Product Description: A new account of the brilliant and prolific Danish writer whose works captivated readers across Europe Rarely does an American or European child grow up without an introduction to Hans Christian Andersen’s "The Ugly Duckling," "The Princess and the Pea," or "Thumbelina...read more

Product Description: "An achievement by a writer completely master of his technique, and I strongly recommend it." - C. P. Snow, Sunday Times "Voluptuously readable . . . an impressive piece of work." - New Statesman "[R]are, and indeed astonishing ...read more

Product Description: One December night after watching his mother perform in the Mikado with a local amateur dramatics society, Pete meets the attractive and flamboyant misfit Sam, and his infatuation is instant. They begin a tempestuous friendship seeking a world removed from the difficulties of home life: Sam’s alcoholic mother and Pete’s frayed relationship with his dysfunctional family...read more

Product Description: The Biographical Edition of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Also includes "The Misadventures of John Nicholson," "The Story of a Lie," and "The Body-Snatcher."

Product Description: The title of this study of the artist in Ibsen's work is taken from Hedda Gabler's ambitions for the heroic death of her former lover, Ejlert Lovborg, and points to a cultural inheritance from both Greek tragedy and Romanticism's concept of the artist-as-rebel...read more

Product Description: It’s the 1950s, and every day the whole of Britain tunes into its favorite BBC Radio serial, The Parkers. A young man at a loose end finds himself drawn into the world of the program makers. They all make claims on him—claims that will pursue him down the years into late middle age...read more

Product Description: Some of the greatest writers of the 20th Century - August Strinkberg, Knut Hamsun, Karen Blizen, Hans Christian Anderson - came form the rich and varied lands of the North. Travel their worlds with the Babel Guide, doscover the classics of Scandinavia and the Baltics as well as younger writers like Peter Hoeg, Jostein Gaarder, Agneta Pieijel and Jean Kross who follow in their footsteps...read more

Born in 1909, in Jackson, Mississippi, Eudora Welty's awareness of the inheritance of the South is integral to her novels and short stories. This book provides a critical portrait of Eudora Welty, author of 'The Optimist's Daughter' and 'Losing Battles', and a Pulitzer Prize winner.

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An Englishman combines description of his travels through the South and conversations with Southern writers to produce an outsider's view of a distinct part of America

Product Description: Book by Binding, Paul, Horder, John

Lorca is one of the greatest modern poets. His later and most powerful works however remain elusive even to Lorca scholars. For just as Lorca cannot be understood in isolation from the cultural traditions of Spain and Andalusia, so it is also necessary to appreciate the poet's vantage point as a gay person, if his meaning is to be fully understood. The hinge of this stimulating and emphatic study is Lorca's visit to New York in 1929. Many of the tensions of his New York poems are show to be anticipated in his earlier works. The book goes on to trace in Lorca's subsequent writings the impact of his confrontation with the American metropolis, and the sharpened awareness of a gay identity to which this gave rise.