Books from Northcote House Pub Limited

Revolutionary Women Writers: Charlotte Smith & Helen Maria Williams
By Angela Keane
This book brings together two of the most significant British women writers of the Romantic period, Charlotte Smith and Helen Maria Williams, and explores the poetics and politics of their work.
Edna O'Brien
By Amanda Greenwood
Nigel Case / The Orion Publishing Group Northcote House in association with the British Council ISBN 0-74 .SS.OOOOOO 0.0.0.0 Oo ... 00 OOOOOOO ооооооо ооооооо OOOOOO For a complete WRITERS AND ...
Tony Harrison
By Joe Kelleher, Isobel Armstrong
The poem concludes with his witnessing, in the snow outside, a bird's tracks, 'like words', 'like blurred Greek', that return to him (and thereby to the reader) the desire for testimony rather than the testimony itself.
William Wordsworth
By Nicola Trott
A volume in the Writers and Their Work series, which draws upon recent thinking in English studies to introduce writers and their contexts.
Caroline Drama: The Plays of Massinger, Ford, Shirley, and Brome
By Julie Sanders
This study of Caroline Drama concentrates on the public theatre playwriting of Philip Massinger, John Ford, James Shirley and Richard Brome between 1625 and 1642.
John Dryden
By David Hopkins
This book is a concise introduction, drawing on the latest research, to the life and work of the most celebrated English poet of the late seventeenth century.
Christina Rossetti
By Kathryn Burlinson
Explores Rossetti's revisions of the poetics of sensibility. OTHER WORKS MENTIONED IN THE TEXT Apter, T. E., Fantasy Literature (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1982). Arnold, Matthew, The Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold, i, ed.
Anthony Trollope
By Andrew Sanders
This study relates Trollope to the broad Victorian culture to which he offered a distinctive, creative response.
Edith Wharton
By Janet Beer
Professor Beer's study provides an introduction to the whole range of Edith Wharton's work in the novel, short story, novella, travel writing, criticism and autobiography.
Sylvia Plath
By Elisabeth Bronfen
Challenged by the editor of the magazine Jay Cee to explain in what way she feels she is more accomplished than all the other girls who 'flood into New York every June thinking they'll be editors' (BJ 35), she begins to fear that she is ...
D.H. Lawrence
By Linda Ruth Williams
As well as examining Lawrence's life through his struggles with the dominant discourses of his day - censorship law, the First World War and its politics, the growth of psychoanalysis and the early women's movement - this book reads ...
Leo Tolstoy
By John Bayley
Pierre has it, but Prince Andrew does not; and it is the source of the difficulties he finds in getting on with ordinary life, and with women like his wife, the Little Princess. She herself has a vibrantly joyous and sociable ...
Elizabeth Gaskell
By Kate Flint
The new series of Writers and Their Work continues a tradition of innovative critical studies introducing writers and their contexts to a wide range of readers.
Philip Larkin
By Laurence Lerner
A stimulating study that places Larkin in his literary and personal context, discusses current controversies and literary criticism but, above all, perceptively explores all his major poems.
William Shakespeare, Othello
By Emma Smith
In the board game 'Othello', players must turn double-sided counters to their advantage.
Richard III
By Edward Burns
A readable study not only of the play itself, but of its reception and of the issues - of historical truth, of violence, of attitude to childhood - which it raises.
David Lodge
By Bernard Bergonzi
When he arrives at the airport in Hawaii Bernard picks up a tourist brochure called Paradise News, and he soon discovers that practically everything in the islands connects itself to Paradise: 'Paradise Finance Inc., Paradise Sportswear ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley
By Paul Hamilton
Morton, Timothy, Shelley and the Revolution in Taste (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). Ground-breaking study that moves Shelley's vegetarianism ... Weinberg, Alan M., Shelley's Italian Experience (London: Macmillan, 1991).
Olive Schreiner
By Carolyn Burdett
Cherry Clayton (Johannesburg: McGraw Hill, 1983), 198–208), Trooper Peter has been generally overlooked until recently when it has been reassessed: see, for example, Laura Chrisman, Rereading the Imperial Romance: British Imperialism ...
Women Writers of Children's Classics
By Mary Sebag-Montefiore
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT Selected works by Frances Hodgson Burnett Fiction That Lass O'Lowrie's (New York: Scribner, 1877; London: Warne, 1877). ... The Dawn of a Tomorrow (New York: Scribner, 1906; London: Warne, 1907).