Literature & Poetry

A biography that charts the boom and bust of America's first celebrity author, once Mark Twain's chief rival in American literature. In this first scholarly biography of Bret Harte in nearly seventy years, Axel Nissen sets out to reevaluate the life and literary career of the legendary chronicler of the California gold rush.

In Novel Theology, Darren Middleton engages a conversation between literature and theology by using the narrative fiction of Kazantzakis and the process thought of Whitehead. Novel Theology reveals the common philosophy that shapes both Kazantzakis's and Whitehead's understanding of God. It acknowledges ...

A biographical/critical study of three mid-century American poets: Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell and Marianne Moore. It describes their mutual influence, evokes their world and evaluates their work, with an emphasis on its biographical underpinnings.

Offers a humorous, colorful account of an Oxford academic's coexistence with his alter ego, the author of detective novels, and provides an intimate look at his circle of Oxford-bred literary figures and friends

Vanessa Bell, artist, sister of Virginia Woolf, wife of Clive Bell and lover of Duncan Grant, is one of the most fascinating and modern figures of the Bloomsbury set, but unlike most of them she rarely put pen to writing paper.

A feminist analysis of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Dusinberre argues that Puritan teaching on sexuality and spiritual equality raises questions about women which feed into the drama, where the role of women in relation to authority structures is constantly renegotiated.

In Directing Herbert White James Franco writes about making a film of Frank Bidart's poem, Herbert White. Though the main character, Herbert White, is a necrophiliac and a killer, the poem - and the film - are an expression of life's isolation and loneliness.

Diemert traces Greene's adaptation of nineteenth-century romance thrillers and classical detective stories into modern political thrillers as a means of presenting serious concerns in an engaging fashion. He argues that Greene's popular thrillers were in part a reaction to the high modernism of writers ...

This Dialogue of One collects thirteen essays on English, French and American poets by one of the era's most engaging and highly esteemed poet-critics. Like Randall Jarrell, whose achievement is assessed here, Ford combines a refreshing openness to innovation with an authoritative awareness of what makes ...

This box set contains five volumes of sparkling wit from some of the world's most notable writers and thinkers:
Jane Austen
Winston Churchill
Charles Dickens
William Shakespeare
Oscar Wilde

A beautiful collection from one of the great Romantic poets - the perfect introduction.

The fortunes of two men - Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English laywer - become entwined through their love for Lucie Manette. Drawn together to the streets of Paris, their fate is played out under the vengeful shadow of La Guillotine.

Now in paperback, the stunning lifework of this beloved prize-winning poet, gathered in one volume, covering sixty years of poetry, from 1956 to 2016. This celebratory volume covers nearly all of Marie Ponsot's published work, from True Minds (published in 1956 as number five in the famous Pocket Poets ...

Years of beautiful, rare, and sometimes hilariously awful Jane Austen covers with entertaining and informative text.

Providing a user-friendly, comprehensive guide to world literature past and present, this volume covers everything from the precision of the Japanese haiku to the baggy, angst ridden maunderings of the Great American Novel.

Carol Ann Duffy's wonderful Christmas poem retelling the carol of King Wenceslas, beautifully illustrated by Stuart Kolakovic

Join some of England's best-loved writers in this day-by-day celebration of an English year. Diary entries by literary figures such as Gilbert White and Thomas Hardy guide us through the year, accompanied by poems and quotations celebrating the changing seasons, and passages explaining the origins of some of our oldest festive traditions.

Sure to delight and inspire, this elegant anthology of translated Chinese Poetry features treasured poems, presented simply and elegantly, encased in a deluxe foiled cover, that both chronicle and celebrate the rich cultural heritage of China.

A collection that brings together verses that mark the last moments of life, the passing from one stage to another. The poems and readings offer a wide variety of beautiful, lyrical, insightful writings on death, grieving and healing by poets including Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson and John Keats. A source of comfort, solace and fortitude.