Virginia Woolf

Author	Quentin Bell
ISBN	0156935805

Virginia Woolf was the fiercely brainy and extremely posh girl I would have been far too shy to even dream of speaking to, had I been around then.

But, in an alternative slipstream of history, it turned out that I was alive at the time, and blow me down, there she was in the Smoke Room at the Old Butcher's...

Author	Hermione Lee
ISBN	0375701362

While Virginia Woolf--one of our century's most brilliant and mercurial writers--has had no shortage of biographers, none has seemed as naturally suited to the task as Hermione Lee. Subscribing to Virginia Woolf's own belief in the fluidity and elusiveness of identity, Lee comes at her subject from...

Author	Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN	8426381545

Una edición de lujo de los cuentos de Edgar Allan Poe, maestro del terror. Los inquietantes relatos, que se presentan con la traducción de Julio Cortázar, van acompañados de las espectaculares ilustraciones de Benjamin Lacombe. Esta edición única incluye además un texto de Baudelaire sobre...

Author	Julia Briggs
ISBN	0156032295

Virginia Woolf is one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century literature. She was original, passionate, vivid, dedicated to her art. Yet most writing about her still revolves around her social life and the Bloomsbury set. 
 
In this fresh, absorbing book, Julia Briggs puts...

Author

Scott McCormick

"Each volume of four 30-minute histories will dig into the petty name-calling and grumbling grudges that led to many of the world's greatest advancements, all delivered with a cheeky sense of humor."

Did you know that most of our dinosaur fossils were discovered because two grown men absolutely...

Author	Kate Moses
ISBN	1400035007

This engrossing debut novel depicts Sylvia Plath's feverish artistic process in the bitter aftermath of her failed marriage to Ted Hughes--the few excruciating yet astoundingly productive weeks in which she wrote Ariel," " her defining last collection of poems.
In December 1962, shortly before...

Author	Katherine Neville
ISBN	8499081843

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Author	Oscar Wilde
ISBN	0486419258

Renowned for his poetry, plays, essays, and conversational skills, Oscar Wilde also wrote scintillating works of short fiction. This volume includes four fine examples, including The Canterville Ghost, the comical tale of a spirit who terrorized the residents of Canterville Chase for three centuries....