Set in rural Netherlands in 2005, this troubling novel follows the dangerous relationship between a young farmer's daughter and a local veterinarian. It is read as a psychological drama in which the suffocating logic of a closed community collides with desire and loss.

Desire and obsession slowly crack open a closed community.

Lebanese writer and illustrator Lamia Ziadé layers personal memory with extensive research to trace the history and losses of the Middle East from the twentieth century to the present. The result feels like an archive of memory in which prose and image work together.

Prose and images redraw modern Middle Eastern history through personal memory.

Set in a fictional town in northern Australia, this epic novel braids together colonial history, the climate crisis, and Indigenous knowledge and myth on a vast scale. Its polyphonic, experimental style expands the story of communal crisis and survival.

A monumental novel that absorbs the pressure of land and history through mythic imagination.

Tracing the life and death of the forgotten Egyptian writer Enayat al-Zayyat in Cairo, Iman Mersal moves between research and recollection to fill a gap in literary history. The book blends biography, essay, and personal reflection into a quiet but persistent act of rediscovery.

It follows the traces of a forgotten writer and closes the gap between memory and history.

This book reframes the work and mythology of filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder through fragments of criticism and recollection. It goes beyond film history, allowing the critic's own memory and sensibility to give the portrait of Fassbinder greater depth.

Fragmented criticism brings Fassbinder's figure and his era into focus.

Told through the eyes of Demon, a boy from Appalachia, this modern David Copperfield follows cycles of poverty, foster care, addiction, and exploitation. It moves between humor and pain to render a neglected region with force and clarity.

Dickens provides the frame, but Appalachian reality gives the novel its urgency.

Darryl Pinckney reflects on the literary world of 1970s New York through his friendship with Elizabeth Hardwick and Barbara Epstein. The result is both a record of personal formation and a portrait of a cultural and intellectual community.

Literary education and urban memory come alive in an intimate act of recollection.

A linked-story novel set on the fringes of London, following loosely connected characters through confinement, drift, and unease.

A lush, witty debut that follows a Black woman’s search for forgotten Black modernist figures and the aesthetics they leave behind.

A lyrical memoir that intertwines the author’s life with the memory of a 18th-century Irish poet and the experience of motherhood.

A sprawling stream-of-consciousness novel that follows an Ohio housewife as her thoughts circle family, work, social strain, and environmental unease.

A sprawling stream-of-consciousness novel that follows an Ohio housewife as her thoughts circle family, work, social strain, and environmental unease.

A memoir that moves backward through a mother's life, tracing exile, war, photography, and family memory.

A memoir that moves backward through a mother's life, tracing exile, war, photography, and family memory.

A play in which two young women navigate friendship, sexual politics, and tradition against the backdrop of Notting Hill Carnival.

A play in which two young women navigate friendship, sexual politics, and tradition against the backdrop of Notting Hill Carnival.

An experimental novel that captures the political turbulence of the summer of 2017 and the private anxiety of marriage with diary-like immediacy. Through a narrator who evokes Kathy Acker, love, news, the body, and apocalyptic dread collide at high speed.

A brief novel that asks what it means to love and to write during a summer when the world feels close to collapse.

A biography of war correspondent Marie Colvin, built from diaries, reporting, and testimony. It follows the courage and cost of a journalist who kept bearing witness in conflict zones, while examining the ethics and danger of war reporting.

A biography that asks what journalism takes on through the life and death of a reporter who kept returning to war.

A play about a team of girls in competitive dance, exploring adolescent desire, rivalry, bodily unease, and self-discovery. Funny and painful at once, it shows both the violence and liberation of youth.

Inside the heat of a dance team chasing victory, the girls' ambition and fear are laid bare.

言語と形式の実験を通して日常の非合理性を浮かび上がらせる短編集。多様な視点と遊びのある語りが特徴。

言語と形式の実験を通して日常の非合理性を浮かび上がらせる短編集。

プリンセス・マーガレットの姿を断片的に描き出す伝記的・風刺的作品。王室と大衆文化を批評的に照射する。

プリンセス・マーガレットの姿を断片的に描き出す伝記的・風刺的作品。

植民地主義や移民経験を背景に、家族と帰属をめぐる複雑なテーマを描く舞台作品。文化的記憶と個人史が交差する。

植民地主義や移民経験を背景に、家族と帰属をめぐる複雑なテーマを描く舞台作品。

Set in 1990s London, this novel follows a young Irish woman and an older actor in a love story that reveals both growth and damage.

The heat and uncertainty of love build against the backdrop of a vivid city.

An art-history nonfiction book that follows John Snare’s obsession with a lost Velázquez painting and the long pursuit it set in motion.

An obsession with a missing painting changes a bookseller’s life and leads into a larger story of art and ruin.

A play centered on a Belfast loyalist, drawing out political paranoia and the strain within a family.

In dialogue that mixes humor with paranoia, clashing memories and loyalties are laid bare.

A novel about college friends drawn into a Detroit redevelopment plan, using the city’s transformation to expose the strain in their relationships.

A reunion among old friends turns tense as a redevelopment scheme begins to reshape a Detroit neighborhood.

A nonfiction study of Shakespeare in 1606, showing how the politics and anxieties of that year shaped King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra.

It traces how the tensions of a single year helped shape Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies.

A one-woman play that overlays Greek tragedy with the pressures of austerity through the life of a young woman, Effie.

An ancient myth reappears as the pain of one young woman in a contemporary city.

Zia Haider Rahman’s novel follows intersecting lives shaped by intellect, power, migration, and the memory of war.

A family saga that follows a century of change in land, memory, and inheritance.

Jim Crace's novel unfolds in a remote English village over one unsettling week after the harvest, when smoke, strangers, and suspicion begin to unravel the community. It is a historical novel about enclosure, displacement, and the violence hidden inside ordinary change.

A village's fragile order starts to break as outsiders arrive.

Hermione Lee traces Penelope Fitzgerald's life from family background and hardship to her late emergence as one of the great English novelists of the twentieth century. The biography reads the life alongside the work and shows how restraint, patience, and persistence shaped both.

A late-blooming literary life, told with sympathy and depth.

Rory Mullarkey's debut full-length play follows Lizaveta as war and upheaval push her across a brutal, mythic landscape. The play mixes folklore and contemporary unease to explore survival, identity, and historical violence.

A brutal, lyrical journey through war, myth, and survival.

