Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Explores the parallel worlds of a prolific master of science fiction  Read More >>

Each volume in this series presents biographical and critical information on four to eight short story writers and...  Read More >>

Examines a century of realist fiction and challenges a contemporary feminist assumption that realist writers speak...  Read More >>

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Explores the parallel worlds of a prolific master of science fiction  Read More >>

Stat'i, predpolozhitel'no napisannye N.S. Leskovym  Read More >>

This 1915 spy story by John Buchan (1875–1940) is archetypal of the genre in which a British hero thwarts foreign...  Read More >>

This classic novel delves into the grimy world of Mr Verloc, anarchist and spy. First published in 1907 and varyingly...  Read More >>

First published in book form in 1883, this classic adventure tale is the best-known work of Robert Louis Stevenson...  Read More >>

Thomas Hardy's last novel charts the life of Jude Fawley from his parochial childhood to his death in the collegiate...  Read More >>

Charles Dickens (1812–70) was an established novelist when he wrote the most famous Christmas story in English literature...  Read More >>

Originally rejected for publication on the grounds of indecency, Sons and Lovers finally appeared in 1913. It is...  Read More >>

Although her previous work tends toward tragedy and a focus on fallen women, George Eliot (1819–80) reached a turning...  Read More >>

This world-famous classic with its cast of much-loved characters transformed children's literature and brought lasting...  Read More >>

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKS Once upon a time, opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available...  Read More >>

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'She'd been intimately his, and he hers, for twenty-seven years - which were his...  Read More >>

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This 1915 spy story by John Buchan (1875–1940) is archetypal of the genre in which a British hero thwarts foreign...  Read More >>

Charles Dickens (1812–70) was an established novelist when he wrote the most famous Christmas story in English literature...  Read More >>

This world-famous classic with its cast of much-loved characters transformed children's literature and brought lasting...  Read More >>

In the United States miscegenation is not merely a subject of literature and popular culture. It is in many ways...  Read More >>

Provides fresh insights on the intersection of race and class in black fiction from the 1880s to 1900s  Read More >>

Faced with Welty's preference for the oblique in literary performances, some have assumed that Welty was not concerned...  Read More >>

An essential early Johnson biography, recovered from obscurity and reissued in celebration of the tercentenary of...  Read More >>