When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control.

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.

Contains works from thirty-four of Britain's contemporary writers. This book includes stories of love and crime, stories touched with comedy and the supernatural, and stories set in London, Los Angeles, Bucharest and Tokyo.

Herzog is alone now that Medeleine has left him. Locked for days in the custody of his rambling memories, Herzog scrawls frantic letters which he never mails. His mind buzzes with conundrums and polemics, writing in a spectacular intellectual labyrinth. Is he crazy, or is he a genius?

Looks at the Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow as a leading figure in the development of contemporary fiction, one whose work has, however, been challenged by more experimental, 'post-modern' developments in the novel. This book draws attention to Bellow's comedy, his sense of contemporary history and its stresses and anxieties.

Set in Watermouth University, this is the story of Barbara and Howard Kirk, their very modern marriage and their equally radical politics. It captures the complexities of academic life, from tedious meetings and work-place machinations, to corruption and disruption at the highest levels.

This story exposes the absurdity of war by applying its own demented logic to America's involvement in Korea. The catch is that soldiers must claim to be mad in order to get out of fighting - but being capable of making such a claim automatically proves them sane.

Determined that her baby son Tom shall not share her fate and remain in slavery, Roxy secretly exchanges him with his playmate Chambers, the son of her master. The two boys' lives in the quiet Missouri town of Dawson's Landing remain entwined even though they take very different directions.

From a modernist/postmodernist perspective, this title addresses questions of literary and cultural nationalism. It reveals that since 17th century, American writing has reflected the political and historical climate and helped define America's cultural and social parameters. It argues that American literature has always been essentially modern.

This volume covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature with accompanying language notes exploring the inter-relationships between language and literature. The analysis begins in 600AD.

Conveying through 16 essays the continuing importance of American Studies and the excitement to be gained from its study, this book provides an evaluation of America's place in the world and the often tangled paths that led her there. It also examines ideals such as the commitment to liberty, equality and material progress.

The only full-length stage play by the acclaimed novelist and critic Malcolm Bradbury

An exploration of the ideas, groupings and the social tensions that shaped the transformation of life caused by the changes of modernity in art, science, politics and philosophy.

Presents a tragic fable where the animals drive out Mr Jones and attempt to run the farm themselves.

In seven short stories, Malcolm Bradbury takes a subtly ironic look at a variety of targets, American academics, provincial Britain, the aspirations of social workers, psychologists and the well-intentioned.

In the late 1950s, the spry, debonair and well-dressed Malcolm Bradbury returned from the United States, slightly shattered but not quite broken, to a Britain that, by all reports, was changing. In this novel, the author of The History Man takes on the consumer society and the British character.

A handbook for those who are interested in the novel and American culture. It provides an examination of the modern American novel, offering an account of the multiplicity and variety of contemporary American fiction, along with a critical survey of the fictional scene from the 1890s to the early 1990s.

Rates of Exchange is a novel that touches, comically, on many important themes: language barriers, alienation, East-West relations, realism and reality.

When Sir Malcolm Bradbury died in 2000, he left behind a lifetime's work. This book is about books, about writing and writers, about being a writer and, about being Malcolm Bradbury.

This bestselling guide to the developments in the history of British and Irish literature uniquely charts the main features of literary language development, highlights key language topics and spans over 1,000 years of literary history.