Product Description: This book draws on the psychology, history, and of course the greatest works of storytelling, to show how modern businesses can communicate more effectively and creatively. Robert Mighall explains why story has a universal power to move people...read more

The handsome appearance of dissolute, young Dorian Gray remains unchanged while the features in his portrait become distorted as his degeneration progresses.

Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend, he is drawn into a corrupt double life, indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. This book was used as evidence against Wilde at his trial at the Old Bailey in 1895.

Product Description: This is the first major full-length study of Victorian Gothic fiction. Combining original readings of familiar texts with a rich store of historical sources, A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction is an historicist survey of nineteenth-century Gothic writing--from Dickens to Stoker, Wilkie Collins to Conan Doyle, through European travelogues, sexological textbooks, ecclesiastic histories and pamphlets on the perils of self-abuse...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Renowned for his wicked wit and bons mots, Wilde also had a deep understanding of the human condition - as revealed with moving simplicity in THE BALLARD OF READING GOAL.