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Every Thursday for nearly a decade, Nagiub Mahfouz's brief column of recollection, refelction, and comment has appeared in the Al-Ahram Weekly. This celebratory volume, published on the occasion of the...

In Reading Chekhov Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer and journalist. Her close readings of Chekhov's stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from his life and...

A deep dive into the creative world and personal archive of the master of horror Clive Barker, from Hellraiser and Candyman to today"I've seen the future of horror . ....

FAMILY BUSINESS is not only a personal glimpse into the life of one of the great US poets, but also the moving story of a relationship between a father and...

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...

The book titled The Inventor by the author Jakov Lind. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is a celebration of the innovative, original and sometimes controversial articles that have been found in this magazine over the years. Covering a wealth of issues, from a lighthearted...

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...

Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards, Christopher Bland Prize and The People's Book Prize A Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024 An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book The captivating true...

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...

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...

The book titled Graham Greene Country by the author Paul Hogarth. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Volume V of A History of Persian Literature presents a broad survey of Persian prose: from biographical, historiographical, and didactic prose, to scientific manuals and works of popular prose fiction....

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...

Susan Shillinglaw examines the relationship between the iconic writer, John Steinbeck, and the area he loved so prominently in his work. This original and beautifully illustrated volume explores such landscapes...

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.

What if historical fiction were understood as a disfiguring of calculus? Or poems enacting the formation and breakdown of community as expositions of irrational numbers? What if, in other words,...

In a brilliant coda to the play "Copenhagen," Michael Frayn receives mysterious letters that take him back to the theme of his bestselling novel, Headlong -- human folly, this time...

A critical biography of the poet explores the Spanish Civil War, the rise and fall of Marxism and Nazism, World War II, Vietnam, the sexual revolution, and modern figures such...

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 Hell by the author Dante Alighieri. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This innovative work is about patterns of shame in a range of important Australian autobiographies published between 1960 and 1995. Writing autobiography is a risky business. What is shameful can...

The book titled Through Darkest America by the author Neal Barrett. 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...

Students of literary theory have been well provided for by the publication of various Readers in literary theory. However, the relation between theory and critical practice still presents a problem...

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...

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 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...

An exploration of the ideas, groupings and the social tensions that shaped the transformation of life caused by the changes of modernity in art, science, politics and philosophy

Essays on one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century, Iris Murdoch, by another of the finest writers in modern English literature, A.S.Byatt. This edition includes revealing material not...

A Painter's Poem

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...

Peter Viereck's career has been an ongoing experiment in the symbiosis of poetry and history. Tide and Continuities is the embodiment and culmination of that career. It includes many new...

A collection of essays about the oversung and the unsung in literature, including essays about Edith Wharton, Flannery O'Connor, abortion, Catholicism and class. Other work by the author includes Final...

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...

The world has changed faster during the 20th century than ever before. All our previous assumptions about God, our social, economic and political structures, science and technology, and - by...

The book titled Whistlejacket by the author John Hawkes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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...