Books by Hermione (Wolfson College Lee

An introduction to the novels of Virginia Woolf. It is suitable for students starting out on a study of Woolf as a novelist, and for general readers seeking a fresh, helpful entry-point to the challenge of reading Woolf.

A study of Philip Roth as a major twentieth-century writer. Setting the novelist's work in the context of Jewish-American writing (and Jewish-American families) and twentieth-century American politics, it explores the characteristic paradoxes in Roth: self-disgust and self-consciousness, stylishness and vulgarity, surrealism and the mundane.

Biographies are one of the most popular and best-selling of the literary genres. Why do people like them? What does a biography do and how does it work? This Very Short Introduction examines different types of biographies, why certain people and historical events arouse so much interest, and how they are compared with history and fiction.