Offers a collection of work from various Scottish writers who have revolutionized late-twentieth-century literature, such as Alan Warner, Irvine Welsh, Janice Galloway, William Boyd, and others. Original.

Product Description: <div><br/><div>The five works have been chosen to illustrate six concepts in the anti-feminist debate, continuing into the twentieth century. <br/><p>Volume 1 is a work of fiction by Mrs Humphry Ward entitled <i>Daphne</i> or, <i>Marriage a la Mode</i>...read more

This reader offers a representative selection of writings by Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, Desmond MacCarthy, Clive Bell, Leonard Woolf, John Maynard Keynes and Vanessa Bell. The focus is not upon the lives of the Bloomsbury group but upon their work, in this instance, as writers. Bloomsbury writers particularly enjoyed the modernist mixing of forms, combining fact with fiction, polemics with aesthetics, humour with history. The pieces in this collection have therefore been arranged according to their genre and are complete in themselves, though some are parts of larger works. They pass from the objective to the subjective - from genres in which the writer's presence is least felt in the work to those in which it may be dominant. The sequence - from stories, biographies and essays, through reviews, polemics and talks to travel writings and memoirs - is framed by the forewords and afterwords written for some of Bloomsbury's books. Several familiar texts, such as E.M. Forster's "What I Believe" or Virginia Woolf's "Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown", have been included here, but many others are virtually unknown such as Virginia Woolf's biography of her great aunt, for example. Desmond MacCarthy's introduction to the first post-Impressionist exhibition catalogue and Leonard Woolf's very early review of Freud are believed never to have been previously reprinted.

John Crace turns his critical eye on the classics of the last century, offering bite–sized pastiches of everything from Mrs Dalloway to Trainspotting via Lolita and The Great Gatsby. Those who have never quite got around to reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man will be delighted to find its essence distilled into a handful of paragraphs. Those who have never really enjoyed Lord of the Flies will be pleased to find it hilariously parodied in an easily swallowable 982 words. And those who find all such works a little highbrow will be relieved to discover, between the covers of this book, John Crace's take on the likes of Ian Fleming, P. G. Wodehouse, and the Highway Code. Witty and sharp, this is essential reading both for those who genuinely love literature and for those who merely want to appear ridiculously well read.

A collection of shorts stories and poems represents a history of English language writing in the Phillippines from the turn of the century to the present

A collection of shorts stories and poems represents a history of English language writing in the Phillippines from the turn of the century to the present

Book by Miller, Henry

A collection of short stories and poems by such well-known authors as Brian Aldiss, Aamer Hussein, Lewis Nkosi, and Vikram Seth

Product Description: Concert of Voices combines poetry, fiction, drama, and essays in an anthology of world literature in English. This second edition preserves the first edition’s breadth and its balance of established and less widely known authors, while including a large selection of exciting new material...read more

Product Description: Collection of Irish poetry by winners of the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award

Stories and poems portray the experiences of handicapped people and their families and show how the handicapped are treated by society at large

Product Description: Volume 2C (20th Century) of 6-volume splits of parent volumes. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book was first published by Cambridge in 1979. It is taken from the 1967 Clark Lectures and is in the first place a vigourous defence of the study of English in a modern university. Leavis is concerned with English Literature as a living reality, with the need for 'keeping alive, potent and developing the full human consciousness of ends and values and human nature that comes to us out of the long creative continuity of our culture'...read more

A salute to an exemplary man and his cause comprises works by writers from around the world, including Jorge Amado, William Burroughs, Jacques Derrida, Allen Ginsberg, Nadine Gordimer, John Irving, Susan Sontag, Joyce Carol Oates, and John Ashbery

Product Description: The Bell literary journal was founded by Sean O'Faolain and Peadar O'Donnell in 1940, and edited by O'Faolain until 1946, then by O'Donnell to 1954. Its index of writers reads like a dictionary of famous authors, some of whom were writers of stature at the time, while others were beginners, many of whom went on to become famous...read more

Twenty-seven distinguished writers--among them, Oates, Murdoch, Theroux, Vidal, Mailer, Sontag, and Miller--contribute essays

Brief, offbeat biographies of renowned figures, such as Aristotle, Jane Austen, Humphrey Bogart, Lizzie Borden, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, Caligula, Lady Godiva, and William Shakespeare are given in the form of witty and amusing verses