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Through these 10 lectures, you will delve into the darkness of Poe’s most nightmarish stories, including “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, and “The Fall of the House of Usher”. You’ll also learn how he invented the detective story and explored themes of love and loss in such poems as “Ulalume” and “Annabel Lee”. And you’ll discover how Poe employed symbolism, imagery, rhythm and rhyme, irony and paradox, repetition, simile, and foreshadowing to create a unique body of work.

Vivienne Westwood is one of the icons of our age. Fashion designer, activist, co-creator of punk, global brand and grandmother; a true legend. Her career successfully spanned five decades and her work has influenced millions of people across the world. For the first and only time, Vivienne...

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature...

Following the death of her beloved mother Jennifer Worth in 2011, Suzannah Worth discovered amongst her manuscripts a folder simply labelled 'Fifth Book'. Imagine her excitement when she sat down to read and her mother's distinctive voice came flooding back. This enchanting new collection from...

When rare books dealer Rebecca Romney found an emerald clothbound edition of Evelina by Frances Burney, she was happy to discover that she'd stumbled across a novel by one of Jane Austen's favourite authors. Inspired by the connection between the two writers, she returned to Austen's books with a new lens, picking out clues sprinkled throughout her works that pointed to the writers she had admired.

After moving to Los Angeles, Susan Orlean became fascinated by a mysterious local crime that has gone unsolved since it was carried out on the morning of 29th April 1986: who set fire to the Los Angeles Public Library, ultimately destroying more than 400,000 books, and perhaps even more perplexing, why? With her characteristic humour, insight and compassion, Orlean uses this terrible event as a lens through which to tell the story of all libraries—their history, their meaning and their uncertain future as they adapt and redefine themselves in a digital world.

Brought to you by Penguin. From Sunday Times bestselling author Gyles Brandreth comes the remarkable life of A.A. Milne and the bear who captured millions of hearts... ‘Whatever subject an author chooses or has chosen for him, he reveals no secret but the secret of himself’ A A Milne When...

Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of private correspondence, the highly anticipated follow-up to THE PROUD HIGHWAY. Spanning the years between 1968 and 1976, these never-before-published letters show Thompson building his legend...

Atenta siempre a ampliar los límites de su escritura, a hibridar y potenciar los géneros literarios, Tedi López Mills entrega a sus lectores este insólito y sorprendente libro. A diario estamos a la caza de explicaciones, respuestas que nos guíen a través de los laberintos de la existencia: en este diálogo entre la conciencia más íntima y los misterios de lo cotidiano, López Mills rastrea la estela de su propia identidad.

Chronique ultime des Mémoires de la vie littéraire, ce neuvième volume du Journal des Goncourt couvre les années 1892 à 1895. Au fil de journées datées — dès un 1er janvier aux notes flottantes — Edmond de Goncourt, plume acérée et sensible, poursuit sa notation du monde des lettres, des humeurs, des amitiés et des heurts de la fin du siècle. Préfacé à Auteuil en 1896, il l’annonce comme le dernier qu’il publiera de son vivant.

Dans ce deuxième tome du Journal (1850–1854), Eugène Delacroix, chef de file du romantisme français, consigne ses pensées sur la création, le travail et les mœurs artistiques de son époque. Entre ébauches d’idées, notations fulgurantes et confidences retenues, se révèle l’atelier intérieur d’un maître à pleine maturité, lucide sur ses exigences comme sur ses doutes.

Sin causa aparente, el cuerpo de pronto sabe que el dolor llegará, una sensación extraña, un asomo de malestar que inquieta y predice otro, mucho mayor; y tarde o temprano llega, en relámpagos, en un brutal ataque que se concentra en el ojo, que cubre la mitad de la cabeza con un velo impenetrable de oscuridad. Es el dolor de la migraña en racimos, una dolencia tan brutal, pero de la que se sabía poco hasta hace algunos años, pues no afecta a un porcentaje tan alto de pacientes comparado con otras aflicciones.

Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of...

In Young Romantics Daisy Hay shatters the myth of the Romantic poet as a solitary, introspective genius, telling the story of the communal existence of an astonishingly youthful circle. The fiery, generous spirit of Leigh Hunt, radical journalist and editor of The Examiner, took centre stage. He bound together the restless Shelley and his brilliant wife Mary, author of Frankenstein; Mary's feisty step-sister Claire Clairmont, who became Byron's lover and the mother of his child; and Hunt's charismatic sister-in-law Elizabeth Kent.

A daring reappraisal of notorious writer Anaïs Nin, presenting her self-mythologizing as a radical creative act in a world that offered women few avenues for freedom Born in 1903, Anaïs Nin led a bohemian life across Paris, New York, and Los Angeles and carved out bold new forms of...

In 1929, a newly married M.F.K. Fisher embarked on a journey that would change her life. In The Gastronomical Me, readers get a firsthand look at the travels that formed the culinary education of one of our greatest modern food writers. As the twenty-one-year-old Fisher and her husband made...

Pendant vingt-cinq ans, Chicandier a vécu dans l'excès : alcool, addictions, chaos. Jusqu'au diagnostic : bipolarité. Du jour au lendemain, l'humoriste est interné à Saint-Victor, une clinique en bord de Loire. Là, loin du bruit, du succès et des projecteurs, il rencontre d'autres naufragés – polytoxicomanes, joueurs compulsifs, victimes de burn out, sex addicts. Et, pour la première fois, il se regarde en face. Accro est le récit d'une chute brutale et d'une reconstruction fragile.

When Seán meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe depression, the couple comes face-to-face with crisis. Wrestling with this, Seán Hewitt delves deep into his own history, enlisting the ghosts of queer figures and poets before him. From a 19th-century cemetery in Liverpool to the pine forests of Gothenburg, Hewitt plumbs the darkness in search of solace and hope. All Down Darkness Wide is an unflinching meditation on the burden of living in a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds.

Told in a series of letters, this true story of the correspondence between a New York writer and a London bookseller has touched the hearts of thousands.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER ‘Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book’ CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN 'Patrick’s book is fascinating and sobering and makes a compelling argument for going back to basics’ JOE LYCETT We used to care a lot about our clothes. We didn’t have many but those we had...