Category - Literary Collections

The Essays was the first published book by the philosopher, statesman and jurist Francis Bacon. The Essays are written in a wide range of styles, f...

A meditation on the power and pleasures of the image, from paintings to photographs to migraine auras, by one of Britain's finest literary minds. I...

First published in 1970. This collection of essays covers the work of Milton, Dryden, Sir John Vanburgh, Defoe, Mandeville, Joseph Addison, Laurenc...

Granite and Rainbow is a collection of essays on the art of writing fiction and biographies.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781447469292 Media Type: Paper...

Flush: A Biography, an imaginative biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, is a cross-genre blend of fiction and nonfiction by Vi...

Woolf's best-selling spoof biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett-Browning's lap dog, Flush, has until recently received relatively little serious...

A posthumous collection of twenty-five essays on the art of fiction and the art of biography. "These are aristocrats among essays...witty, beautifu...

Woolf's first and most popular volume of essays. This collection has more than twenty-five selections, including such important statements as "Mode...

“A Passage to India is one of the greatest modern novels about empire. Paul Armstrong’s thoughtful and wide-ranging edition provides historical c...

Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award-winning author Alice Pung, they t...

Indian Arrivals, 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire explores the rich and complicated landscape of intercultural contact between Indians and B...