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The life of William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon is shrouded in mystery. There is no record of his having received an education, buying a book, or writing a single poem or...

Deidre Le Faye has edited this completely revised and expanded edition of W. and R.A.Austen-Leigh's 1913 biography of Jane Austen, long out of print but still widely regarded as the...

Herbert Clark argues that language use is more than the sum of a speaker speaking and a listener listening. It is the joint action that emerges when speakers and listeners,...

This new edition updates the study of American literature with the inclusion of poets from Hart Crane and E.E.Cummings to John Ashbery and A.R. Ammons and novelists from William Burroughs...

In a piece of controversial research, the author of this treatise offers compelling evidence that the voice of Mark Twain's most famous literary creation, Huckleberry Finn, was based on that...

The book titled Geniuses Together: American Writers in Paris in the 1920's by the author Humphrey Carpenter. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Considers the emotional and artistic commitment in the marriages of nine modern writers: Tolstoy. Shaw, Conrad, Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, D.H. Lawrence, Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald. Each of them...

The book titled The Australian Mother Goose: Book II by the author Colin Thiele. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Best known for the explicit sensuality of his novels, D.H. Lawrence was also a prolific poet who took his inspiration from the major emotional crises of his life. This selection...

Describing Flannery O'Connor's fiction as ""violent, grotesque and horribly funny, with a twist"", Margaret Earley Whitt explores the canon of the Georgia writer whose work has long haunted and harassed...

Those who first met Rick Whitaker through his unrepentant memoir know that he was not a typical prostitute. This "Wittgenstein- and Freud-quoting" hustler is at core a thinkerand a voracious...

The book titled Flannery O'Connor: An Introduction by the author Miles Orvell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was born in Stratford-upon-Avon. He married Anne Hathaway in 1582 and later went to London, where he became an actor and playwright with the Lord Chamberlain's Men,...

This work is a combination of critical essays on understanding romantic poetry, prose and drama, as well as the contemporary historical background, with a complementary A-Z section of detailed entries....

The book is a study of the literature and visual arts concerned with the many and diverse forms of slaveries produced by globalisation in Britain since the early 1990s.Starting from...

The book titled A Thousand Yards of Sea by the author Laura Cecil. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is a comprehensively revised second edition of a classic student text with the 1798 and 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads reprinted together. It contains the complete text of one...

"Excellent ink drawings, brightened with colorful washes, illustrate incidents from the text with clarity, a flair for the dramatic, and a sense of humor." (Booklist, starred review) "Kurlansky is a...

This text discusses the visual and graphic conventions in contemporary poetry in English. It defines contemporary poetry and its historical construction as a "seen object" and uses literary and social...

Offers a new approach to the life and work of Edith Wharton (1862-1937). Drawing on the recent discovery of many of her letters, the book examines the intricate network of...

The book titled Crazy Alphabet by the author Lynn/Mcrae Cox. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. As well as the complete and unabridged text, each play in this series has...

Part of a series of dramatizations of well-known novels, selected for Key Stage 3 students, this play examines the monster's situation in a sympathetic light, and shows how the experiment...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on the politics of multiculturalism. These essays touch upon the political, social and cultural dimensions of the "canon issue", and illustrate how its ramifications extend far...

A classic anthology for the nursery, which draws upon the rich tradition of nursery rhymes, riddles, songs and lullabies. Poems by William Blake, Christina Rossetti and Robert Louis Stevenson complete...

The book titled All Change by the author Libby Houston. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A collection of over 3,000 quotations from the plays, sonnets, and poetry of William Shakespeare organized by topic and covering over 400 subjects from "abstinence" to "youth". The book includes...

No parent, teacher or nursery group should be without this classic treasury. There are songs, rhymes and games for every occasion, all chosen for their proven popularity with young children....

The book titled Language of the Heart by the author Anthony James. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Not since Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton has anyone written so candidly about madness. Sandy Jeffs' poetry has a stark dignity, capable of conveying "shudders of intense fear". Yet in...

Shakespeare's pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with blockbuster scripts; his works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism every year. He has given us many...

The book titled Lobster Quadrille by the author Lewis Carroll. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Darling Buds of May: Book of the Seasons by the author H. E. Bates. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Volume 2 of a three volume set containing Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence in its entirety. The publication of Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence will be a major event in Australian scholarly...

Conventional criticism discusses Wordsworth's poetry in terms of what his writing might have meant then, around 1800. Antony Easthope writes about how we can read that poetry now, nearly 200...

The book titled Critical Terms for Literary Study by the author Frank Lentricchia. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Of all types of literature, children's literature is perhaps the best loved, most varied, and most subtly influential. Its history is not merely a footnote to social history, but a...

The book titled Writing Our Lives: Reflections on Dialogue Journal Writing with Adults by the author Joy Kreeft Peyton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

'As good as being in the gallery. Enthralling.' Peter Ackroyd, The Times The original transcript of the famous Wilde vs Queensberry trial, containing previously unseen details and exchanges. With extensive...

I was eleven, no more, when the wish came to me to be a writer; and then very soon it was a settled ambition. But for the young V. S....

The book titled Feral City by the author Rosie Scott. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In the opening section of these related studies of modern literature, Bernard Bergonzi considers the poetry and fiction of two World Wars, including discussions of Wilfred Owen, Richard Aldington's "Death...

Kit Marlowe was the bad boy of the Elizabethan drama, a schemer and player who inhabited a seamy underworld in which plots proliferated. When he died, stabbed through the eye...