"In the interval between the epics of Homer...and the age of the three great tragic poets, thinkers began to explore the various phenomena of the external world and came to …
The first full biography of a neglected genius and one of the great Modernists, lavishly illustrated in colour throughout‘I would like to have done anything as good as David Jones …
This critical estimation of Bowen's work finds her witty, stylish treatment of manners and emotions to have an austere basis in her critique of the English middle classes. It also …
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award The essays in Against Everything are learned, original, highly entertaining, and, from start to finish, dead serious, …
Using a variety of unpublished and little-known sources, Taylor paints a portrait of William Makepeace Thackeray as an endearing, exasperating and paradoxical individual. This …
Sparky Sweets, PhD, and Wisecrack proudly present this outrageously funny, ultra-sharp guide to literature based on the hit online series, Thug Notes. Inside, you'll find hilarious …
In this personal memoir of his father, the author draws extensively on previously unpublished correspondence from Pasternak to his sisters in England and other friends inside …
