Author: Dr Robert T. Tally, Jr. (Texas State University, USA) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The novels of Kurt Vonnegut depict a profoundly absurd and distinctly postmodern...
Author: Michael Haag Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 An all-inclusive guide to key concepts and details about Dan Brown's novel Inferno--featuring black-and-white illustrations. What is the real...
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Author: James Shapiro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Excellent.' - New Statesman 'Outstanding.' - Irish Times 'Enthralling.' - Guardian 'Shapiro at his best.' - Daily Telegraph From...
Author: Mark Aldridge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 From the very first book publication in 1920 to the upcoming film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into...
Author: Garry Wills Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Renaissance plays and poetry in England were saturated with the formal rhetorical twists that Latin education made familiar to audiences and...
Author: Ruth Padel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems...
Author: Dr Jeannette Baxter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Andrea Levy has emerged as one of the most significant and popular voices in contemporary black British writing...
Author: Fergus Fleming Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 On 16 August 1952, Ian Fleming wrote to his wife, Ann, 'My love, This is only a tiny letter...
Author: Jennifer Adams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Jane Austen is the most influential English novelist of all time, and yet each of us relates to her in our...
Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Whether he's on Broadway or at the movies, considering a new bestseller or revisiting a literary classic, Daniel Mendelsohn's...
Author: Miles Franklin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Girls! Girls! Those of you who have hearts, and therefore wish for happiness, homes, and husbands by and by,...
Author: Robert D. Richardson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Written in Persian in the eleventh century, Omar Khayyam's quatrains, known as rubai, were written individually for an audience at...
Author: Dr Jorgen Bruhn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Extending the boundaries of contemporary adaptation studies, this book brings together leading international scholars to survey new directions...
Author: Grace Nichols Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'There is something holy about Georgetown at dusk. The Atlantic curling the shoreline . . .' It is 1960...
Author: Kevin Birmingham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: "A great story how modernism brought down the regime of censorship told as a great story. Kevin Birmingham's imaginative scholarship brings Joyce...
Author: Peter Conrad Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Peter Conrad explores the phenomenon of Shakespeare, and assesses Shakespeare's global legacy across every continent and across every genre of the...
Author: Christopher Fowler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'Joyous . . . fascinating' - Cathy Rentzenbrink 'I love it! A real gem' - Joanne Harris 'Will have the inevitable...
Author: Nancy Pearl Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 NEW & NOTEWORTHY THE NEW YORK TIMES With a Foreword by Susan Orlean, twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna...
Author: John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 100 When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically...
