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A collection of original documentary photographs of the landscape that was integral to Tony Hillerman's writing. It also contains brief synopses of Hillerman's novels, descriptive passages from each work, the author's own comments about the sites, and narrative information on the locations pictured.

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How James Joyce's masterpiece can teach us to live better lives.

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Herman Melville is best known as the author of Moby-Dick, but most students first become acquainted with his works by reading Bartleby the Scrivener and Billy Budd. This reference locates these two works in their economic, social, and cultural contexts and relates them to contemporary issues.

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In this first English translation of Victor Hugo's writings on his experiments in spiritualism, author John Chambers places Hugo's experiments firmly in the tradition of visionary literature and psychic exploration. He reveals Hugo's conversations with Shakespeare, Plato, Galileo, Jesus and others, and discusses Hugo's possible role as a grand master of the Priory of Sion.

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From 'Is there Sex Before Marriage in Austen' to 'Which important Austen characters never speak' the Guardian Book Club columnist answers 21 apparently trivial questions that reveal deep and hidden truths about Jane Austen's fictional world

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A book to help make books part of your life

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The only novel by the beloved author of I is a Long-Memoried Woman and The Fat Black Woman's Poems.

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Twenty of America's bestselling authors share tricks, tips, and secrets of the successful writing life.

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An indispensable guide to some of the most important women writers of the past two-hundred years, and the stars of the Virago Modern Classics list.

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Twenty contributors demonstrate the nuances of fiction, revealing why it's so challenging to write and so enticing to read

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Investigates the crucial question of 'restitution' in the work of W. G. Sebald. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, with a foreword by his English translator Anthea Bell. -- .

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Contains the features of the acclaimed Florida edition of the two works of Sterne's last year of life, "A Sentimental Journey" and "Continuation of the Bramine's Journal", including a selection of its notes. Several additional documents provide context for understanding these works in relation to Sterne's life and other writings.

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Whether as a gay man or as a postmodern performance artist ahead of his time, Wilde ultimately emerges here as the embodiment of the twentieth-century media-savvy artist who is both subject and object of the aesthetic and economic systems in which he is enmeshed.

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Since her debut in 1920 with The Mysterious Affair At Styles, Agatha Christie has become the chief proponent of the English village murder mystery. Although she created two enormously popular characters - the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and the inquisitive elderly spinster and amateur sleuth Miss Jane Marple of St Mary...

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Alex Miller: the ruin of time is the first sole-authored critical survey of the respected Australian novelist's eleven novels.

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Barry Forshaw is acknowledged as a leading expert on crime fiction and film. Following his books on Nordic Noir, Brit Noir and Euro Noir he now tackles the largest and, some might argue, most impressive body of crime fiction from a single country, the United States, to produce the perfect reader's guide to...

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Amitav Ghosh is the first full-length critical monograph on this important post-colonial contemporary writer to be published outside India. It offers in-depth analysis of all Ghosh's major fictional and non-fictional works and is an authoritative introduction to the themes, ideas and contexts that have informed and shaped his work. -- .

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Presents a literary history and a portrait of a major figure.

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Explores the 19th century's fascination with Dutch painting, as well as its doubts about an art that had long challenged traditional values. This book shows how persistent tensions between high theory and low genre shaped criticism of novels and pictures alike.