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Collins Crime Club was an imprint of British book publishers William Collins, Sons and ran from 6 May 1930 to April 1994. Throughout its 64 years the club...

Cannery Row is a novel by American author John Steinbeck, published in 1945. It is set during the Great Depression in Monterey, California, on a street...

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1679. April 30 – John Locke, returning to England from France, moves into...

Destination: Void is a science fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, the first of four novels in the Pandora Sequence series. It first appeared...

In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age is a volume of poems by W. B. Yeats, published in 1903 by Elizabeth Yeats's Dun Emer Press...

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1825. February 19 – Franz Grillparzer's König Ottokars Glück und Ende (The...

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1749. February – The second part of John Cleland's erotic novel Fanny Hill...

A Vision of Battlements is a 1965 novel by Anthony Burgess based on his experiences during World War II in Gibraltar, where he was serving with the British...

The Professor, A Tale. was the first novel by English author Charlotte Brontë. It was written before Jane Eyre, but was rejected by many publishing houses...

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1742. February – Henry Fielding's picaresque novel Joseph Andrews appears...

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1582. February – Meleager, a Latin play on the mythological figure of Meleager by...

A Suspension of Mercy (1965) is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith. It was published in the US under the title The Story-Teller later...

"Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt" (Иван Фёдорович Шпонька и его тётушка, Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka i yevo tyotushka; 1832) is part of the collection...

The Leopard is a crime novel by Norwegian novelist Jo Nesbø. Its Norwegian title is Panserhjerte, which does not directly translate to The Leopard; it...

Wirtschaftsgeschichte (General Economic History in English) (1923 translation 1927) is a book of economic theory which was composed by Max Weber's students...

The Gentle Art of Making Enemies is a book by the painter James McNeill Whistler, published in London in 1890 by William Heinemann, who also published...

James Patrick Blackden Marriott (6 September 1972 – 28 July 2012) was an English film critic and writer of fiction and non-fiction. Marriott was educated...

Eugène Lanti was a pseudonym of Eugène Adam (19 July 1879 in Normandy, France – 17 January 1947 in Mexico). Lanti was an Esperantist, socialist and writer...

The Norton Anthology of Poetry is one of several literary anthologies published by W.W. Norton and Company. It is intended for classroom use, and has sold...

The Game of Life and How to Play It, published in 1925, teaches the philosophies of its author, Florence Scovel Shinn. The book holds that ignorance of...