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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

The complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath—essential reading for anyone who has been moved and fascinated by the poet's life...

Worsley, L: Agatha Christie - The Sunday Times Bestseller

One brilliant woman writing about another: an irresistible combination.' - Antonia Fraser 'One of the most delightful biographies I ever ...

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...

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 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.

Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction

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

From the author of The Black Bird Oracle comes a fully illustrated guide to the #1 New York Times bestselling All Souls series—&ldq...

Understanding English-German Contrasts

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

Jane Austen's Letters

A is for Arsenic - The Poisons of Agatha Christie

Fourteen Agatha Christie novels. Fourteen poisons. Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's entirely made up . . . <BR><BR&gt...

The Shakespeare Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained

Learn the entire works of one of the greatest writers of the English language in The Shakespeare Book.<BR><BR>Part of the fas...

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...

The Sherlock Holmes Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained

The Sherlock Holmes Book chronicles every case of the world's greatest detective and his assistant Dr Watson. The game is afoot and now y...

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...

English Literature in Context

This is the second edition of English Literature in Context, a popular textbook which provides an essential resource and reference tool f...

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 ...

Philip Pullman and the Historical Imagination - Seventeenth-Century Literature, Science, and Religion in "His Dark Materials" and "The Book of Dust"

The Hobbit Encyclopedia

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

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....

Reading Lessons - An English Teacher's Love Letter to the Books that Shape Us

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2025<BR><BR>An English teacher's love letter to reading and the many ways literature ca...

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...

Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way - New Poems

One of the most recognizable poets of the last century, Charles Bukowski is simultaneously a common man and an icon of urban depravity. H...

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

The story both of the real world of the Brontës at Haworth Parsonage, their home on the edge of the lonely Yorkshire moors, and of the im...

Manual of english literature

An outline of american literature

The history of Henry Esmond

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 ...

Essays of a humanist

Researches into the mediaeval history of folk ballad

Concise companion to english literature

American literature since 1900

Reader in modern american literature (1917-1941)

A critical history of english literature I.

" Don't Fall Off The Mountain "

A Short History of English Literature (Evans)

An Outline of English Literature

Readings from American literature

American literature

The english novel

An introduction to the english novel I-II.

From Dryden to Johnson

Aspects of the novel

Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 - Saját képpel

The Literature of the United States

The Philosophy of Virginia Woolf - Moments of Becoming

Towards the end of her life, Virginia Woolf defined her "philosophy"-the "constant idea" that "makes her a writer." She wrote that this i...

The concise Cambridge history of English literature

The History of German Literature on Film

A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE This book tells the story of German-language literature on film, beginning with pioneering motio...

This Thing Called Literature - Reading, Thinking, Writing

Relating literature to topics such as dreams, politics, life, death, the ordinary and the uncanny, This Thing Called Literature establish...

American Rhapsody

Byron: A Life in Ten Letters

Lord Byron was the most celebrated of all the Romantic poets. Troubled, handsome, sexually fluid, disabled, and transgressive, he wrote h...

Mark Twain

*A Guardian Best Biography of the Year* The complex and fascinating life of Mark Twain, as told by a Pulitzer prizewinning biographer Bor...

A Guide to Byron's Verse in Fifty Poems

An accessible introduction to the range, value, and diversity of Byron's poetry. Fifty short essays are each devoted to a single poetic w...

English short Stories (anthology)

What Was Shakespeare Really Like? - Foreword by Fry, Stephen

Stanley Wells brings a lifetime of reflection to bear on some of the most tantalising questions about Shakespeare. How did he think, feel...

Survival is a Promise - The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

The Worlds of Jane Austen - The Influences and Inspiration Behind the Novels

This book takes a fresh look at Jane Austen's life, inspirations and legacy, drawing on the latest research in an accessible and lively f...

An Introduction to the Study of English and American Literature

Ecocriticism

Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine and portray the relationship between humans and the environment across many areas of c...

Jane Austen: The Biography

A richly drawn biography of Jane Austen, from a beloved English novelist Elizabeth Jenkins

From Panem to the Pandemic: An Introduction to Cultural Studies

Today, virtually all BA programs in English at German universities place a strong focus on Cultural Studies. However, textbooks that intr...