Lin Yutang and China’s Search for Modern Rebirth
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the socio-cultural and political context of...
EAN: 9789811046568
Beckett's Thing
Beckett was deeply engaged with the visual arts and individual painters, including Jack B. Yeats,...
EAN: 9781474431491
In My Own Time
'Jane Miller's collected journalism is a treasure trove of literary, personal and political...
EAN: 9780349007571
Joyce in Court
An accessible and original book about Joyce, by a hugely respected figure in Ireland. A brilliant...
EAN: 9781786691590
Life and Death of Sherlock Holmes
The story of the most famous detective in the world; a fast-paced and exciting living portrait of...
EAN: 9781786691262
Charlotte Lennox
Charlotte Lennox (c. 1729-1804) was an eighteenth-century English novelist whose most celebrated...
EAN: 9781442626232
Oscar's Ghost
The dramatic story of the legal and emotional battle that raged between two of Oscar Wilde's...
EAN: 9781445662589
Devotion
From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of...
EAN: 9780300218626
Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: A Little Learning
This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together...
EAN: 9780198702917
Kafka
How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's...
EAN: 9780691178189
Charles Corm
Charles Corm: An Intellectual Biography of a Twentieth-Century Lebanese “Young Phoenician” delves...
EAN: 9781498517683
Evelyn Waugh
A scintillating new biography of the novelist Evelyn Waugh, by acclaimed biographer Philip Eade.
EAN: 9781780224862
Alexiad of Anna Komnene
Anna Komnene's history of her father, the Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, is an enormously important...
EAN: 9781108401944
Shute
Nevil Shute was a writer whose books were looked down on by literary critics and yet when he died...
EAN: 9781788032575
Walden
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITSIn 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went...
EAN: 9781784872410
Influencing Hemingway
Influencing Hemingway documents the places, people, and activities that influenced and intrigued...
EAN: 9781538102404
Man Alive
A wry, tender memoir by one of the leading voices on transition and masculinity
EAN: 9781786890887
Life of Charlotte Bronte
A classic of English biography as well as the portrait of a very remarkable woman and an...
EAN: 9781848681651
Jane and Dorothy
Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth were born just four years apart, in the 1770s. Jane and...
EAN: 9781910985779
Depression
How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist...
EAN: 9781784872618
First Thought
The Beat Generation's best-known poet, in previously uncollected interviews, on reading and...
EAN: 9780816699179
Roger Martin du Gard and Maumort
In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Roger Martin du Gard was one of the most famous writers in the...
EAN: 9780875807492
Ernst Toller and German Society
Between 1918 and 1939 Ernst Toller was one of Germany’s prominent left-wing intellectuals, He was...
EAN: 9781683930686
