Contextualizing World Literature - Prijzen

Seeing Things

A technological revolution has changed the way we see things. The storytelling media employed by Pixar Animation Studios, Samuel Beckett, and William Shakespeare differ greatly, yet these creators sha...

Reading Today

Today we're just as, if not more, likely to scroll, click, and tap the cold, shiny screen of a laptop, tablet, or smartphone as we are to turn the pages of a book. How has the advent of new technologi...

Afternoon Raag

Described as a 'felicitous prose poem', Afternoon Raag is the account of a young Bengali man who is studying at Oxford University and caught in complicated love triangle. His loneliness and melancholy...

Love Letters from Paris

'Enchanting. Reading Barreau is like having me-time with your best friend' NINA GEORGE, author of The Little Paris Bookshop 'Heart-breaking . . . touching and magical until the very last page' ELLE...

My Friend Percys Magical Gym Shoes

Strange Voices in Narrative Fiction

From its beginnings narratology has incorporated a communicative model of literary narratives, considering these as simulations of natural, oral acts of communication. This approach, however, has had...

Siegen kann tödlich sein

Ein atemberaubend spannender Roman, in dem Daniel, ein junger Schachspieler, sorgsam gehütete, dunkle Geheimnisse seines Vaters erfährt. Die Entdeckungen, die er bei dem entscheidenden Turnier macht,...

Bookends

A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords (plus some liner notes) by New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon- one of contemporary litera...

The Twist In The Tail Of Norris The Knicker Nicker

Boek The Twist In The Tail Of Norris The Knicker Nicker, geschreven door Louise Pascale Davidson, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., JUVENILE FICTION / General

Strange Voices in Narrative Fiction

From its beginnings narratology has incorporated a communicative model of literary narratives, considering these as simulations of natural, oral acts of communication. This approach, however, has had...

The Routledge Handbook of the Stoic Tradition

The ancient philosophy of stoicism has been a crucial and formative influence on the development of Western thought since its inception through to the present day. It is not only an important area of...

The Rowntree Family of York

The name of Rowntree will always be associated with the making of chocolates and sweets and with its home town of York. Yet, as Paul Chrystal shows in this book, there was much more to this remarkable...