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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: 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: 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: 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. ...

Wifedom - Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life

'Truly wonderful... Anna Funder has written another brilliant human portrait.' - Claire Tomalin A BLAZING, GENRE-BENDING MASTERPIECE FROM...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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', ...

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 ...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

Material Remains - Reading the Past in Medieval and Early Modern British Literature

Examines how medieval and early modern British texts use descriptions of archaeological objects to produce aesthetic and literary respons...

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...

The Mind in Exile - Thomas Mann in Princeton

A unique look at Thomas Mann's intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United States In Se...

The Cambridge Companion to the Poem

What is a poem? What ideas about the poem as such shape how readers and audiences encounter individual poems? To explore these questions,...

Thoreau's Axe - Distraction and Discipline in American Culture

A Memoir of My Former Self - A Life in Writing

The magnificent final book from the bestselling author of the Wolf Hall Trilogy

The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens

Almost everything you're familiar with was first mentioned in an authorised biography written by Dickens' close friend John Forster 150 y...

The Hero and the Victim - Narratives of Criminality in Iraq War Fiction

The Afterlife of Sympathy - Reading American Literary Realism in the Wake of Uncle Tom's Cabin

"Literary realism rose to prominence in postbellum America with bold and accurate depictions of the world. This style became more popular...

Founded in Fiction - The Uses of Fiction in the Early United States

"This monograph presents a new history of early American literature that traces the diverse forms of fiction circulating in the early Uni...

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 Death Penalty in Dickens and Derrida - The Last Sentence of the Law

In the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens backed the cause of abolition of the death penalty and wrote comprehensively about it, in publ...

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 ...

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...

Female Anger in Crime Fiction

Feminist anger is having a moment, but the double meaning of 'mad' as angry and crazy has shaped the representation of women in popular c...

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...