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The book titled Alexander Pushkin: A Celebration of Russia's Best-loved Writer by the author A. D. P. Briggs. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

If we set H. E. Bates's best tales against the best of Chekhov's, Graham Greene declared, I do not believe it would be possible, with any conviction, to argue that...

Gloriously entertaining, supremely erudite and delightfully idiosyncractic - this is the diary of the spectacular year of 1922 1922. The spectacular year that F. Scott Fitzgerald chose as a backdrop...

A posthumously published autobiography from the famous, even infamous, Irish playwright and author of Borstal Boy. Continuing the longstanding tradition of political Irish literature, propagated by James Joyce and Sean...

Russian spies, Spanish fascists, and Hemingway sipping mojitos in Madrid. Somewhere between the genres of biography and historical fiction lies Stephen Koch's new book, The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos,...

This is a book about books, about the subversive power of reading and the strange, enduring magic of books as objects. Ever since childhood, books have been at the centre...

This text is the first collection of major critical essays on 'the most Australian Australian'. The editors have gathered material from a broad variety of sources and critical perspectives, and...

The book titled The Critics Bear it away: American Fiction and the Academy by the author Frederick C. Crews. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The book titled Enemies of Promise by the author Cyril Connolly. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

An impressionistic study of Bruce Chatwin's life and work by one of his friends. It is not a biography, but a collection of Clapp's own memories of Chatwin and those...

In this volume, some of the 20th-century's greatest playwrights talk about their craft. In doing so, they prove that reports of the death of the theatre have been greatly exaggerated....

Mailer wrote almost 50,000 letters over the course of his life, keeping a copy of almost every one of them. He corresponded with presidents and politicians, artists and athletes, writers...

Borges takes us on a startling, idiosyncratic, fresh, and highly opinionated tour of English literature, weaving together countless cultural traditions of the last three thousand years. Borges's lectures - delivered...

In English translations that achieve a lively readability without sacrificing the dramatic and comic impact of the original Latin, this volume presents all six comedies: The Girl from Andros (Andria),...

A brilliant and very readable critical biography of, according to the author, 'the greatest single imaginative genius of the nineteenth century'. Winner of the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize. 'I have...

This book is an advanced critical introduction to Greek tragedy. It is written specifically for the reader who does not know Greek and who may be unfamiliar with the context...

The book titled The King of Inventors: Life of Wilkie Collins by the author Catherine Peters. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford by the author Nancy Mitford. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"Backgrounds and Contexts" includes a wealth of materials on the tale's publication history as well as its relevance to Victorian culture. Twelve of Stevenson's letters from the years 1885-87 are...

Allusions form a colourful extension to the English language, drawing on our collective knowledge of literature, mythology, and the Bible to give us a literary shorthand for describing people, places,...

'It was early in a fine summer's day, near the end of the eighteenth century, when a young man, of genteel appearance, having occasion to go towards the north-east of...

'I beg as soon as you get Fielding's Joseph Andrews, I fear in Ridicule of your Pamela and of Virtue in the Notion of Don Quixote's Manner, you would send...

`I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is DAVID COPPERFIELD,' wrote Dickens of what is the most personal, certainly one of the most popular,...

The new Oxford World's Classics edition of Oliver Twist is based on the authoritative Clarendon edition, which uses Dickens's revised text of 1846. It includes his preface of 1841 in...

John Sutherland has picked out over 100 biographies from the "Dictionary of National Biography" to create this lively anthology of a selection of the most prominent figures in British 20th-century...

It has been Gorky's great misfortune to be remembered mostly for the wrong things - for his apparent support of the Stalin regime; for his direct involvement in the foundation...

In this work, the author returns to the literature of his youth to ask why we appear to have forgotten how powerful it seemed in a time of economic crisis...

This book features introductions by Dr. Keith Carabine, Chairperson of the Joseph Conrad Society (U.K.). 'I have tried with an almost filial regard to render the vibration of life in...

Authored by one of the country's leading curmudgeons, the deluxe edition of "The Dictionary of Disagreeable English" provides 50 percent more content than the popular original, as well as a...

From one of the best-loved contemporary novelists, previously uncollected essays on books, writers, places, and the author's own life and works . In this generous, posthumous collection of her literary...

Queer Postcolonial Narratives and the Ethics of Witnessing is a critical study of the relationship between bodies, memories and communal witnessing. With a focus on the aesthetics and politics of...

There are few things a bibliophile loves more than an epigraph. Those intriguing quotations, sayings, snippets of songs and poems that appear just before Chapter One do more than just...

Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a profound reexamination of some of criticism's most basic assumptions. He penetrates to the core...

During the 1950s and 1960s, W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman spent their summers on Ischia in the Gulf of Naples, at a time when the island had not yet been...

The book titled Mouroir: Mirror Notes of a Novel by the author Breyten Breytenbach. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Pleasures of Diaries: Four Centuries of Private Writing by the author Dr. Ronald Blythe. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

To illuminate the mysterious greatness of Anton Chekhov's writings, Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer, and journalist. Her close readings of the stories and plays are interwoven...

Collected here in a single volume "On Liberty", "Utilitarianism", "Considerations on Representative Government", and "The Subjection of Women" show Mill applying his liberal utilitarian philosophy to a range of issues...

When Laura Rambotham arrives at an exclusive Melbourne girls school from her country home, she is ridiculed by the other pupils for her differences, her name, her unusual clothes and...

This classic story of a shipwrecked mariner on a deserted island is perhaps the greatest adventure in all of English literature. Fleeing from pirates, Robinson Crusoe is swept ashore in...

This is the story of Rimbaud`s `lost years' the years after he turned his back on poetry, and fame and France, for a life of wandering and obscurity in the...

The book titled Byron: A Portrait by the author Leslie A. Marchand. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A revised and updated edition of one of the most successful guides to writing ever published (one million copies sold). A Classic in its Field, On Writing Well is the...

This third volume of Proust's letters covers the period when the writer was at the height of his powers, though he remained in bed in his cork-lined room for six...

A biography of John Burroughs, a nature writer of such popularity and influence that he counted among his friends not only the nature poet Walt Whitman, but President Teddy Roosevelt,...

Demystify and appreciate the pleasures of poetry Sometimes it seems like there are as many definitions of poetry as there are poems. Coleridge defined poetry as "the best words in...