Literary reference works books

Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other...  Read More >>

A collection of 50 recipes, inspired by literature, for celebrating with friends and family from Kate Young, the...  Read More >>

A celebration of all the weird and wonderful books to be found at an antiquarian bookshop.  Read More >>

The only dictionary of its kind, this greatly expanded second edition lists objects, concepts, traits and situations...  Read More >>

While students and general readers typically cannot relate to esoteric definitions of science fiction, they readily...  Read More >>

A story of ambition, obsession and alphabetical order Most of us give little thought to the back of the book -...  Read More >>

A three-volume, hardcover set of Gary Scharnhorst’s biography of Samuel Clemens that includes The Life of Mark Twain:...  Read More >>

A sparkling miscellany of literary trivia Who had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise...  Read More >>

In this elegant but pocketable edition in the Ross's Discoveries series, passionate bibliophile Michael Ross has...  Read More >>

In this elegant but pocketable edition in the Ross's Discoveries series, passionate bibliophile Michael Ross has...  Read More >>

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How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed?...  Read More >>

In this fresh and thought-provoking analysis of North Korean fiction, Immanuel Kim looks past the ostensible state...  Read More >>

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Showing how ideas about race and reproduction were central to early sustainability thinking, Abby Goode unearths...  Read More >>

This fully updated new edition of The Routledge Companion to World Literature contains 10 brand new essays on topics...  Read More >>

Shows how the leading Irish playwright explores a series of dynamic physical and intellectual environments, charting...  Read More >>

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Tolstoy and Nabokov seem to have sharply conflicting ideas about the purpose of literature. Tatyana Gershkovich...  Read More >>

Provides a comprehensive overview of the essay, with a focus on current debates about the form.  Read More >>

Published to coincide with the novel’s centennial in 2022, this collection approaches The Beautiful and Damned for...  Read More >>

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Throughout human history, poetry has provided stories about what people observe in the sky. Stars, planets, comets,...  Read More >>