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This anthology is intended to answer the need for a large-scale anthology of early Scottish Literature, which is felt particularly acutely in the academic field. It has been designed as...

Ford's novel, "Parade's End", has been acknowledged as one of the great British novels about World War I. This book features a selection of Ford's other writings about the war,...

CONTENTS WORDS AND MUSIC 1. Quiet Subversive John Updike 2. A Sonnet Setting Alexander Goehr 3. Brooksmith by Henry James Daniel Stern 4. Recollections Robert Tear 5. Afterwards Al Alvarez...

"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night," wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we...

Join beloved author and presenter of BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth, Michael Rosen, on a journey through the year via our most weird and wonderful words. Discover the poetry...

This new edition of Elizabeth Maslen's successful study covers the full range of Doris Lessing's work and explores in detail both its form and content. From The Grass is Singing...

During the early years of her literary career Dorothy Parker wrote more than 300 poems and verses for a variety of popular magazines and newspapers. Many of these were collected...

'My whole life, it's been assumed, Western civilisation is an old bitch gone in the teeth. And so people say, go to Israel. Because in Israel at least people are...

With wide format pages to give generous margins for notes, the editor presents the latest George Eliot scholarship in an introduction, and also includes notes, text summary, selected criticism and...

Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs gathers together Wallace Stegner's most important and memorable writings on the American West: its...

A re-reading of The Prelude in the light of post-structuralist and feminist theory, Romanticism, Writing, and Sexual Difference is the first major study of The Prelude by an author distinguished...

For nearly half a century, James D. Hart's Oxford Companion to American Literature has offered a matchless guided tour through American literary culture, both past and present. Hart now presents...

Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as 'A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines,...

At the centre of Hide and Seek (1854) a secret waits to be revealed. Why should the apparently respectable painter Valentine Blyth refuse to account for the presence in his...

Set in the immense landscape of the Great Plains, The Prairie (1827) addresses many questions raised by the penetration of the American west: the displacement of the Indians, the destruction...

An autobiography, revealing Nabokov's comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, army of relations and family hangers-on and of lovely civilized houses in St Petersburg...

A delightful and uniquely imaginative tribute to the Bard, incorporating biography, theatrical history, and a vivid recreation of the Elizabethan age. Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject...

This companion to the work of one of Britain's best-loved novelists celebrates the centenary of her birth. Daphne du Maurier is one of Britain's best-loved authors, her writing capturing the...

Readers who have discovered the delights of the British master storyteller H.E. Bates in A Month by the Lake and A Party for the Girls (published by New Directions in...

This book is part of the "Everyman" series, which has been totally re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type. It includes an introduction, a chronology of the life and times...

The Compact Oxford Dictionary & Thesaurus is the ultimate one-stop reference, containing both a dictionary and a thesaurus in one handy reference volume. The dictionary and thesaurus texts have an...

The must-have French School Dictionary for KS3 and GCSE, fully updated with new approved word lists for GCSE. This handy-sized Collins French School Dictionary is modern, up-to-date, clear and easy...

The Collins Robert Concise French Dictionary has been revised and updated to cover all the latest vocabulary. Colour headwords, translation tips, a comprehensive section on communication, and a brand-new supplement...

This brilliant, culturally resonant fiction was written towards the end of Tolstoy's life, but the conflict it describes has obvious, ironic parallels with current affairs today. It is 1852 and...

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was born on Long Island and had a variety of occupations, including journalism, printing and teaching, before publishing Leaves Of Grass in 1855, which was highly praised...

Attitudes to sex have changed since Burns' time, passing through the prim, censorious 19th century, to move slowly towards the more open attitudes of the 21st. In writing about Burns,...

Charlotte Yonge, a best-seller admired by her greatest literary contemporaries in the mid-nineteenth century, but ignored or vilified by critics for the next hundred years, has recently received some attention...

Courtier, poet, soldier, diplomat - Philip Sidney was one of the most promising young men of his age. Son of Elizabeth I's deputy in Ireland, nephew and heir to her...

Osbert Sitwell, with his siblings Edith and Sacheverell, was at the heart of every literary fracas from 1918 to until well after 1945. He was a close friend and sometime...

Almost 400 years after his death, William Shakespeare is still acclaimed as the world's greatest writer, and yet the man himself remains shrouded in mystery. In this absorbing historical detective...

"Totally compelling...fsacinating....Sweeps the reader along...Jane Smiley is a true storyteller." THE WASHINGTON POST A magnificent novel of fourteenth-century Greenland, here is a rich and fascinating detail about the day-to-day lives--the...

Grab your passport and let the Shergill sisters take you on a journey... Meet the Shergill Sisters. The know-it-all, Rajni. The drama queen, Jezmeen. The golden child, Shirina. They have...

Ciaran O Nuallain's memoir of his brother Brian O'Nolan (1991-66), the only major source on the early life of the man who later achieved literary fame as Flann O'Brien and...

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Chesterton is so good on Dickens because his wit is as sharp as that of the Great Inimitable himself: "Dickens was most accurate when he was most fantastic. . ....

For word lovers everywhere, "The Guilded Tongue" is a treasure trove of esoteric synonyms for everyday words. This innovative book: provides definitions, etymologies, pronunciations and illustrative sentences for 500 weird...

There may be more important literary movements than the Angry Young Men but there can be few as consciously (or unconsciously) entertaining. The Angry Young Men were an absurdly diverse...

"Every so often there is a rebellion against the assumption that Shakespeare is a uniquely great writer. This feeling, strong at the moment, has vociferous supporters in the academics, teachers...

Loathing, anger, shame - and deep affection: Virginia Woolf's relationship with her servants was central to her life. Like thousands of her fellow Britons she relied on live-in domestics for...

The book titled Hemingway: The Paris Years by the author Michael S. Reynolds. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This new biography focuses on the maturing Hemingway when fame is hitting full force the years between A Farewell to Arms and the writing of For Whom the Bell Tolls....

In a portable mini format with a durable vinyl cover, this thesaurus is the perfact size to slip into a briefcase or bag. Suitable for travel, at home or the...

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The book titled Wizard Study Guide Schindler's List by the author Marcia Pope. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Capturing the unbelievable scope of Shakespeare's influence, this book covers the little-known details of Shakespeare's life along with the surprising legacy of the language and phrases inherited from his works....

Discover the similarities and differences between large, wild cats and small, domestic cats with this non-ficiton reader.This book is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands...