Love of home life, the intimate moments a family peacefully enjoyed in seclusion, had long been considered a hallmark of English character even before the Victorian era.
Go behind the scenes of the iconic Discworld series with this beautiful, illustrated hardback, the perfect gift book for any fantasy fan this holiday season.
The concept of the "other" embodies a praiseworthy epistemological concern in many studies that have recently disputed it, because of the epistemological temptations it carries that arouse the curiosity of researchers and readers about this one whom we always call as such, this one who may not mean anything except our own selves.
A love letter to the book as a physical object, a source of intellectual ardor, and a form of emotional salvation (Salon)and a nod to U and I, Nicholson Bakers classic memoir about John Updikefrom an award-winning author called wonderfully bright by The New York Times Book Review.
Em 1959, a revista Life encarregou Ernest Hemingway de fazer a cobertura de um acontecimento extraordinário que ia ter lugar em Espanha, durante esse Verão.
Zum ersten Mal liegt mit der Biographie August Wilhelm Schlegels (1767–1845) eine umfassende Würdigung dieser herausragenden Persönlichkeit der deutschen und europäischen Romantik vor.
A collection of early, emerging works from some of the most celebrated African American female writers who remain strong when the weight of a world filled with racism and gender discrimination wants to drag them down.
The fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French-speaking cultures across the worldEnglish has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language.
The definitive single-volume edition of the work of the greatest poet of the First World War2018 marks the centenary of the end of the First World War.
An extraordinary book of real passionate research Edmund de WaalIn 1945, Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during the Second World War.
Taking inspiration from classic authors from Jane Austen to Thomas Hardy, Williams shines a light on our society s changing views of the rural and industrial landscapes in which we work and live.
In Modern Tragedy, Williams bridges the gap between literary and socio-economic study, tracing the notion of tragedy from its philosophical and dramatic origins with Aristotle.
Raymond Williams begins his brilliantly perceptive study of the English novel in the 1840s, a period of rapid social change brought on by the Industrial Revolution, the struggle for democratic reform, and the growth of cities and towns.
Gustave Flaubert, whose Madame Bovary outraged France's right-thinking bourgeoisie when it was first published in 1857, is brought to life in Frederick Brown's new biography in all his singularity and brilliance.
Discover Virginia Woolf s informative and erudite critical essays on some of the key novelists and dramatists of the canon from the ancient Greeks to Jane Austen and beyond.
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.
Of all the poets of the First World War, Wilfred Owen most fires the imagination today this is the comprehensive literary biography of the greatest WW1 poetWilfred Owen tragically died in battle just a few days before the Armistice.
Atkins remains the world s most famous diet, and for good reason: the Atkins high-protein, low-carb plan has helped millions of people around the world lose weight and keep it off.
'On Gudrun's programme I ate more, weighed less and restored my mental clarity' Mary Killen Most doctors now accept that diet has a profound effect on our overall health and wellbeing.
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Unruly Times is a superlative portrait of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge, and a fascinating exploration of the Romantic Movement and the dramatic events that shaped it.
In 1989, after the Ayatollah Khomeini declared a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for writing The Satanic Verses, Fay Weldon published Sacred Cows, a pamphlet critical of the fundamentalist interpretation of the Koran.
From Dylan Thomas s eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plath s desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen; from Chatterton s Pre-Raphaelite demise to Keats death warrant in a smudge of arterial blood, the deaths of poets have often cast a backward shadow on their work.