Hope - a novelette by Lee Francis; Decoy in Space - a short story by David C. McGowan; The Shortcut - a short story by Rog Phillips; Why The Sky Is Blue - a short short story by Ruppert Carlin; And The Rockets Came - a short story by Charles Recour; The Mystery of the Cat's Back - a short story by G. L. Cleggett; and Rendezvous In Space - a novelette by Guy Archette (Chester S. Geier); along with all the usual features. Size: 8vo. Robert Gibson Jones; Rod Ruth; Julian S. Krupa; Edmond Swiatek; W. E. TErry; (illustrator). Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Text clean and solid; Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories; 1.02 x 8.98 x 5.91 Inches; 266 pages.

Condition: New.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. AS NEW hardcover in VERY GOOD dust jacket, no marks in text, inscribed by AUTHOR on title page; exterior bright and clean. Book.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: New. 2025. paperback. . . . . .

Paperback. Condition: Good. 248 pages. Tanning around page edges.

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…