From Jacques Derridas différance to Henry Jamess ficelle , the vocabulary of literary theory and criticism can seem difficult if not opaque. To help remedy...View more

First published in 1967, Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought....View more

Essays gathered from the Washington Post and the London Independent examine the art and artistry of some of the best writers working in the English...View more

"Delightful... elegant prose and discussions that span the history of 2,000 years of literature."--Publisher's Weekly A novel is a story transmitted from the novelist to the...View more

York Notes for GCSE offer an exciting approach to English Literature and will help you to achieve a better grade. This market-leading series has been...View more

In Writing and Doing Action Research, Jean McNiff provides a comprehensive and user-friendly guide to the practical aspects of writing and doing action research.  ...View more

Some very interesting pieces from the pen of the bestselling author of Birdsong and Human Traces — a collection of clever, funny and surprising parodies, pastiches and air-shots, inspired...View more

'The Elements of Style' (1918), by William Strunk, Jr., is an American English writing style guide. It is the best-known, most influential prescriptive treatment of...View more

Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution and his Rights of Man (1791-2), the most...View more

Collects satirical essays, short stories, novels, plays, and poems from world literature of different time periods, including "The Birds" by Aristophanes, "Candide" by Voltaire, and...View more

Sunday Times bestselling author Caroline Taggart brings her usual gently humorous approach to punctuation, pointing out what really matters and what doesn’t. In Roman times, blocks of...View more

When Patrick White died in 1990, he left behind twelve novels and a reputation for posing formidable difficulties as a writer and as a human...View more