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Originally written in Bengali in 1912 the play narrates the story of a young boy, Amal. Confined to his house because of illness Amal experiences a ... More

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"Joseph Conrad and the Theatre "discusses the content, contexts and theoretical implications of the plays written by Conrad or with his close ... More

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A teacher at a private girls' school, Miss Jean Brodie commands total devotion from her six charges--but one of the girls betrays her. A classic work ... More

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When Milly, a beautiful and fabulously wealthy American meets the equally beautiful, but impoverished Kate, materialism, romance, self-delusion and ... More

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An intriguing comparison of regional theater in England and Germany during World War II, this study finds that the British government actively ... More

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On 13 April 1919, General Reginald Dyer marched a squad of Indian soldiers into the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, and opened fire without warning on ... More

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The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 ... More

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Uniting Catholic Ireland and Protestant Ireland was a central idea of the "Irish Revival," a literary and cultural manifestation of Irish nationalism ... More

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The 1916 Easter Rebellion unleashed events that would lead to Irish independence in 1921. Soon after the rebellion, Ireland's leading newspaper, the ... More

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The classic bestselling book--the subject of a play, movie, and a song--that tells the darkly fascinating story of a young, unorthodox teacher and ... More

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Elizabeth Bowen's most famous novel, THE DEATH OF THE HEART is a piercing story of innocence betrayed. The heroine is Portia, the product of a blithe ... More

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In THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, Muriel Spark's 1961 novel, Miss Brodie, an eccentric teacher at a private girls' school, teaches her impressionable ... More

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Fiction of the New Statesman is the first study of the short stories published in the renowned British journal theNew Statesman. This book argues ... More

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In Greenmantle (1916), a classic tale of espionage and adventure, Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe on ... More

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While London dominated the wider British music hall in the 19th century, Glasgow, the Second City of the Empire, was the center of a vigorous ... More

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Great Authors introduces readers to six of the world's premier authors and how they use language to create literary works of art. Each book presents ... More

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Lauded on publication in 1997 as the essential Shakespeare for a new generation, The Norton Shakespeare has become a bestseller.

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This vibrant new anthology brings readers closer than ever before possible to the plays of Shakespeare as they were first acted, inviting readers to ... More

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In a novel reminiscent of "The English Patient", a prize-winning British poet and writer pens a moving and exciting elegy to love, the summer of 1940 ... More

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Covering both the economics and politics of expansion, and the social and cultural impact of empire, the study offers a synthesis of the enormous ... More

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This enthralling new novel set during the Great Depression is from the bestselling author of "Songs in Ordinary Time." When butcher Henry Talcott ... More

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In the city of Glasgow there is a lodging house for women known as 'The Rat Pit'. Here the vagrant can get a nightly bunk for a few pence...'The Rat ... More

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Muriel Spark's classic "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" features a schoolmistress you'll never forget, in this beautifully repackaged "Penguin ... More

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