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Trace Elements - Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy

From two of the most acclaimed writers in the field today, a groundbreaking look at how SF and fantasy writing--and reading! Jo Walton an...

The Kannada Mahabharata

The Kannada Mahabharata, known as Kum¿ravy¿sa Bh¿rata, is an innovative fifteenth-century retelling of the famous Mahabharata story cente...

Writers Who Changed History

This visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas. Writer...

The Worlds of George RR Martin

This is an in-depth bringing together of the enormous range of inspirations behind Martin's work - from historical borrowings as wide-ran...

The Little Prince - The Visual Encyclopedia

Everything you need to know about Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s globally beloved classic This is the story of a timeless tale for readers bo...

Hanshan: Cold Mountain Poems

Long ranking among the most inspiring works of world literature, the poems of Hanshan (whose name means Cold Mountain), were written at l...

Silence in Contemporary Poetry

The Ecologies of Dress in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

[headline]Offers an ecocritical approach to understanding dress in early modern plays and performance This volume posits that clothing in...

On Edge - Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett

Reframes postwar American literary fiction through the work of Leigh Brackett, Shirley Jackson, and Patricia Highsmith, arguing that reco...

Children's Literature Review - Excerts from Reviews, Criticism, and Commentary on Books for Children and Young People

This illustrated series covers more than 600 writers and illustrators for children and young adults, including such notable figures as Lo...

Prose and Poetry Through Time - Hebrew Verb Form Semantics in Zechariah

This book makes a convincing argument that the verbal system of Biblical Hebrew is basically the same in prose and poetry. In addition, i...

The Trojan Horse and Other Stories - Ten Ancient Creatures That Make Us Human

What makes us human? What, if anything, sets us apart from all other creatures? Ever since Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the answ...

Callimachus: Select Longer Fragments

This edition of Callimachus' select larger fragments and epigrams offers an indispensable guide for properly appreciating his poetic art....

Histrionic Hamlet - Shakespeare's Ultimate Metatheatrical Experiment

An original intervention in the critical history of Shakespeare's most famous play, Histrionic Hamlet argues that the Danish Prince is a ...

Is Free Speech Under Threat?

One big question. Two great answers. In Is Free Speech Under Threat? two leading thinkers tackle the issue at the very heart of the cultu...

Poetry in Byzantine Literature and Society (1081-1204) - New Texts, New Approaches

Explores the abundant poetic production of an especially fertile period in Byzantine literary history. Examines schools as important venu...

Why We (Still) Need Russian Literature - Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Others

For nearly two centuries readers all over the world have turned to the great canon of Russian literature. Love and death, war and peace, ...

Detective Fiction on the Case of Community - The Mystery at the Heart of the Modern

It examines one of modernity's most trenchant problems.The project rests on the argument that detective fiction emerges specifically from...

In Writing - Conversations on Inspiration, Perspiration and Creative Desperation

Hattie Crisell invites some of our most-read authors, poets, journalists and screenwriters to share their secrets, as she asks them: wher...

The River of Goodness

"The River of Goodness is a lyrical, global exploration of the ways we can create a more just and sustainable world for all, from the aut...

A Room of One's Own

A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia WoolfâEUR(TM)s classic plea for aworld in which women are free to use their gifts. ...

Rotten London, Rotten Elsewhere - Letters To Power

A collection of letters written to people in positions of authority between 2008 and 2023.

Reading Richard III and the Tower of London

This is the first book on Richard III and the Tower of London, shedding new light on the King's reputation, the Castle's lore, and early-...

The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath

A complete edition, including much previously uncollected and unpublished materialThe Collected Prose stands alongside the Journals (2000...

Macbeth

Chiltern creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen ...

Virtue Revisited in the Novels of Doris Lessing

This study focuses on Doris Lessing's claim to improve a virtuous life not only for the individual but also for societies, referring to h...

Finding the Way to 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' - Eugene O'Neill and Carlotta Monterey O'Neill at Tao House

A profound new way to approach Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night comes from reading this intensely autobiographical masterpi...

Anne of Green Gables

Chiltern Publishing was formed in 2018 with a vision to create the most beautiful classics. Using a perfect mix of tradition and the very...

Epic Egos and Half-Baked Heroes

This is a book about divine dicks, mortal pricks, and some epically long-suffering women.

