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Explores picaresque fiction across ages and cultures, providing a revealing and fresh examination of this literary genre.
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'Michel Faber addressed these love poems to his wife after her death. They are lucid, tender and wise, and they pulse with this fine writer's intelligence' - Ian McEwan
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A tale of friendship, love and rivalry over thirty years from award-winning playwright Elinor Cook.
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An account of the origins and development of literary criticism in the turbulent seventeenth- and eighteenth-century print marketplace.
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In a struggling pub on one of Hull's toughest streets, ex-pro boxer Taylor Flint runs a women's boxercise class. For Lauren, Jazz, Aneta and Grace, the class is much more than a way to lose weight and have a laugh - they're fighting the grinding challenges of everyday life.
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Tenth collection by one of Britain's leading poets.
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In her prize-winning fourth collection, Carol Ann Duffy dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood, finding moments of grace or consolation in memory, love and language amid the complexities of life. These are powerful poems of loss, betrayal and desire.
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This study explores the prevalence of bigamy in Victorian fiction to challenge traditional understanding of the period's social and narrative conventions.
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A gripping historical drama about the conflict between the Catholic Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots and protestant reformer John Knox.
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I don't know what it is I'm going to do but I'm going to do something. I'm going to be someone. I am I'm sick of just being me. I'm going to be someone else. Someone better. I'm going to make a difference. Three sisters, Orla, Marianne and Erin, dream of escaping their tedious suburban lives for a fresh start in America. It is Erin's eighteenth birthday and, as the sun shines and guests...
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Benjamin Rubin is a cantankerous old writer, whisky aficionado and pedant, still basking in the reflected glory of long-ago success. Martin Wegner is a rising young literary star, heralded as 'the voice of his generation'. When Martin is given the opportunity to develop his new play under the mentorship of his idol, the writers meet in a dilapidated art-nouveau villa somewhere in the German...
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Shakespeare's engagement with anti-Semitic tradition is a notoriously disturbing feature of The Merchant of Venice. Douglas Lanier carefully shows how Shakespeare shuttles between language that emphasises irreconcilable differences, and language that emphasizes common humanity, and how you can productively analyse this language for yourself.The language of business-of monetary value,... |
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Third anthology from the Complete Works project showcasing the work of ten exciting British poets from diverse backgrounds.
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Originally published in 1933, this book presents a concise study regarding the works of Racine, Marivaux and Musset.
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I arise from dreams of thee
In the first sweet sleep of night,
When the winds are breathing low,
And the stars are shining bright.
I arise from dreams of thee,
And a spirit in my feet
Hath led me - who knows how? -
To thy chamber window, Sweet Percy Bysshe Shelley The best... |
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George Garrett (1896-1966) was a Merchant Seaman, writer, playwright and radical activist. His autobiographical work Ten Years On The Parish, written in the late 1930s, is published here together with a series of letters between Garrett and New Writing editor John Lehmann, which reveal a unique insight into the relationship between a working-class writer and his editor.
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Originally published in 1901, this book presents a collection of Greek and Latin compositions by the British classicist Richard Shilleto.
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Handel's Messiah is the world's most popular choral work. But its story begins in the unlikely setting of a room above a pub in Chester, when the great composer, detained by bad weather on his way to a season of concerts in Dublin, invites some local choristers to rehearse excerpts. It is not a success. So begins Handel's struggle to stage the premiere of his masterpiece, confronted by...
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