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The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation
No writer has surpassed the epic achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien, who spent decades refining his world of Middle-earth-a world that has felt so real to so many readers that it...
Why Homer Matters: A History
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Adam Nicolson writes popular books as popular books used to be, a breeze rather than a scholarly sweat, but humanely erudite, elegantly written, passionately felt...and his excitement is contagious.--James Wood,...
Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark - Shortlisted for the
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: THE TIMES / SUNDAY TIMES , GUARDIAN , TELEGRAPH , TLS , FINANCIAL TIMES , ECONOMIST , NEW STATESMAN , LONDON STANDARD AND WASHINGTON...
How to Think Like a Poet: The Poets That Made Our World and Why We
An entertaining guide to history's most influential and inspiring poets - from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O'Hara - and how they can teach us to better understand...
Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy(1828-1910) was born into one of the grand old families of Imperial Russia. The loss of both of his parents during childhood was the prelude to a series of...
Romeo and Juliet
From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of the most famous of all love stories. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's most loved comedy. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview...
Henry V
From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's great exploration of patriotism and war. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents...
The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works
"The text of any Shakespeare play is a living negotiable entity: scholarship and theatre practice work together to keep the plays alive and vividly present." - Greg Doran, RSC Artistic...
Wild Justice
The hijacking of a jumbo jet off the Seychelles galvanises anti-terrorist chief Peter Stride into the action for which he has spent a lifetime training. But even in the hail...
Sylvia Plath's Tomato Soup Cake: Nigella Lawson: 'Absolutely ideal
Dine with beloved writers in this 'utterly charming' (Nina Stibbe) new anthology of their very own favourite recipes, introduced by Bee Wilson. Agatha Christie's hot bean salad. Jack Kerouac's green...
The Ramayana of Valmiki: The Complete English Translation
The definitive English translation of the classic Sanskrit epic poem - now available in a one-volume paperback. The Rmyaa of Vlmki , the monumental Sanskrit epic of the life of...
The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading
***A Financial Times, TLS, Economist and New Statesman Book of the Year 2024*** Can you remember the first time you fell in love with a book? The stories we read...
Suppose a Sentence
Suppose a Sentence is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature. It is both an experiment in the attentive form of the essay -...
The Best of A. A. Gill
For over twenty years, people turned to A. A. Gill's columns every Sunday - for his fearlessness, his perception, and the laughter-and-tear-provoking one-liners - but mostly because he was the...
How to Teach Classics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction to the
It should have been a beautiful moment between a man and his dog. Philip Womack made a quip about Cerberus, the three-headed hell-hound, but for Una, the beloved lurcher, it...
Principles of Geology
One of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-33) sought to explain the geological state of the modern Earth by...
Writing Home
Autobiographical and idiosyncratic, this is a collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings, assembled by Bennett himself from 25 years of diaries, reminiscences, broadcasting and reviews. It includes his address at...