The novel follows sixteen-year-old Simon Crimmons as he leaves school to work on the railways and gets pulled into a summer of strikes, glamour, and first love. Warner uses the train world and its class tensions to frame a vivid coming-of-age story.

A railway summer pulls a boy toward work, class conflict, and first love.

Tanya Harrod studies the life of ceramic artist Michael Cardew, a modernist who distrusted modernity, and follows the contradictions of his craft, colonial service, and later reputation. The book doubles as a biography and a history of studio pottery.

A life of craft, contradiction, and the making of modern pottery.

The play imagines the pressures and contradictions that shaped Bradley Manning before the leaks that made him famous. Tim Price places that story against Welsh radical traditions, turning it into a political drama about conscience, power, and responsibility.

A political play that asks how conviction becomes radicalisation.

Two men talk on a porch in a conversation that keeps sliding between wit, philosophy, and half-formed longing. The novel turns that apparently aimless exchange into an absurd, quietly affecting meditation on language, masculinity, and meaning.

A porch conversation keeps circling love, language, and the odd shape of companionship.

Fiona MacCarthy traces Edward Burne-Jones from Oxford and the Aesthetic movement to his place as a bridge between Victorian and modern art. The biography follows his art, friendships, marriage, and public reputation with ample historical scope.

A wide-ranging life of Edward Burne-Jones and the world that shaped him.

A sprawling historical novel about the Wellwood family, childhood, art, politics, and the hidden wounds that surface before and during the First World War.

A sprawling historical novel about the Wellwood family, childhood, art, politics, and the hidden wounds that surface before and during the First World War.

A biography of William Golding that examines the life, politics, and literary career behind Lord of the Flies.

A biography of William Golding that examines the life, politics, and literary career behind Lord of the Flies.

中西部の家族を中心に、経済的変動や個々の挫折、家族関係の亀裂を鋭く描いた群像劇。現代アメリカ社会の病理と個人の苦悩をユーモアと悲哀を交えて描写する。

中西部の家族を中心に、経済的変動や個々の挫折、家族関係の亀裂を鋭く描いた群像劇。現代アメリカ社会の病理と個人の苦悩をユーモアと悲哀を交えて描写する。

ルナ―ソサエティと呼ばれる18世紀後半の思想家・発明家たち（ジョセフ・プリーストリーら）を中心に、科学的・産業的・文化的交流を通して近代化の過程を描く社会史的伝記。知的ネットワークの力を明らかにする。

ルナ―ソサエティと呼ばれる18世紀後半の思想家・発明家たち（ジョセフ・プリーストリーら）を中心に、科学的・産業的・文化的交流を通して近代化の過程を描く社会史的伝記。知的ネットワークの力を明らかにする。

帰属や家族、記憶と喪失を題材にした静謐な長編。主人公の内面の揺れと周囲の変化を通じて、個人史と場所の意味を丁寧に掘り下げる作品。

帰属や家族、記憶と喪失を題材にした静謐な長編。主人公の内面の揺れと周囲の変化を通じて、個人史と場所の意味を丁寧に掘り下げる作品。

ケインズの生涯の一部を扱う伝記シリーズ第3巻。1937年から1946年にかけての政治的・経済的活動を中心に、戦時下の政策決定過程とケインズの思想的貢献を詳述する研究的な伝記。

ケインズの生涯の一部を扱う伝記シリーズ第3巻。1937年から1946年にかけての政治的・経済的活動を中心に、戦時下の政策決定過程とケインズの思想的貢献を詳述する研究的な伝記。

ロンドンを舞台に、移民や二世代にわたる家族群像を描いた群像劇。宗教、科学、歴史的記憶が交錯し、ユーモアと批評精神を交えて現代英国社会の多様性と緊張を描写する。

ロンドンを舞台に、移民や二世代にわたる家族群像を描いた群像劇。宗教、科学、歴史的記憶が交錯し、ユーモアと批評精神を交えて現代英国社会の多様性と緊張を描写する。

作家としての人生、家族関係（特に父キングズリー・アミスとの関係）や文学界での経験を率直に綴った回想録。個人的回顧と文学的省察が織り交ざる作品。

作家としての人生、家族関係（特に父キングズリー・アミスとの関係）や文学界での経験を率直に綴った回想録。個人的回顧と文学的省察が織り交ざる作品。

異文化が交錯する場を背景に、個人の帰属意識や権力関係、裏切りと選択を描く長編作品。複雑な人間関係とユーモアを含む筆致で登場人物たちの葛藤を浮き彫りにする。

異文化が交錯する場を背景に、個人の帰属意識や権力関係、裏切りと選択を描く長編作品。複雑な人間関係とユーモアを含む筆致で登場人物たちの葛藤を浮き彫りにする。

ジョージ・エリオット（エリザベス・ゲイツ）の後期生涯と作品群を精緻に追い、個人史とヴィクトリア朝の社会的・文化的背景を重ね合わせて描く研究的伝記。作家の思想形成や公私の関係を詳細に検証する。

ジョージ・エリオット（エリザベス・ゲイツ）の後期生涯と作品群を精緻に追い、個人史とヴィクトリア朝の社会的・文化的背景を重ね合わせて描く研究的伝記。作家の思想形成や公私の関係を詳細に検証する。

A historical novel that moves from Liverpool to the Crimean War, centering on a surgeon and amateur photographer caught in upheaval.

A historical novel that moves from Liverpool to the Crimean War, centering on a surgeon and amateur photographer caught in upheaval.

A major biography that reconstructs the life, intellect, and moral complexity of Thomas More.

A major biography that reconstructs the life, intellect, and moral complexity of Thomas More.

痛みを感じない主人公の生涯を通じて、感覚と倫理、人間性の問題を探るダークで繊細な歴史小説。孤独と愛、科学的好奇心が交差する物語。

痛みを感じない主人公の生涯を通じて、感覚と倫理、人間性の問題を探るダークで繊細な歴史小説。孤独と愛、科学的好奇心が交差する物語。

ウィリアム・バトラー・イェイツの初期生涯と詩作の形成過程を丹念に追う学術的伝記。若き日の影響や詩的成長を詳述する。

ウィリアム・バトラー・イェイツの初期生涯と詩作の形成過程を丹念に追う学術的伝記。若き日の影響や詩的成長を詳述する。

A novel about the rivalry between two stage magicians, told through a layered diary structure.

