Jane May: 19 books

Little Women: A "coming of age" tale loosely based on the authors own life. It follows the lives of four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Their father is serving as a minister to the troops during the American civil war and the girls and their mother struggle to make ends meet. The well...

This book is about the people who always get taken for granted. The people who clean our offices and trains, care for our elders and change the sheets on the bed. Global Cities at Work draws on testimony collected from more than 800 foreign-born workers employed in low-paid jobs in London during the...

28 bestselling romance authors dish on how they met and married their real-life spouses! At times whimsical and laugh-out-loud funny (Nikoo and Jim McGoldrick’s "Soul Mates for a Thousand Lifetimes"), at others poignant and bittersweet (Elf Ahearn’s "A Lost Friend, A Movie...

This book is a comprehensive study of some ways of treating the subject that demonstrate new and unusual perspectives, and provides a different approach to the popularly-held views of mothers-in-law; and that further address these works as popular culture; and as texts in their own right from within...

Quelle image plus omniprésente que celle du clerc dans la littérature populaire de la fin du Moyen Âge ? De toutes les classes sociales évoquées, le clergé vient en tête lorsque l’on s’intéresse à des textes comme les Cent Nouvelles nouvelles, les Évangiles des Quenouilles, la Farce...