A new cover re-issue of the ground-breaking, worldwide bestselling feminist tract.

Presents hypotheses about the life of the farmer's daughter who married Shakespeare. This book asks questions, opens fields of investigation and research, and rights the wrongs done to Ann Shakespeare.

Shakespeare's sonnets are lyrical, haunting, beautiful and often breath-taking, representing one of the finest bodies of poetry ever penned. They demonstrate the writer's skill in capturing the full range of human emotions within a carefully prescribed form and creating something unique in every one.

Tacita Dean is among the most sophisticated artists working in Britain and possesses a truly international audience. Originally trained as a painter, she was selected to participate in 50th Venice Biennale (2003) and was nominated for the Turner prize in 1988. This is a monograph on the work of this artist.

Examines Shakespeare's plays, showing how he dramatized moral and intellectual issues in such a way that his audience became dazzlingly aware of an imaginative dimension to daily life. This book argues that as long as Shakespeare's work remains central to English cultural life, it will retain the values, which make it unique in the world.

The Chevalier des Grieux is still a young man, but already life and bitter experience have worn him to a shell. The kindness of a stranger persuades him to reveal his troubles, the story of his helpless and ill-starred love for Manon.

Poems about gardens and gardening from around the world and across time, collected by the writer, critic and gardener, Germaine Greer. A light-hearted and witty but scholarly approach

'The Boy' caused a sensation on first publication in 2003. Hailed as 'Greer's finest book to date' by Prospect magazine, it is a genuinely groundbreaking work and has changed the way we look at boys in art, in literature and in life. In a series of carefully constructed and dazzlingly illustrated themes, ranging from the boy as a passive love object to soldier boys, from the boy under the female .

Exploring a range of female poets since the sixteenth century, this collection celebrates what it is like to be a woman. It ranges from declarations of wifely appreciation to rueful reflections on the vicissitudes of love, from the complications of childbirth and rearing to the necessary labour of writing.

This is a new translation of this short story ('Boule de suif') by Maupassant, considered by many to be his finest story. The book also includes other short stories focussing on the lives of prostitutes.

This publication documents the exhibition Stella Vine: Paintings, the first major solo show in the UK by the enfant terrible of British art. Stella Vines paintings are exuberant, funny and irreverent. She is notorious for her portraits of Kate Moss and disturbing images of Princess Diana and the heroin victim Rachel Whitear, but she also paints her mother and her son from photographs and memory.

A biography of Ann Hathaway and a social history of Shakespeare's time by the redoubtable Germaine Greer

Lysistrata, the play's heroine persuades the women to barricade themselves inside a building, refusing to give their husbands sex until they negotiate an end to the Peloponnesian War and secure peace. She also persuades the women of Sparta,the enemy, to join her cause and refuse sex to their husbands until they agree to stop the war.

'Zastrozzi' is Shelley's first published novel and a work of pure Gothic fantasy. Melodramatic in the extreme, it is a fascinating and entertaining piece with many glimpses of Shelley's later poetic genius.

Shows that, although women have indeed come a very long way over the years, the notion of our 'having it all' has disguised the persistent discrimination and exploitation that continues to exist for women in the basic areas of health, sex, politics, economics and marketing.

Germaine Greer explains why there have been no female artists of the stature of Leonardo or Poussin by exploring the psychological, economic and political reasons for the virtually unchallenged patriarchalism of all western artistic establishments.

An anthology of women's poetry from the 17th century to the present day. Ranging through the spectrum of poetry in the English language, it is distilled from Germaine Greer's pioneering commitment and scholarly contribution to the history of women's writing.