The diaries accumulate until competition and secrecy begin to change shape.

A biography of Albert Speer built from extensive interviews and archival material.

Between war guilt and self-justification, the portrait steadily comes apart.

フランスの小さな町を舞台に若者の欲望と執着を繊細に描く物語。異文化の孤独や芸術観、美に対する執着が主題となる作品。

フランスの小さな町を舞台に若者の欲望と執着を繊細に描く物語。異文化の孤独や芸術観、美に対する執着が主題となる作品。

著者自身の人生を振り返る自伝。幼少期から作家としての歩み、政治的・私的経験を率直に綴り、創作の源泉を探る回顧録的作品。

著者自身の人生を振り返る自伝。幼少期から作家としての歩み、政治的・私的経験を率直に綴り、創作の源泉を探る回顧録的作品。

大西洋を横断する移動と分断を巡る短篇集的な構成で、奴隷制度やディアスポラの影響を受けた人々の視点を重ね、帰属と失われた歴史を描く。

大西洋を横断する移動と分断を巡る短篇集的な構成で、奴隷制度やディアスポラの影響を受けた人々の視点を重ね、帰属と失われた歴史を描く。

サミュエル・ジョンソンと詩人リチャード・サヴェッジの複雑な関係を通して、18世紀英文学と社会の肖像を描き出す伝記的研究。

サミュエル・ジョンソンと詩人リチャード・サヴェッジの複雑な関係を通して、18世紀英文学と社会の肖像を描き出す伝記的研究。

田舎を舞台に性別や自己の探求を描く物語。主人公の内面と周囲の反応を通じて、アイデンティティと疎外、個人の再生がテーマとして展開する。

田舎を舞台に性別や自己の探求を描く物語。主人公の内面と周囲の反応を通じて、アイデンティティと疎外、個人の再生がテーマとして展開する。

劇作家クリストファー・マーロウの謎めいた死を巡り、16世紀末から17世紀初頭の文学・政治的背景を検証する歴史研究。暗殺説や当時の諜報活動に迫る。

劇作家クリストファー・マーロウの謎めいた死を巡り、16世紀末から17世紀初頭の文学・政治的背景を検証する歴史研究。暗殺説や当時の諜報活動に迫る。

テムズ川や運河に沿ったロンドンの地理と歴史を巡る散策的な作品。都市空間に潜む記憶や断片的な物語を重ね、歴史と現在の交差を描く。

テムズ川や運河に沿ったロンドンの地理と歴史を巡る散策的な作品。都市空間に潜む記憶や断片的な物語を重ね、歴史と現在の交差を描く。

チャールズ・ダーウィンの生涯と思想形成を学術的に再検討する大著。進化論の成立過程、個人史、同時代の科学的・社会的文脈を豊富な資料で辿る。

チャールズ・ダーウィンの生涯と思想形成を学術的に再検討する大著。進化論の成立過程、個人史、同時代の科学的・社会的文脈を豊富な資料で辿る。

チャールズ・ダーウィンの生涯と思想形成を学術的に再検討する大著。進化論の成立過程、個人史、同時代の科学的・社会的文脈を豊富な資料で辿る。

チャールズ・ダーウィンの生涯と思想形成を学術的に再検討する大著。進化論の成立過程、個人史、同時代の科学的・社会的文脈を豊富な資料で辿る。

Hope Clearwater, a young ethologist, sits alone on an African beach reflecting on two upheavals in her life: the disintegration of her marriage to an obsessive mathematician in England, and her work at a chimpanzee research project in Africa caught in the middle of a civil war. Witnessing violent behaviour among chimps that contradicts her famous supervisor's published theories, Hope is forced to confront difficult truths about science, power, and human and animal nature. A landmark novel by William Boyd, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

"I sat alone on Brazzaville Beach and thought about the nature of things."

When actress Nelly Ternan met Charles Dickens in 1857, she was eighteen and he was forty-five, a celebrated and married author. Their relationship lasted thirteen years and destroyed his marriage, while erasing Nelly from the public record. Drawing on diaries, correspondence and photographs, Claire Tomalin reconstructs the hidden life of a Victorian woman and provides fresh insight into the greatest novelist of the age. Winner of the 1990 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography.

A scholarly detective story that restores a forgotten woman to her rightful place in literary history.

退職を控えた中年教師が経験する疎外感と挫折を、断片的な日常描写と内面独白で描く作品。グラスゴーの労働者階級や言語表現への鋭い観察が特徴。

退職を控えた中年教師が経験する疎外感と挫折を、断片的な日常描写と内面独白で描く作品。グラスゴーの労働者階級や言語表現への鋭い観察が特徴。

スペインの詩人フェデリコ・ガルシア・ロルカの生涯と作品、政治的背景を丹念に追った伝記。詩作や演劇、1930年代の政治状況とロルカの死の文脈に踏み込む。

スペインの詩人フェデリコ・ガルシア・ロルカの生涯と作品、政治的背景を丹念に追った伝記。詩作や演劇、1930年代の政治状況とロルカの死の文脈に踏み込む。

A Season in the West

A Season in the West

ウィトゲンシュタインの若年期（1889–1921）に焦点を当て、その思想形成過程や初期の人生経験が後の哲学に与えた影響を詳細に検証する評伝。

ウィトゲンシュタインの若年期（1889–1921）に焦点を当て、その思想形成過程や初期の人生経験が後の哲学に与えた影響を詳細に検証する評伝。

オークニーを舞台にした短編二作を収めた作品で、地方の伝承や日常の出来事を通じて人間の孤独や連続性を描く。

オークニーを舞台にした短編二作を収めた作品で、地方の伝承や日常の出来事を通じて人間の孤独や連続性を描く。

出版社ヴィクター・ゴランツの生涯と業績を追い、出版史と政治的な姿勢との関連を検証した評伝。

出版社ヴィクター・ゴランツの生涯と業績を追い、出版史と政治的な姿勢との関連を検証した評伝。

Persephone

Persephone

ヘレン・ワデルの生涯と作品を紹介する伝記で、彼女の文学的業績と文化的背景を明らかにする。

ヘレン・ワデルの生涯と作品を紹介する伝記で、彼女の文学的業績と文化的背景を明らかにする。

A novel of wartime Shanghai seen through the eyes of a boy left on his own amid chaos and change.

War remakes a child’s world without mercy.

A novel that follows a woman seeking freedom between the glamour and unease of the circus.

