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R. W. Chambers.
Man’s Unconquerable Mind: Studies of English Writers, from Bede to A. E. Housman and W. P. Ker.
Published London: Jonathan Cape, 1939.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Size: Alden press, Oxford; A. W. Bain & Co.
Size: 152x226x36mm.
Page count: text 414pp; plates 4pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy has no dustjacket; a slight kink to the outside edge of the pages; a few grubby marks inside, and at least 4 pages have pencilled marks in the margins.

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Weight without packaging: 862g.

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Contents:
Bede;
Beowulf & the "heroic age" in England;
Piers Plowman — a comparative study;
Martyrs of the Reformation — More & Tyndale;
The Elizabethan & the Jacobean shakespeare;
Measure for measure; Ruskin (& others) on Byron;
Philologists at University College, London — the beginnings, Platt, Housman, Ker.

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Illustrations: 4 monochrome plates
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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