'Why, one thanks some people for being alive at the same time with one; I thank you for having me...
In 1881, three writers and rights activists, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda...
Following the success of A Room of One's Own, Woolf began to craft a follow-up novel-essay with w...
Quiroga's first published short-story collection, Tales of Love, Madness and Death is presented h...
Painting beautiful portraits of American countryside, and tapping into deep debates around humans...
A group of pilgrims assembles at the Tabard Inn in Southwark and sets out for the shrine of Thoma...
Beautifully crafted and wildly evocative, Compass Light is a wide-ranging collection that illumin...
The Remembrance anthology brings together some fifty South Asian poets, and is a celebration of t...
First published in 1925, and frequently compared to T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, A Fool i' the Fo...
Relearning to Read invites you to turn the way you read upside down and see what falls out. Drawi...
A prolific and widely published Irish poet, Steve's seventh collection builds on the strength of ...
Stephen Leacock is an unjustly forgotten master of the short-story genre who was considered the b...
First published in 1688, Oroonoko, or, The Royal Slave is a short, politically charged novella by...
'Sometimes I wonder, if I had known that it was going to take me fourteen years to paint this pai...
Described by Virginia Woolf herself as 'easily the best of my books', and by her husband Leonard ...
Nightmare Abbey is a novella by Thomas Love Peacock, first published in 1818, widely considered t...
Salomé, the haunting one-act tragedy that marks Wilde's first great success in the theatre, retel...
The Importance of Being Earnest is perhaps Oscar Wilde's most popular play - since its first perf...
In October 1928 Virginia Woolf was asked to deliver speeches at Newnham and Girton Colleges on th...
In 1878 Gustave Flaubert looked on in horror as his publisher picked up a manuscript from the mys...
Engaged, W.S. Gilbert's most popular stage work after the comic operas he produced in collaborati...
Waiting for Music is the fifth collection of poetry from the acclaimed writer Simon Mundy. A grea...
New Beginnings is a poetry collection with a difference - resulting from an international competi...
Set in the valleys of South Wales at the tail end of Thatcher's Britain, The Green Indian Problem...
The undisputed master of the short story, Saki's name is synonymous with brilliant writing that s...
Saki's Cats rounds up the tales about cats, big and small, by the undisputed master of the short ...
In 1773, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral became the first book of poetry by an Afr...
'You see that Anna led an arduous and troubled life... Her face was worn, her cheeks were thin, h...
In 1940 the Second World War continued to rage, and atrocities wreaked around the globe made inte...
Fantomina, or, Love in a Maze is a novella by Eliza Haywood which charts an unnamed female protag...
Hannah Snell's story begins in 1744, with tragedy. That year, she married James Summs, a Dutch se...
The Rover, or, The Banished Cavaliers is the most popular play by the Restoration playwright (and...
Dracula, Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic vampire story, needs no introduction - a perennial on syllabus...
First published in 1925, set 'one Wednesday in mid-June', Mrs Dalloway charts the lives of severa...
'The glow of my cigarette picks out a dark shape lying on the ground. I bend down to take a close...
Drawing on the rich mythological history associated with the tale of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus,...
'There's only control, control of ourselves and others. And you have to decide what part you play...
In 1953 a man wrote a play about waiting.In 1988 he sued five women for trying to perform it.It's...
'I'd try anything that promised to free me from the prison of my body and its memories.'A mysteri...
Against the backdrop of brutal invasion, it is much easier for right-wing figures to target margi...
'Take care. The consequences of an act are often much more numerous and important than people hav...
What is your babysitter doing when you're not there?Fifteen-year-old Ashleigh is clever and charm...
Dracula needs no introduction, but few of its fans have heard of Dracula's Guest, a short story f...
Jane Austen, one of the nation''s most beloved authors, whose face adorns our currency, surely ne...
Politics vs. Literature is, at heart, a review of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Using the ...
In Why I Write, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing ...
In this haunting illustration of the treatment of mental health and chilling Gothic tale, a woman...