Author: Edmund Crispin Richard Cadogan is at loose ends in Oxford, very late at night. Charmed by the window display of an old-fashioned toyshop, he is worried to find the...

Umberto EcoThe year is 1327. Benedictines in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed...

Nancy MitfordNancy Mitford, styled The Hon. Nancy Mitford before her marriage and The Hon. Mrs Peter Rodd thereafter, was an English novelist and biographer, one of the Bright Young People...

Edgar Allen PoeA stowaway aboard the New England whaler Grampus, young Arthur Gordon Pym finds himself an unwilling passenger on an extraordinary voyage. Edgar Allan Poe's only novel, first published...

Griff Rhys JonesThe Nation's Favourite: Comic Poems(The Nation's Favourite Poems)This wonderful anthology contains some of the nation's all-time favourite comic poetry. From much-loved classics such as Lewis Carroll's curious 'Jabberwocky'...

Robert Scholes and Robert KelloggReexamines the development and the popular conception of narrative literature and looks at meaning, characterization, plot, and point of view in various narrative forms.

Dr Arthur JanovThe New Primal Scream: Primal Therapy Twenty Years OnWhen THE PRIMAL SCREAM was published in 1970 it caused an international sensation. In introduced a revolutionary new approach to...

Author: Robert Silverberg Humans have emerged to reclaim the Earth after the Long Winter. But they never anticipated the battle that awaited them . . .As Earth thaws after the...

Jerome Lawrence and Robert E LeeA reissue of a now classic American drama.If the law is of such a nature that it requires you to be an agent of injustice...

Elie WieselThe new translation of the bestselling memoir Night in one volume with its companion novels, Dawn and DayNight is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. First published in...

The Norton Introduction to Literature, Shorter Tenth Edition, includes a diverse selection of literature that fits any course, balancing exciting contemporary pieces with perennially popular classics.The Shorter Tenth Edition is...

HomerSing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turnsdriven time and again off course, once he had plunderedthe hallowed heights of Troy.So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent...