Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups and in the interest of a non-academic readership in the discussion of how novels work.
Paragon of youthful beauty, romantic symbol of a lost England, and precociously gifted poet, Rupert Chawner Brooke died in a hospital ship off the Aegean island of Skyros in April 1915, aged just 27.
Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups and in the interest of a non-academic readership in the discussion of how novels work.
Born in Nabraska of Irish Quaker parents, educated at Dulwich College, and in the `mean streets' of Los Angeles about which he wrote, Raymond Chandler-writer, oil executive, poet, recluse, charmer, gentlman, drunk-was full of contradictions as his origins.
The excellent fifth classic installment in the Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s - the novels that have inspired all Scandinavian crime fiction.
The thrilling ninth classic installment in the Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s - the novels that have inspired all Scandinavian crime fiction.
Sunday Times bestselling author Ann Patchett's first work of nonfiction, chronicling her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed author, Lucy Grealy.
Brilliant and original, 'A Thousand Years of Good Prayers' introduces a remarkable first collection of stories about China from an author set to become a major literary talent.
An 365-day anthology of readings from one of the most influential writers of all time, George MacDonald, compiled by CS Lewis himselfMacDonald was a major Christian writer of the late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries.
Eugenia, Baroness M"e;nster, wife of a German princeling who wishes to be rid of her, crosses the ocean with her brother Felix to seek out their American relatives.
Ha pasado más de un siglo y medio desde que un paseo en barca con las niñas Liddell inspirara a Lewis Carroll para escribir 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865).
Ha pasado más de un siglo y medio desde que un paseo en barca con las niñas Liddell inspirara a Lewis Carroll para escribir 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865).
Desde hace alrededor de un siglo, circula por el mundo –y con toda naturalidad– el concepto de "sueño americano", cual epítome de la cultura estadounidense (y por ende, a la vez, cual clave ideológica del sistema capitalista).
Examining contemporary literary depictions of environmental disasters through a North South axis, this book explores the resonances and dissonances between environmentalisms of marginalized communities in the U.