How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator

An enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a bold, witty and iconoclastic take on the story of Ancient Greece by a rising star in archaeology

Pitfalls of Prestige - Black Women and Literary Recognition

Surveys how developments in American literary institutions since 1980 have shaped--and been shaped by--Black women poets, showing how see...

Never on Time, Always in Time - Narrative Form and the Queer Sensorium

Explores how writers summon queer bodily experiences by way of the senses, opening new perspectives onto queer history, futurity, and rel...

Feeding the Monster - Why horror has a hold on us

Zombies want brains. Vampires want blood. Cannibals want human flesh. All monsters need feeding. Horror has been embraced by mainstream p...

Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959

Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59 traces Tolkien's career-long engagement with the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and shows how Chaucer was a major ...

Kleanthes and Habrokome

"Kleanthes and Habrokome" by Konstantinos Manos, a Phanariot Greek high officer in late-eighteenth/early-nineteenth-century Romania, is a...

Poetry Criticism - Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Poets of World Literature

Each volume of this reference provides substantial critical essays and biographical information on four to eight major poets from all era...

Poetry Criticism - Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Poets of World Literature

Each volume of this reference provides substantial critical essays and biographical information on four to eight major poets from all era...

Poetry Criticism - Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Poets of World Literature

Each volume of this reference provides substantial critical essays and biographical information on four to eight major poets from all era...

Poetry Criticism - Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Poets of World Literature

Each volume of this reference provides substantial critical essays and biographical information on four to eight major poets from all era...

Searching for Feminist Superheroes - Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics

How superhero narratives in the margins of the mainstream tell innovative, feminist stories.

Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1960-1967

'Quite simply, this book is a work of genius' Matthew Parris, SpectatorThe second in a major two-part anthology uncovering the rich reali...

The Miracle of the Black Leg - Notes on Race, Human Bodies, and the Law

Brilliant essays from the renowned Nation columnist-aka the Mad Law Professor-tackling questions of identity, bioethics, race, surveillan...

Cassandra - A Dramatic Poem

In Lesia Ukrainka's rendering, Cassandra's prophecies are uttered in highly poetic language and are not believed for that reason, rather ...

Reading Alice Munro's Breakthrough Books - A Suite in Four Voices

[headline] This engaging volume provides an authoritative assessment of the middle period in the career of the widely-read, Nobel Prize-w...

The Thinking Heart

A hundred and fifty years of conflict. What does that do to a person's soul, to the spirit of a nation? To both the occupied and the occu...

Black Speculative Feminisms - Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women's Fiction

Charts the moments in Black women's science fiction and fantasy where characters harness, or fail to harness, the power of memory, transf...

The Haunted Wood - A History of Childhood Reading

A panoramic and poignant history of children¿s literature

Papers of John Adams

This volume chronicles the first year of Adams's presidency, as he sought to protect America's commercial interests while preparing the c...

Contemporary Translation in Transition - Poems, Theories, Conversations

This volume brings together an international group of scholars, poets, translators, and publishers to explore new developments in both po...

Dissident Gut - Technologies of Regularity, Politics of Revolt

Draws on theories of Marxism, feminism and the biopolitics of affect to investigate the psycho-dynamic properties of the modern peristalt...

Aristotle on Accidental Causation

This major new study of Aristotle's natural philosophy connects it to modern theories of causation and provides fresh interpretations of ...

Joseph Conrad and the Narration of Silence

Considers how Joseph Conrad's works engage with silence

Virginia Woolf and Motherhood

[headline]Establishes maternity as a vital theme within Virginia Woolf's feminist and political thought Motherhood is a recurrent theme i...

The Odyssey

A Room of One's Own

The Midcentury Minor Novel - American Fiction, 1945-1965

[headline]Recovers a forgotten and short-lived form of American fiction: the midcentury minor novel The Midcentury Minor Novel brings to ...

Medieval Welsh Literature and its European Contexts - Essays in Honour of Professor Helen Fulton

Situates Celtic languages and literatures in relation to European movements, in the tradition of Helen Fulton's groundbreaking research.

The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World

Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews...

Shakespeare's Unmuted Women

Shakespeare¿s Unmuted Women explores women¿s speeches in selected plays by Shakespeare, highlighting women¿s discerning insight as a vita...

Cahier

A collection of poetic stream-of-consciousness prose meditations by Friederike Mayröcker. Friederike Mayröcker has no time. Not for summa...