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Edmund Burke, the second son of Richard Burke, a respectable attorney of Dublin, was born on the 1...

Although she is best known as the author of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott also produced a substa...

Men Without Women was a milestone in Hemingway's career. Fiesta had already establi...

‘We pretended to be real, to be learning,, to be preparing ourselves for life, we mimic men of...

In a crazy world there is often a kind of whiplash truth in nonsense; from laughter we get a sense o...

In a wilderness of heat, stillness and sea mists, a ball is held on a ship becalmed halfway to Aus...

Euripides (484-407 B. C.) is seen in the three plays in this volume as the sceptical questioner of ...

Contemporary indo-Anglian Poetry, both by virtue of its quality and its bulk, has established itself...

In Theatre, W. Somerset Maugham–the author of the classic novels Of Human Bondage and Up at t...

In this, her superb second novel, Alice Walker gives us the story of Meridian Hill, pregnant, marri...

Probably, more nonsense has been talked and written, more intellectual and emotional energy expend...

Joe Trace – in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of beauty products, erstwhile devoted hus...

Without a doubt the most important of Shakespeare's nondramatic works, the sonnets have engendered...

Professor Grierson is that very rare thing an exact scholar who is interested in human behavior of a...

Aside from her Pulitzer Prize-winning talent as a novel writer, Edith Wharton also distinguished her...

Ibsen, like Wagner and manet, has lived down his commentators, and is now ready to be examined and e...

For much valuable help in the selection the editor is indebted to several friends, especially to Mr...

A deep and lasting attachment sprang up between the two men, Maecenas giving to Horace in 34 B. C. ...

The object of this small book is to give a critical survey of the work of the major Romantic poets....

A novelist who is also a true poet' Sunday TimesThis is the story of Danny and of Danny's friends an...

Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin of Protestant stock, in 1856 and died at Ayot St Lawrence, Herts, in...