Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

One of the world's best loved presenters meets one of the world's greatest authors in this beautiful selection of timeless, haunting stories.

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.

Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes's seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain's greatest poets.

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

'The best poet in America' Jean Genet'He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels' Leonard CohenThe definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an enduring markHere is Bukowski eating walnuts and scratching his back, rolling a cigarette while listening to Brahms, showering with Linda in the mid-afternoon.

This third and final volume of A.

This third and final volume of A.

The long-awaited second volume of A.

A vivid, engaging account of the artists and artworks that sought to make sense of America's first total war, Grand Illusions takes readers on a compelling journey through the major historical events leading up to and beyond US involvement in WWI to discover the vast and pervasive influence of the conflict on American visual culture.

The long-awaited second volume of A.

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities.

In Home Before Dark, Susan Cheever, daughter of the famously talented writer John Cheever, uses previously unpublished letters, journals, and her own precious memories to create a candid and insightful tribute to her father.

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

From the 11th-century, when one commentator claimed the capital was being overrun with Moors, to the garage MCs and street poets of today - this book tells the story of life in London for black and Asian people from the 17th-century until today.

Published to coincide with his major biography of Iris Murdoch, Peter Conradi's acclaimed critical appreciation of her work is reissued in a fully revised and updated edition, with a foreword by John Bayley.

Francisco Collado se ocupa en este libro de la difícil tarea de encontrar un orden subyacente detrás del aparente caos y la paranoia del universo literario de Pynchon.

Germán Espinosa es uno de los narradores colombianos que más recurrió a pasados distantes como materia para su escritura; no obstante, son pocos los trabajos amplios y sistemáticos sobre las novelas históricas del escritor cartagenero.

Cristina Campo es el principal y definitivo pseudónimo de la escritora italiana Vittoria Guerrini, nacida en 1923 en Bolonia y fallecida en Roma en 1977.

Caterina Riba presenta aquest estudi sobre l'obra de Maria-Mercè Marçal des de la "permeabilitat", des de la intertextualitat i el procés obert de significació que permet la seva poesia.

Germán Espinosa es uno de los narradores colombianos que más recurrió a pasados distantes como materia para su escritura; no obstante, son pocos los trabajos amplios y sistemáticos sobre las novelas históricas del escritor cartagenero.

Este estudio constituye el primer acercamiento crítico, en el mundo académico hispano, a las poetas y artistas de la generación Beat que, junto con los componentes masculinos bien conocidos del grupo (Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs) revolucionaron la escena literaria urbana en la década de los cincuenta en los Estados Unidos, adelantándose así al cambio de mentalidad que colonizó el mundo en los sesenta y los setenta.

Durch den Erfolg der 1903 erschienenen Volksausgabe von Buddenbrooks eröffnet sich dem jungen Thomas Mann die Möglichkeit, die prestigeträchtige Position des "deutschen Nationalschriftstellers" einzunehmen.

A first-hand account of the creative process that engages with the language of oppression and with politics in our time.

Anglo-American modernist writing and modern mass democratic states emerged at the same time, during the period of 1900-1930.

A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates.

A first-hand account of the creative process that engages with the language of oppression and with politics in our time.

Lavinia Greenlaw's mesmerising debut novel about growing up in the surreal banality of mid-'70s Essex.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HERMIONE LEEThe previously uncollected occasional prose of a great English writer - full of wit, feeling and illumination.

A stunning debut from a Australian writer - the story of a treasure hunt through a vast New York bookshop.

A beguiling, entrancing novel that tells the story of a prominent Egyptian family's struggle to survive the turmoil of post-World War II Cairo.

From one of our most admired playwrights, "e;an ambitious, complicated and often laugh-out-loud religious debate"e; (Toby Zinman, The Philadelphia Inquirer)Set in a time-bending, seriocomically imagined world between Heaven and Hell, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a philosophical meditation on the conflict between divine mercy and human free will that takes a close look at the eternal damnation of the Bible's most notorious sinner.

Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.

Bruce Chatwin's death in 1989 brought a meteoric career to an abrupt end, since he burst onto the literary scene in 1977 with his first book, In Patagonia.

Victoria Glendinning provides a woman's view of Anthony Trollope, placing emphasis on family, particularly on his relationship with his mother.

"e;There was no patriotism in the trenches.

'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters .

Isaiah Berlin's classic essay on Tolstoy - an exciting new edition with new criticism and a foreword.

In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'.

Cultural Amnesia: A Masterful Collection of Essays on Twentieth-Century Luminaries, from Louis Armstrong to Franz KafkaIn Cultural Amnesia, acclaimed critic Clive James presents a series of captivating essays on the artists, thinkers, and cultural figures who shaped the twentieth century.

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This Student Edition of Broken Glass is perfect for students of literature and drama and offers an unrivalled and comprehensive guide to Miller's play.

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This simplified biographical eBook of Beatrix Potter and the history of the Peter Rabbit book is ideal for the younger reader.

Various Voices is the only collection of Harold Pinter's prose, poems and political writing to span his career.

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Reinaldo Arenas was born to a poverty-stricken family in rural Cuba.