Benjamin Kohlmann & Matthew Taunton 
History of 1930s British Literature [PDF ebook] 

A handbook in three volumes to a choice of essential books, writers and subjects in order to try to understand the world we live in, about "big questions" and possible answers, about books …

In Part III of Marjorie Bowen’s »The Rake’s Progress », the narrative reaches its climax and resolution. This volume focuses on the theme of redemption, as the protagonist grapples with the consequ …

This is the first book-length study to read women of the Beat Generation as feminist writers. The book focuses on one author from each of the three generations that comprise the groups of female writ …

In the Alexander Lectures for 1965-66 at the University of Toronto, Dr. Frye describes the basis of the tragic vision as "being in time, " in which death as "the essential event that g …

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014 This book examines the connections between the growth of»terror fiction» – the genre now known as »Gothic» – in the late eighteenthcentury, and the simultan …

This book examines the writings of the American novelist Ayn Rand, especially The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), which Rand considered her definitive statement about the need for an u …

"The Root of All Evil" by J. S. Fletcher is a novel that delves into the destructive power of greed. The story revolves around a central crime motivated by financial gain, exploring how the …

"Roger Kyffin’s Ward" by William Henry Giles Kingston is an adventurous maritime novel that follows the youthful and courageous protagonist, Roger Kyffin. The story revolves around Roger, w …

Julius Caesar was one of the most ambitious and successful politicians of the late Roman Republic, and his short but bloody conquest of the Celtic tribes led to the establishment of the Roman provinc …

This book presents new translations of a selection of Latin and French pilgrimage texts – and two in Greek – relating to Jerusalem and the Holy Land between the fall of Jerusalem to Saladin in 1187 a …