A collection of poems that explore the raw merging of American pastoral and urban squalor.

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing la recherche du temps perdu . Moncrieff's translation strives to capture the extraordinary blend of muscular analysis with poetic reverie that typifies Proust's style.

...there is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped. Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small Ohio town at the end of the nineteenth century. At the centre is George Willard, a young reporter who becomes the confidant of the town's 'grotesques' - solitary figures unable to ...

Harry Haller is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, shy and alienated from society. His despair and desire for death draw him into a dark, enchanted underworld. Through a series of shadowy encounters - romantic, freakish and savage by turn - the misanthropic Haller gradually begins to rediscover the lost dreams of his youth.

Written in French, and then translated into English, by Beckett, Endgame was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre, in 1957.

This acclaimed biography has won both the James Tait Black and the Duff Cooper Memorial Prizes, and is considered by many to be the definitive account of Joyce's life and work.

Set in Oslo, this title offers a journey into the mind of a young writer who is driven by starvation to constantly fluctuating extremes of euphoria and despair. It is a study of the psychological hinterlands.

Woolf attempts to see literature from the perspective of the common reader , someone whom she distinguished from the critic and the scholar. She invesigates medieval England, tsarist Russia, Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian novelists and modern essayists.

A survey of modern architecture and its origins. This book also explores the effects of globalization on architecture, the rise annd rise of the celebrity architect, and the way in which practices worldwide have addressed such issues as sustainability and habitat.

Presents an observation of the English middle classes as they holiday abroad in Florence. One of these tourists is Lucy Honeychurch, a young girl whose heart is awakened by her experiences in Italy.

Unveils the English character, exploring the underlying class warfare involving three distinct groups - a wealthy family bound by the rules of tradition and property, two independent, cultured sisters, and a young man living on the edge of poverty.

An illustrated 100-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. .

A saga of a family and an account of addiction and failure as its helpless hero, notionally undergoing psychiatric help, manages spectacularly to fail to give up smoking, run his business or make sense of his private life.

A soldier returns from the front to the women who love him. Shell-shocked, he can only remember Margaret, his first love, of 15 years before. His cousin he remembers as a childhood playmate; his wife he remembers not at all. They have a choice: to leave him where he wishes to be, or to cure him.

Ralph Ellison's impassioned first novel, winner of the prestigious American National Book Award, tells the story of an invisible man simply because people refuse to see me . Yet his powerfully depicted adventures go far beyond the story of one man.

This anthology is a guide to the Modernist movement in literature providing students, researchers and teachers of Modernism with a comprehensive documentary resource. Covering a wide range of intellectual concerns of the period 1850-1940 in Britain, Europe and America the anthology brings together contemporary essays, reviews, articles and manifestos of the political and aesthetic avant-garde.

Modernism is usually understood as a radical aesthetic transformation, a shock wave of innovations in art, architecture, music and literature. This book explores the avantgardist work of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg and other modern masters, it assesses the cinema, but also delves deeper.

An exploration of modern assumptions about God, social, economic, and political structures, through the analysis of contemporary cultural expression. This is combined with a study of the locations that successively became the frontiers of modernity, such as Vienna, Moscow, Paris and Berlin, as well as America.