London between the wars was a place of anxiety and uncertainty. After the postwar boom of the 1920s, the aftereffects of the stock market crash hit London and, even as the fortunes of the aristocracy went into decline, there was hunger and a rising t...

In "The Little Sublime Comedy" John Gallas reanimates one of the great works of world literature for the twenty-first century. Relocated from medieval Italy to modern-day New Zealand, Dante's "Divine Comedy" is given a new lease of life in Gallas's d...

One of Barnes & Noble's Leatherbound Classic Editions, this anthology of love poems features a durable bonded-leather binding and distinctive gilt edging.

Called "the master of the poetic one-liner" by the New York Times, acclaimed poet and critic Lloyd Schwartz takes his characteristic tragicomic view of life to some unexpected and disturbing places in this, his fourth book of poetry. Here are poignan...

George Steiner is one of the preeminent intellectuals of our time. The Washington Post has declared that no one else "writing on literature can match him as polymath and polyglot, and few can equal the verve and eloquence of his writing", while the N...

"Ach! I misspoke. What I mean to say is this..." In Long Pass, Joey Connolly's first collection, the poet – in love, in puzzlement, in frustration or in elegy – keeps catching himself out, starting again. He wants to speak truthfully. He wants to say...

The seventeenth century saw some of the most important jurisprudential changes in England's history, yet the period has been largely overlooked in the rich field of literature and law. Helping to fill this gap, "The Legal Epic" is the first book to s...

This book collects 17 of Andersen's incomparable stories, among them "The Little Mermaid", "The Princess and the Pea", "The Red Shoes", "The Wild Swans" and his fantasy masterpiece, "The Snow Queen". The book is illustrated in full colour by W. Heath...

One of the most widely read novels of all time, "Les Miserables" was the crowning literary achievement of Victor Hugo's career. An enormous melodrama set against the background of political upheaval in France following the rule of Napoleon I, the nov...

"The evening forgives the alleyway", Reginald Gibbons writes in his tenth book of poems – but such startling simplicities are overwhelmed in us by the everyday and the epochal. Across the great range of Gibbons's emblematic, vividly presented scenes,...