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  • Vampire Tales

    by Nick Groom ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
    'The pang of the bite, the sudden spurting of blood, and the monstrous horror of the act.' This collection, edited by Nick Groom, explores the extraordinary variety and range of the vampire in English literature prior to the publication of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897): it includes classical and mediaeval vampires, Islamic and Caribbean vampires, aristocratic and penurious vampires, abject vampires ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Seasons

    An Elegy for the Passing of the Year

    by Nick Groom ...
    For millennia, the passing seasons and their rhythms have marked our progress through the year. But what do they mean to us now that we lead increasingly atomized and urban lives and our weather becomes ever more unpredictable or extreme? Will it matter if we no longer hear, even notice, the first cuckoo call of spring or rejoice in the mellow fruits of harvest festival? How much will we lose if ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nick Groom ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and social reformers, as well as Victorian home d�cor and contemporary fashion. Nick Groom shows how the Gothic has come to encompass so many meanings by telling the story of the Gothic from the ancient ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century

    The Meaning of Middle-Earth Today

    by Nick Groom ...
    An original and thought-provoking reassessment of J. R. R. Tolkien’s world, revealing how his visionary creation of Middle-Earth is more relevant now than ever before.What is it about Middle-Earth and its inhabitants that has captured the imagination of millions of people around the world? And why does Tolkien's visionary creation continue to fascinate and inspire us eighty-five years after its ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Introducing Shakespeare

    A Graphic Guide

    by Nick Groom ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    Shakespeare's absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts; his works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism every year. He has given us many of the very words we speak, and even some of the thoughts we think.Nick Groom and Piero explore how Shakespeare became so famous and influential, and why he is still widely ... Read more

    $5.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Union Jack

    The Story of the British Flag

    by Nick Groom ...
    Known the world over as a symbol of the United Kingdom, the Union Jack is an intricate construction based on the crosses of St, George, St, Andrew and St, Patrick. Nick Groom traces its long and fascinating past, from the development of the Royal Standard and 17th-century clashes over the precise balance of the English and Scottish elements of the first Union Jack to the modern controversies over ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century

    The Meaning of Middle-Earth Today

    by Nick Groom ...
    Narrated by Mike Grady ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 48 min

    An original and thought-provoking reassessment of J. R. R. Tolkien's world, revealing how his visionary creation of Middle-Earth is more relevant now than ever before.What is it about Middle-Earth and its inhabitants that has captured the imagination of millions of people around the world? And why does Tolkien's visionary creation continue to fascinate and inspire us eighty-five years after its ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Monk

    by Matthew Lewis ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at any price.' The Monk (1796) is a sensational story of temptation and depravity, a masterpiece of Gothic fiction and the first horror novel in English literature. The respected monk Ambrosio, the Abbot of a Capuchin monastery in Madrid, is overwhelmed with desire for a young girl; once having abandoned his monastic ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Castle of Otranto

    A Gothic Story

    by Horace Walpole ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!' The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction. It inaugurated a literary genre that will be forever associated with the effects that Walpole pioneered. Professing to be a translation of a mysterious Italian tale from the darkest Middle Ages, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Vampire

    A New History

    by Nick Groom ...
    An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scenePublished to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori's publication of The Vampyre, Nick Groom's detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century, when Enlightenment science collided with ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Italian

    by Ann Radcliffe ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Among his associates no one loved him, many disliked him, and more feared him.' Father Schedoni is enlisted by the imperious Marchesa di Vivaldi to prevent her son from marrying the beautiful Ellena. Schedoni has no scruples in kidnapping Ellena and in undertaking whatever villainy will further his own ends. His menacing presence dominates a gripping tale of love and betrayal, abduction and ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Coastal Works

    Cultures of the Atlantic Edge

    Edited by Nicholas Allen, Nick Groom, Jos Smith ...
    In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many important artists coastal space has figured as a site from which to braid ideas of empire, nation, region, and archipelago. They have been drawn to the coast as a zone of geographical uncertainty in which the self-definitions of the nation ... Read more

    $81.89 USD