Written sometime in the 1170s, Walter of Chatillon's Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great loomed as large on literary horizons as the works on Jean de Meun, Dante, or Boccaccio.
Through an investigation of the body and its oppression by the church, the medical profession and the state, this book reveals the actual horrors lying beneath fictional horror in settings as diverse as the monastic community, slave plantation, operating theatre, Jewish ghetto and battlefield trench.
Amitav Ghosh is an authoritative critical introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of one of the most celebrated and significant literary voices to have emerged from India in recent decades.
The American police novel emerged soon after World War II and by the end of the century it was one of the most important forms of American crime fiction.
This lively and ground-breaking collection brings together work on forms of popular television within the authoritarian regimes of Europe after World War Two.
This is the first of five volumes of a definitive history of analytic philosophy from the invention of modern logic in 1879 to the end of the twentieth century.
The International Society of Literary Fellows (Lsi) is the society of creative writers and scholars from African and the world with a critical interest in current developments around modern cultures of indigenous and foreign language expressions.
A charming new pocket edition of one of Tolkien's major pieces of short fiction, and his only finished work dating from after publication of The Lord of the Rings.
Israel Armstrong, one of literature's most unlikely detectives, returns for more crime solving adventure in this hilarious second novel from 'The Mobile Library' series.
El juego de los afligidos narra el trance de Julián, un joven universitario, en permanente desazón con la cotidianidad, una enfermedad mortal silenciosa y el amor de Carolina, su novia.
El juego de los afligidos narra el trance de Julián, un joven universitario, en permanente desazón con la cotidianidad, una enfermedad mortal silenciosa y el amor de Carolina, su novia.
Retratos son siete cuentos en los que se deja ver la calle tal y como es, la gente del común con sus problemas del común, la ciudad que para muchos pasa desapercibida y los micro universos que componen cada hogar y barrio de la región metropolitana con corazón de bahareque y alma de villa habitada por vecinos parlanchines y comunicativos, siempre dispuestos a contar una buena historia.
Retratos son siete cuentos en los que se deja ver la calle tal y como es, la gente del común con sus problemas del común, la ciudad que para muchos pasa desapercibida y los micro universos que componen cada hogar y barrio de la región metropolitana con corazón de bahareque y alma de villa habitada por vecinos parlanchines y comunicativos, siempre dispuestos a contar una buena historia.
First published in 1986, The Coherence of Gothic Conventions makes the case that the Gothic in English literature has been marked by a distinctive and highly influential set of ambitions about relations of meaning.
First published in 1986, The Coherence of Gothic Conventions makes the case that the Gothic in English literature has been marked by a distinctive and highly influential set of ambitions about relations of meaning.
A picture book about how we can show love to difficult feelings, from the acclaimed author of M Is for Mustache: A Pride ABC Book and I PromiseWhen youre someplace unfamiliarHow do you feel?
