Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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Seren knows the truth.

A cracking collection of short stories from the author of the stupendous 'Swimmer'.

The renowned Russian writer Leo Tolstoy created a realistic masterpiece in Anna Karenina (1878).

A story of love and grief.

A major international debut novel from a storyteller who couples a timelessly beguiling style to an energetically modern worldscape.

'Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth.

Building New Worlds is a history of a pivotal decades-long episode in the birth and growth of today's science fiction.

George Orwell was one of the most significant literary figures on the left in the twentieth century.

An alternative version - the one Tolstoy originally intended, but has been hitherto unpublished - of Russia's most famous novel; with a different ending, fewer digressions and an altered view of Napoleon - it's time to look afresh at one of the world's favourite books.

The pocket guide is an adventurer's passport to the land of Narnia.

A top-rate novel of drugs, love and treachery from an author at the height of his powers.

An entertaining biography of Dickens by one of our finest actorsAcclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow captures the essence of Charles Dickens in a sparkling biography that explores the central importance of the theatre to the life of the greatest storyteller in the English language.

All Jason wants to do is make sure that Sophie is okay.

The court case is getting close and Faith can feel the tension building.

The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the legendary friendship - and quarrel - between Wordsworth and Coleridge, two giants of English Romanticism.

Alice has been given the chance of a lifetime.

First published in 1897, "e;How to Tell a Story and Others"e; is a series of short stories and advice by Mark Twain.

Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) was a major writer of fantasy and science fiction during the first half of the twentieth century.

George Orwell was one of the most significant literary figures on the left in the twentieth century.

The sequel to 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'.

Lisa gave Calvin a choice and he made it.

The first full-length study of incest in the Gothic genre, this book argues that Gothic writers resisted the power structures of their society through incestuous desires.

Melisa had refused to accept Claire because of what she did.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTONSubtitled 'An education in the twenties', this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in London s Bohemia.

Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the titans of Russian literature.

"e;Street Haunting: A London Adventure"e; is a 1930 essay written by Virginia Woolf, inspired by observations made whilst walking the streets of London.

Faith had thought that she was doing the right thing.

Melisa hasn't seen her father since he moved to England.

The basics of a good interview may be summed up in the following sentence: find someone interesting and articulate, ask just enough questions to get them talking, then point the microphone, shut up, and, oh, by the way, make sure your equipment works.

First published in 1940, this volume contains a collection of classic essays by Virginia Woolf on the subject of Henry James and his work.

In the mid-1960s, British science fiction and fantasy were convulsed by the "e;New Wave.

What has dance got to do with the Trinity, a hospital bed to do with gratitude, or email to do with prayer?

Alice had no idea why she was in heaven.

The first full-length study of incest in the Gothic genre, this book argues that Gothic writers resisted the power structures of their society through incestuous desires.

Seren knows that her choices are limited.

A full-blooded, pacy biography of one of the most charismatic writers of the century, whose life and work were to inspire Hemingway, Steinbeck, Kerouac and Mailer.

Almost one hundred years after the death of Jane Austen, William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh published Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters.

This mesmerizing collection demonstrates perfectly Ballard's extraordinary writing talent.

Faith thought that starting a new school for her senior year was as bad as it was going to get.