Napoleon has long divided historians. In this short, graphic discussion of his life and influence...

A riveting account of the way Lord of the Flies came to be written and published, and of the qual...

Romeo and Juliet is routinely called “the world’s greatest love story”, as though it is all about...

Adrian Poole on why Shakespeare's reworking on the great love story of the ancient world is so po...

Macbeth may well be the most terrifying play in the English language, but it hasn’t always been s...

Western slavery goes back 10,000 years to Mesopotamia, today’s Iraq, where a male slave was worth...

This short study guide tells you all you need to know about John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. Con...

The Connell Short Guide To Cormac McCarthy's The Road

A book which, drawing on the best critics of Hardy, explains and analyses his most controversial ...

John Wiltshire, one of the most original critics of Jane Austen, argues not only that Mansfield P...

Chaucer has been called the father of English literature and here Stephen Fender explores his gre...

The Connell Short Guide To Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong