An original and stimulating guide to Modernism's literary genres and contexts, including art and film.

The undergraduate narrator lives with his uncle in Dublin, drinks too much with his friends and invents stories peopled with hilarious and unlikely characters, one of whom, creates a means by which women can give birth to full-grown people.

A portrait of New York City, drawn by describing the interconnected lives of dozens of people - bankers, chefs, bums, cabdrivers and others.

Tells the story of Sophia Jansen, whose emancipation is far more painful and complicated than she could expect, but whose confession is flecked with triumph and elation.

Mr Verloc, the secret agent, is involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory which goes disastrously wrong. Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a 'monstrous town', a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and butchery.

The sketches, poems and stories of rural and urban black African life that make up this book evoke images of smoke, sugar-cane, dusk and flame in the southern landscape, while the northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets.

Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party.

A survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, this edition represents essential works in genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf to global twentieth-century classics. It contains concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines and bibliographies.

Based on Robert Kimbrough's edited text. Missing words have been restored and the novel has been repunctuated in accordance with Conrad's style. This published version of Heart of Darkness allows readers to hear Marlow's voice as Conrad heard it when he wrote the story.

The first volume in this series focuses on aspects of Realism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in Paris between 1848 and 1900. The book demonstrates how some historians view this art as representative of the social, historical and economic circumstances in which it was produced.

Motivated by the assumption that students cannot appreciate postmodernism without first understanding the development of modernity, this anthology puts contemporary debate in the context of the critcism of modernity since the 17th century.

The founding father of cultural theory posits a radical new direction for avant-garde art.

A collection of eight deliberately fragmentary and experimental sketches, 'Monday or Tuesday' remains unique in being the only volume of short stories that Virginia Woolf published herself, and follows on from Hesperus' publication of the undiscovered 'Carlyle's House and Other Sketches'.

Tells the story of Franz Biberkopt, who, on being released from prison is confronted with the proverty, unemployment, crime and burgeoning Nazism of 1920s Germany. As Franz struggles to survive in this world, fate teases him with a little pleasure before cruelly turning on him.

William Carlos Williams' two volumes of Collected Poems comes home to Carcarnet for a re-issue in January 2001. Volume II takes up the story from 1939 until the year before Williams' death.