Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

'Every woman clutched her child, and every man turned pale at the very name of "e;Doone"e;'John Ridd, an unsophisticated farmer, falls in love with the beautiful and aristocratic Lorna Doone, kidnapped as a child by the outlaw Doones on Exmoor.

'Senneval, you see in me your sister, the girl you seduced at Nancy, the woman who murdered your son, the wife of your own father and the ignoble creature who sent your mother to the gallows.

'The memory of a particular image is only regret for a particular moment.

'Senneval, you see in me your sister, the girl you seduced at Nancy, the woman who murdered your son, the wife of your own father and the ignoble creature who sent your mother to the gallows.

For the first time a major novel by Charlotte Bronte appears in an edition based directly on the author's manuscript.

'He appears to be persecutor and I the persecuted: is not this difference the mere creature of the imagination?

'He appears to be persecutor and I the persecuted: is not this difference the mere creature of the imagination?

'Gaius Pliny sends greetings to his friend Septicius Clarus.

Wilkie Collins is mainly remembered for his best-selling sensation novel The Woman in White and his detective mystery The Moonstone , both published in the 1860s.

Wilkie Collins is mainly remembered for his best-selling sensation novel The Woman in White and his detective mystery The Moonstone , both published in the 1860s.

'A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.

Devils, also known in English as The Possessed and The Demons, was first published in 1871-2.

LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLDThis unique series - edited by Richard Holmes - recovers the great classical tradition of English biography.

The concluding volume of The History of Middle-earth series, which examines the Appendices to The Lord of the Rings.

Friends?

The fifth volume of the History of Middle-earth, containing the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion.

The fourth volume that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion.

The first part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety.

The second of two companion volumes which documents the later writing of The Silmarillion, Tolkien's epic tale of war.

The second part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety.

In this exuberant book, the incomparable Ray Bradbury shares the wisdom, experience, and excitement of a lifetime of writing.

The third volume that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion.

Before The Silmarillion, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, the earliest myths and legends of Middle-earth and Valinor were laid down in The Book of Lost Tales, written by J.

Michael Chabon, author of WONDER BOYS and the Pulitzer Prize-wining THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY, has written an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful and powerful as his novels.

The third part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety.

The final part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety.

'A wonderfully warm tale of weddings, funerals, marathon sauna contests - and the incomparable thrill of your first kiss, from "e;the Nick Hornby of the Arctic"e;.

A detailed and fascinating journey to the roots of The Lord of the Rings, by award-winning Tolkien expert Professor Tom Shippey.

"e;We are a trading community, a commercial people.

A startling and at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J.

A terrifically engaging and original biography about one of England's greatest novelists, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his masterpiece, 'Brideshead Revisited'.

On the way to a show in Skipton, in North Yorkshire, I noticed a road sign to a town called Keighley.

A biographical companion to the works of Agatha Christie - revised and updated editionAgatha Christie was the author of over 100 plays, short story collections and novels which have been translated into 103 languages; she is outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare.

The authorised biography of one of the greatest storytellers of all time, written with complete and exclusive access to the archives stored in the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre.

This highly praised biography is the first to explore fully the way in which her painful early life and rejection by her brother Isaac in particular, shaped the insight and art which made her both Victorian England's last great visionary and the first modern.

The definitive critical study of Tolkien's greatest works by the respected and world renowned Tolkien scholar Professor T.

David Copperfield is born into a loving family and lives happily with his mother.

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck escapes from the clutches of his drunken father 'Pap' and the 'civilizing' guardian Widow Douglas.

A Christmas Carol is an everlasting classic that describes the story of a miserly, horrible man called Ebenezer Scrooge and his journey towards the path of salvation.

An adventurous Geology Professor Lidenbrock finds a manuscript in which a 16th-century explorer says that he has found a route to the earth's center.

First published in 1915, Metamorphosis is an absurd novella written by Kafka.

The Strange Case of Dr.

A Tale of Two Cities begins in London and Paris and presents the most remarkable saga of love, chaos, duality and uprising all through the French Revolution.

Around the World in 80 Days is a classic adventure novel written by Jules Verne.

Oliver Twist is the story of an orphan boy who is raised in a workhouse outside London.

Published posthumously in 1924 by Kafka's friend, Max Trod, after his death, The Trial is a criticism of a totalitarian form of government, which traps an individual into systems of oppression and inhibits them from any means of escape.

In Christians and Jews Together, Stuart Dauermann challenges Christians and Jews to discover new ways to partner together in serving what God is up to in the world.