Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Many people consider Morrison's novels difficult to read. Most of her readers have at least one book on their shelves...  Read More >>

Brilliant in its thought and argument, Ink of Melancholy is one of the most insightful and stimulating studies of...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

Since the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, launched him to fame, Michael Chabon (b....  Read More >>

 Read More >>

 Read More >>

A great starting point for students seeking an introduction to Maya Angelou and the critical discussions surrounding...  Read More >>

A survey of the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming and others, along with surveys of rival series including Matt Helm...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

""I began writing about power because I had so little,"" Octavia E. Butler once said. Butler's life as an African...  Read More >>

Nietzche and Dostoevsky are collected essays on Nietzsche Dostoevsky and twentieth-century intellectual history....  Read More >>

Score One for the Dancing Girl presents more than a hundred stories from an early-nineteenth-century collection...  Read More >>

A study of an award-winning author's extensive corpus written across a broad range of genres  Read More >>

James Ferguson's comprehensive overview of William Faulkner's short fiction is a systematic study of this body of...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

Simon Winchester turns his unrivaled talents to revealing the significance of the intriguing photograph whose subject...  Read More >>

Jean-Francois Vilar (1947-2014) was a leading exponent of political crime fiction in France in the 1980s and 1990s....  Read More >>

In Marguerite de Navarre’s Shifting Gaze, however, Elizabeth Zegura argues that the Heptaméron’s innocuous appearance...  Read More >>

The first full-scale literary trial in Britain's history - re-counted by the ever-charming and inimitable Sybille...  Read More >>

From Alex Beam comes the deliciously ironic (and sad) tale of how two literary giants destroyed their friendship...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

Contributing to our understanding of the complex interplay of philosophical, socio-cultural and literary discourses...  Read More >>

Russia, once compared to a giant sphinx, is often considered in the Anglophone world an alien culture, often threatening...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

Dans Poétiques de la violence et récits francophones contemporains, Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François examine les moyens...  Read More >>