Literature: history & criticism books

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Rolf Boldrewood's most significant work was Robbery Under Arms published in serial form in the Sydney Mail 188283,...  Read More >>

Mad, lascivious, sadistic and ridiculous, the provincial school teacher Peredonov torments his students and has...  Read More >>

Written by a palace insider and published at the height of the Roman Empire, this title gives an individual portrait...  Read More >>

The Luck of Barry Lyndon The Luck of Barry Lyndon was first published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine, then...  Read More >>

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BERNARD CORNWELL When Andre-Louis witnesses the murder of his best friend by an arrogant...  Read More >>

The Magnificent Ambersons, winner of the 1919 Pulitzer prize, is considered by many to be Booth Tarkington's finest...  Read More >>

Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge is one of his best-known novels. It begins with a wife-selling, an event not as...  Read More >>

Lust, temptation, and forbidden desire drive a respected monk to the brink. But how far will he go when faced with...  Read More >>

The second novel in Willa Cather’s Great Plains trilogy, is a lyrical coming-of-age story charting the struggles...  Read More >>

The Story of Gösta Berling Set in the 1820s in central Sweden, The Story of Gösta Berling follows the saga of...  Read More >>

Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions...  Read More >>

Four hundred lusty squires were there to be clad In knight's full garb with Siegfried. Full many a beauteous maid...  Read More >>

Maurice-Marie-Emile Leblanc (1864-1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the...  Read More >>

Beautiful and secretive, Helen Graham has recently moved into Wildfell Hall. Her reclusive behaviour quickly makes...  Read More >>

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1750 Edition.  Read More >>

One of the group of prose romances which Morris wrote towards the end of his life and which Yeats tells us that...  Read More >>

Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as ""one of the summits of human achievement,"" this 1903 novel satirizes the hypocrisy...  Read More >>

Kate Croy and Merton Densher, poor and secretly engaged, try to encourage the interest of Milly Theale, a fatally...  Read More >>

In this classic Swedish folk tale, Nils is shrunk to a tiny size by a dwarf, and carried across Sweden by a flock...  Read More >>

After a ferry accident on San Francisco Bay, literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden is swept out to sea only to be...  Read More >>

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Sent out to Russia by the Foreign Office in 1916, Jerry Lawrence and Henry Bohun find themselves unlikely travelling...  Read More >>

This is the book that shaped the landscape of contemporary science fiction. J. R. R. Tolkien acclaimed its author...  Read More >>

""Huxley has never written a richer book."" The Nation  Read More >>