Night performances blur the boundary between illusion and liberation.

A biography that presents Virginia Woolf’s life and writing together, in dialogue with her era.

A life and a body of work read as one continuous stream.

A linked set of stories set in nineteenth-century Italy, where revolution, desire, movement, and exile intersect in a dense atmosphere.

A chain of stories summons an entire era.

A music biography of Franz Liszt's early and virtuoso years, set against the wider Romantic era.

Liszt's virtuosity drives him to the center of his age.

ウェールズの孤立した農場で生涯を過ごす双子の兄弟を中心に、世代を超えた家族史と地域社会の変化を静かに描く長編。土地と人間の連続性を繊細に扱う作品。

ウェールズの孤立した農場で生涯を過ごす双子の兄弟を中心に、世代を超えた家族史と地域社会の変化を静かに描く長編。土地と人間の連続性を繊細に扱う作品。

ジェームズ・ジョイスの生涯と作品を包括的にまとめた評伝。作品の文学的背景と伝記的事実を丁寧に結び付け、研究の基準となった代表的研究書。

ジェームズ・ジョイスの生涯と作品を包括的にまとめた評伝。作品の文学的背景と伝記的事実を丁寧に結び付け、研究の基準となった代表的研究書。

インド独立直前後を背景に、主人公と同時期に生まれた子供たちと国の運命を結びつけるマジック・リアリズムの長編。歴史と個人史を重層的に描き出す代表作。

インド独立直前後を背景に、主人公と同時期に生まれた子供たちと国の運命を結びつけるマジック・リアリズムの長編。歴史と個人史を重層的に描き出す代表作。

父親の理想主義が家族を巻き込みながら次第に破滅へ向かう過程を描く長編。文明批評と家族関係、理想の行き詰まりを主題とする物語。

父親の理想主義が家族を巻き込みながら次第に破滅へ向かう過程を描く長編。文明批評と家族関係、理想の行き詰まりを主題とする物語。

詩人エディス・シトウェルの生涯と創作を詳細に追った評伝。個人史と詩作の関係、社交界での立場などを含めて描写する。

詩人エディス・シトウェルの生涯と創作を詳細に追った評伝。個人史と詩作の関係、社交界での立場などを含めて描写する。

帝国の辺境を舞台にした寓話的長編。官僚と軍事が行使する権力と拷問を軸に、正義・共感・個人の倫理的葛藤を描き、植民地主義の暴力性を問う作品。

帝国の辺境を舞台にした寓話的長編。官僚と軍事が行使する権力と拷問を軸に、正義・共感・個人の倫理的葛藤を描き、植民地主義の暴力性を問う作品。

アルフレッド・テニスンの生涯と詩作を掘り下げる評伝。詩人の私生活や創作の源泉、ヴィクトリア朝社会との関わりを分析する学術的な伝記研究。

アルフレッド・テニスンの生涯と詩作を掘り下げる評伝。詩人の私生活や創作の源泉、ヴィクトリア朝社会との関わりを分析する学術的な伝記研究。

ウィリアム・ゴールディングの1979年の長編。複数の登場人物を通じて、人間の暗い側面や暴力性、道徳的崩壊とその余波を描く。社会的・個人的な破綻を掘り下げる寓話的要素を含む作品。

ウィリアム・ゴールディングの1979年の長編。複数の登場人物を通じて、人間の暗い側面や暴力性、道徳的崩壊とその余波を描く。社会的・個人的な破綻を掘り下げる寓話的要素を含む作品。

クリストファー・イシャーウッドの生涯と作品を批評的に検証した伝記。作品背景と私生活、文学的評価を整理して提示する学術的な伝記研究。

クリストファー・イシャーウッドの生涯と作品を批評的に検証した伝記。作品背景と私生活、文学的評価を整理して提示する学術的な伝記研究。

一族史と個人の記憶を織り交ぜることで、主人公とその家族を通してニュージーランド社会の変容、宗教性や世代間の軋轢を描く長編。記憶と歴史、個人的真実の相互作用を通じてアイデンティティを問い直す作品。

一族史と個人の記憶を織り交ぜることで、主人公とその家族を通してニュージーランド社会の変容、宗教性や世代間の軋轢を描く長編。記憶と歴史、個人的真実の相互作用を通じてアイデンティティを問い直す作品。

トマス・ハーディの晩年と成熟期の創作活動を中心に据えた評伝。長編小説や詩作の発展、私生活や社会的評価の変遷を史料に基づいて分析し、ハーディの作品世界と人物像を再評価する。

トマス・ハーディの晩年と成熟期の創作活動を中心に据えた評伝。長編小説や詩作の発展、私生活や社会的評価の変遷を史料に基づいて分析し、ハーディの作品世界と人物像を再評価する。

冷戦期の東南アジアを舞台に、諜報員の任務とそれに伴う倫理的葛藤を描くハードなスパイ小説。スパイ世界の腐敗、裏切り、個人の良心と職務の狭間が緊迫感をもって展開されるシリーズの重要作。

冷戦期の東南アジアを舞台に、諜報員の任務とそれに伴う倫理的葛藤を描くハードなスパイ小説。スパイ世界の腐敗、裏切り、個人の良心と職務の狭間が緊迫感をもって展開されるシリーズの重要作。

フランソワ＝ルネ・ド・シャトーブリアンの初期生涯と思想形成を扱う評伝第一巻。青年期の経験や思想的発展、詩作や政治的関与を豊富な史料でたどり、ロマン主義への影響と個人史を精密に描く。

フランソワ＝ルネ・ド・シャトーブリアンの初期生涯と思想形成を扱う評伝第一巻。青年期の経験や思想的発展、詩作や政治的関与を豊富な史料でたどり、ロマン主義への影響と個人史を精密に描く。

ニコラウス・コペルニクスの人生と業績を内省的かつ詩的に再現した小説的伝記。学者としての孤独、発見に至る葛藤、宗教や社会との関係を深い語りで描き、科学史と個人的体験を重ね合わせる。

ニコラウス・コペルニクスの人生と業績を内省的かつ詩的に再現した小説的伝記。学者としての孤独、発見に至る葛藤、宗教や社会との関係を深い語りで描き、科学史と個人的体験を重ね合わせる。

アントン・チェーホフの生涯と作品を新たな視点で総合的に描いた評伝。劇作・短編の技法、私生活や健康の問題、時代背景と文学的影響を史料に基づいて整理し、チェーホフの人間像と芸術の本質を明らかにする。

アントン・チェーホフの生涯と作品を新たな視点で総合的に描いた評伝。劇作・短編の技法、私生活や健康の問題、時代背景と文学的影響を史料に基づいて整理し、チェーホフの人間像と芸術の本質を明らかにする。

A fantasy novel in which a historian dreams up a Victorian collection and finds his life altered at the boundary between dream and reality.

