Literary companions books

George Orwell's Animal Farm is a dark fable showing the dangers of propaganda and totalitarianism. With this new...  Read More >>

An important contribution to Victorian literature studies with strong connections to cultural and medical history...  Read More >>

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Should you finish every book you start? How has your family influenced the way you read? What is literary style?...  Read More >>

This collection of thirty-five lively and accessible essays offers a comprehensive account of the life and work...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature examines literary representations of lesbian sexuality, identities,...  Read More >>

In this first comprehensive reading of Juvenal's satires in more than fifty years, David H.J. Larmour deftly revises...  Read More >>

Indiana, George Sand's first solo novel, opens with the eponymous heroine brooding and bored in her husband's French...  Read More >>

This collection of twenty-one essays takes an interdisciplinary look at the flowering of satire and its influence...  Read More >>

The renowned scholar Rüdiger Safranski's Romanticism: A German Affair both offers an accessible overview of Romanticism...  Read More >>

En este libro se realiza un recorrido por la obra del nicaraguense...  Read More >>

This volume focuses exclusively on illuminating the multiplicity of meanings and voices that can be found in the...  Read More >>

The reception of La familia de Pascual Duarte has been subject to never-coincident political readings, mainly due...  Read More >>

Indiana, George Sand's first solo novel, opens with the eponymous heroine brooding and bored in her husband's French...  Read More >>

Thirty years of interviews with one of the most important modern American writers, who is often praised for his...  Read More >>

A riveting account of the way Lord of the Flies came to be written and published, and of the qualities which make...  Read More >>

Through economic liberalization and the untethering of labor and production markets, masculinity as hegemon has...  Read More >>

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This book, first published in 1991, supplies a neglected cultural context for T. S. Eliot’s writings of the 1930s...  Read More >>

The works of Henry Fielding, though written nearly three hundred years ago, retain their sense of comedy and innovation...  Read More >>

This title, first published in 1961, explores the general background of attitudes, beliefs and ideas from which...  Read More >>

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Edward Lobb’s study, first published in 1981, is a thorough examination of Eliot’s relation to Romantic criticism....  Read More >>

In this fascinating and revealing book, first published in 1952, Maxwell shows the development of Eliot’s poetry...  Read More >>

The fact that Eliot disapproved of Romanticism is clear from his critical essays, where he often appears to reject...  Read More >>