Literary Reference Works

So much to read, so little time? Get a brief overview of The Innovators Dilemmathe bestselling business book about disruption and how companies ada...

This short introduction to the teaching of literature courses begins with considerations for developing such a course. It then discusses classes in...

The debate and discussion around Game of Thrones has covered questions of climate issues, industrialization, and questions of power, sex and gender...

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

The son of one of the greatest writers of our timeNobel Prize winner and internationally best-selling icon Gabriel García Márquezremembers his belo...

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Did Charlotte Brontë take opium? Did the Reverend Brontë carry a loaded pistol? What, precisely, does 'wuthering' mean?Distinguished literary criti...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Power, corruption and betrayal are at the heart...

Author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception, and inventor of the term 'psychedelic', Aldous Huxley was a global trend-setter ahead of his...

This book focuses on deconstructing sanctioned Dracula criticism which, for decades, has constructed Transylvania as the land of vampires. Followin...

John Crace's 'Digested Read' column in the Guardian has rightly acquired a cult following. Each week fans avidly devour his latest razor-sharp lite...

It is brimming with strange and amusing stories about the Bond actors, from Sean Connery to Daniel Craig, behind the scenes at the film set, and am...

In this provocative study, Michael Soto examines African American cultural forms through the lens of census history to tell the story of how U.S. o...

Hardy's first published novel, Desperate Remedies (1871), a piece of sensation fiction that encompasses illegitimacy, murder, blackmail, impersonat...