Literature: History & Criticism

'This is tragedy naked, godless and unredeemed' Kenneth TynanAn embittered Roman general returns from war, having captured the Queen of the Goths a...

Ovid's deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These ...

The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make ha...

Story hook, tragic moment, poster, or outrageous character, the covers lured us in. - Paul Levitz, president of DC Comics 2002-2009From the trailbl...

Fifty years and one billion dollars in gross box-office receipts after the initial release of The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola's masterful trilo...

William Faulkners provocative and enigmatic 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury, is widely acknowledged as one of the most important English-languag...

The inspiration for the annual Pleasure of Reading Prize A charming and revealing collection of essays from some of our best-loved writers about t...

Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of...

Volume 4 The very best features and interviews from Star Wars Insider-the official magazine of the Star Wars saga! Mark Hamill discusses the making...

Arthur Miller's extraordinary masterpiece, Death of a Salesman changed the course of modern theatre, and has lost none of its power as an examinati...

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The perfect Father's Day giftTolkien's One Ring, at the centre of one of the greatest fantasy tales ever told, is an undeniably iconic and powerful...

The border between fact and fiction has always been a porous one for Isabel Allende. Her acclaimed first novel, The House of the Spirits, began as ...

Simplify studying with this portable literature guide, filled with resources to help you thrive in English class! The Testaments, Margaret Atwoods ...

From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the cha...

Born in 1926 in France, Foucault is one of those rare philosophers who has become a cult figure. Over the course of his life he dabbled in drugs, p...