A captivating picture book biography of a boy who imagined a world full of dragons and grew up to be beloved author J. R. R. Tolkien.John Ronald loved dragons. He liked to imagine dragons when he was
With its radical blend of utopian socialism and science fiction, William Morris’s novel News from Nowhere caused a stir when it was first published in instalments in the Commonweal in 1890. The narrat
A beautiful, heartrending literary memoir about the tragic death of the author's beloved older sister and a tribute to their bond.When Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven, she received the heart-stopping n
Jonathan Swift’s world-famous books—from Gulliver’s Travels to A Modest Proposal—are unparalleled in their piercing critique of modern society. Half-orphaned, a Dubliner by birth, but a man who would
“Lounsberry is the only scholar to treat Woolf’s diaries for themselves—as works of art, as expressions of her private self, and as testing grounds for her experiments in novel-writing.”—Panthea Reid,
In his attitude toward religion, George Orwell has been characterised in various terms: as an agnostic, humanist, secular saint or even Christian atheist. Drawing on the full range of his public and p
In his attitude toward religion, George Orwell has been characterised in various terms: as an agnostic, humanist, secular saint or even Christian atheist. Drawing on the full range of his public and p
Exploring the life and times of author Robert Louis Stevenson, The Proper Pirate takes readers on a psychological journey from the writer's clerical and constricted upbringing to a life of imagination
A dynamic biography of one of the most mysterious members of Wordsworth's circle and the last of the RomanticsThomas De Quincey--opium eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelgänger--is em
In English art critic Ruskin's (1819-1900) writing, art and religion must never be held apart, says Nichols, and as the writing progresses, the robust anti-Catholicism enters on a trajectory of ph
