This Student Edition of After the Fall is perfect for students of literature and drama and offers an unrivalled and comprehensive guide to Miller's play.
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.
Strange Meetings provides a highly original account of the War Poets of 1914-1918, written through a series of actual encounters, or near-encounters, from Siegfried Sassoon's first, blushing meeting with Rupert Brooke over kidneys and bacon at Eddie Marsh's breakfasts before the war, through famous moments like Sassoon's encouragement of Owen when both are in hospital at the same time; on to the poignant meeting between Edward Thomas's widow and Ivor Gurney in 1932; and the last, strange lunch and 'longish talk' of Sassoon and David Jones in 1964, half a century after the great war began.
Set in a New England state mental hospital in the early 1990s when Prozac was routinely adminstered to treat depression, The Last Yankee sees Miller exploring aspects of the American Dream through the lives of four characters who question and grapple with definitions of success, health and fulfillment.
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.
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848) war die Schriftstellerin ohne Vorbilder, ihre Texte haben in der Literaturgeschichte Maßstäbe gesetzt: «Die Judenbuche» für Novelle und Erzählung, «Der Knabe im Moor» für die Ballade, die «Haidebilder» für die Landschaftsdichtung, das «Geistliche Jahr» für die religiöse Lyrik.
Discover How Tagore's Spiritual Life and Vision Can Enlighten Your Own "e;Rabindranath Tagore's philosophical and spiritual thoughts transcend all limits of language, culture, and nationality.
In this compelling biography, Peter Griffin draws on a wealth of previously unpublished material--including numerous letters and five of Hemingway's early short stories that appear in their entirety--to trace the formative years of one of America's most celebrated and influential authors.
The Velvet Butterfly is the third in a series of introductions to some of our major literary figures by the noted cultural journalist and foreign correspondent Alan Levy.
_________________________The perfect accompaniment to the definitive new editions of Georgette Heyer's celebrated novels that are currently being reissued.
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.
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.
Set in a New England state mental hospital in the early 1990s when Prozac was routinely adminstered to treat depression, The Last Yankee sees Miller exploring aspects of the American Dream through the lives of four characters who question and grapple with definitions of success, health and fulfillment.
Drei Epochen, drei Frauen, drei SchicksaleIn den Geschichten von Martha, Maria und Magda im schlesischen Gleiwitz spiegelt sich die Geschichte einer Grenzregion wider: die Geschicke von Deutschen, Polen und Tschechen, Christen und Juden, die liebten und hassten, Familien gründeten und einander verließen, vertrieben wurden und sich wiederbegegneten.
This Student Edition of After the Fall is perfect for students of literature and drama and offers an unrivalled and comprehensive guide to Miller's play.
The official history of Ian Fleming and James Bond by the bestselling author of Operation Mincemeat'Marvellously entertaining and informative' Spectator'Thrilling' Sunday Times'An entertaining mix of history, espionage, biography, and post-war sociology' Literary Review_____________________'I am going to write the spy story to end all spy stories.
To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the great modernist text.
_______________'Curtis spent a decade trying to negotiate her way past possessive Soviet archivists, and the result of her persistence is the most comprehensive selection of personal documents so far available in any language' - Simon Franklin, Times Literary Supplement'Ingeniously structured .
El libro que el lector tiene en las manos analiza las dinámicas de la edición y la puesta en circulación del cuento colombiano en soporte de libro durante el siglo XX, mediante el examen de un conjunto de once editoriales de iniciativa privada.
Si la literatura es una de las herramientas que la sociedad utiliza para construir su identidad, un espejo en el que mirarse y reconocerse, esta propuesta nace de un intento de saber cuál sería la respuesta de la literatura a la pregunta de quiénes somos.
Don Miguel Mañara de Leca, noble sevillano del siglo XVII, dotado de gran "don de gentes", fortuna y atractivo, adquiere una gran fama en la ciudad por sus innumerables conquistas y aventuras amorosas.
Don Miguel Mañara de Leca, noble sevillano del siglo XVII, dotado de gran "don de gentes", fortuna y atractivo, adquiere una gran fama en la ciudad por sus innumerables conquistas y aventuras amorosas.
