The Death of Woman Wang is a book written by Jonathan Spence and published in 1979. It takes place in 17th century Northern China, in the province of T’an-ch’eng. The book was well-received by critics.

Spence's described events take place in a...

The Romance of the Shop is a novel penned in 1888 by Amy Levy. It is one of the first novels that illuminates the struggles of the New Women, one of the first Feminist movements that gained traction in the United States. The novel's protagonists...

Published in 1984, The Barracks Thief is a war novel written by the American author Tobias Wolff. Published shortly after the end of the Vietnam War, the novel takes place in the decade before its publication. Following not the story of one, but...

Ray Russell is an American author born on September 4, 1924 in Chicago, Illinois. Despite Russell’s massive success in the literary world, he did not always work as a writer. After graduating high school, he served in the Air Force and...

Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away is a novel published in 2011 and written by British author and nurse Christine Watson. The book follows a typical marriage-problem plot, when Ezikiel and Blessing have a father that is cheating on their mother. With much...

Born in the state of Massachusetts in 1874, Amy Lowell is an important figure in the annals of American poetry. Being the youngest of five children, Lowell and her siblings were born into a well-off family. In fact, in New England, the name Lowell...

Published in 2012, Dolly is a novel by the British author Susan Hill. The novel follows the path of a common horror plot - that of a doll that is recognized for more than it is. Most of Hill's books are horror and suspense stories like this one,...

Tim Turnbull is a poet from the north of England. He was born in Yorkshire in 1960 and started writing poetry in the early Nineties after being employed in forestry. His poems are almost all intended to be performed rather than read to oneself in...

The poem "A Valediction: Of Weeping" was published two years after the poet’s death, and it was believed to be written as a dedication to his wife Anne. Some argue that the poem’s ambiguity and metaphysical contemplation speak against the claim...

Extinction was published in 1986 and was the last novel published by Thomas Bernhard before his death in 1989.

Bernhard was born out of wedlock in the Netherlands in 1931. He was left to live with his grandparents for six years until his mother,...

A comedic 1991 play by Paul Rudnick, I Hate Hamlet tells the tale of an actor who wrestles with taking on the role of Hamlet, while attempting to deal with life's problems as well. It premiered on Broadway later in 1991, and enjoyed moderate...

Douglas Dunn was born in Scotland in 1942. Graduating with an English degree from Hull University in 1969. Dunn has since received three honorary doctorates, two Literature doctorates from the University of Hull and the University of St Andrews,...