The Importance of Being Earnest is one of the most enduringly popular of British comic dramas, and a mainstay of English literature and drama courses at college and university level. This is an ideal edition…
The Importance of Being Earnest is one of the most enduringly popular of British comic dramas, and a mainstay of English literature and drama courses at college and university level. This is an ideal edition…
Haraway’s `A Cyborg Manifesto’ is a key postmodern text and is widely taught in many disciplines as one of the first texts to embrace technology from a leftist and feminist perspective using the metaphor of…
‘Reading Brodsky’s essays is like a conversation with an immensely erudite, hugely entertaining and witty (and often very funny) interlocutor’ Wall Street Journal Watermark is Joseph Brodsky’s witty, intelligent, moving and elegant portrait of Venice….
Only a handful of Emily Dickinson’s nearly 2000 poems were published in her lifetime, but today she is recognised as one of the most important American poets of the 19th century. This attractive collection gathers…
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARINA WARNER AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY MERVYN PEAKE Coleridge’s celebrated poem was written at the suggestion of William Wordsworth in the early days of their friendship, and published for the first time…
Anxious about the apostrophe? Confused by the comma? Stumped by the semicolon? Join Lynne Truss on a hilarious tour through the rules of punctuation that is sure to sort the dashes from the hyphens. We…
‘How can the bird that is born for joy / Sit in a cage and sing?’ A selection of Blake’s most haunting verse, including ‘The Songs of Innocence and Experience’. One of 46 new books…
‘We don’t live alone … We are responsible for each other’ A policeman interrupts a rich family’s dinner to question them about the suicide of a young working-class girl. As their guilty secrets are gradually…
Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually. Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us. In this stunning collection, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery…
The Fleabag bites back. A rip-roaring account of some sort of female living her sort of life. Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s debut play is an outrageously funny monologue for a female performer. It premiered at the 2013…
Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts into a nightmare of revelations….
