Literary Reference Works

Bon mots from one of the twentieth century''s most beloved writers These impeccably chosen passages are a trenchant reminder that Margaret Ra...

This general chronology of Voltaire''s letters by an eminent Voltairiste contains a chronological appendix, followed by a bibliography and an i...

In 1253, this collection of fictional tales was translated from Arabic into the language of thirteenth-century Spain. It is one of the purest survi...

This critical, annotated essay is followed by appendices on painters in French fiction and selected paintings by them. A descriptive bibliography i...

This collection highlights the contributions of women writers, editors and critics to periodical culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth...

Celebrating Elizabeth Bishop as an international writer with allegiances to various countries and national traditions, this collection of essays ex...

Maps out how new developments in 21st-century philosophy intersect with the study of literature This forward-thinking, non-traditional reference wo...

Literature from the 'political' 1930s has often been read in contrast to the 'aesthetic' 1920s. This collection suggests a different approach. Draw...

The 'Global South' has largely supplanted the 'Third World' in discussions of development studies, postcolonial studies, world literature and compa...

A chronological survey of the world's most influential books. Many books have become classics, must-reads or overnight publishing sensations, but h...

The decade of the 1960s has come to occupy a uniquely seductive place in both the popular and the historical imagination. While few might disagree ...

'Much reading is like much eating, wholly useless without digestion' R. South 'If I had read as much as other men, I should have been as ignora...

Richard Holloway is one of our most beloved public thinkers. As Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church he put principle ov...

From Agatha Christie and Patricia Highsmith to Val McDermid and JK Rowling, After Agatha is an indispensable guide to women's crime writing over th...

Bel-vedére; or The Garden of the Muses is an early modern printed commonplace book containing an anthology of nearly 4,500 short verse quotations a...

Ranging from Homer to Picasso, and from the Iranian Revolution to The Wizard of Oz, this spirited and radiant book awakens us anew to the role of c...

Have you ever wished you could tell your favourite books just what they mean to you? Or wanted to give a piece of your mind to the 'must-read' book...

When it was first published in 1897 - 120 years ago - Irish author Bram Stoker's Dracula was ranked by the Daily Mail above work by Mary Shelley an...

'Rather jolly and very helpful The TimesNeed to swot up on your Shakespeare? The ultimate guide to the Bard, perfect for the Shakespeare aficionado...