A dreamed collection reshapes a life.

A biographical study of Henry Cockburn that also sketches the legal, political, and literary culture of nineteenth-century Scotland.

A biographical study of Henry Cockburn that also sketches the legal, political, and literary culture of nineteenth-century Scotland.

A layered novel set in Avignon, revolving around love, memory, and lost relationships.

A love triangle and a city’s memory intertwine in a dreamlike web.

A biography of Samuel Johnson, the great eighteenth-century English man of letters.

A single life becomes a portrait of English literary history.

作家ブラッドリー・ピアソンを中心に、愛と嫉妬、創作と倫理の問題を掘り下げる長編。複雑な恋愛関係と哲学的省察が絡み合い、真実と虚構、理性と情念の境界を問う作品で、メタフィクション的要素も含む。

作家ブラッドリー・ピアソンを中心に、愛と嫉妬、創作と倫理の問題を掘り下げる長編。複雑な恋愛関係と哲学的省察が絡み合い、真実と虚構、理性と情念の境界を問う作品で、メタフィクション的要素も含む。

アレクサンダー大王の軍事的・政治的業績と人間像を史料に基づき再検討する評伝。遠征の戦略、統治理念、東西交流の影響を詳述し、古代世界における彼の位置づけと歴史的意義を明確にする。

アレクサンダー大王の軍事的・政治的業績と人間像を史料に基づき再検討する評伝。遠征の戦略、統治理念、東西交流の影響を詳述し、古代世界における彼の位置づけと歴史的意義を明確にする。

主人公Gをめぐる物語を通して20世紀前半のヨーロッパ社会の変化、階級や性、政治意識の揺らぎを描く実験的長編。多声的な語りと断片的構成を用い、個人史と歴史的文脈の重なりを探る作品。

主人公Gをめぐる物語を通して20世紀前半のヨーロッパ社会の変化、階級や性、政治意識の揺らぎを描く実験的長編。多声的な語りと断片的構成を用い、個人史と歴史的文脈の重なりを探る作品。

ヴァージニア・ウルフの生涯と作品を親近な視点で再構成した評伝。家族関係や精神的変遷、モダニズムへの寄与を豊富な資料と個人的記憶を交えて描き、作家像と作品理解を深める。

ヴァージニア・ウルフの生涯と作品を親近な視点で再構成した評伝。家族関係や精神的変遷、モダニズムへの寄与を豊富な資料と個人的記憶を交えて描き、作家像と作品理解を深める。

新興独立国家を舞台に、作家と政治家の複雑な関係を描く長編。国家建設の過程で露わになる倫理的葛藤、権力と個人の良心の対立、友情と裏切りを通じてポストコロニアル期の社会矛盾を鋭く抉る作品。

新興独立国家を舞台に、作家と政治家の複雑な関係を描く長編。国家建設の過程で露わになる倫理的葛藤、権力と個人の良心の対立、友情と裏切りを通じてポストコロニアル期の社会矛盾を鋭く抉る作品。

歴史学者ルイス・ナミアーの生涯と学説をたどる評伝。議会史や政党史に対する彼の方法論と業績、学界での評価や個人史を織り交ぜつつ、その歴史学的意義を明らかにする。

歴史学者ルイス・ナミアーの生涯と学説をたどる評伝。議会史や政党史に対する彼の方法論と業績、学界での評価や個人史を織り交ぜつつ、その歴史学的意義を明らかにする。

登場人物の心理と人間関係、文化的摩擦を題材にした長編。喪失や愛、社会的期待との衝突を通じて個人の選択と責任を描き出す作品で、異文化接触や道徳的葛藤が重要なモチーフとなっている。

登場人物の心理と人間関係、文化的摩擦を題材にした長編。喪失や愛、社会的期待との衝突を通じて個人の選択と責任を描き出す作品で、異文化接触や道徳的葛藤が重要なモチーフとなっている。

ヘンリー・テンプル、3代パーマストン卿の生涯と政治経歴を描く評伝。外務政策や外交手腕、ヴィクトリア朝期における指導性と論争的側面を史料に基づき整理し、近代英国外交史の一側面を明らかにする。

ヘンリー・テンプル、3代パーマストン卿の生涯と政治経歴を描く評伝。外務政策や外交手腕、ヴィクトリア朝期における指導性と論争的側面を史料に基づき整理し、近代英国外交史の一側面を明らかにする。

孤立した女性エヴァ・トラウトの生涯をたどる長編。幼少期の傷と複雑な家族関係が彼女の人格と対人関係に影を落とし、愛と裏切り、自己認識の変容を通してアイデンティティと孤独を繊細に描く。戦後社会の階級意識や女性の自立も背景に据えられる。

孤立した女性エヴァ・トラウトの生涯をたどる長編。幼少期の傷と複雑な家族関係が彼女の人格と対人関係に影を落とし、愛と裏切り、自己認識の変容を通してアイデンティティと孤独を繊細に描く。戦後社会の階級意識や女性の自立も背景に据えられる。

メアリー・ステュアート（スコットランド女王）の生涯を史料に基づいて詳述する評伝。幼少期やフランス王妃としての経歴、スコットランドとイングランドの対立、陰謀や裁判・処刑に至る政治的背景と個人の運命を克明に描き、王権と女性の立場を歴史的文脈で再評価する。

メアリー・ステュアート（スコットランド女王）の生涯を史料に基づいて詳述する評伝。幼少期やフランス王妃としての経歴、スコットランドとイングランドの対立、陰謀や裁判・処刑に至る政治的背景と個人の運命を克明に描き、王権と女性の立場を歴史的文脈で再評価する。

Maggie Ross’s debut novel follows the obsession of a shell-collecting man and the twisted relations within his family as a psychological novel that slowly tightens inside a sealed mansion.

An aesthetics of collecting gradually freezes the sense of life itself.

Gordon S. Haight’s large-scale biography of George Eliot traces her life, works, publishing history, and intellectual circle through an enormous body of evidence. It has long been read as a foundational text for Victorian literary studies.

