In this entertaining and lively anthology, Jan Morris traces the history of the University from its foundation in the Middle Ages through to the twentieth century, combining …
There is no literature without a departure, a setting forth; and very often that has meant leaving the land for the more uncertain world of the sea. Many great writers have written …
A collection of Caribbean short stories including stories from the four main languages of the region: English, Spanish, French, and Dutch. The work in all its diversity of style, …
This title shows how rewarding an art form the aphorism can be, and how well the aphorist can illuminate the hidden truth, or lay bare the ironies of existence. Sections including …
As well as English and American stories this anthology of dectective tales includes stories from Europe and further afield, showing how different nationalities have used the genre. …
From realistic dreams to the world of nightmare and phantasmagoria, from the bizarre to the haunting, this anthology draws on the dreams of a variety of novelists, poets, …
It is no surprise that one of the earliest works in English literature should be a poem about the sea: the sea has been a source of fascination from the earliest times, and the …
