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A major new translation by award-winning poet and translator David Constantine that captures the lyrical liveliness of Goethe's original. Goethe's Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant...

The book titled Writing Fiction: An Introduction to the Craft by the author Garry Disher. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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

This is a literary tour de force, an invaluable, unforgettable and original portrait of Ernest Hemingway and his beloved boat, Pilar. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'She'd been intimately his,...

Always Apprentices collects five years of intimate, wide-ranging conversations with many of today's most prominent writers, taken from the pages of the Believer . The participants don't limit themselves to...

The Merchant of Venice has been performed more often than any other comedy by Shakespeare. This edition pays special attention to the expectations of its first audience, and to our...

THE SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. THE ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014. For more than a decade, the book now considered the most important novel...

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of King Lear on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No Fear Shakespeare contains: The complete...

Katherine Mansfield and Germany is the first study of Mansfield's encounter with Germany and all things German: language, culture, society. This crucial area of her life and art has been...

The authorship of Shakespeare's plays has been the subject of endless debate through the ages. In his groundbreaking new book, Peter Dawkins, the internationally renowned author, lecturer and Shakespearean scholar,...

The Dam Busters, The Great Escape and Reach for the Sky were all written by Paul Brickhill, an Australian hero of WWII. 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of his birth...

James Joyce was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, but he was not immediately recognised as such; rather he lived in exile in the cosmopolitan Europe of...

The book titled Dickens by the author Peter Ackroyd. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This series aims to introduce students to a wide variety of critical opinion and to show students, by example, how to construct a good critical essay. This collection of specially-commissioned...

The first of Sinclair Lewis's great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Reflecting his own unhappy childhood in...

Newly reissued in time for the November film release of SHERLOCK HOLMES starring Robert Downey Jr., Rachel McAdams, and Jude Law, here is a collection of classic Sherlock Holmes tales....

For decades, generations of readers have shared their favorite passages of favorite Louis L'Amour novels and short stories: parents with their children, neighbors with their friends, executives with their staff...

In a radical new reading of Ulysses , Maria Tymoczko argues that previous scholarship has distorted our understanding of Joyce's epic novel by focusing on its English and continental literary...

Examines incoherence as a linguistic and rhetorical phenomenon in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.

The ultimate single-volume reference guide to Greek and Roman mythology An ideal resource for students, teachers, librarians, writers, and readers of great literature, the "Meridian Handbook" has set the standard...

The book titled Spellbinder by the author Harold Robbins. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled North West by South by the author Nancy Cato. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This gripping biography of the great Czech novelist, diarist and short story writer chronicles Kafka's entire (if tragically curtailed) life (1883-1924), but it focuses upon the writer's relationship to his...

The book titled Scandal of Ulysses: The Sensational Life of a Twentieth-Century by the author MR Bruce Arnold. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The Winter's Tale is Shakespeare's most perfectly realized tragi- comedy, as notable for its tragic intensity as for its comic grace and, throughout, for the richness and complexity of its...

The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - A...

This is a reduced version of the Complete Works (modern spelling) in a handy format. All the editorial matter from the original edition is included, and the only significant difference...

This is the first edition of Edward Lear's letters for nearly eighty years, and the first to draw on all his known correspondence, which is now scattered in private and...

THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Supremely enjoyable... Matthew Parker has created a completely new picture of Fleming, Bond and the role of Jamaica in the making of the legend'...

The definitive English translation of the classic Sanskrit epic poem - now available in a one-volume paperback. The Rmyaa of Vlmki , the monumental Sanskrit epic of the life of...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Storyland and Wild , comes a sweeping new legendary of miracles, magic, human frailty and heroic strength. I llustrated with over thirty original...

Everything you need to know about King Lear to succeed in your A Level or undergraduate studies. With the widest coverage and a wealth of practical content, York Notes Advanced:...

A Times Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year 'Does art enhance life, or negate it? The painful question runs through Lowry's portrait of Thomas Hardy, and produces a sombre,...

Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen...

** Chosen as a New Statesman, Financial Times, Observer and Sunday Times Book of the Year ** A riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot's celebrated poem The...

The neo-Hellenic revival of the late 18th and early 19th century, introduced the features of Greek art to the West, but divorced them from their original context. This book explores...

"The foremost military memoir in the English language, written in a clear, supple style . . . a masterpiece." -Ron Chernow, in Grant Faced with cancer and financial ruin, Ulysses...

This innovative study investigates the emergence and impact of the lower middle class on British print culture through the figure of the office clerk. This interdisciplinary work offers important insights...

A New York Times Notable Book A San Francisco Chronicle , San Jose Mercury News , and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year "A gripping and resonant novel....

T.E. Lawrence quickly became one of the most famous Englishmen of his generation. His exploits and personality fascinated the general public, and deeply impressed those who knew him and saw...

In this "magnificent book" (T. S. Eliot), Ernst Robert Curtius (1886-1956), one of the foremost literary scholars of this century, examines the continuity of European literature from Homer to Goethe,...

'Excellent, absorbing, affectionate, unillusioned, vivid and affecting' - Craig Raine, Financial Times Few writers have had as many distinct lives as Bruce Chatwin and few have been as compelling in...

This new Complete Works marks the completion of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series and includes all of Shakespeare's plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading international scholars. New to this...

"The text of any Shakespeare play is a living negotiable entity: scholarship and theatre practice work together to keep the plays alive and vividly present." - Greg Doran, RSC Artistic...

When we think about George Orwell, we imagine an angular, moustachioed sceptic crouched over a typewriter, who - between puffs on his cigarette - composes effortless streams of prose, unadorned...