It brings a writer’s life and fictional world into sharp relief through sheer scholarly depth.

A novel of urban life and selfhood that follows a woman's emotional and social development.

A novel of urban life and selfhood that follows a woman's emotional and social development.

A scholarly yet readable biography tracing Charlotte Brontë's life and literary development.

A scholarly yet readable biography tracing Charlotte Brontë's life and literary development.

An experimental, playful novel in which a three-minute heart massage opens up a shifting relationship between bodily sensation and language.

A small bodily event becomes the force that unsettles the novel’s own language.

A novel set against the decline of an Irish family, following the youngest daughter Imogen and the emotional fault lines running through the household.

The collapse of a household and the desires of its members meet in quiet but persistent tension.

A biography of William Harvey that follows his life, his scholarly path to the discovery of blood circulation, and the historical world around him.

Through one physician’s life, the beginnings of modern medicine come into view.

Barbara Vaughan, a half-Jewish Catholic convert, tries to cross the Mandelbaum Gate in 1961 Jerusalem and finds herself pulled between faith, politics, and family loyalties.

What begins as a pilgrimage to the Holy Land becomes a journey through a divided city and a divided self.

The second volume of a two-part biography, this book traces Wordsworth's later life through his revisions, family relationships, political stance, and the changing shape of age and honor.

It follows the poet as he moves through an age of revolution and establishes his voice between continual revision and a quieter old age.

A novel about cultural clashes in Cold War Poland.

An English woman visits her sister behind the Iron Curtain.

A biography of Queen Victoria.

Longford traces the reign and private life of Queen Victoria.

Best known as Hardy's fifth novel, this work remains in circulation through later reprint editions. As the 1962 James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner, it stands as one of the author's key mid-career novels.

One of Hardy's defining novels, preserved through award recognition and later reprints.

This award record brings together Meriol Trevor's two-volume biography of John Henry Newman. Across the pair of books, it traces his conversion, intellectual conflicts, and eventual rehabilitation with care and detail.

A substantial two-volume biography that follows Newman's life from crisis to recognition.

This novel follows Josephine through a breakdown and gradual recovery, tracing the loneliness and fragile rebuilding that connect university life and psychiatric care.

A story of piecing the self back together after collapse.

Built around the life of the agricultural trade unionist Joseph Ashby, this biography also traces how village society in Warwickshire changed over time. By linking personal history with local history, it carefully follows the reshaping of rural England under modern pressures.

From one rural activist's life, the transformation of the English countryside comes into view.

A historical novel told from Julius Caesar's point of view, tracing the politics and military campaigns of the late Roman Republic. It follows not only the course of war but also the judgments, tensions, and compromises through which power takes shape.

On the eve of empire, Caesar's choices begin to determine Rome's future.

A biography of William Ralph Inge that traces his life as an Anglican cleric, theologian, and public intellectual known for his sharp, often severe commentary. It also reflects the religious and intellectual tensions of modern Britain through his career.

It quietly brings the contours of the 'Gloomy Dean' into focus as a biographical portrait.

"The Masters" and "The New Men" are both important novels in C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers sequence. The former focuses on power struggles inside a Cambridge college, while the latter explores the relationship between scientists and the state around nuclear research. Together they examine modern institutions from the inside through clashes between knowledge and power, ethics and politics.

Power and ethics collide in two closed worlds: a university college and a research establishment.

A biography of Warren Hastings that examines the politics and administration of the East India Company era. It lays out the decisions, controversies, and political background surrounding colonial policy.

Judgments and conflicts at the center of colonial rule emerge through Hastings' life.

A biography tracing the life of Sir John Moore, the general of the Peninsular War. It presents both his military career and his character, building his reputation within the context of military history.

It portrays a military figure of the Napoleonic era in an evidence-based and humane way.

A biography of Sir John Moore, a military figure of the Napoleonic Wars. It traces both his command in battle and the shape of his character, making it readable as a historically grounded study of a person.

Within the frame of military history, it follows the figure of one general in detail.

The first volume of Evelyn Waugh’s war trilogy follows Guy Crouchback as he enters military service during the Second World War. It mixes irony and humor with a bleak look at the absurdity of war and human relations.

The gap between ideal and reality sharpens the novel’s bitter comic edge.

G. M. Young's Stanley Baldwin is a biography of the central figure of interwar British politics, written in a calm but sharply observant style. It layers Baldwin's public conduct, private character, the language of Conservative politics, and the mood of the age to build a layered portrait of leadership.

A biography that brings an interwar British leader into focus through quiet observation.

An unusual novel set in India, it layers its narration to trace the twists of human relationships and the leaps of imagination. It is neither a simple travel tale nor a political novel, but a work that pulls readers in through its distinctive voice.

A novel that remakes India’s landscapes and human dramas through free, inventive narration.

A biography that traces Leslie Stephen’s life from both the standpoint of intellectual history and personal portraiture. It presents his critical mind and shifting beliefs within the larger world of Victorian thought.

A portrait of one of Victorian England’s key intellectual figures, seen through both his ideas and his character.

This novel traces a family and class story around an English country house across three generations. Social change from the interwar years through the postwar period unfolds through the relationships between characters and the gradual decline of the estate.

The rise and fall of one house reflects a changing era.

This biography tells the life of Florence Nightingale in the context of the Crimean War and nursing reform. Its careful, source-based narration brings out the rise of modern nursing and the changing social role of women.

It places the figure who helped shape nursing as a profession back into history.

The Far Cry is a novel set in postwar Britain, depicting isolation and renewal with a fine-grained attention to everyday life. Through small details, it explores affection, loss, and the psychology of people facing social change.

Between travel and family, a young woman's view of the world quietly widens.

A biography of William Ernest Henley that presents his life, poetry, and role as a writer and editor in late Victorian literary culture.

A portrait of Henley as poet, editor, and Victorian literary figure.

Set in a West African colony during World War II, the novel follows Deputy Police Commissioner Scobie as he is pulled apart by faith, conscience, duty to his wife, and love for a young widow. It traces, with quiet intensity, how guilt and pity combine to drive him toward ruin.

When pity, duty, love, and faith collide, how much of the self can remain intact?

A two-volume biography of the eighteenth-century English music historian Charles Burney, tracing his life, travels, writings, family, and friendships. It presents him as both a shaper of music history and a figure moving through a wide literary and musical world.

