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A Moveable Feast

Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the second of six children. In 1917, he joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The ...

No Fear Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing

These updated editions of classic plays feature new cover art along with the complete text of each work, full explanatory notes, scene-by...

No Fear Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream

No Fear Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream Read& nbsp; A Midsummer Night's Dream in all its brilliance and actually understand what it...

No Fear Shakespeare: Othello

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of "Othello" on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation o...

No Fear Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet

"The play plus a translation anyone can understand"--Cover.

No Fear Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descri...

No Fear Shakespeare: Macbeth

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descri...

Agatha Christie - Radio 4 Book of the Week

'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse' - THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'A riveting portrait' - GUARDIAN BOOKS ...

Shakespeare's Restless World - An Unexpected History in Twenty Objects

Neil MacGregor was Director of the National Gallery, London from 1987 to 2002 and of the British Museum from 2002 to 2015, and Chair of t...

No Fear Shakespeare: Tempest

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of The Tempest on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation...

1599 - A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare - A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

An intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature. ...

The Young H.G. Wells - Changing the World

A fascinating journey into the life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain's best biographers How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells' l...

Hamlet - Contemporary Critical Essays

What are the differences between traditional readings of Hamlet and those produced by modern criticism? What sort of questions does struc...

The Mirror and the Road: Conversations with William Boyd

'One of Britain's most celebrated contemporary novelists' Sunday Times In this probing series of exclusive interviews, Alistair Owen talk...

Dinner with Joseph Johnson - Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age

*Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize* In late eighteenth-century London, a group of extraordinary people gathered around a dining ta...

The Turning Point - A Year that Changed Dickens and the World

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when industrial miracles and artistic innovations ru...

Oscar Wilde - De Profundis - "I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse."

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on the 16th October 1854 in Dublin Ireland. The son of Dublin intellectuals Oscar proved hi...

Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess - The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde

'As good as being in the gallery. Enthralling.' Peter Ackroyd, The Times The original transcript of the famous Wilde vs Queensberry trial...

No Fear Shakespeare: King Lear

"The play plus a translation anyone can understand"-Cover.

Romantic Outlaws - The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley

Now in paperback, this tells the true story of English feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, who she never knew as ...

Making Literature Now

Through fascinating case studies of people working in publishing both large and small-scale, traditional and digital, this book tells the...

Maxims for Revolutionists

Oxford Literature Companions: Othello - Get Revision with Results

This guide to Othello is ideal for use in the classroom or for revision, providing insight into characterisation, contexts and critical v...

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)

When ghostwriter Constance Ledbelly's mentor marries a rival, Constance embarks on a "what-if" writing spree that brings her face-to-face...

100 for 100 - Macbeth: 100 days. 100 revision activities

Are you struggling to revise for Macbeth? Are you finding it difficult to remember all the characters, alongside the plot, themes and key...

An Introduction to Fantasy

Providing an engaging and accessible introduction to the Fantasy genre in literature, media and culture, this incisive volume explores wh...

The Private Life of William Shakespeare

The Private Life of William Shakespeare breathes new life into Shakespeare's story by establishing fresh, historical, and feminist interp...

Black Madness: Mad Blackness - : Mad Blackness

In Black Madness :: Mad Blackness Therí Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the common t...

1967 short stories (Book Guide) - Dangerous Visions short stories, Smith of Wootton Major, Faith of Our Fathers, Riders of the Purple Wage, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, Flatlander, The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World, The Hall of the Dead

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (stories not included). Pages: 25. Chapters: Dangerous Visions short stories, Smith of Wootton Major, Faith...

The Turn of the Screw: A Norton Critical Edition

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The New York Edition text of the novel-the one that had James's final authority-newly and fully an...

Counting Bodies - Population in Colonial American Writing

Looking to work by William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Richard Ligon, Mary Rowlandson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and others, Co...

Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism

Lan P. Duong is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside.

The Medieval Professional Reader at Work: Evidence from Manuscripts of Chaucer Langland, Kempe, and Gower

Jude the Obscure

The text of the novel is again based on Hardy's final revision for the 1912 Wessex Edition. The Norton Critical Edition includes: expande...

