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Chris Baldick Author & Editor

Chris Baldick is Professor of English at Goldsmiths, University of London.

The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales cover

The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales

Chris Baldick - Paperback

£12.49

The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms cover

The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms

Chris Baldick - Paperback

£14.99

The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre cover

The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre

John Polidori - Paperback

£10.99

Literature of the 1920s: Writers Among the Ruins cover

Literature of the 1920s: Writers Among the Ruins

Chris Baldick - Hardback

£95.00

Criticism and Literary Theory 1890 to the Present cover

Criticism and Literary Theory 1890 to the Present

Chris Baldick - Hardback

£145.00

Criticism and Literary Theory 1890 to the Present cover

Criticism and Literary Theory 1890 to the Present

Chris Baldick - Paperback

£57.99

Melmoth the Wanderer cover

Melmoth the Wanderer

Charles Maturin - Paperback

£12.99

In Frankenstein's Shadow cover

In Frankenstein's Shadow

Chris Baldick - Paperback

£52.00