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A collection of correspondence between Rainer Maria Rilke, Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetayeva. Published for the first time in English, these 49 letters examine their thought and work, the nature...

A biography of the 20th-century's most famous woman writer - winner of the 1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography.

This book examines the opinions and influences, idiosyncrasies and personalities of writers as diverse as Shakespeare and Kingsley Amis, Cervantes and Milan Kundera. Professor Miller discusses and defends the profession...

InRuth Hall, one of the bestselling novels of the 1850s, Fanny Fern drew heavily on her own experiences: the death of her first child and her beloved husband, a bitter...

The book titled Pack My Bag: A Self-Portrait by the author Henry Green. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A delightful and uniquely imaginative tribute to the Bard, incorporating biography, theatrical history, and a vivid recreation of the Elizabethan age. Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject...

This companion to the work of one of Britain's best-loved novelists celebrates the centenary of her birth. Daphne du Maurier is one of Britain's best-loved authors, her writing capturing the...

Felix Holt, austere, idealistic, and passionate, is pitted against the self-satisfied local landlord Harold Transome in this story set in a Midland borough at the time of the Great Reform...

This book is part of the "Everyman" series, which has been totally re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type. It includes an introduction, a chronology of the life and times...

Buchan vividly and affectionately describes the writer whose novels and poems made him the most popular author of his day. Scott was born in 1771 to a powerful Border family....

' Backing into the Spotlight is a hilarious and an unashamedly non-PC memoir . . . Now in his eighth decade, Whitehall is a fine raconteur, gloriously unreconstructed and still...

Attitudes to sex have changed since Burns' time, passing through the prim, censorious 19th century, to move slowly towards the more open attitudes of the 21st. In writing about Burns,...

Charlotte Yonge, a best-seller admired by her greatest literary contemporaries in the mid-nineteenth century, but ignored or vilified by critics for the next hundred years, has recently received some attention...

Osbert Sitwell, with his siblings Edith and Sacheverell, was at the heart of every literary fracas from 1918 to until well after 1945. He was a close friend and sometime...

Almost 400 years after his death, William Shakespeare is still acclaimed as the world's greatest writer, and yet the man himself remains shrouded in mystery. In this absorbing historical detective...

From bestselling author Michael Palin comes this remarkable travelogue and insightful biography of Hemingway -- a companion to the four-part PBS series of the same title. Long fascinated by Hemingway's...

The book titled Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by the author Ebenezer Cobham Brewer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

He spent his earliest years in post-World War Two refugee camps. He came to America and grew up in Cleveland - stealing cars, rolling drinks, battling priests, nearly going to...

The book titled The Perfect Stranger by the author P. J. Kavanagh. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Ciaran O Nuallain's memoir of his brother Brian O'Nolan (1991-66), the only major source on the early life of the man who later achieved literary fame as Flann O'Brien and...

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

Chesterton is so good on Dickens because his wit is as sharp as that of the Great Inimitable himself: "Dickens was most accurate when he was most fantastic. . ....

A triumph of literary detective work: the first popular biography of the adventurous Elizabethan earl whose life and letters indicate that he was the true author of the works of...

There may be more important literary movements than the Angry Young Men but there can be few as consciously (or unconsciously) entertaining. The Angry Young Men were an absurdly diverse...

"Every so often there is a rebellion against the assumption that Shakespeare is a uniquely great writer. This feeling, strong at the moment, has vociferous supporters in the academics, teachers...

The book titled Hemingway: The Paris Years by the author Michael S. Reynolds. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Door into Summer by the author Robert A. Heinlein. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This new biography focuses on the maturing Hemingway when fame is hitting full force the years between A Farewell to Arms and the writing of For Whom the Bell Tolls....

The book titled Noel Coward: The First In-Depth Biography of One of the Most Magnetic by the author Clive Fisher. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

A comprehensive and thought-provoking investigation into one of the most polarizing words in the English language. Few words in the English language are as misunderstood as "like." Indeed, excessive use...

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

Capturing the unbelievable scope of Shakespeare's influence, this book covers the little-known details of Shakespeare's life along with the surprising legacy of the language and phrases inherited from his works....

It was not until the late 1930s - after his death - that Joseph Conrad emerged from literary neglect. Critical works on his significant contribution began to surface, many comparing...

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

The story of Zelda Sayre, a talented and beautiful Southern belle who captured the heart of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. The book recounts the lives of a couple who symbolized...

In this fourth edition of the best-known critical study of Hemingway's work Carlos Baker has completely revised the two opening chapters, which deal with the young Hemingway's career in Paris,...

The book titled The Goldfish Bowl by the author Laurence Gough. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Elizabethan Lyrics by the author Norman Ault. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Travelling without Gods celebrates the life and work of one of Australia's best-loved contemporary poets, Chris Wallace-Crabbe. Wide-ranging in theme and context, it explores the imaginative effects of his writing....

Ben Jonson was the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries. In the century following his death he was seen by many as the finest of all English writers, living or dead. His...

The book titled Along with Youth: Hemingway, the Early Years by the author Peter D. Griffin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Edward Thomas, poet, essayist, and critic, with some thirty books to his name, was thirty-nine when he was killed in the Arras offensive on Easter Day, 1917. F.R. Leavis singled...

Five of Euripides' boldest and most moving tragedies,all focussing on strong female characters Written during a period overshadowed by the fierce struggle for supremacy between Sparta and Euripides' native Athens,...

The sonnets of Shakespeare When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous. The 154 sonnets...

Leo Tolstoy(1828-1910) was born into one of the grand old families of Imperial Russia. The loss of both of his parents during childhood was the prelude to a series of...

The book titled Look Homeward, Angel by the author Thomas Wolfe. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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

When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis,...