“mark ford”

A collection of essays and reviews by one of the UK's most exciting and innovative younger poets A Driftwood Altar is Ford's own selection of the best of his literary criticism to date. It covers an impressive range of British, American, and European authors, and casts a fascinating light on Ford's ... More

Wilkie Collins's investigation of illegitimacy and 'the woman question' in No Name (1862) compels with a wholly different order of suspense from that of The Woman in White or The Moonstone. For its family secret - the Vanstone daughters' illegitimacy, their consequent disinheritance and fall from so... More

This generous new selection by Mark Ford reflects all the phases and varied achievements of Frank OHaras tragically foreshortened career, including his drama, and is followed by an appendix of key prose texts.Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) was one of the most original and influential American poets of the... More

From one of the 20th century's major writers -- a story of deception and betrayal, of conventional appearances and bitter truth. Highly innovative for its time, this powerful novel tells of 2 married couples whose long, ongoing friendship is severely disrupted when one husband learns that his wife h... More

Around the central story of Nicholas Nickleby and the misfortunes of his family Dickens created some of his most wonderful characters: the muddle-headed Mrs. Nickleby, the gloriously theatrical Crummles, their protegee Miss Petowker, the pretentious Mantalinis, and the mindlessly cruel Squeers and h... More

According to "Leadership as Identity," management has failed and its successor is leadership. Can leadership fulfill the promises that are made in its name? This book is written for those charged with being leaders, and uses poststructuralist theory to provide a language for the confusions and uncer... More