Literature & Poetry

In Vintage Living Texts, teachers, students and any lover of literature will find the essential guide to the major works of Roddy Doyle. Featuring the texts: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, The Van and A Star Called Henry.

"Uncovers a new chapter in the story of American modernist poetry"--Provided by publisher.

"One of the strongest literary renditions of the Shoah I know."-Saul Friedlander, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Years of Extermination

Jones explores encounters with failure by nineteenth-century American writers - including Poe, Melville and Twain - whose celebrated works more often struck readers as profoundly messy, flawed and even perverse. Here, they emerge as theorists of failure who discovered ways to translate their own social insecurities into complex portrayals of a modern self.

The correspondence between the English poet Ted Hughes and the literary critic Keith Sagar began in 1969 and lasted until Hughes's death in 1998. During that time Hughes wrote 146 letters to Sagar, which show a unique dialogue between a writer and a critic.

The poems in this collection are presented as translations from the work of the eponymous Katerina Brac, who lives in a country, and writes in a language, that are never identified.

'Reid's achievement in this book is to conjure up in very few words a life-system capable of supporting real poetry.

This series contains what no other study guides can offer - extensive first-hand interviews with the playwrights and their closest collaborators on all of their major work, put together by top academics especially for the modern student market.

From an abandoned rowing boat in Estonia full of wild flowers to a swimming pool in the Congo full of drowned insects, Adam Thorpe's new collection takes us on a wide-ranging journey through states of gain and loss, alienation and belonging.

Paul Sills, the master of improvisation and found of The Second City and creator of Story Theatre - and who has influenced some of theatre's most important directors, writers and actors - adapts for stage one of the classic works of literature, Charles Dickens' masterpiece, A Christmas Carol. Included ...

Arthur Miller's life spans more than four decades and includes marriage to Marilyn Monroe, numerous plays, novels and an autobiography. Martin Gottfried utilizes private letters from and to Arthur Miller, to craft a biography of this playwright, cultural commentator and conscience of a nation.

"Babbitt's writings were uncompromising and controversial. His ideas revolved around the ultimate problems of life, literature, and thought and were rooted in and impelled by mural concerns and imperatives.

Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly earned her a reputation as one of the most original and daring voices of her generation.

Provides an introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the most important poets in our literature.

A poetic meditation on travel, and mystery, and loss.

One of Britain's outstanding novelists, Tim Parks is also a provocative, entertaining and accomplished essayist.

A new translation of a German classic play about Swiss national liberation

First novel in English translation by one of Estonia's leading contemporary writers. A semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman, set in the early 1960s, it narrates the efforts of Kaplinski's youthful alter ego to lose his innocence and attain sexual and mystical knowledge. The twenty-year-old protagonist ...

This is the first title in a new series called Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution. This series will appeal to those involved in English literary studies, as well as those working in fields of study that cover Enlightenment, Romanticism and Revolution in the last quarter of the eighteenth century.