Literary Companions, Book Reviews & Guides

Since her first appearance in 1992, Harley Quinn--eccentric sidekick to the Joker--has captured the attention of readers like few new characters...

British literature often refers to pagan and classical themes through richly detailed landscapes that suggest more than a mere backdrop of physi...

An exquisite collection of Shakespeare''s most beautiful and profound sayings on love.An exquisite collection of Shakespeare''s most beautiful and ...

'A holiday in the complex, joyful, indelicate medieval world'John Higgs, author of Watling StreetChaucer's People is an absorbing and revealing gui...

Writers' relationships with their surroundings are seldom straightforward. While some, like Jane Austen and Thomas Mann, wrote novels set where the...

Reveals the secrets and stories that lie beneath the surface of Watson's narrativesThe Case of Sherlock Holmes uncovers what is untold, partly told...

This light-hearted but deeply researched book offers interest and guidance to walkers, social historians and lovers of the Bronte family; their liv...

How were the Crusades, and the crusaders, narrated, described, and romanticised by the various communities that experienced or remembered them? Thi...

The third edition of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature is the complete and authoritative reference guide to the classical world and its ...

Love, sex, death, boredom, ecstasy, existential angst, political upheaval - the history of literature offers a rich and varied exploration of the h...

Book connoisseur Tom Nissley has combed literary history to capture the stories that make writers lives perennially fascinating: their epiphanies, ...

The late Toni Morrison was the first African-American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. A powerful writer, she wove stories depicting ...

In many pop culture texts, monsters can be read as metaphors for marginalized Others in U.S. culture. This book applies the philosophical lens o...

Traditionally, the history of detective stories as a literary genre begins in the 19th century with the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dicke...

Harry Potter and Beyond explores J. K. Rowling's beloved best-selling series and its virtuoso reimagining of British literary traditions. Weaving t...

The Harlem-born son of a storefront preacher, James Baldwin died almost thirty years ago, but his spirit lives on in the eloquent and still-relevan...

Hebrew literature, from the second half of the nineteenth century to well into the twentieth, was unmistakably influenced in style and substance by...

Do you know... Which famous author died of caffeine poisoning? Why Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland was banned in China? Who was the first Bri...

Leyb Naydus (1890-1918) expanded the possibilities of Yiddish poetry via his rich cosmopolitan works, introducing a wealth of themes and forms seld...

What is steampunk? Going beyond the standard default definitions of Victorian science fiction, yesterday's tomorrow today, or some other equally va...