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The first edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature, edited by Sir Paul Harvey, was published in 1932, and quickly established itself as as the standard source of reference...

The collection includes famous poems such as Yeats's "The Fisherman" and Wilde's "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" alongside new work from Ireland's finest living writers. As well as forming a...

The book titled Literary Daughters by the author Maggie Lane. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Lev Tostoy is commonly identified with his character Levin in "Anna Karenina", but the discovery that the author repeats himself in other male characters and pre-eminently in his heroine Anna,...

In Whores of Babylon , Frances E. Dolan offers a perceptive study of the central role that Catholics and Catholicism played in early modern English law, literature, and politics. She...

In Medieval Autographies , A. C. Spearing develops a new engagement of narrative theory with medieval English first-person writing, focusing on the roles and functions of the "I" as a...

The book titled Romantic Egotist: Unauthorized Biography of Jack Trevor Story by the author Brian Darwent. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The neighborhoods of New Orleans have given rise to an extraordinary outpouring of important writing. Over the last century and a half or so, these stories and songs have given...

The book titled No Laughing Matter: Life and Times of Flann O'Brien by the author Anthony Cronin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Volume 1 of a three volume set containing Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence in its entirety. This three volume set marks the first time any Australian literary writer has had his/her...

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 6 (June 1934-June 1936) traces the completion and publication of Hemingway's experimental nonfiction book Green Hills of Africa and work on stories including 'The...

The book titled Novelists in Interview by the author John Haffenden. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

He was born in the year Dr Johnson died, and died in the year A.E. Houseman and Conan Doyle were born. The 75 years of Leigh Hunt's life uniquely span...

Intensely private, possibly saintly, but perhaps misanthropic, Samuel Beckett was the most legendary and enigmatic of writers. Anthony Cronin's biography is a revelation of this mythical figure as fully human...

Drawing extensively upon the poet's unpublished manuscripts-poems, journals, essays, and letters-as well as all his published works, Marjorie Perloff presents Frank O'Hara as one of the central poets of the...

A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of black American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of...

New to Classics The Portable Edgar Allan Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings- tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Fall of...

The final volume in this brilliant translation destined to take its place among the great English versions of The Divine Comedy. The final volume in a brilliant translation destined to...

The second volume in Dante's Divine Comedy Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory - a mountain of nine...

One of the central firsthand accounts of slavery in America A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation,...

Twain's account of travelling in Europe, A TRAMP ABROAD (1880), sparkles with the author's shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture, and showcases his unparalleled ability to...

In "The cardboard crown" Mr Boyd returns to the theme of Lucinda Brayford. It is the story of an Australian woman of the last century whose need for the traditional...

'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris...

This novel by Maylis Besserie, the first of her Irish trilogy, shows us Samuel Beckett at the end of his life in 1989, living in Le Tiers-Temps retirement home. It...

'Brilliant. Searching and profound' E.H. Carr, Times Literary Supplement 'When reading Isaiah Berlin we breathe an altogether different air' New York Review of Books 'Beautifully written' W. H. Auden, New...

The World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence,...

During the Second World War, a number of young Canadian poets converged on Montreal and, in a few years of little-magazine and small-press publication, rewrote the story of modern English-Canadian...

The book titled The Charles Dickens Encyclopaedia by the author Michael Hardwick. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

...Although (Belsey) uses the specialised vocabulary of modern critical theory, she writes with a clarity and zest which can carry along even an uninitiated reader.' - "THES".

The book titled Tale Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes by the author Patricia Highsmith. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Conrad and Religion by the author John Lester. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This study follows the trail of the detective story from its earliest appearance to the present. It is the history of a character: the fictional detective in his many guises,...

'The finest book ever written about England and the English' Stuart Maconie 'J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th Century and it is time that...

'Witty and well researched.' THE TIMES 'A scientific dose of reality.' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'A fun and comprehensive exploration.' LINDA McROBBIE 'Endlessly fascinating.' LIBRARY JOURNAL The science behind James Bond's...

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers who defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. Her vivid, daring and complex poetry continues to captivate new generations of readers and writers....

The texts of "A London Life" and "The Reverberator", both serialized in 1888, are presented here with a new introduction, notes and lists of variant readings by Philip Horne. With...

The story of a manual Olympia typewriter, more than 25 years old, and the agent of transmission for the work of one of the most varied and critically acclaimed contemporary...

In Out of Time , leading thinker Lynne Segal examines her life and surveys the work and lives of other writers and artists to explore the pleasures and perils of...

A Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of 1996 'Without books how could I have become myself?' In this wonderfully written meditation, Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers deeply felt insight...

Volume two of one of the greatest literary biographies of our time Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the Russian novelist in any...

"Measure for Measure"'s exploration of moral and ethical issues has ensured its wide popularity among modern readers and theatregoers. This new edition sets the play in its historical context, examining...