Creole Chips and Other Writings: Short Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Essays, 1937-1954 (Mittelholzer Edgar)(Paperback)

Pit and the Pendulum - The Essential Poe (Poe Edgar Allan)(Paperback / softback)

A selection the author's critical writings, of short fiction and poetry that demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human

The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings (Gilman Charlotte Perkins)(Paperback)

Collected fiction and essays by a pillar of the American feminist canon--with an introduction by Halle Butler, a National Book Award Foundation '5 Under 35' honoree and a Granta Best Young American Novelist Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a writer, editor, and journalist whose poems, articles, short

Selected Political Writings - The Great Moving Right Show and Other Essays(Paperback / softback)

alphabet (Christensen Inger)(Paperback / softback)

Inger Christensen (1935-2009) was both a virtuoso and a paradox. Her fiction, drama, essays and children's books won her wide acclaim in Denmark and other European countries, but it is her poetry spanning a forty-year period that best reveals her versatility and depth. Her poetry reflects a

Speech Genres and Other Late Essays (Bakhtin M. M.)(Paperback)

Speech Genres and Other Late Essays presents six short works from Bakhtin's Esthetics of Creative Discourse, published in Moscow in 1979. This is the last of Bakhtin's extant manuscripts published in the Soviet Union. All but one of these essays (the one on the Bildungsroman) were written in

Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction (Woolf Virginia)(Paperback / softback)

Essays One (Davis Lydia)(Paperback)

A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her 'a magician of self-consciousness,' while Rick Moody hails her as 'the best prose stylist in

True Stories: And Other Essays (Spufford Francis)(Paperback)

An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability Francis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounters

De Profundis and Other Prison Writings (Wilde Oscar)(Paperback / softback)

A definitive new collection of Oscar Wilde's best prison letters and poetry, with an introduction by Colm Toibin Bankrupt and with his reputation in ruins, Oscar Wilde wrote the astonishing letter 'De Profundis' to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, while in prison. Editor Colm Toibin, the acclaimed

Tempest: An Anthology (Vaught Anna)(Paperback)

This diverse and varied anthology of short fiction, essays and poems includes contributions by Sam Jordison, Chantal Mouffe, Steven O'Brien, Jules Pretty, Justine Sless, Patrick Wright and poet M W Bewick as well as by writers from the current Patrician Press stable. The contributors confront our

Frank Sinatra Has a Cold - And Other Essays (Talese Gay)(Paperback / softback)

A selection of writings including a description of a meeting between two legends, Fidel Castro and Muhammad Ali; a dissection of the offices of Vogue magazine; an account of travelling to Ireland with hellraiser Peter O'Toole; and, a profile of fading baseball star Joe DiMaggio, which turns into a

Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia (Flores Evelyn)(Paperback)

For the first time, poetry, short stories, critical and creative essays, chants, and excerpts of plays by Indigenous Micronesian authors have been brought together to form a resounding--and distinctly Micronesian--voice. With over two thousand islands spread across almost three million square miles

Broken Consort - Essays, reviews and other writings (Eaves Will)(Paperback / softback)

Broken Consort is a chronicle of close attention (to books, films, plays, paintings and life itself) by Will Eaves, author of Murmur (winner of the 2019 Wellcome

Dating & Other Hobbies (Hepburn Cat)(Paperback)

Dating & Other Hobbies is a collection of female-centred poetry and short stories from spoken word artist Cat Hepburn (#GIRLHOOD), offering up a uniquely humorous and poignant exploration of modern relationships and dating culture.Screaming with authenticity and using toe-curlingly relatable

Road - Short Fiction and Essays (Grossman Vasily)(Paperback / softback)

The collected shorter works by the author of Life and Fate and Everything Flows, published in English for the first

Raven and Other Poems (Poe Edgar Allan)(Paperback / softback)

Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.” With that undying line Edgar Allan Poe ensured his immortality in the annals of American letters. What student of literature or lover of poetry is not familiar with his poem 'The Raven,” and the heartbreaking message implicit in its melancholy refrain? 'The

Essays and Aphorisms (Schopenhauer Arthur)(Paperback)

This selection of thoughts on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books, and much more is taken from Schopenhauer's last work, Parerga and Paralipo-mena, published in 1851. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking

Burrow - Posthumously Published Short Fiction (Kafka Franz)(Paperback / softback)

Fugitive Democracy: And Other Essays (Wolin Sheldon S.)(Paperback)

An authoritative collection of the most important writings of an influential political thinker Sheldon Wolin was one of the most influential and original political thinkers of the past fifty years. In Fugitive Democracy, the breathtaking range of Wolin's scholarship, political commitment, and

Love In The Afternoon and Other Delights (Vincenzi Penny)(Paperback / softback)

A fabulous collection of short stories and essays by much loved and multi-million-copy bestselling author Penny

One-Way Street: And Other Writings (Benjamin Walter)(Paperback)

A classic collection of Walter Benjamin's essays, including some of his most celebrated writing Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings, he

The Decay of Lying: And Other Essays (Wilde Oscar)(Paperback)

A selection of Oscar Wilde's writings that underscore his notion that 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life' The Decay of Lying includes two of Wilde's most comprehensive--and witty--explorations of his aesthetic philosophy: The Decay of Lying and The Critic as Artist. Throughout

The Blazing World and Other Writings (Cavendish Margaret)(Paperback)

The Blazing World is a highly original work: part Utopian fiction, part feminist text, it tells of a lady shipwrecked on the Blazing World where she is made Empress and uses her power to ensure that it is free of war, religious division and unfair sexual discrimination. This volume also includes

From the Neck Up and Other Stories (Whiteley Aliya)(Paperback)

'Feels like a major collection' - The Washington PostAn incredible short fiction collection to stand with Ted Chiang's Exhalation and Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners, from award-winning, Clarke Award, John W. Campbell, BFS, BSFA, Shirley Jackson, James Tiptree Jr and Saboteur Award nominated