Author: Cees Nooteboom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 It is said that during his abortive campaign to invade Britannia, the infamous Roman emperor Caligula ordered his legions into the...
Author: William H Gass Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 928 Throughout his career, William Gass relentlessly pushed at the boundaries of language, celebrating the music of the sentence and the...
Author: Thomas C. Foster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills...
Author: Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Goethe's Faust reworks the late medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a...
Author: Michael McGirr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A profound, funny and uplifting collection of reminiscences about a life in books Here are forty texts to read at some...
Author: James Shapiro Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 For two hundred years after Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that someone else had written his plays. Since then...
Author: Paula Blank Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 232 Shakespeare's poems and plays are rich in reference to "measure, number, and weight," which were the key terms of an early...
Author: Vaidehi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Asprushyaru offers new insights into the practice of untouchability. Who is touchable? Who is untouchable? Such a meaningless separatist system is further...
What could be more fascinating than a box filled with books, about books? Discussing renowned books such as Homer's Odyssey to Orwell's 1984, this box contains 16 titles that will help you discover exactly what makes some...
Author: Padraig Rooney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the summer of 1816 paparazzi trained their telescopes on the goings on of poets Byron and Shelley - and their...
Author: Francine Prose Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In this brilliant collection, the follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, the distinguished novelist,...
Author: John Sutherland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 When it was first published in 1897 - 120 years ago - Irish author Bram Stoker's Dracula was ranked by the...
Author: John Sutherland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 How does Magwitch swim to shore with a great iron on his leg? Where does Fanny Hill keep her...
Author: Professor Michael Lackey (Distinguished McKnight University Professor of English, University of Minnesota, USA) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Before the 1970s, there were only a few...
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...
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: 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: 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...
