Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

'A highly entertaining story of literary friendship, epic legal battles and cultural politics centred on one of the most enigmatic writers of the 20th century' Financial Times When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his friend Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfil the writer's last instruction: to burn his remaining manuscripts.

It had never been attempted before, and might never be done again.

Guy Davenport demonstrates his unparalleled critical vision as he interprets art, literature, and cultureIn this collection of 20 essays, Guy Davenport applies his insightful gaze and critical wisdom to topics including modern art and the effects of the automobile on contemporary society.

In this compelling companion volume to her acclaimed memoir Home Before Dark, Susan Cheever once again gives readers a revealing look into her famous family, whose secrets and eccentricities parallel their genius and successes.

In Home Before Dark, Susan Cheever, daughter of the famously talented writer John Cheever, uses previously unpublished letters, journals, and her own precious memories to create a candid and insightful tribute to her father.

Der Erste Weltkrieg wird zumeist als Vorläufer-Konflikt des Zweiten Weltkrieges gesehen.

The first full biography of a neglected genius and one of the great Modernists, lavishly illustrated in colour throughout I would like to have done anything as good as David Jones has done Dylan ThomasAs a poet, visual artist and essayist, David Jones is one of the great Modernists.

The years from 1939 to 1955 proved to be the most prolific of Graham Greene's life.

Published simultaneously in Britain and America to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T.

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The poet George Barker was convinced that his biography could never be written.

After returning from a trip to Brunei, Anthony Burgess, initially believing he has only a year to live, begins to write - novels, film scripts, television series, articles.

Albert Camus is among the most significant French writers of the twentieth century.

The final volume of the definitive authorised biography of one of the greatest American writers.

Didi, Gogo, Pozzo, Luckythe bizarre names stand out strangely against the bare-bones landscape of Waiting for Godot.

'A fascinating from-the-heart memoir' Nigel Slater'A revelatory honest read' Red magazineFUNNY, HEART-WRENCHING, GENEROUS AND TRUE, IN FINDING MY VOICE NADIYA HUSSAIN SHARES THE UNFORGETTABLE MEMORIES AND EXPERIENCES THAT HAVE MADE HER THE WOMAN SHE IS TODAY.

'Pink is my favourite colour.

The definitive single-volume edition of the work of the greatest poet of the First World War2018 marks the centenary of the end of the First World War.

Philip Roth one of the most renowned writers of his generation hardly needs introduction.

With typical critical flair, Raymond Williams examines the development of the dramatic form from Henrik Ibsen to Bertolt Brecht.

Raymond Williams begins his brilliantly perceptive study of the English novel in the 1840s, a period of rapid social change brought on by the Industrial Revolution, the struggle for democratic reform, and the growth of cities and towns.

As the nephew of Virginia Woolf, Quentin Bell enjoyed an initimacy with his subject granted to few biographers.

Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing is to be found in this collection of five unpublished pieces.

'Orpheus, the pagan saint of poets, went through hell and came back singing.

Mary Wesley published her first novel at seventy and went on to write a further nine bestsellers, including the legendary The Camomile Lawn, in a style best described as arsenic without the old lace.

In 1939 Christopher Isherwood and W.

From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down.

In Vintage Living Texts, teachers, students and any lover of literature will find the essential guide to the major works of Roddy Doyle.

In Vintage Living Texts, teachers, students and any lover of literature will find the essential guide to the major works of Iris Murdoch.

In Vintage Living Texts teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Louis de Berni res.

In Vintage Living Texts teachers, students and any lover of literature will find the essential guide to the major works of A.

In this final volume of Christopher Isherwood's diaries, capstone of a million-word masterwork, he greets advancing age with poignant humour and an unquenchable appetite for the new.

The Woman in Black, Strange Meeting, I'm the King of the Castle, A Little Bit of Singing and DancingIn Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Susan Hill.

The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Magus, A MaggotIn Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of John Fowles.

WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD NBCC AWARD FINALIST WINNER OF THE 2017 SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Financial Times, Spectator and ObserverAngela Carter s life was as unconventional as anything in her fiction.

Michael Holroyd confronts an army of automobiles in this charming book.

Vanity Fair, published in serial parts in 1847-8, made William Makepeace Thackeray famous 'all but at the top of the tree', he told his mother, 'and having a great fight up there with Dickens'.

This ground-breaking anthology presents in chronological order over 400 poems written in the twentieth century.

The life of Rosamond Lehmann was as romantic and harrowing as that of any of her fictional heroines.

EDITED BY AVRIL HORNER AND ANNE ROWE Destroy this and all letters.

The material collected here is a treasure trove, a fine retrospective and a comprehensive guide to the work of Ireland's greatest living novelist, John Banville.

`In one of tje funniest biographies I have ever read, Lewis assembles all the excellently entertaining anecdotes about this deeply loved, much mocked, sometimes reviled figure whose departure has robbed the litarary world of its social smartness and any worthwhile eccentricity .

John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century.

In 2004, Henry James featured as a character in no less than three novels - David Lodge's Author, Author was one of them.

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.

The poems in this, Alan Jenkin's third collection, speak of the harm done and suffered - most frequently in the name of love - in the course of lives gone adrift among lost causes, chance meetings and missed chances.

Whatever the celebration, whatever the day, whatever the occasion, Helen Steiner Rice possessed the ability to express the appropriate feeling for that particular moment in time.

Fusewire has the fierce historical awareness and linguistic energy of Ruth Padel's previous collections but moves into new territory and new clarity.

This is a study of a literary generation writing in a period of expanding fears and ever more urgent political and social crises.

The Edwardian Turn of Mind brilliantly evokes the cultural temper of an age.