It portrays Burney through the journeys and relationships that shaped his life.

This collected trilogy by L. P. Hartley follows siblings Eustace and Hilda from childhood into adulthood, tracing how their bond deepens even as it turns increasingly painful. Set against the codes of upper-class life, it braids together desire, affection, and dependence in a quiet, exact style, keeping their impossible relationship at the center.

A lifelong brother-and-sister bond emerges as something they cannot escape, only endure.

This scholarly study traces the development of English natural history from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century through the lives and writings of figures such as William Turner, John Caius, Thomas Penny, John Gerard, and John Parkinson. It presents the changing view of nature as a sequence of biographies that leads from superstition and inherited lore toward the rise of modern science.

By following the lives of naturalists, the book shows how modern science took shape.

A historical novel set in medieval England, following Robert Gandelyn and the people around him as ordinary lives and private destinies are woven together. It balances social hardship with moments of grace and a faint Gothic atmosphere.

A tapestry-like portrait of medieval life.

A biography of Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington, that traces both his military career and his public life. It builds a rounded portrait by linking battlefield judgment to politics and the wider historical moment.

Wellington is seen through both his campaigns and his public life.

L.A.G. Strong's award-winning book, Travellers, is a collection of 31 short stories that quietly captures not only the feeling of movement and drift but also the atmosphere of place and the distance between people. Strong relies on sharp dialogue and close observation to build a sense of lived experience, letting unease and humor emerge from ordinary life.

A short-story collection that catches the drift of moving lives and the distances hidden in everyday scenes.

D. S. MacColl's Life, work and setting of Philip Wilson Steer is a biographical study that traces the life and work of the painter Philip Wilson Steer alongside the artistic world around him. Written from a critic's perspective, it places Steer within the broader current of British Impressionism and supplements the text with lists of major paintings and watercolours.

A critical biography that brings together the artist's life, work, and historical context.

This novel traces the growth of a young boy named Tom and the gradual formation of his sense of self. Through family ties, friendship, and social expectation, it follows the subtle changes in his inner life with quiet precision.

A tender, finely observed novel of boyhood uncertainty and discovery.

A biographical history of William of Orange, the central figure in the Dutch struggle for independence. Built on careful source work, it shows how personal conviction, religious conflict, and political strategy shaped the making of a nation.

A substantial yet readable biography that uses one life to illuminate the birth of a nation.

Arthur Waley’s English retelling of Journey to the West turns the adventures of Monkey and his companions into supple, readable English. It brings the classic’s sense of adventure and humor vividly to twentieth-century readers.

A Chinese classic made newly readable in light, graceful English.

Built from Henry Ponsonby’s letters, this biography traces the private secretary’s public and private role in Queen Victoria’s court. It renders the inner workings of court politics through the accumulation of correspondence.

Letters reveal the real workings of the Victorian court.

A reflective work rooted in Joyce Cary’s own childhood memories. It traces summers in Ireland and the presence of family to show how a child’s point of view shapes an entire world.

A child’s summers become the source of a writer’s voice.

John Gore’s biographical memoir of George V presents the king’s character and reign from a close, personal vantage point. It covers his domestic life, his role during the First World War, and the shape of monarchy in modern Britain.

A personal memoir that looks at royal history from inside the court.

One of Charles Morgan’s representative novels, it moves between the French countryside and Paris while quietly exploring love, freedom, and the weight of choice. The story is centered less on outward travel than on the changes taking place deep within the characters.

A quiet novel set in France, tracing the meaning of love and freedom.

A biography that reconsiders Mary I’s life and reign within the context of religious conflict and court politics. Rather than relying on the familiar image of a harsh persecutor, it redraws her character through her political limits, faith, and family history.

A biography that looks beyond the familiar image of ‘Bloody Mary’ and reconsiders Mary I.

Through the story of a West Coast millionaire obsessed with prolonging life, this novel satirizes aging, death, wealth, and moral emptiness. It sets science against superstition and art against commercialism to sharpen Huxley’s critique of civilization.

A caustic satire on the cost of wanting to live forever.

This scholarly study surveys English scholars and the institutions of learning that shaped them. It traces the evolution of academic culture from the Renaissance onward through the careers of individual scholars and the changing role of schools and universities.

A history of scholarship told through the scholars themselves.

A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours continue the Hornblower saga, tracing a young officer's growth through battle, seamanship, captivity, and recovery. Because the prize was awarded to a pair of novels, the work resists reduction to a single book record.

A pair of Hornblower novels that together form a sustained tale of war and seamanship.

E. K. Chambers's biography follows Coleridge's life and poetry with close attention to the background of Romantic thought and literary creation. It balances scholarly depth with a fairly clear narrative line.

A substantial biography that reconnects Coleridge's life with his poetry.

This novel follows Kenn, who grows up beside a Highland river and moves between childhood memory and the experience of the First World War as he tries to recover inner calm. A vivid sense of landscape links the layers of time, bringing together the wounds of war and the possibility of renewal.

The river’s current calls lost time back again.

A biography that traces the life of John Knox at the intersection of faith, politics, and controversy. It avoids reducing him to a single image and instead shows both the force of a driving reformer and the complexity of a man shaped by his age.

The reformer’s life emerges as a chain of convictions and conflicts.

Set in a fictional Yorkshire county, the novel brings together school leadership, local government, class, and women's roles through a large cast centered on Sarah Burton. It captures the tensions and hopes of a community in change.

In a changing local society, ideals collide with reality.

This biographical study traces the life and work of Thomas De Quincey. It goes beyond a simple portrait of a Romantic writer and looks closely at his habits of thought, literary influence, and the relation between opium experience and writing.

De Quincey's life and work are read here as a single literary history.

A sprawling novel sequence by L. H. Myers set in ancient India. In this reprint, the stories of The Near and the Far, Prince Jali, and Rajah Amar are gathered in one volume.

Power, faith, and private desire cross paths across a very long story.

A biography of Thomas More by R. W. Chambers. It traces the life of the thinker and statesman of the Reformation era in a scholarly but readable style.

A biography that builds a person and an era together, carefully.

A historical novel told as the autobiography of the frail, stammering Claudius, who survives the intrigues and assassinations of the Roman imperial court and is eventually thrust onto the throne. It renders the politics of ancient Rome with vivid immediacy from an insider’s point of view.

A man dismissed as weak survives at the center of imperial Rome and becomes its witness.

