Experience the absurdities and tragedies of life in the Soviet Union in this extraordinary story collection by the lost Russian master behind cult classic Summer in Baden-Baden.

The short story remains a crucial - if neglected - part of British literary heritage. This accessible and up-to-date critical overview maps out the main strands and figures that shaped the British short story and novella from the 1850s to the present. It offers new readings of both classic and forgotten texts in a clear, jargon-free way.

Perfect for fans of the Bronte sisters to curl up with in the lead up to Christmas.

The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion provides the first survey of the connections between literature, religion, and intellectual life during the British Romantic period (1780s-1832). The collection of seventeen scholarly essays introduces the diverse religious influences on the literature of the times.

An original collection providing an accessible overview of the history of English melodrama, an introduction to its formal features, and a wide-ranging assessment of its ongoing influence today - addressing issues of social analysis (gender, class, race), psychoanalysis, other art forms (film, television, musical theatre), and contemporary culture.

Featuring fourteen essays from international experts, this Companion provides an accessible overview of English-language short fiction outside of North America. It discusses the development and impact of the short story - including a variety of subgenres such as detective fiction and flash fiction - from the early nineteenth century to the present.

This is the first volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Written by international experts, it seeks to overcome obstacles that have hindered this venture by providing readers with a chronological account of the short story from its origins to the present day.

until that Thames-side dawn when Victor, waiting, wrapped in his greatcoat, on his wooden jetty, hears the splashing of oars and sees in the half-light that slung into the stern of the approaching boat is the corpse of a handsome young man, one hand trailing in the water....

First ever deluxe, slipcased edition of the peerless A-Z guide to the names, places and events in the world of J.R.R. Tolkien, fully illustrated in colour throughout by acclaimed Tolkien artist, Ted Nasmith, and featuring an exclusive colour foldout poster.

An impressively researched, highly readable, invaluable guide to Tolkien's world.

This book focuses on Kenelm Digby's development of 'the oeconomy of nature' in the seventeenth century and how this concept influences the literature of Jonson, Marvell, Herbert, and Milton. It is for graduate students and researchers working in the field of early modern English literature and literature and the environment.

The secret of the process by which consciousness invests history with meaning resides in "the content of the form,in the way our narrative capacities transform the present into a fulfillment of a past from which we would wish to have descended.

Discover the dark side of Christmas in this fascinating exploration of the strange folk tales and arcane traditions still haunt winter and the festive season to this day.

Focusing on the Lives of Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Landon, North explores how biographies by writers including Thomas Moore, Mary Shelley, Thomas De Quincey, both perpetuated and, by revealing private weaknesses and domestic failures, challenged the myth of 'the Romantic poet'.

This collection explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century.

The English see more ghosts than any other nation. comical and scary, like all the best ghost stories, these accounts, packed with eerie detail, range from the moaning child that terrified Wordworth's nephew at Cambridge to modern day hitchhikers on Blue Bell Hill.

This historical bibliography offers an entirely new foundation for the literary history of the late eighteenth century and Romantic period. Examining copies of all known surviving novels and reconstructing all those lost, the volume provides full details and a new introductory account of the authorship, publication, and review of new prose novels in English, 1770-1799.

This work records full details of all known prose novels in English first published in the British Isles from 1800-1829. It includes new discoveries, attributions to a range of novelists and the first English translations of much Continental popular fiction.

The Vivien Eliot Papers is a groundbreaking new biography of Vivien Eliot, comprising two sections: her Life and her Papers.

This iconoclastic book challenges and changes accepted opinions about the Gothic novel, and will introduce the British and American Reader to works hitherto unknown to them, but rivals in quality to the works of writers like Radcliffe, Lewis and Stoker.