omimi - Fiction & Literature 1

How do poets, writers and cultural critics contend with and represent the garden or their own gardening as they are changed by austerity? Gardening under austerity encompasses a diversity of places,……続きを見る

A REDISCOVERED FANTASY CLASSIC - INTRODUCED BY SAMANTHA SHANNON 'Read it now' URSULA K. LE GUIN 'Quiet and thoughtful, playful and wayward, rich with exquisite worldbuilding detail. I only wish - as……続きを見る

Un futuro lontano, galassie popolate di sconcertanti creature e infine i “Terreni”, gli umani dell’avvenire, che si confrontano con le opzioni infinite della biologia, dell’etica, della sessualità, ……続きを見る

An enchanting collection that introduces the author and activist Naomi Mitchison to a new generation of readers The Fourth Pig, originally published in 1936, is a wide-ranging and fascinating collec……続きを見る

Nel regno immaginario di Marob, sulla costa del Mar Nero, una giovane maga di nome Erif Der è costretta a sposare il potente rivale politico del padre, Tarrik, il Re del Grano e Capo di Marob, diven……続きを見る

"Travel Light is the story of Halla, a girl born to a king but cast out onto the hills to die. She lives among bears; she lives among dragons. But the time of dragons is passing, and Odin All-Father……続きを見る

'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as they were then' GUARDIAN 'She writes vividly and movingly' DAILY TELEGRAP……続きを見る

Per la prima volta in Italia un classico della letteratura fantasy del Novecento scaturito dalla penna di una scrittrice tutta da riscoprire, grande amica e prima lettrice di J.R.R. Tolkien. Questa ……続きを見る

Lady Mary Wroth (c. 1587-1653) wrote the first sonnet sequence in English by a woman, one of the first plays by a woman, and the first published work of fiction by an Englishwoman. Yet, despite her ……続きを見る

Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) is one of the twentieth century’s great prose stylists and the author of a suite of devastating satires on modern English life, from his first unforgettably funny novel Decl……続きを見る

Introduced by Naomi Mitchison. Set over two thousand years ago on the calm and fertile shores of the Black Sea, Naomi Mitchison's The Corn King and the Spring Queen tells of ancient civilisations wh……続きを見る

Set in Rome during Nero's reign of terror, The Blood of the Martyrs is a disciplined historical novel tracing the destruction of one cell of the early church. With a cast of slaves, ordinary Roman p……続きを見る

This is a collection of original essays about how Shakespeare and how his plays are increasingly being used as a means of furthering literacy, language arts, creative and dramatic learning for child……続きを見る