Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

This book is for devotees of the 1970s, which has to date celebrated the decade's music, fashion, and film. For...  Read More >>

An authoritative and original volume on the history of the diary in French writing in the twentieth century with...  Read More >>

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Modernist Physics studies literary texts and scientific ideas in their historical context to provide an original...  Read More >>

The most celebrated horror story ever written. The dreadful tale of Victor Frankenstein, a visionary young student...  Read More >>

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Novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, and journalist Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868-1947) was one of the most prolific...  Read More >>

This book examines the range of issues that echo in James Baldwin's short stories. It articulates and defends the...  Read More >>

The Mabinogion is one of the great epics of medieval literature. Weaving together Celtic mythology and Arthurian...  Read More >>

A critical account of George Orwell's politics, exploring his anti-fascism, criticism of the USSR and enduring commitment...  Read More >>

Much of Stoker's original 1897 novel is set in Essex - in Purfleet, near Grays. This book sets out to find an answer...  Read More >>

This book examines the range of issues that echo in James Baldwin's short stories. It articulates and defends the...  Read More >>

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A biography of Patrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, author of a dozen novels and many other...  Read More >>

This collection is the first book-length study to re-evaluate all of James Joyce's major fictional works through...  Read More >>

This book enquires into the processes by which certain contemporary women pay testimony to history. It examines...  Read More >>

This broad-ranging, English-language anthology introduces the renowned public intellectual Christa Wolf in her times...  Read More >>

This book provides an abridged translation of the writings of Ervin Sinkó, the Hungarian writer and intellectual,...  Read More >>

This book will be of interest to students of both children's literature and gender studies. It re-examines a period...  Read More >>

Generously illustrated with original drawings, fan letters (including one from President Roosevelt) and archival...  Read More >>

This thought-provoking anthology offers a close examination of the psychology behind the intricate narrative and...  Read More >>

This thought-provoking anthology offers a close examination of the psychology behind the intricate narrative and...  Read More >>

This thought-provoking anthology offers a close examination of the psychology behind the intricate narrative and...  Read More >>

One month after her novel Gone With the Wind was published, Margaret Mitchell sold the movie rights for fifty thousand...  Read More >>

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