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Under the Union between Britain and Ireland in 1801, the two countries were engaged in a relationship that was quarrelsome, contentious and in many ways interdependent. Yet it also provided...

This anthology contains comic extracts, stories and prose by over 70 Irish authors, arranged in chronological order to give an insight into the progress of Irish comic writing over the...

This seasonal compendium collects together poems, short stories, and prose extracts by some of the greatest poets and writers in the English language. Like Charles Dickens's ghosts of Christmas Past...

"What a splendid subject to sink one's teeth into," raved the Washington Post . Here was a six-foot-two Irishman with a red beard,a Victorian family man, a spirited debater, and...

A celebration of Percy Shelley's assertion that 'poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world', these thirty-plus essays on writers from Oscar Wilde to Salman Rushdie dispel the myth of...

In his first work of non-fiction for over a decade, the author of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" draws on more than 50 years of research to offer an...

This beautifully illustrated art history and cultural biography tells the fascinating story of Tite street, where artistic talents including James Whistler, Oscar Wilde and John Singer Sargent lived and thrived.Tite...

The cult novel of fin de siecle decadence that inspired Oscar Wilde'It will be biggest fiasco of the year - but I don't give a damn! It will be something...

Bram Stoker, despite having a name nearly as famous as Count Dracula, has remained an enigma. David J. Skal, in a psychological and cultural portrait, exhumes the inner world and...

Now in Oxford Paperbacks, Ned Sherrin's dictionary of quotations is a collection of the sharpest, the wittiest, the wryest and wickedest in quips, put-downs, and one-liners from both humourists (Oscar...

The Art of Scandal advances a relatively simple claim with far-reaching consequences for modernist studies; writers and readers throughout the early twentieth century revived the long-despised codes and habits of...