Search results for “William Faulkner”

The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her pe...

With an introduction by Richard Hughes Ever since the first furore was created on its publication in 1929, The Sound and the Fury has been consider...

The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 draws from every stage of the poet's storied career. Here are examples of his very earliest work, like 'In My...

The Quiet Masterpiece of American Literature William Stoner is an unassuming, intensely private man born into a struggling farm family in rural Mis...

"The North Ship", Philip Larkin's earliest volume of verse, was first published in August 1945 and reissued in 1966 by Faber. The introduction, by ...

These Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett is part of a landmark publishing project to publish edited and corrected texts of all of Beckett's works.

First published in 1968, this companion volume to the "Collected Shorter Poems" was compiled by W.H. Auden to bring together six of his longer poet...

When The Orators was originally published in 1932 it was described by Poetry Review as 'something as important as the appearance of Mr Eliot's poem...

Review This is a novel that lives firmly in the melancholia of the city's gentrification, hurtling readers through one woman's desperation to keep...

Six glorious plays by Alan Bennett, collected together for the first time in this celebratory box set. Forty Years On premiered at the Apollo Theat...

Christopher Martin, the sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer, is stranded upon a rock in the middle of the Atlantic. Pitted against him are the s...

George was born into a world of village cricket matches and fox-hunting, but his failing income and the onset of war threatens his way of life. A t...

This work presents an intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes, but the course of li...

"A vital link in the evolution of Beckett's early work." Originally intended as the "recessional" or final piece to Samuel Beckett's 1934 short sto...

The pen is mightier than the sword, but whose pen is the mightiest of them all? Who was more prolific, Charlotte Brontë or Fyodor Dostoyevsky? Who ...

Selected Poems 1968-2014 offers forty-five years of work drawn from twelve individual collections by a poet who 'began as a prodigy and has gone on...

The Quiet Masterpiece of American Literature William Stoner is an unassuming, intensely private man born into a struggling farm family in rural Mis...

This revised third volume of Harold Pinter's work includes The Homecoming, Old Times, No Man's Land, four shorter plays, six revue sketches and a s...

A luminous exploration of exile - the people who have experienced it, and the places they inhabit - from the award-winning travel writer and author...