All

Through tireless searches in archives and some very astute deductions these two ex-BBC television production executives have exposed a new dimension to Lewis Carroll's ALICE IN WONDERLAND and THROUGH THE...

Of all types of literature, children's literature is perhaps the best loved, most varied, and most subtly influential. Its history is not merely a footnote to social history, but a...

'As good as being in the gallery. Enthralling.' Peter Ackroyd, The Times The original transcript of the famous Wilde vs Queensberry trial, containing previously unseen details and exchanges. With extensive...

Here for the first time is this controversial writer's real childhood and early adulthood. The mixed feelings of an intelligent, sensitive child - talented but tormented; the eventual separation from...

The book titled Something Childish and Other Stories by the author Katherine Mansfield. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

When Marie D'Anger saw that look in Edy Baudin's eye, she knew it was time to go home. Marie D'Anger returns to the family home in south-west Australia after years...

I was eleven, no more, when the wish came to me to be a writer; and then very soon it was a settled ambition. But for the young V. S....

The book titled Feral City by the author Rosie Scott. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In the opening section of these related studies of modern literature, Bernard Bergonzi considers the poetry and fiction of two World Wars, including discussions of Wilfred Owen, Richard Aldington's "Death...

Kit Marlowe was the bad boy of the Elizabethan drama, a schemer and player who inhabited a seamy underworld in which plots proliferated. When he died, stabbed through the eye...

This collection of essays addresses the nature of books and literature as a moral imperative and explores the consequences of society's betrayal of its readers and writers. Amongst the writers...

In this book, Janet Todd, one of the leading authorities on seventeenth- and eighteenth century women writers, discusses gender issues from the Restoration to Romanticism investigating women authors and the...

The book titled Dancing on Hot Macadam: Peter Carey's Fiction by the author A.J. Hassall. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This series of readings, explores the functioning of moments in poems when the medium--language--becomes an issue. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to...

A Collection of 3,000 Thoughts, Insights, Views, and Perceptions from Antiquity to the Present Organised by hundreds of subjects that range from youth and aging and love and loss to...

Mesklin is a vast, inhospitable, disc-shaped planet, so cold that its oceans are liquid methane and its snows are frozen ammonia. It is a world spinning dizzyingly, a world where...

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

This series aims to introduce the reader to major 19th and 20th century dramatists, movements and new forms of drama throughout the world. This book is an examination of the...

In 1776 Foote's was the most talked-of name in the English-speaking world. By 1777 it was almost unmentionable. Samuel Foote, friend of David Garrick and Dr Johnson, is the greatest...

Many know the public Yeats but few have managed to penetrate to the inner man, or to explore the relationship with his much younger wife, George. Here Brenda Maddox brings...

This is the first volume of letters from William Burroughs, covering the years 1945-1959. The letters are entertaining and revealing, placing Burroughs' work in the context of an extraordinary life...

Published to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of Armistice, this collection is intended to be an introduction to the great wealth of First World War Poetry. The sequence of poems is...

The book titled Feathers or Lead by the author Unknown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This fascinating anthology is a dive into the personal letters of some of the brightest literary minds in history. This collection is a look into the personal lives of some...

The Arden Shakespeare has long been acclaimed as the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's work. Now being totally re-edited for the third time, Arden editions offer the very best in...

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

The Complete Arden Shakespeare , published for the first time in hardback in 1998, is now available in an updated paperback edition. The Complete Arden Shakespeare contains the texts of...

This is the complete guide to the Nobel Prizewinners of the 20th Century. Included are: 703 biographies and photographs, covering all 6 Nobel classifications; Classifications chronologically presented from 1901 onwards,...

A collection of extraordinary interviews with some of the most influential literary theorists of our time, such as Derrida, Frye, Bloom, Said and Kermode.

It's been nearly fifty years since Jack Kerouac took to the road, but Beat culture continues to be a popular and influential force in today's writing, music, and art. With...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'It is good to meet the real Jane Austen at last' Independent on Sunday 'Brilliantly illuminating ... by focusing, chapter by chapter, on one thread or...

No writer has surpassed the epic achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien, who spent decades refining his world of Middle-earth-a world that has felt so real to so many readers that it...

The book titled The Emancipist by the author Veronica Geoghegan Sweeney. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Coriolanus is perhaps the most brilliant political play ever written. Set in Ancient Rome, it remains a gripping psychological study of the relationship between personality and politics. The introduction to...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in...

In chronicling the development and demise of the different relationships he's had while living in New York, Augusten Burroughs examines what it means to be in love, what it means...

The book titled Astounding Days by the author Arthur C. Clarke. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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

In this haunting book, eminent psychiatrist Peter Dally explores the darker side of Virginia Woolf. Brin ging together his knowledge as a doctor and his fascination, he sheds light on...

The book titled GENIUS AND LUST THE CREATIVE AND by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

As president of Czechoslovakia and of the nascent Czech Republic. Have led central Europe out of communism and into the twenty-first century before stepping down in 2003. In this illuminating...

The phenomenal worldwide success of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code has led to enormous interest in the many mysteries - some genuine, some fictional or altered through 'author's licence'...

' Screamingly funny and deliciously candid, full of wisdom and joie de vivre, this is memoir with the grip of a thriller ' ERIN KELLY Lynda La Plante has lived...

My Left Foot is Christy Brown's inspirational story of his early life, his battle against the restraints of cerebral palsy and his determination to learn to read, write, and paint,...

When Charles Dickens died in 1870 he was the best-known man in the English-speaking world-the pre-eminent Victorian celebrity. Yet when the first person named in his will turned out to...

THE GHOSTLY WORK OF M. R. JAMES The celebrated writer M. R. James (1862-1936) is the most significant author of ghost stories in the world. His macabre work has terrified...