Literary studies: general

British poetry is enjoying a period of exceptional richness and variety.

'This book may help those who are susceptible to illnesses that can be prevented with proper nutrition' - His Holiness the Dalai LamaThe international bestseller, Dr Michael Greger's How Not To Die gives effective, scientifically-proven nutritional advice to prevent our biggest killers - including heart disease, breast cancer, prostate cancer, high blood pressure and diabetes - and reveals the astounding health benefits that simple dietary choices can provide.

Dr Johnson's friendships with the leading women writers of the day was an important feature of his life and theirs.

_________________________The perfect accompaniment to the definitive new editions of Georgette Heyer's celebrated novels that are currently being reissued.

Madox Brown, who grew up in France and Belgium before he came to England and won fame with paintings like 'The Last of England', was always an outsider, and the women he loved also burst out of stereotypes.

Painter and draughtsman, novelist, satirist, pamphleteer and critic, Lewis's multifarious activities defy easy categorisation.

In this authorised biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but a dominant figure in post-war British writing, as novelist, poet, critic and polemicist.

Vanessa Bell, artist, sister of Virginia Woolf, wife of Clive Bell and lover of Duncan Grant, is one of the most fascinating and modern figures of the Bloomsbury set, but unlike most of them she rarely put pen to writing paper.

The publication of Robinson Crusoe in London in 1719 marked the arrival of a revolutionary art form: the novel.

The publication of Robinson Crusoe in London in 1719 marked the arrival of a revolutionary art form: the novel.

The publication of Robinson Crusoe in London in 1719 marked the arrival of a revolutionary art form: the novel.

The publication of Robinson Crusoe in London in 1719 marked the arrival of a revolutionary art form: the novel.

The publication of Robinson Crusoe in London in 1719 marked the arrival of a revolutionary art form: the novel.

In books lauded as brilliant, exhilarating and profound, Roberto Calasso has revealed the unexpected intersections of ancient and modern through topics ranging from Greek and Indian mythology to what a legendary African kingdom can tell us about the French Revolution.

Born around 630BC on the Greek island of Lesbos, Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of ancient Greece, ironic and passionate, capturing the troubled depths of love.

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.

From journalists Agnes Hooper Gottlieb and Henry Gottlieb, and Brent Bowers and Barbara Bowers, the acclaimed co-authors of 1,000 Years, 1,000 People, comes a new book that celebrates the reasons were proud to call America homefrom jazz and the Gettysburg Address to baseball and the White Castle hamburger.

150 of the World's Funniest and Most Delightful Christmas CardsKaren Robert has spent the last several years tracking down the wonderful and wacky Christmas cards represented in this bookthe best out of tens of thousands she has reviewed.

Film and television star Alyssa Milano (Whos the Boss, Charmed) is one of the most popular bloggers on MLB.

ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults *New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age A riveting, scorchingand hilariousautobiography by the award-winning author of Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes and Deadline.

ThefirstauthorizedTwitter book,Twitter Witis a collectionof the most clever one-liners posted on the massively popular social networking and micro-blogging website.

Adam O'Riordan's remarkable first collection traces the hidden paths from past to present, from the lost to the living, seeking familiarity in a world of 'false trails and disappearing acts'.

Lose weight, feel great and kick-start a lifetime of healthy eating in 2022 with Amelia Freer's simple 10 day plan'The nutritionist who will change the way you eat for ever' The Telegraph__________Discover a healthier and happier you with with the UK's leading nutritional therapist and bestselling author Amelia Freer, as she shares the secrets that see celebrities from around the world knocking at her door.

The nightly news and conventional wisdom tell us that things are bad and getting worse.

The social practice of tact was an invention of the nineteenth century, a period when Britain was witnessing unprecedented urbanization, industrialization, and population growth.

This insightful and elegantly written book examines how the popular media of the Victorian era sustained and transformed the reputations of Romantic writers.

When you are half lost in a work of art, what happens to the half left behind?

Nabokov's dream diary, published for the first time-and placed in biographical and literary contextOn October 14, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment.

How New York's Lower East Side inspired new ways of seeing AmericaNew York City's Lower East Side, long viewed as the space of what Jacob Riis notoriously called the "e;other half,"e; was also a crucible for experimentation in photography, film, literature, and visual technologies.

The nineteenth century introduced developments in science and medicine that made the eradication of pain conceivable for the first time.

How vocabularies once associated with outsiders became objects of fascination in eighteenth-century BritainWhile eighteenth-century efforts to standardize the English language have long been studied-from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary to grammar and elocution books of the period-less well-known are the era's popular collections of odd slang, criminal argots, provincial dialects, and nautical jargon.

An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholarsThis book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history of French literature from the Renaissance through the twentieth century, from Rabelais and Marguerite de Navarre to Samuel Beckett and Assia Djebar.

Site Reading offers a new method of literary and cultural interpretation and a new theory of narrative setting by examining five sites-supermarkets, dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums-that have been crucial to American literature and visual art since the mid-twentieth century.

"e;We have many poets of the First Book,"e; the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but also had come to define it.

It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her.

How can we make sense of the innovative structure of Euripidean drama?

A Palestinian-Israeli poet declares a new state whose language, "e;Homelandic,"e; is a combination of Arabic and Hebrew.

Why did Greek tragedy and "e;the tragic"e; come to be seen as essential to conceptions of modernity?

The study of Homeric imitations in Vergil has one of the longest traditions in Western culture, starting from the very moment the Aeneid was circulated.

A compelling portrait of a beloved poet from one of today's most acclaimed novelistsIn this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influencesthe American poet Elizabeth Bishop.

In this collection of recent and unpublished essays, leading analytic philosopher Scott Soames traces milestones in his field from its beginnings in Britain and Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, through its subsequent growth in the United States, up to its present as the world's most vigorous philosophical tradition.

This is the first of five volumes of a definitive history of analytic philosophy from the invention of modern logic in 1879 to the end of the twentieth century.

Poker Nation is a travelogue to the quirky world of competitive poker, an exploration of poker obsession and addiction (not necessarily the same thing) and a primer on mathematics, poker lingo and technique.

One of the new forms of prose fiction that emerged in the eighteenth century was the first-person narrative told by things such as coins, coaches, clothes, animals, or insects.

From Pulitzer Prize-winner Garry Wills, the story of Augustine's ConfessionsIn this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions--what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed.

Rhetorical theory, the core of Roman education, taught rules of public speaking that are still influential today.

The lives of Catullus and Horace overlap by a dozen years in the first century BC.

Although Classical Athenian ideology did not permit women to exercise legal, economic, and social autonomy, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides often represent them as influential social and moral forces in their own right.

Aristophanes has enjoyed a conspicuous revival in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greece.

By "e;literary criticism"e; we usually mean a self-conscious act involving the technical and aesthetic appraisal, by individuals, of autonomous works of art.