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Martin Amis
Booker-shortlisted for Time's Arrow and widely known for his novels, short stories, essays, reviews, and autobiographical works, Martin Amis is one of the most influential of contemporary British writers. This guide to Amis's diverse and often controversial work offers: an accessible introduction to the contexts and many interpretations of his texts, from publication to the present an introduction to key critical texts and perspectives on Amis's life and work, situated within a broader critical history cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Martin Amis and seeking not only a guide to his works but also a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds them.
Dangerous Conjectures
In Dangerous Conjectures, computer scientist Adam investigates QAnon, allied to a White House subverting the 2020 election. Covid-19 and a violent ex-boyfriend threaten his wife Julia.
English Fiction Since 1984
This book focuses on representative novels by eleven key English novelists who have broken from the realist novel of the post Second World War period. They have reacted to the Thatcherite revolution that thrust Britain into the modern world of multi-national capitalism by giving unusual fictional shape to the impact of global events and culture.
MONEY MATTERS
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The Prussian Officer and Other Stories
This short story collection represents Lawrence’s first ever published body of work, containing twelve brilliant and engaging short stories. The titular ‘Prussian Officer’ is a gambler, drinker, and serial womaniser who has wasted his youth. He finds himself alone in the world with no wife to return home to. He is profoundly jealous of his young orderly, a vibrant young man with a beautiful wife, whose happiness raises violent feelings in his commanding officer. Throughout this engaging short story, sexual tensions give rise to violent outbursts of masculine domination. Other short stories, such as ‘A Fragment of Stained Glass’ and ‘Daughters of a Vicar’, weave individuality, h...
Christopher Isherwood
Written with the benefit of unrestricted access to his private archives, letters and manuscripts, a portrait emerges of Isherwood as an exile who has written and lived in search of meaning, and a writer whose writings reflect many of his personal obsessions as well as the obsessions of the tumultous times through which he lived.
St. Mawr
This early work by D. H. Lawrence was originally published in 1925 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. St Mawr is a short novel, first published in 1925. The heroine of the story, Lou Witt, leaves her fruitless marriage and a cynical post-First World War England. Her sense of alienation is associated with her encounter with a high-spirited stallion, the St Mawr whose name provides the title for this tale. David Herbert Lawrence was born on 11 September 1885 at Eastwood, a small mining town in the North of England. He was a prolific novelist and poet, responsible for some of the finest modernist works of the twentieth century.
Black Faces, White Spaces
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
Since "How it Is"
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