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

An investigation into the origins of comic book heroine Wonder Woman, who emerged in 1941 from the imagination of William Moulton Marston...

The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald

This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald offers both new and familiar readers an authoritative guide to the ...

Tales of the Jazz Age

Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) contains some of Fitzgerald's best short stories, including 'May Day' and 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz', ...

A Question of Time: J. R. R. Tolikien's Road to Faerie

Tolkien's concern with time - past and present, real and ""faerie"" - captures the wonder of travel into other worlds and other times. Th...

The Great White Bard - How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race

'Dive in and your whole cultural landscape will be refreshed and reframed.' Adjoa Andoh Professor Farah Karim-Cooper grew up loving the B...

Journal of a Novel - The East of Eden Letters

Each working day from January 29 to November 1, 1951, John Steinbeck warmed up to the work of writing East of Eden with a letter to the l...

Barbara Kingsolver's World - Nature, Art, and the Twenty-First Century, Revised Edition

"A revised critique of Kingsolver's writing, from her first novel, The Bean Trees, through Flight Behavior, including her non-fiction and...

Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II

Mining the borderlands where history meets literature in Britain and Europe as well as America, this book shows how the imminence and out...

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie

Nominated for the 2023 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical / Biography The first specifically academic companion to contemporary scho...

Jane Austen, the Secret Radical

Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don't confine themselves to grand houses and they were not writ...

The Writings of Norman MacLean - Seeking Truth Amid Tragedy

"The Writings of Norman Maclean: Seeking Truth amid Tragedy provides the first critical reassessment of Norman Maclean's work in fifteen ...

Dark Mirror - African Americans and the Federal Writers' Project

Demonstrates how Black writers negotiated and revised New Deal ideas through their contributions to the Federal Writers' Project, ultimat...

The Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama - Perspectives on Culture, Performance and Identity

How does our understanding of early modern performance, culture and identity change when we decentre Shakespeare? And how might a more in...

The Blue Castle - The Original Manuscript

Published for the first time ever, the first draft of The Blue Castle exactly as L. M. Montgomery originally wrote it, with critical cont...

Bottoms Up - Queer Mexicanness and Latinx Performance

"A queer way to be in the world and with others"--

Speaking the Unspeakable: American Writers and the Writing of Trauma - American Writers and the Writing of Trauma

Doing Animal Studies with Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts - Defamiliarizing Human-Nonhuman Animal Relationships in Fiction

"Exploring what can be learnt when literary critics in the field of animal studies temporarily direct attention away from representations...

The Poetics of Utopia - Shadows of Futurity in Yeats and Auden

Focusing on the work of two of the 20th-century's most politically engaged poets - W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden - this book unpacks how th...

Marilynne Robinson's Worldly Gospel - A Philosophical Account of Her Christian Vision

"In her five novels and many essays, Marilynne Robinson develops a distinctive Christian vision animated by a powerfully affirmative and ...

Flat Aesthetics - Twenty-First-Century American Fiction and the Making of the Contemporary

"A literary-historical study that deals chiefly with post-1990 American fictional prose and argues that David Foster Wallace's phrase, "a...

The Intersection of Class and Space in British Postwar Writing - Kitchen Sink Aesthetics

"Centering on the British kitchen sink realism movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s, specifically its documentation of the built en...

Shakespeare and Disgust - The History and Science of Early Modern Revulsion

"Drawing on both historical analysis and theories from the modern affective sciences, Shakespeare and Disgust argues that the experience ...

Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition

"Examines the recent resurgence of folk horror and argues that Thomas Hardy is one of its progenitors by analysing his prose (in particul...

Asian American Players - Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War

Showcases how the literary figure of the Asian American player unsettles the hegemony of white American masculinity through mimicry and r...

Shakespeare - The Man Who Pays The Rent

PRE-ORDER THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language ...

Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury - The Progress of Intimacy in History

Exploring how the Bloomsbury Group's cutting-edge thinkers-Virginia Woolf, Sigmund Freud, and E. M. Forster-understood the intimacy of fr...