Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880-1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh through the tumultuous...  Read More >>

A powerful exploration of how women have written animals into literature and history. This collection examines how...  Read More >>

El Juego de los Detectives IV: Intrigas para resolver en grupo o en solitario ¿Crees que puedes resolver el misterio...  Read More >>

What does it truly take to become a private detective? Private investigation does not belong to the world of improvisation...  Read More >>

A young mother, her infant son and a Catholic priest are all murdered by a delusional young man.  Read More >>

Tom Stoppard in Context provides cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts to help readers enjoy one of the...  Read More >>

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The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world’s greatest storytellers, now...  Read More >>

This book is the first comprehensive critical introduction to the life and career of one of the most significant...  Read More >>

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This book is the first comprehensive critical introduction to the life and career of one of the most significant...  Read More >>

This collection of essays investigates both the elements that locate Israeli speculative fiction in relation to...  Read More >>

Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor...  Read More >>

A new translation of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (1924). The story of Hans Castorp's seven-year stay at a tuberculosis...  Read More >>

A one-of-its-kind biography of Hannibal Lecter, the fictional character with many lives in literature, film, and...  Read More >>

This is the first in-depth study exploring the theatrical afterlives of nineteenth-century women novelists--including...  Read More >>

Based on two decades of original research and exclusive access to unpublished material, a ground-breaking biography...  Read More >>

A critical study of Agatha Christie's AND THEN THERE WERE NONE.  Read More >>

""An account of the endangerment and survival of utopian fiction in the 21st century, and how they can provide a...  Read More >>

A forensic documentary exploration of the historical and psychological scaffolding of fear. E. Lawrence Anderson...  Read More >>

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This invigorating volume explores the literary worlds inhabited by the pioneering Irish author George Moore (1852–1933)....  Read More >>

The first biography in more than twenty years of Emily Jane Brontë, extraordinary poet and author of the incomparable...  Read More >>