Product Description: Jane's Fame tells the fascinating story of Jane Austen's renown, from the years of rejection the author faced during her lifetime to the global recognition and adoration she now enjoys. Almost two hundred years after her death, Austen remains a hot topic, constantly open to revival and reinterpretation and known to millions of people through film and television adaptations as much as through her books...read more

Product Description: Both stimulating and engaging, these poems display an astonishing capacity for wit, rich observations, and the cadences of poetic language. Documenting the life of Sylvia Townsend Warner, these poems emphasize her gift for music while exploring life, communist sympathies, and above all, the anguish and liberation of her great love affair with fellow poet Valentine Ackland...read more

A meticulously researched portrait of the nineteenth-century author of Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde considers his experiences as an engineer, dutiful son, and reckless lover while evaluating his use of doppelg„nger themes within his written works. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

A meticulously researched portrait of the nineteenth-century author of Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde considers his experiences as an engineer, dutiful son, and reckless lover while evaluating his use of doppelgänger themes within his written works. 20,000 first printing.

A definitive portrait of the celebrated eighteenth-century author and satirist draws on more than seventy years of Burney's diaries and her observations of the leading writers, artists, philosophers, and personalities of her time to chronicle her remarkable literary career, her adventure-filled life, and her influence on the work of later writers. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In October 1927, Sylvia Townsend Warner was given a new notebook. At the end of the month, she began to write the diary which she was to keep until her death in 1978. Written for her own eye, rich in description and observation, her diary contains the details of her life, from the antics of her cats and plans for her garden, to her thoughts on friendship, writing and death...read more

Product Description: A biography of the writer Sylvia Townsend Warner, who was an unconventional member of London literary life in the 1920s and later became an active member of the Communist Party. The author - who makes use of much previously unpublished material - won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for this book...read more

Product Description: The story of Dr Jekyll, a good man who dedicates his life to helping others, but who also uses a powerful potion to create another version of himself, Mr Hyde, to do his wicked deeds for him.

Deals with myths, magic, love, the past, death, nature, religion, the mind, wishes, dreams, and parenthood