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.
Published to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of Armistice, this collection is intended to be an introduction to the great wealth of First World War Poetry.
A brilliant, highly spirited memoir of Sidney Sheldon's early life that provides as compulsively readable and racy a narrative as any of his bestselling novels.
From a childhood of gothic proportions in a vicarage on the Welsh borders, through adolescence, leaving herself teetering on the brink of the 1960's, Lorna Sage vividly and wittily brings to life a vanished time and place and illuminates the lives of three generations of women.
A Fighting Man of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs - A Fighting Man of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the seventh of his Barsoom series.
Evodio Escalante, reconocido crítico literario e investigador de la literatura mexicana, presenta seis ensayos en los que se develan los símbolos literarios de José Revueltas y sus fuentes más trascendentes.
Award-winning playwright, author and critic Bonnie Greer's touching, funny and thought-provoking memoir is a voyage into the making of a woman who set out to unmake what she'd been born and brought up to be: 'a proper girl' - a precious definition in a segregate and racist America where black life was deemed only three-fifths of white life .
Las dictaduras militares de la Argentina y el Brasil, cada una con sus particularidades, impulsaron un proceso de modernización autoritaria que acarreó la pérdida de derechos inalienables sin siquiera alcanzar la utopía que dicha modernidad había imaginado.
In this hilarious, inspiring and provocative series of essays, Kingsley Amis introduces every reader to the wonders and value of science fiction writing.
Der ägyptische Schriftsteller Sonallah Ibrahim gewährt in seinem Notizbuch einen Einblick in zwei seiner Romane, die in einem eher dokumentarischen Stil geschrieben sind, eine persönliche Geschichte mit dem politischen Umfeld verweben und Exzerpte von Zeitschriften und Ansprachen zitieren.
These three works of fiction - two by Mary Wollstonecraft, the radical author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and one by her daughter Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein - are powerfully emotive stories that combine passion with forceful feminist argument.
Jake Barnes, a man with a war injury that makes him question himself as a man, is able to go back into society as an American journalist living in Paris.
Collins Classics brings you a selection of the best-loved stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring one of literature's favourite detectives, Sherlock Holmes.
Der ägyptische Schriftsteller Sonallah Ibrahim gewährt in seinem Notizbuch einen Einblick in zwei seiner Romane, die in einem eher dokumentarischen Stil geschrieben sind, eine persönliche Geschichte mit dem politischen Umfeld verweben und Exzerpte von Zeitschriften und Ansprachen zitieren.
From Collins Classics and the author of 'The Great Gatsby' comes this razor-sharp satire on the excesses of the Jazz AgeFrom the author of The Great Gatsby, a tale of marriage and disappointment in the Roaring Twenties.
