Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the titans of Russian literature.

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'Warm and wise' Julie Cohen'Just loved' Susan Lewis'Sage, heartfelt and real' Beth MorreyThere's always time for a second chance.

'I wonder what will become of her!

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

THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE was written towards the beginning of Hardy's career as a novelist and can be considered one of his most representative works.

In this extraordinary essay, Virginia Woolf examines the limitations of womanhood in the early twentieth century.

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.

Science Fantasy blends science fiction AND fantasy, so it tends to be bolder and more highly colored than pure science fiction.

Published to coincide with the film release of 'The Great Gatsby', Collins Classics brings you F.

As the the bicentennary of the French Revolution draws near, Dickens' historical novel serves as a timely reminder of nineteenth-century reactions to that great upheaval.

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Science Fantasy blends science fiction AND fantasy, so it tends to be bolder and more highly colored than pure science fiction.

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

"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.

Homer's great epic, The Odyssey, is perhaps Western literature's first adventure story, and certainly remains one of its finest.

'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' SpectatorFor most of us John Milton has been consigned to the dusty pantheon of English literature, a grim puritan, sightlessly dictating his great work to an amanuensis, removed from the real world in his contemplation of higher things.

Shortlised for the Saltire Society Non Fiction Book of the Year Award Almost every adult and child is familiar with his Treasure Island, but few know that Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his last years on an equally remote island, which was squabbled over by colonial powers much as Captain Flint's treasure was contested by the mongrel crew of the Hispaniola.

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.

By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

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

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

Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar.

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

Alice is an eighteen-year-old student and aspiring novelist with green spiky hair, a child of the modern age who recoils at the idea of reading Jane Austen.

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

'I wonder what will become of her!

Dantes Divine Comedy is one of the most highly regarded works of world literature and a classic that continues to inspire fiction and poetry today.

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

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

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

Mit einem Nachwort von Knut Beck.

 Während ihres Exils auf der Flucht vor den Nationalsozialisten entfaltete sich ein intensiver Austausch zwischen dem Schriftsteller Thomas Mann und dem vierzig Jahre jüngeren Philosophen und Musiktheoretiker Theodor W.

November Gustave Flaubert - Die Novelle "November" (1842), die vage an Goethes "Werther" angelehnt ist, war Gustave Flauberts erstes vollendetes Werk.

Unos macabros sucesos están ocurriendo en un hospital del corazón de África.

«Live fast, die young» war einmal.

Mit einem Nachwort von Knut Beck.

Animias, recuerdos y otros imposibles recopila pequenos relatos sobre instantes de la vida que a uno se le quedan congelados en la retina, en la mente o en la piel y que le suscitan todo tipo de interrogantes.