Novel - Howard Kirk is the trendiest of radical tutors at a fashionable university campus. A self-appointed revolutionary hero, Howard always comes out on top. And Malcolm Bradbury dissects him in...

Book by Saaz, Johannes

"Accurst be he that first invented war," wrote Christopher Marlowe--a declaration that most of us would take as a literary, not literal, construction. But in this sweeping overview of the rise of...

Account of love's vicissitudes begins as a comedy of misunderstanding, then slowly darkens and deepens.

Paperback. Signed by author on title page. First paperback reprint. A few scores on covers. Light wear on spine ends. Minor creases on lower leading corners. Binding is intact, contents are clean and...

En 37-årig kvinde skal træffe et valg mellem sin mand gennem 16 år, barn og hele vante tilværelse, og en ny lidenskabelig forelskelse

Smiricky, from The Engineer of Human Souls, is a witness to an event, which the Catholic townspeople insist is a miracle, but the Communist Party denounces as a fraud. A priest dies under...

I en amerikansk provinsby bor en automobilforhandler, der lægger sig ud med byens millionær og med dens gangstere

It's not always that a luscious writer can be a luscious reader of her own work. This must be the voice she hears in her head when she writes her magical prose."-Julia Alvarez, author of How the...

At D.H. Lawrence's suggestion, a nurse and author, Mollie Skinner wrote about a young Englishman's reactions to late nineteenth-century Western Australia; then Lawrence completely rewrote it. This is...

The final volume of the definitive edition of Thoreau’s correspondence This is the third and final volume of the first full-scale scholarly edition of Thoreau’s correspondence in more than half a...

A modern textbook on galactic dynamics that encourages hands-on learning using the latest computational methods This book provides an in-depth introduction to the dynamics, formation, and evolution...

Chronicles the life of Winifred (1897-1980), and of the Wagner family and the activities and feuds around the Bayreuth Wagner Festival, in the context of the history of her times, especially the Nazi...