’I have no secrets; my unhappiness is the story of my entire life.’ A key figure in the literary world of post-Revolutio......more
’impossible here, absurd, depraved, ludicrous and yet sacred, still honourable, even here: "I love you!"’ This volume co......more
The Second World War is now recognized as a watershed for British poetry. The changes that arose were masked for some ti......more
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an e......more
"It is in vain that an old man yearns for the love of a woman as he had it first from his mother." In some of the most d......more
In this new book, Walker Zupp demonstrates the need to reevaluate the connection between Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosoph......more
John Donne and the Line of Wit: From Metaphysical to Modernist is a study of influence, adaptation, historical imitation......more
"Shakespeare’s comedy in updated language that maintains the humor at the heart of the play while making it accessible f......more
"Updated language makes this cautionary fable about frailty, power, and the perils of legislating morality accessible fo......more
Shakespeare’s early comedy reimagined for modern audiences. Love’s Labour’s Lost is a wacky comedy of disguise and misch......more
""J’âecrirai por venger ma race". It was as a young woman that Annie Ernaux first wrote these words in her diary, giving......more
The White Rose was a student resistance group organized in Nazi Germany, for the purpose of resisting the Hitler regime.......more
In this essay, originally published anonymously in The Westminster Review (1856), George Eliot examines the state of wom......more
"Poverty is what I am writing about". In the late 1920s, Eric Blair resigned his post as a colonial policeman in Burma, ......more
- Do you love wine tasting? Discover diverse wines as a wine lover and refine your wine tasting and sense of smell with ......more
"No vices are so hard to eradicate as those which are popularly regarded as virtues. Among these the vice of reading is ......more
"I love this series of poems with a passion that comes from my own sense of identification with them. They speak to me-o......more
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‘This is the story of one man who went to Spain with an intellectual sympathy for socialist doctrine and came back. . . ......more
You can live on a shilling a day in Paris if you know how. But it is a complicated business. As a struggling writer i......more
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Of unknown date, and surviving in a tenth-century manuscript, Beowulf is the tale of a young Geatish hero and his strugg......more
Includes "The Critic as Artist" by Oscar Wilde, "Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses" by Mark Twain, Matthew Arnold’s "T......more
Lorenzino de’ Medici remains one of the most enigmatic figures of Italian literature...more
La colecci n Poes a Port til re ne enSuave es vivir solo una muestra de los versos m s rompedores de Fernando Pessoa, cr......more
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Written by Lorenza Mazzetti, the first woman film director ever to be funded by the BFI, London Diaries/Free Cinema is t......more
An exhilarating collection of critical and personal writings--spanning more than twenty years of work--from the internat......more
An exponent of the theory that William Shakespeare, the modestly educated provincial man from Stratford-upon-Avon, could......more
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William Wordsworth is chiefly remembered as one of the Lake Poets. Yet he was also one of the founders of English Roma......more
As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the W......more
George Moore’s fierce polemic against the literary and social censorship of the Victorian select circulating libraries w......more
George William Russell (10 April 1867 - 17 July 1935) who wrote with the pseudonym (sometimes written AE or A.E.), was a......more
In a world full of atrocities, somehow, the German people are solely required to have the monopoly on guilt, with others......more
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A spoof encyclopedia of contemporary accepted wisdom and commonplaces, the Dictionary of Received Ideas sees Flaubert at......more
In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain s wars against the Ottoman Empi......more