Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

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.

Charting the twentieth-century course of the literature of the Americas The second volume of Earl E.

Tras más de noventa años de la publicación de Ser y tiempo de Martin Heidegger, una de las obras más emblemáticas e importantes del siglo pasado, resulta un hecho sorprendente constatar su vigencia, no solo a través de los estudios e interpretaciones que continúan ofreciéndose sobre ella, sino también del amplio espectro de problemas que inauguró y que anima un número importante de discusiones filosóficas en la actualidad.

In The Representation of Business in English Literature, five scholars of different periods of English literature produce original essays on how business and businesspeople have been portrayed by novelists, starting in the eighteenth century and continuing to the end of the twentieth century.

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.

A major international debut novel from a storyteller who couples a timelessly beguiling style to an energetically modern worldscape.

The one and only Fay Weldon tells the story of her turbulent and controversial life.

The breakthrough novel from one of the greatest comic writers in the language - one of the twenty selected by Granta as the Best of Young British Writers 2003.

A lyrical and profoundly moving story of love, loss and civil war, set in Sri Lanka, London and Venice.

A world-class tale of love and deceit, rivalry and destiny from the Lahore-based writer Uzma Aslam Khan.

This beautiful HarperCollins Children's Classics edition is perfect for every bookshelf.

Roark Bradford's 1931 novel and 1939 play dealing with the legendary folk-hero John Henry (both titled John Henry) were extremely influential in their own time but have long been unavailable or extremely hard to find.

The final classic installment in the excellent Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s - the novels that have inspired all Scandinavian crime fiction.

A classic Bolger novel, following the lives of three women.

A spirited defence of Tolkien's mythological creation and its increasing relevance for the real world.

A bewitching debut novel in the vein of the much-loved classic Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe.

The first book to address everyone who relishes reading Proust and wants to know more about how his writing works.

¿Qué se sabía en realidad de las vanguardias históricas hispanoamericanas hace apenas treinta años?

The eighth classic instalment in this genre-changing series of novels starring Detective Inspector Martin Beck.

Elizabeth Smart's passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as 'Like MADAME BOVARY blasted by lightning .

The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commerical upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920.

La trastienda es vista como un espacio de acumulación, un taller de trabajo o el hogar del vendedor cuando no ocupa su anaquel.

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

In Love in a Dark Time, Colm Toibin looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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

From the gothic fantasies of Walpole's Otranto to post-modern takes on the country house by Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, Phyllis Richardson guides us on a tour through buildings real and imagined to examine how authors' personal experiences helped to shape the homes that have become icons of English literature.

'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.

'Amis has no faults.

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

Alice Munro, recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, is undoubtedly among Canada's greatest living writers.

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

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'By their fruits ye shall know them, not by their roots.

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'By their fruits ye shall know them, not by their roots.

Colm Holland reveals the story of his encounter with Paulo Coelho and his bestselling book The Alchemist, and how discovering the secret in Paulo''s novel gave him the insights to achieve true empowerment in his life.

Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionLonglisted for the Orwell Prize for Political WritingThe Ministry of Truth charts the life of George Orwell's 1984, one of the most influential books of the twentieth century and a work that is ever more relevant in this tumultuous era of 'fake news' and 'alternative facts'.

Kathleen Parkinson places this brilliant and bitter satire on the moral failure of the Jazz Age firmly in the context of Scott Fitzgerald's life and times.

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'An exquisitely-written, generous, funny, thoughtful book about the everyday joys of being alive.

A critical discussion of Pound s poetry and an insightful analysis of his sources.

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

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

This is the never-before-told story of George Orwell's first wife, Eileen, a woman who shaped, supported, and even saved the life of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.

'I am making up "e;To the Lighthouse"e; - the sea is to be heard all through it'Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood summers in Cornwall, Virginia Woolf produced one of the masterworks of English literature in To the Lighthouse.

First published in 1978 Fa ades details the lives of three of the twentieth century's most intriguing literary figures: Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell.

The original authorised biography, and the only one written by an author who actually met J.

From one of Britain's best-loved literary novelists comes a magical, lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr.

The bestselling modern fairytale, with a new introduction from Luke Cutforth'I loved it .