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A critical study of the author and her work integrating biographical information into criticism.

Christie’s books depict women as adventurous, independent figures who renegotiate sexual relationships along more equal lines. Women are also allowed to disrupt society and yet the texts refuse to see them as double deviant because of their femininity. This book demonstrates exactly how quietly innovatory Christie was in relation to gender.

When Agatha Christie died on 12 January 1976, she was known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime, unrivaled as the best-selling novelist of all time with two billion books sold in more than 100 languages. Though she kept her private life a mystery, for some years Agatha had secretly written her autobiography, and when it was published after her death, millions of her fans agreed—this was her best story!

A sequel to A Portrait in Letters: Correspondence to and about Joseph Conrad (Rodopi, 1995), this volume collects and annotates letters to Joseph Conrad by his family, friends, admirers, and publishers.

This bibliography, the first volume in the new Conrad Studies series published in cooperation with The Joseph Conrad Society (UK), collects and annotates impressions and memories of Joseph Conrad by his family, friends, and acquaintances.

A study of Forster’s work which concentrates on the roots of his literary thinking in earlier English Romanticism.

Featuring fourteen short stories, The Life to Come spans six decades of E. M. Forster’s literary career, tracking every phase of his development.

A study of Huxley’s writings, emphasizing his works of fiction and considering also his biographical essays and his search for the essential truths to which the human spirit is subject.

With his move to California, Huxley became part of Hollywood’s Golden Age, working alongside such noted figures as Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bertolt Brecht, and Christopher Isherwood. During this time, Huxley published nineteen books. His writing and life underwent many transformations, and many crucial unanswered questions remained about his sojourn.

External evidence of the presence of Poe and the French symbolists in Joyce.

A towering presence in modern literature, James Joyce continues to exert an enormous influence over the writers who have come after him. Generally accepted as the most experimental and daring writer of the twentieth century, Joyce’s innovations in the form and content of the novel have not been superseded.

By pursuing a group of cognate themes, the author relates major critical approaches to the fiction of James Joyce. One of the major issues explored is that of the existence of “symbols” in his fiction, and of the quality of Joyce’s feelings shown through an examination of the extent of his human sympathies.

Jean Rhys is an accessible and up-to-date analysis of Rhys’s career. Sanford Sternlicht presents the link between Rhys’s life and her work, demonstrating how the two intertwine.

Jean Rhys has long been central to debates in feminist, modernist, Caribbean, British, and postcolonial writing. Elaine Savory’s study, first published in 1999, incorporates and modifies previous critical approaches and is a critical reading of Rhys’s entire oeuvre, including the stories and autobiography, and is informed by Rhys’s own manuscripts.

Recollections, anecdotes, and first-hand impressions—including pieces from some of the leading lights of the Bloomsbury Group—are gathered together in this perceptive and profound volume.

An important book on understanding Virginia Woolf.

During Virginia Woolf’s lifetime, Britain’s position in the world changed, and so did the outlook of its people. The Boer War and the First World War forced politicians and citizens alike to ask how far the power of the state extended into the lives of individuals; the rise of fascism provided one menacing answer. Woolf’s experiments in fiction, and her unique position in the publishing world, allowed her to address such intersections of the public and the private.