This study of the Romantics—Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Austen, Scott, Bryon, Shelley, and Keats—places these richly varied writers into their proper historical setting. Butler relates the French and American Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars,... [More...]

Cambridge English Prose Texts consists of volumes devoted to selections of non-fictional English prose of the late sixteenth to the mid nineteenth centuries. The series provides students, primarily though not exclusively those of English literature, with... [More...]

Definitive, concise, and very interesting...
From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and... [More...]