Literature & Poetry

Few authors' names conjure up such an air of ghoulish terror as that of Edgar Allan Poe. This tile features the best of his horror stories and other suspenseful tales. It includes twenty-seven short stories in total and a poem "The Raven", that provides an introduction to this master of the macabre for those unfamiliar with Poe's work.

Neil Cornwell's study, published for the Nabokov centenary, examines five of Nabokov's major novels, plus his short stories and critical writings, situating his work against the ever-expanding mass of VN scholarship, and noting his cultural debt to Russia, Europe, America and the British Isles.

This study assesses the development and significance of the writer and painter Wyndham Lewis.

Dennis Brown's book assesses Sir John Betjeman's contribution to poetry in the light of the way that his key themes have specific relevance to postmodern and environmental concerns, emphasising its ironic self-reflexivity, its rendering of Englishness and a 'soft' masculinity, and its ecumenical Christian tolerance.

Welcome to After Fame - an ambitious and resonant engagement with the epigrams of the Roman poet Martial, which completes the loose trilogy of Sam Riviere's process-derived works.

It was Martial who first used the term 'plagiarism' in its modern sense as a kind of literary theft.

Jenny Uglow is the award-winning author of Elizabeth Gaskell (winner of the Portico Prize), Nature's Engraver, which won the National Arts Writers Award, and A Gambling Man, which was shortlisted for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize and most recently In These Times.

Discover the works of the controversial author with the complete text of Sons and Lovers plus an essay, "Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious"; three short stories; and several poems, including "Snake."

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Tales that take Chicago as their setting and works by writers associated with Chicago include stories by Saul Bellow, George Ade, Stuart Dybek, Richard Wright, Edna Ferber, W. Somerset Maugham, others.

"A time will come when love like a sheet of fire will run through the towns and cities. It will tear walls away. It will destroy ugly houses. It will tear ugly clothes off the bodies of men and women. They will build anew and build beautifully," declares John Webster, a quiet middle-aged businessman ...

A compelling tale of sin, guilt, and revenge, The Scarlet Letter is also a story of love and forgiveness. Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 masterpiece unfolds among the rigidly intolerant Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay colony, where Hester Prynne is condemned to wear the scarlet letter as a badge of shame. ...

Tolstoy's novel of spiritual regeneration recounts the sins of a young Russian nobleman and his attempts in later life to redress those transgressions. A panoramic view of Russian social life at the end of the 19th century, Resurrection pointedly articulates the author's contempt for the social injustices ...

"The Irish poet and playwright's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, appears in this splendid showcase of philosophy and wit. Additional selections include Wilde's ever-popular comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest; his essay on aestheticism, "The Decay of Lying: An Observation"; his prison letter, ...

This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel recounts a spirited schoolteacher's transformation into a hardworking farmer's wife and self-sacrificing mother. "A novel to read and remember." — The New York Times.

This book explores Vernon Lee's ground-breaking literary work in light of the turbulent friendships that she had with figures such as Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells and Virginia Woolf.

A chance break in a West End theatre production forces a derailed actress to confront her demons and offers her an opportunity to escape her past and live life to the full.

Written in the winding-down stages of a severe psychotic episode filled with manic delusions, this extraordinary story chronicles Julja's relationship with drugs, family and friends.

Drawing inspiration from electronic voice phenomena, near-death experiences and apophenia, Jacqueline Haskell delves into the world of the occult to find life after death.

The experience of living with the adventures and griefs of bipolar disorder forms the focus for this remarkable collection of poetry.