Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammed Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet known as Rumi expressed the deepest feelings of the heart through his poetry. This volume consists of new translations edited by Deepak Chopra to evoke the rich mood and music of Rumi's love poems. Exalted yearning, ravishing ecstasy, and consuming desire emerge from these poems as powerfully today as they did on

Originally published in 1930, Wheel of Fire is the masterwork of the brilliant English scholar G. Wilson Knight in which he founds a new and influential school of Shakespearean criticism.

Rather than attempting to produce a totalising definition of 'the comic', this volume focuses on the significance of comic 'events' through study of various theoretical methodologies, including deconstruction, psychoanalysis and gender theory.

The first volume in the new Cambridge edition of the complete works of Jonathan Swift.

Performing Chekhov is a unique guide to Chekhov's plays in performance. It will be indispensable to students, teachers and theatre practitioners interested not only in Chekhov but in the history of the modern stage.

True classics of Western literature, these stories have delighted young and old for generations. This unique collection features more than eighty of Andersen's best loved tales and many original illustrations by A.W. Bayes.

One of the very few available books of criticism on the topic, this monograph provides the fullest account to date of Don DeLillo's writing.