Cambridge Companions to Literature - Prijzen

Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny by Papa

Based on Nathanial HawthorneÆs journal, this funny, insightful book shows the great American writer playing Mr. Mom with his five-year-old son when his wife and daughters take a trip to visit relative...

Girl With The Golden Eyes And Other Stories

'What holds sway over this country without morals, beliefs, or feelings? Gold and pleasure.' Sexual attraction, artistic insight, and the often ironic relationship between them is the dominant them...

Cambridge Companions to Literature

Situated between the Victorians and Modernism, the fin de siecle is an exciting and rewarding period to study. In the literature and art of the 1890s, the processes of literary and cultural change can...

Drugs and the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature

This book explores the rise of the aesthetic category of addiction in the nineteenth century, a century that saw the development of an established medical sense of drug addiction. Drugs and the Addict...

Mistress Of Udolpho

This is the biography of the Gothic novelist, Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823), author of The Mysteries of Udolpho , the world's first best seller . The text clarifies Radcliffe's emergence from a Dissenti...

World Of The Brontes

The World of the Brontes

Les Miserables

The classic novel--and hit Broadway show--about escaped convict Jean Valjean has been adapted with easy-to-read text, large type, and short chapters. This engaging adaptation of the timeless tale is i...

Selected Poems

Nina Bouraoui, Autofiction and the Search for Selfhood

The motif of the identity quest' features strongly in much contemporary French women's writing, but nowhere more so than in the work of Nina Bouraoui. Author of numerous books since 1991 and winner of...

Grammar and Beyond Level 1

Based on extensive research, Grammar and Beyond ensures that students study accurate information about grammar and apply it in their own speech and writing. In Workbook, Level 1, learners gain additio...

Bricks and Mortar

'Helen Ashton has the power of writing about people as though she had known them all her life. One feels that one has lived next door to Martin Lovell ever since the day when he first set up house wit...

Commentary on Shakespeare's Richard III

First published in 1968. Providing a detailed and rigorous analysis of Richard III, this Commentary reveals every nuance of meaning whilst maintaining a firm grasp on the structure of the play. The re...