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In this long-awaited bioraphy, Wilde the legendary Victorian - brilliant writer and conversationalist, reckless flouter of social and sexual ... More

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This wonderful translation of "Dream Story" will allow a fresh generation of readers to enjoy this beautiful, heartless and baffling novella. "Dream ... More

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Park Honan's landmark biography of Jane Austen has been lavished with praise since its original publication. Written in an accessable atyle and ... More

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The story of the tragic Bronte family is familiar to everyone: we all know about the half-mad, repressive father, the drunken, drug-addicted wastrel ... More

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Inspired by a real-life incident of the death of a seagull, this is hailed as the best written play by Chekov. It tells a poignant love story ... More

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Containing some of the best Russian poetry ever written,this novel tells the story of Tatyna Larina who is rejected by Eugine Onegin,only to spurn ... More

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Contemporary adaptation of a classic German play which played to sell-out audiences in London.

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Omar Khayyam (1048-1122) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who was not known as a poet in his lifetime. These verses lay in ... More

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This monumental biography was prompted by Morton N. Cohen's belief that the Carroll revealed by the letters, diaries and works was not the same as ... More

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To illuminate the mysterious greatness of Anton Chekhov's writings, Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer, and journalist. Her ... More

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Few writers are as strongly associated with a particular place as Thomas Hardy. His role as unofficial historian of Wessex has come to define his ... More

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In the summer of 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church in Oxford, Charles Dodgson--better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll--dressed the six-year ... More

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Here in one volume is the entire canon of Yeat's verse, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. He was a poet and playwright, ... More

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The Overcoat which is generally acknowledged as the finest of Gogol'smemorable Saint Petersburg stories, is a tale of the absurd andmisplaced ... More

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Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) was a leading poet and novelist in nineteenth who also devoted a considerable amount of his time to criticism. Indeed it ... More

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Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters call each other, and why? What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? And which ... More

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This volume presents a selection of the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from early works to the last poem she ever wrote. From religious poetry ... More

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"In an attractive large-size volume...25 poems to introduce Robert Frost to young people. The selections are arranged by the seasons, and Sorensen's ... More

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The second part of James Anthony Froude's classic biography of Thomas Carlyle, first published in 1884.

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The first part of James Anthony Froude's classic biography of Thomas Carlyle, first published in 1882.

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Acclaimed cultural historian Peter Gay traces and explores the rise of artistic Modernism, the cultural movement that heralded and shaped the modern ... More

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Pursued by the twin demons of drink and madness, Branwell Bronte created a private world that was indeed infernal. As a bold and gifted child, his ... More

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In 2002, two amateur Jane Austen scholars, while staying at a Hertfordshire estate, stumbled upon a hidden cache of manuscript pages and made an ... More

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