Literary Theory, History & Criticism

This book is an abridged translation of La Escatologia Musalmana en la Divine Comedia., originally published in Spanish in Madrid in 1919. The auth...

Poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright, musician, and painter, Rabindranath Tagore was one of the foremost creative minds of India. This il...

With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built—meter and rhyme, form and diction...

They were two men bound together by their daring, their vision—and their erotic power over women.Racecar driver Angelo Perino rose from an immigran...

Metamorphosis is one of the most terrifying stories ever written. a man wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a giant insect. Kafka...

This controversial new series raises fundamental questions about the authenticity of Shakespeare's texts as we know them today. In a radical depart...

Rudyard Kipling was the barrack-room balladeer and the unrivalled poet laureate of the common man. He was born in Bombay in 1865, and after schooli...

Joseph Heller's powerful, wonderfully funny, deeply moving novel is the story of David -- yes, King David -- but as you've never seen him before. Y...

Love, secrets, and sorbets abound in The Heavenly Italian Ice Cream Shop—a perfect summer read that will delight fans of food and romance.Anna and ...

The Arden Shakespeare, founded in the 1890s, has, with a continuing process of revision, established itself as the Standard scholarly edition of Sh...

These three television plays were written between 1974 and 1979. Solid Geometry was banes by the BBC just before going into production and became a...

San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fishe...

In the figure of the half-starved Oliver in the workhouse asking for 'more', Dickens created the nineteenth century's most famous image of protest ...

The epic story of the queen who founded the Tudor dynasty, told through the eyes of her loyal nursemaid. Perfect for fans of Philipa Gregory.When h...

In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel of first love and second chances, former high school sweethearts confront the painful truths of their p...

David Copperfield was Dickens's favourite child and in the book Dickens revealed a lot of himself, particularly his early life. But, the introducti...

The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of...

Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a f...

From a childhood of gothic proportions, through teenage pregnancy in the 1960s, Lorna Sage vividly and wittily brings to life a vanished time and p...

Composed in medieval Iceland, Hrolf's Saga is one of the greatest of all mythic-legendary sagas, relating half-fantastical events that were said to...

This book provides models for close analysis of Hardy, with particular focus on Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the ...