The social marketplace for new and used books.

Get started

Learn to sell
Learn to buy
Buy textbooks
Sign up
Buy a giftcard
For the authors

Support

Help
Track a shipment
Terms of use
Privacy policy
Cookies policy

Company

About us
Work with us
Give feedback
Categories

Contact us

Fast delivery with

Safe payments by

Visa
Mastercard
Vipps
Klarna

© 2026 Bookis AS

English

The Sense of an Ending

Paperback • 2000 • English

The Sense of an Ending

By Frank Kermode

0 Ratings • 0.0 of 5

‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌

About the book

Frank Kermode is one of our most distinguished and beloved critics of English literature. Here, he contributes a new epilogue to his collection of classic lectures on the relationship of fiction to age-old concepts of apocalyptic chaos and crisis. Prompted by the approach of the millennium, he revisits the book which brings his highly concentrated insights to bear on some of the most unyielding philosophical and aesthetic enigmas. Examining the works of writers from Plato to William Burroughs, ...Show more

Book details

ISBN

9780195136128

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc

Published year

2000

Language

English

Original title

The Sense of an Ending

Format

Paperback

Shippping and returns

Shipping

Used books are shipped by the seller. Expected delivery after package is sent is 2-4 days.

Returns

Contact the seller after delivery.

Reviews · 0

0 Ratings • 0.0 of 5

You might also like

The new dark ages

The new dark ages

Marriott, James

The End of Everything

The End of Everything

M. John Harrison

Immortality

Immortality

Milan Kundera

The end of history and the last man

The end of history and the last man

Francis Fukuyama

I'm Thinking Of Ending Things

I'm Thinking Of Ending Things

Iain Reid

Looking In the Distance

Looking In the Distance

Richard Holloway

The End

The End

Samuel Beckett

The end of the end of the earth

The end of the end of the earth

Jonathan Franzen

The End of Days

The End of Days

Jenny Erpenbeck

Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Italo Calvino

Latest Readings

Latest Readings

Clive James

This is how it ends

This is how it ends

Thinking the Twentieth Century

Thinking the Twentieth Century

Tony Judt

The Pale King An Unfinished Novel

The Pale King An Unfinished Novel

David Foster Wallace

The Sense of an Ending

The Sense of an Ending

Julian Barnes

How It Ends: From You to the Universe

How It Ends: From You to the Universe

Chris Impey

All Things Shining

All Things Shining

Hubert Dreyfus

The sunset limited

The sunset limited

Cormac McCarthy

Our tragic universe

Our tragic universe

Scarlett Thomas

Living in the End Times

Living in the End Times

Slavoj Zizek

Concluding Unscientific Postscript

Concluding Unscientific Postscript

Kierkegaard

Endgame

Endgame

Samuel Beckett

The Death and Return of the Author

The Death and Return of the Author

Dr. Sean Burke

The Book of Dead philosophers

The Book of Dead philosophers

Simon Critchley

Travels in the scriptorium

Travels in the scriptorium

Paul Auster

Book of Lasts: The Stories Behind the Endings That Changed the World

Book of Lasts: The Stories Behind the Endings That Changed the World

Ian Harrinson

Romantic Image

Romantic Image

Frank Kermode

the apocalypse and the shape of things to come

the apocalypse and the shape of things to come

Frances Carey

Very litte...Almost Nothing. Death, Philosoph…

Very litte...Almost Nothing. Death, Philosoph…

Simon Critchley

Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

Carl Sagan

The Denial of Death

The Denial of Death

Ernest Becker

The End Of Science

The End Of Science

John Horgan

The illusion of the end

The illusion of the end

Baudrillard, Jean

The Ending of Time

The Ending of Time

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The end of the world news

The end of the world news

Anthony Burgess

Janus: A Summing Up

Janus: A Summing Up

Arthur Koestler