This book is a masterclass in the craft of writing and poetry from one of Britain's most celebrated poets and educators, T.S. Eliot Prize nominee Anthony Anaxagorou.Taking readers on a ...
This stunning visual celebration of the world's most celebrated novelists, poets, and playwrights tells the fascinating stories of their lives and works.Lavishly illustrated with portra...
A marvelous book . . . I just loved it all, and have a permanently marked-up, dog-eared copy on my shelf for the next generation.Tom Hanks Simply, a masterpiece. Here, An...
An accessible introduction to a writer whose work is of timeless significance and whose unconventional life is a continuous source of fascination.In 1907, when she was twenty-five and n...
'All Sorts of Lives is a beautiful, fastidiously researched and fascinating exploration of Mansfield's life and work' A.L. KENNEDYRestless outsider, masher-up of form and conventi...
Of What Is Passing: Present-Tense Narration in the Contemporary Historical Novel explores a type of fiction that is illustrative of two current trends: on the one hand, the increasing popularity of...
Here are libraries modest, mobile, mystical (Borges of course) and magical (Helen Oyeyemi's enchanting 'Books and Roses'); public and private, provincial and prestigious. Little that happen in Eliz...
WINNER OF THE 2023 LOCUS AWARD FOR NON-FICTIONWINNER OF THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION'Always readable, illuminating and honest. It made me mis...
Podróż i inność w dziewiętnastowiecznym piśmiennictwie brytyjskimEseje zebrane w tomie obejmują szeroki wybór tekstów reprezentujących różne gatunki, nurty l...
The author’s focus on a relatively neglected field of censorship research – the bulletins – and attempt to provide a systematic account of their role and nature marks the key inno...
A celebration of all the weird and wonderful books to be found at an antiquarian bookshop.Books have the power to enrich the soul, to enliven the senses, to expand our horizons… ...
The first chapter deals with circumpolar poetry. Chapter 2 provides an analysis of a poem. Chapter 3 mainly thematizes the content of sagns, but also a little about how to use sagns in teaching. Th...
W albumie O Zofii Kossak w konspiracji i prywatnie/On Zofia Kossak in Conspiracy and Private Life autorzy przyjmują nietypową perspektywę narracyjną – opisowo-wspomnieniową formę opowiadania....
Korespondencja Jana Dantyszka (łac. Ioannes Dantiscus, 1485-1548), urodzonego w Gdańsku, pochodzącego zaś z osiadłej od kilku pokoleń w Prusach dolnoniemieckiej rodziny von Höfen, sekretarza k...
Korespondencja Jana Dantyszka (łac. Ioannes Dantiscus, 1485-1548), urodzonego w Gdańsku, pochodzącego zaś z osiadłej od kilku pokoleń w Prusach dolnoniemieckiej rodziny von Höfen, sekretarza k...
It has been nearly fifty years since Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975) put forward the term "dialogic imagination" in the title of his four essays on language and the novel, thereb...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was the world's most celebrated poet, novelist, critic and thinker and this is the best way of knowing him. Today his name is echoed as that of a 'great man' alongside Pl...
W książce przeprowadzono analizę wątków chrześcijańskich w poezji T.S. Eliota z perspektywy II wojny światowej, Zagłady oraz współczesnego kryzysu chrześcijaństwa w kulturze zachodnie...
The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the worldFor six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompass...
A new collection of Albert Camus' most brilliant speeches and lectures'Freedom is dangerous, as hard to live as it is exalting...'This definitive new collection of Albert Ca...