Robert Louis Stevenson Companion: A Guide to the Novels, Essays and Short Stories

A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion: A Guide to the Novels, Essays and Short Stories

Literature & Fiction

Hammond, J.R.

History & Criticism

Macmillan Pub. Co.

An H.G. Wells Companion: A Guide to the Novels, Romances, and Short Stories

Barnes & Noble Imports

An H. G. Wells companion: A guide to the novels, romances, and short stories

Macmillan

An Edgar Allan Poe Companion: A Guide to the Short Stories, Romances and Essays (Literary Companions)

Reference

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion: A Guide to the Novels, Essays and Short Stories (Literary Companions)

British & Irish

Daniel Defoe occupies a central place in the history of English literature.  As the author of Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders he can claim with some justification to be the creator of the first novels in English and the father of the novel as we know it today.  He was one of the earliest practitioners of the "desert island" myth which has had such a seminal influence on the human imagination.  In A Journal of the Plague Year and A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain he forged a distinctive documentary style which deeply influenced later writers including Wells and Orwell.An introductory section traces the forces which molded Defoe as man and writer and summarises his contribution to English letters.  This is followed by detailed introductions to the novels and documentaries placing each of the principal works in its literary and biographical context.  The Companion also contains a key to the characters and locations, and a guide to the film versions of Defoe's novels.In summarizing Defoe's life and achievement the Companion offers a critical overview of his contribution to the development of the novel and re-establishes him as a central figure in the history of literature.

A Defoe Companion

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

This joint biography tells the story of the literary partnership between two unusually gifted and imaginative writers. The liaison between H.G.Wells and Rebecca West lasted ten years, from 1913 to 1923, during which time they influenced each other's writing and both produced fiction which re-imagined and drew creatively on their relationship. Wells and West first met when he was 46, already a famous novelist with "The Time Machine", "The War of the Worlds" and "Tono-Bungay" among his published fiction. She was 19, just making a name for herself as an outspoken writer on political and feminist issues. Ten years later their lives and achievements were markedly different. Wells had gained an international reputation as a popular educator with his best selling "Outline of History" and "A Short History of the World". He was happy with his wife and sons and increasingly occupied with politics and world affairs. West was still making her way as a literary artist. She had published two novels of considerable promise - "The Return of the Soldier" and "The Judge", but her career had been cut across by being the unmarried mother of Wells' child. The partnership between Wells and West finally crumbled because each wanted different things: she wanted security, reassurance, stability; but Wells wanted a goddess. These aims proved to be incompatible. Drawing on unpublished sources and on John Hammond's original and extensive research, this biography places the extraordinary relationship of Wells and West, and its effect on their creative lives, in its full literary context. Hammond's assessment of each writer's personalities, their differences of literary and intellectual opinion and their respective literary works breaks new ground, as does the emphasis on the way in which the partnership affected, in positive and negative ways, the work of these two writers.

H.G.Wells and Rebecca West

Pearson Professional Education

President Clinton and the Working Man

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

River City Pub

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