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Sir Quentin Oliver steals the manuscript of Fleur Talbot's novel, "Warrender Chase". What sinister use will he make of it? Or, more tantalizing still ... More

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'What is written lives far longer than we do -- or so we would like to think.' From unfinished novel to unsent letters, from prose to play, from ... More

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This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and ... More

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This book is a critical introduction to Finnegans Wake and its genesis. As well as offering a survey of critical, scholarly and theoretical ... More

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Robertson Davies's Cornish Trilogy: A Reader's Guide is the first book-length study of Davies's best work: The Rebel Angels, What's Bred in the Bone, ... More

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This book examines the attempts of four great Victorians to write what amounted to latter-day 'Pilgrim's Progresses'.

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The Poet's Mind is a major study of how Victorian poets thought and wrote about the human mind. It argues that Victorian poets, inheriting from their ... More

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Aurora Leigh, now available in the first critically edited and fully annotated edition for almost a century, is the foremost example of the mid ... More

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John Vanbrugh (1664-1726), one of the principal Restoration dramatists, is best known for comedies that capture the hilarious idiosyncrasies and ... More

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Richly exploited comic situations, effervescent wit, and intricate plots combine to make Richard Sheridan's work among the best of all English comedy ... More

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From a bitter childhood mired in poverty and hard work to a career as the most acclaimed and best loved writer in the English-speaking world, Charles ... More

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From a bitter and poverty-stricken childhood to a career as the most acclaimed and best loved writer in the English-speaking world, Charles Dickens ... More

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A Tale of a Tub is the masterpiece of Swift's earlier years. It is presented here with The Battle of the Books , The Mechanical Operation of the ... More

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An Outcast of the Islands exudes an atmosphere of darkness and mystery. The "outcast" is Willems, a successful South Seas trader who betrays his ... More

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In this volume in the "Lives" series, Edna O'Brien relates how she shares a love for the music and precision of words with the writer she has seen as ... More

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The story of William Booth, a penniless young officer who runs away with Amelia against her mother's wishes. The poverty of the couple and Booth's ... More

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This volume was originally published as part of the English Men of Letters series in 1902. This series aimed to bring a critical framework for ... More

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Jerome K. Jerome was born in 1859. He was an English humorist best known for his travelogue Three Men in A Boat. Jerome begins this humorous story ... More

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A nostalgic scrapbook of the Twenties. Through wry and malicious memoirs, compiled by her immediate family friends, lovers and gigolos, the authors ... More

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