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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

A major literary event--the complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath, published in their entirety for the first time. Sylvia Plath's...

Walden

This handsome, affordable paperback edition is based on the original 1854 edition with emendations taken from Thoreau's draft manuscripts...

No Fear Shakespeare: Hamlet

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

Jane Austen at Home - A Biography

Author of "Cavalier: The Story Of A 17th Century Playboy" Lucy Worsley approaches the figure of Jane Austen through the unique lens of th...

The Dark Powers of Tolkien - An illustrated Exploration of Tolkien's Portrayal of Evil, and the Sources that Inspired his Work from Myth, Literature and History

An illustrated companion to understanding the villainous forces in J.R.R. Tolkien's novels.

Introduction to Cultural Studies - Topics, Concepts, Issues

Divided into seven themed chapters: signs, media, body, time, space, memory and identity, this book aims to provide a fresh approach to c...

The World of All Souls - A Complete Guide to A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night and The Book of Life

From the author of the "All Souls" trilogy comes a comprehensive guide to the series, filled with facts about the characters, maps, recip...

Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction

Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction offers insights into theories about the nature of language and meaning, human identity, and th...

Shelley's Poetry and Prose

Each selection has been thoroughly reedited, and the order of the poems has been rearranged in light of redating or other reconsideration...

The World of All Souls - The Complete Guide to A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, and The Book of Life

A fully illustrated guide to Deborah Harkness's #1 New York Times bestselling All Souls trilogy-"an irresistible . . . wonderfully imagin...

Understanding English-German Contrasts

Seit langem besteht in der Fremdsprachendidaktik Übereinkunft darüber, dass durch einen umfassenden Vergleich von Muttersprache und zu er...

All the Sonnets of Shakespeare

How can we look afresh at Shakespeare as a writer of sonnets? What new light might they shed on his career, personality, and sexuality? S...

A is for Arsenic - The Poisons of Agatha Christie

Shortlisted for the BMA Book Awards and Macavity Awards 2016 Fourteen novels. Fourteen poisons. Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it...

Jane Austen's Letters

The fourth edition of Jane Austen's Letters incorporates the findings of new scholarship to enrich our understanding of Austen and give u...

Will in the World - How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwrig...

The Shakespeare Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained

The Shakespeare Book is the perfect primer to the works of William Shakespeare, packed with witty illustrations and inspirational quotes....

Origins of The Wheel of Time - The Legends and Mythologies that Inspired Robert Jordan

"Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal." -The New York Times on The Wheel of Time® series Explore never-before-se...

The Illustrated Letters of the Brontes - The Letters, Diaries and Writings of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë

This is the story both of the real world of the Bronte¿s at Haworth Parsonage, their home on the edge of the lonely Yorkshire moors, and ...

The Complete Tolkien Companion

For all those who journey to Middle Earth, here is the complete guide to its lands, legends, histories, languages, and people. The Comple...

The Sherlock Holmes Handbook - Methods and Mysteries of the World's Greatest Detective

Full of fascinating how-to skills and evocative illustrations, this must-have guide will appeal to Baker Street Irregulars of all ages. T...

The Art of the Hobbit

A sumptuous full colour art book containing the complete collection of more than 100 sketches, drawings, paintings and maps created by J....

Shakespeare - The Man Who Pays The Rent

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER Let Dame Judi Dench take you behind the scenes of a life loving the Bard - as she shares her story wit...

The Hobbit Encyclopedia

This wide-ranging encyclopedia covers all the characters, places and objects included in the seminal book that first introduced the world...

Factotum

One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski a...

The Oxford Book of English Verse

This collection of more than 820 wonderful poems, both long and short, covers seven and a half centuries of English verse from all parts ...

Manual of english literature

An outline of american literature

The history of Henry Esmond

The Sea and the American Imagination.

The Sea and the American Imagination brings together a group of renowned scholars and writers whose contributions attest the ubiquity of ...

Early Twentieth-Century Poetry

The years covered by this collection of poetry are some of the most turbulent in recent history. Britain moved from wealth and stability ...

English short Stories (anthology)

Essays of a humanist

Researches into the mediaeval history of folk ballad

American Rhapsody

From Dryden to Johnson

Concise companion to english literature

American literature since 1900

Early twentieth-century poetry

A Book of English Poetry

Motherhood and Self-Realization in the Four Waves of American Feminism and Joyce Carol Oates's Recent Fiction

The author examines motherhood and female self-realization in feminist discourse and Joyce Carol Oates's recent fiction. While the first ...

Reader in modern american literature (1917-1941)

David Foster Wallace: Presences of the Other

Why is David Foster Wallace so widely read? Why does his fiction and non-fiction continue to raise enthusiasm among an ever-growing varie...

A critical history of english literature I.

" Don't Fall Off The Mountain "

Irishness on the Margins - Minority and Dissident Identities

This collection examines the presence of minority communities and dissident voices in Ireland both historically and in a contemporary fra...

A Short History of English Literature (Evans)

The Text

The late-fifteenth-century Middle English manuscript Oxford, Trinity College, MS 29 contains a universal history of the world, which begi...

The Secret Life of John le Carré

Winner of the Crime Fest HRF Keating Award 'Not merely the conclusive homage to a compulsively fascinating character, but an insightful s...

An Outline of English Literature

Readings from American literature

The concise Cambridge history of English literature

An introduction to the english novel I-II.

Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763

Reading Race Relationally - Embodied Dispositions and Social Structures in Colson Whitehead's Novels

What does it mean to write African American literature after the end of legalized segregation? In this study of Colson Whitehead's first ...

The english novel

Literature in Britain and Ireland: A History

Literature in Britain and Ireland is a survey of literature on the British Isles since the time of the Anglo-Saxons. Despite this wide an...

The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction

This Introduction explores American fiction of the last thirty years, examining the political and cultural changes that distinguish the p...

Aspects of the novel

American literature

An Introduction to the Study of English and American Literature

Sicher im Studium Die Reihe mit dem Grundlagenwissen sämtlicher Teildisziplinen des Studienfachs Anglistik / Amerikanistik Fragestellunge...