896 Search Results for: "James Joyce"

The greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty...

Clive James read, learned and recited poetry aloud for most of his life. In this book, completed before just before his death, he offers a selection of his favourite poems...

The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society The bonds of family are tested in...

From Montpelier, Vermont, across the country to Venice, California, Nina Lewis and her mother, Joyce, are always on the move. They own nothing that can't fit in the back of...

Discover how one 3,000-year-old story shaped the books we read, the movies we watch, the games we play, and our very idea of what it means to be a hero.Homer's...

'This readable anthology is a good introduction to a civilization that fascinates like few others ... in this book there are animals who talk, princesses who are locked up at...

Trieste, 1904. James Joyce - not yet famous - arrives in the city by train with Norah Barnacle. Penniless, he goes to seek out a loan, leaving Norah sitting on...

When a woman mysteriously vanishes from her small town home, her sister must tally up the clues to uncover the truth behind the mystery.Beautiful sculptor Marguerite has disappeared from her...

A collection of twenty-two disturbing tales of crime and suspense from literary icon Joyce Carol Oates, author of Blonde and 'America's preeminent fiction writer' (New Yorker).Two hitmen in a depressed...

A momentous memoir of childhood and adolescence from one of our finest and most beloved writers, as we've never seen her before. In The Lost Landscape, Joyce Carol Oates vividly...

Dan Davin here sets down his recollections of seven writers who were all close friends: Dylan Thomas, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Louis MacNeice, Joyce Cary, W. R. Rodgers, Enid Starkie, and Itzik...