Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Alone of the great Russian novels of the nineteenth-century, Dead Souls has remained almost as profound a mystery...  Read More >>

Meredith's reputation as an ""unreadable"" novelist prompted Judith Wilt to examine the relationship between author...  Read More >>

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By analyzing the interrogations of Margery Kempe, Anne Askew, Marian Protestant women, Margaret Clitherow and Quaker...  Read More >>

This book explores the role of sacrifice in the Victorian novel and how the idea of self-abnegation was placed under...  Read More >>

This first modern full-length study of the silver-fork novel argues that such novels, wildly popular in the early...  Read More >>

A new edition of a classic collection of all Edward Lear's nonsense verse.  Read More >>

This comprehensive and engaging analysis of a wide range of Antarctic fiction - from lost-race romances to espionage...  Read More >>

Eve Reborn: A Paranormal Journey Through The Story Of The Five Gifts Never again shall we reveal ourselves in the...  Read More >>

Un texte rafraichissant et bien envoye, avec quelques pointes d'humour. Des childbots, des enfants robots, plus...  Read More >>

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In this fascinating, full-length study surveying the diverse ways in which a living was made from death, Claire...  Read More >>

's The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908), Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker (1954), James Dickey's Deliverance (1970),...  Read More >>

"If you love R. A. Lafferty's wondrous and transpossible stories, you've come to that love by unmarked roads. You've...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the way that notions of home and identity have changed for Muslims as a result of international...  Read More >>

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Analyzing contemporary Chinese literature, film, and television, Shen shows the significance of nationalism for...  Read More >>

The first English-language volume of essays on the Chilean author, Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star: Critical...  Read More >>

Nick Bentley offers a critical analysis to the main themes and literary techniques of Martin Amis, a leading literary...  Read More >>

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Turtle Recall - the latest Discworld Companion, fully updated and completely up to Snuff!  Read More >>

"As a Speculative Fiction writer himself, Cristopher DeRose has the right back ground to ask incisive questions...  Read More >>