Product Description: Conrad's long, detailed prefaces to his works furnish the factual background upon which he based his works of fiction. This collection of the prefaces provide the reader with the author's rationale for each story. An introductory essay by Edward Garnett, his editor, provides yet another side to the story of how Conrad came to write his novels, and, possibly as important, elaborates on the influence of the editor on the final result...read more

The English novelist and naturalist draws informal, affectionate portraits of his literary friends, including Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, and T. E. Lawrence

Tells the stories of a husband's efforts to adjust when his wife is transformed into a fox and a rejected suitor who volunteers to become an exhibit at the zoo

Product Description: A young boy, a beautiful actress, an elderly aristocrat - troubled desire and tangled emotions flowering against the glowing backgrounds of Southern France, Italy and Paris, in perilous defiance of the barriers of age. Such are the 'aspects of love' in this passionate and unforgettable novel upon which Andrew Lloyd Webber based his musical...read more

Product Description: The Essential T.E. Lawrence is really two books in one. Not only does it provide a judicious and wide-ranging selection of his best writings, it also offers readers the fascinating life story of the man known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia...read more

Product Description: A relaunch of the science fiction magazine of the late 1960s and 1970s, with the intention of publishing the most innovative and original stories by new and well-known writers from all over the world. The editor is a winner of the British Science Fiction Award.

Product Description: The third issue of the nineties' incarnation of Britain's most celebrated science fiction magazine which aims to publish the most innovative and original stories by new and well-known writers from all over the world. Authors featured include Brian Aldiss, Michael Moorcock and John Clute...read more

Product Description: A fourth collection of science-fiction stories, by authors who include Michael Moorcock, Ian McDonald and Garry Kilworth.

Product Description: These letters record the friendship between two novelists, David Garnett and Sylvia Townsend Warner, which lasted 56 years. They are concerned with the good things in life, such as books and food, and also document the way in which the two writers encouraged and criticized each other's work...read more

Product Description: Of all Britain's secret intelligence organizations, the least known is the Political Warfare Executive, developed to conduct psychological warfare against the Nazis. The PWE's history has now been declassified by the Cabinet Office and released, 50 years after it had been completed and consigned to Whitehall's secret archives...read more

Product Description: The Tebricks, a charming and upstanding young couple, have moved to Oxfordshire to begin their married life, happily unaware of the future awaiting them. When Sylvia turns suddenly into a fox their fortunes are changed forever, despite all of her strenuous attempts to adhere to the proprieties of her upbringing and resist the feral instincts of her current form...read more

Product Description: The aim of Critical Thinking and Literature: Resources is to help students think critically about and analyze different kinds of writing. They can then arrive at their own understanding about the meaning of a reading selection. Students learn how to organize their thoughts and analysis so that they can write about their understanding of each reading selection...read more

Product Description: SEEKERS: An Introduction to Critical Thinking is a reader and workbook. This combination of reader and workbook is designed for readers in middle school or above. As a reader, it is a short introduction to the theme of religious seekers...read more

Product Description: The aim of “CriticalThinking and “r”eligious Folklore – Reader and Workbook” is to help students think critically about and analyze different kinds of writing. They can then arrive at their own understanding about the meaning of a reading selection...read more

Product Description: From September 1967 until late June 1969, I worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bartın, Turkey, teaching English to junior high school students. This is a memory of my time living with Bartınlılar (Bartinians) and teaching their children...read more