Traces the development of Fowles' novels which examines the quest for self-knowledge, details the sexual element of his early novels, and charts Fowles' interest in French existentialism and his eventual disillusionment and abandonment of this philosophy. Aimed at A-Level and Undergraduate students.

The variety of ways in which Beckett put theory into practice in his early fiction - between 1929 and 1949 - from Dream of Fair to Middling Women to The Unnamable , and in his drama from Waiting for Godot to What Where , forms the subject of this book.

Written by some of the world's finest contemporary literature specialists, the newly commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more than twenty major British novelists.

The 13 essays in this collection survey the work of major British and Irish novelists of the past 30 years. Topics covered include a study of the historical imagination in William Golding's later fiction, and a study of contemporary Irish women writers.

This collection of 15 essays surveys the work of some of the major British and Irish dramatists since 1960. Included are four dramatists - Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Peter Shaffer and Peter Nichols - who began writing plays before 1960, and whose work has since continued to develop.

Written by some of the world's finest contemporary literature specialists, the newly commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more than twenty major British novelists.