A Russian cyberthriller that has been a huge hit in Russia and now looks set to be an international cult novel.26-year-old Vadim hates his job in the PR department of Latvia’s biggest bank. He ...

Argues that the art of reading poetry is as much in danger of becoming extinct as thatching or clog dancing. The author summons the aid of such critics as the Russian Formalists to raise some general ...

Performances of Greek epics customarily began with a hymn to a god or goddess--as Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days do. A collection of thirty-three such poems has come down to us from antiquity ...

In this compelling first volume in the Blackwell Introductions to Literature series, Roy Flannagan, editor of The Milton Quarterly, provides a readable and uncluttered critical account of a ...

Old and Middle English Poetry gathers together the essential texts from the earliest writings in the vernacular up to the time of Chaucer. Contains a selection of the most significant Old and Middle ...

This volume distils into two hundred pages some of the most influential poetry of the Victorian period. Distils into one volume the key poems of the Victorian era. Organised chronologically, allowing ...

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is a complex and difficult author to understand as a person. At each point in his life when he was on the verge of success, he would fall back to poverty through his own ...

Here is every word ever written by the immortal Bard -- the histories, tragedies, comedies, and sonnets -- in a facsimile of the definitive Shakespeare Head edition published originally in Oxford, ...