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The verses have influenced artists from the Renaissance onwards, from Botticelli to Shelley and Tennyson, Andre Gide and Stravinsky.
Composed for recitation at festivals, these ...
Chronicling the life and death of the father of western philosophy, and charting his influence on the most influential ancient Greek philosophers, Plato's The ...
'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole . . . without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Charles Dodgson, describing how Alice was ...
No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background ...
A spectacular verse translation of one the most foundational texts in world literatureBeowulf is the greatest surviving work of literature in Old English, unparalleled in ...
Published to co-incide with the pbk of Claire Tomalin's Whitbread Prize-winning biography
The 1660s represent a turning point in English history, and for the ...