A source-based biography that traces Elizabeth I's reign and political judgment. First published in 1934 as Queen Elizabeth and reissued in 1992 as Queen Elizabeth I, it balances readability with scholarly rigor while showing how the queen navigated religious conflict and power struggles.

A classic Elizabeth I biography that remains a standard reference.

A satirical novel that cuts into English rural life with both humor and bite. Using cricket and provincial custom as material, it sketches 1920s England while folding in playful criticism of national character and tradition.

Through cricket and provincial custom, England’s self-portrait comes into view.

A biography of Talbot Clifton that traces his life through family history and memories of travel. The individual life emerges in close relation to land, class, and movement.

One life comes into focus through family history and the memory of travel.

A sweeping novel that moves across Australia and Europe, tracing family memory against the larger currents of history.

One family history crosses the eras of empire and war.

A biography of Louisa May Alcott that traces her family life, work, and path to writing.

It traces the path to Little Women as one woman's life story.

An Irish novel about family fracture, return, and the cost of belonging.

Within a family history of silences, the meaning of home is tested.

A biography tracing the life and thought of David Hume.

The contours of a philosopher's mind are redrawn in the air of his age.

A novel centered on an independent woman living in a provincial town, tracing the intersections of daily life, relationships, social expectations, and personal desire. Its careful psychological detail captures the atmosphere of the era.

One woman's wit gradually unsettles the air of a closed town.

An autobiographical work recalling an officer's life in British India. Through military service, postings, and adventurous episodes, it vividly conveys imperial military culture, encounters with other cultures, and the author's younger days.

Amid the clash between imperial duty and personal experience, the author's younger memories come vividly to life.

A group novel about the people gathered around a touring theatrical troupe, growing as they influence one another. With humor and warmth, it portrays friendship, dreams, and what success can mean.

A traveling troupe's journey slowly changes many lives.

A closely observed biography of William Cowper. It carefully traces religious anguish, mental condition, and the background to his writing, clarifying the relationship between the poet's inner life and his work.

The poet's struggles and the background to his poetry come alive as biography.

An autobiographical novel recalling childhood memories in the countryside and wartime experience. It captures the moment when a pastoral life is abruptly altered by war.

Nostalgia for boyhood and the rupture of war meet in a quietly layered narrative.

A historical study of James Graham, Marquess of Montrose, and his military and political role in seventeenth-century Scotland.

It follows the life of the Marquess of Montrose within the broader sweep of Scottish history.

A novel that follows Clare’s life to explore personal choice and social change. Family pressures and the force of the era intersect quietly throughout the story.

It layers family life and social change around Clare’s journey.

A biographical study of James Bryce and his achievements. It draws a portrait of a public intellectual through his political, diplomatic, and scholarly work.

It brings together James Bryce as statesman, diplomat, and intellectual in a single volume.

A novel centered on loneliness and inner conflict. It shows how war and social change shape an individual’s way of life.

It portrays figures wavering between loneliness and renewal in a quiet, restrained style.

An academic study of John Wyclif and the institutions and thought of the medieval English church. It traces the intellectual tensions that preceded the Reformation.

It uses the medieval English church to illuminate Wyclif’s intellectual position.

Set amid political tension in Dublin, the novel follows a man destroyed by guilt after betraying a comrade. It portrays the dark underside of a city where revolution and ordinary life collide.

Betrayal and guilt steadily drive the protagonist toward collapse in the darkness of the city.

A biographical study of Isabelle de Charrière and her work. It carefully portrays the thought and emotional life of an eighteenth-century woman writer.

It presents the life of Isabelle de Charrière in the context of literary history.

Set in British India, the novel traces misreading, colonial tension, and the strain placed on friendship. An incident in the caves exposes both private vulnerability and imperial contradiction.

An incident in the caves brings private relationships and imperial contradictions into sharp relief.

A family history tracing the line and history of the Earls of Airlie. Centered on a Scottish noble house, it organizes family memory and regional history into a documentary study.

It traces the history of the distinguished Airlie family through both genealogy and regional history.

A novel centered on a London second-hand bookseller, tracing how obsession and poverty tighten around everyday life.

Through the life of a second-hand bookseller, the novel sketches obsession and depletion.

Ronald Ross’s autobiography follows his malaria research, the controversies surrounding the mosquito theory, and the investigative path that left a lasting mark on medical history.

It is both a record of discovery and an autobiography that traces a long struggle against disease.

A fantastical novel built around the sudden transformation of a wife into a fox, probing marriage and the boundary of human nature.

Its transformation conceit exposes both affection and unease in marriage.

Percy Lubbock’s quiet memoir recalls childhood summers spent at Earlham Hall.

A memoir that follows a family house through memory.

A fantastical novel told from the perspective of the small-statured Miss M., tracing loneliness, desire, self-making, and estrangement from society. Quiet humor and an unsettling atmosphere intertwine, and the shifting boundary between reality and fantasy leaves a strong impression.

A fantastical novel that reflects the size of the world through a small body.

Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria is a compact biography that traces the queen's life through both private experience and public power. Rather than celebrating monarchy at face value, it presents Victoria as a figure shaped by feeling, judgment, and tension with her age.

A sharp biography that reads the queen as a person, not a myth.

Set in the town of Woodhouse, the novel follows the commercial dreamer James Houghton and his daughter Alvina. Within a class-conscious community, Alvina's movement toward the outside world unfolds as a story of desire, love, and the search for freedom.

The opening moves from James Houghton's commercial fantasies to the shape of Alvina's life.

George Macaulay Trevelyan's biography of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, follows the political path that led to the Reform Act of 1832. It combines a vivid portrait of Grey with a broad account of British parliamentary reform.

A biography that reads the politics leading to reform through the life of Earl Grey.

Set in Petrograd in 1916, this novel follows the young Englishman Henry Bohun as he is drawn into the upheaval of the Russian Revolution. It is as much about the city's unease and the shifting ties between its inhabitants as it is about politics, with vanity, isolation, and desire slowly coming to the surface.

In Petrograd on the eve of revolution, private feeling collides quietly with the force of history.

Henry Festing Jones's memoir traces the life and work of his close friend Samuel Butler. It offers an insider's account of Butler's ideas, friendships, and writing career, especially the background to Erewhon, and the original work was issued in two volumes.

A substantial two-volume biography written by the friend who knew Samuel Butler best.