Poetry

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue Elizabeth Barrett Browning was such an acclaimed poet in her own lifetime that she was suggested as a candidate for the...

With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury.Lawrence's reputation as a novelist has often meant that his achievements in poetry have failed to receive the...

With an Introduction and Notes by Katherine McGowran.Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerable woman poet in England before the twentieth century. No reading of nineteenth century poetry...

In the highly anticipated follow-up toLVOE: Poems, Epigrams & Aphorisms, three-timeNew York Timesbestselling author Atticus is inviting readers to take a deeper look behind the mask as he continues his...

Winner of the European Book Prize'A masterpiece'Jan T. Gross'Terrifying and necessary' Julian Barnes'Scrupulously objective and profoundly personal' Kate AtkinsonOn 10 July 1941 a horrifying crime was committed in the small...

Selected by Rosemary Gray.Poignant, wry, chilling, challenging, amusing, thought-provoking and always intriguing, these accomplished tales from the pens of great writers are object-lessons in the art of creating a literary...

This Scholastic Classics edition of Shakespeare's well-knowntragedy is perfect for students and Shakespeare enthusiastsalike.By the pricking of my thumbs,Something wicked this way comes.When three sinister witches tell Macbeth that power...

'A very captivating book. Wang Xiaobo's unique blend of rationality, serenity, candor, and sense of humour serves as an embodiment of the liberalism he ardently believes in' Ai WeiweiThe dazzling...

Born in Florence in 1469, Niccolo Machiavelli was one of the principal secretaries to the Signoria at Florence and undertook diplomatic missions to various courts, before his imprisonment and exile....

'Destined to become a new classic' Chris KrausA dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them.For decades, feminist artists have confronted the...

‘Greedily she engorged without restraint,And knew not eating death;’Milton’s Paradise Lost is a poem of epic proportions that tells of Satan’s attempts to mislead Eve into disobeying God in the...