History & Criticism

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the first book in a stunning new historical saga. Victorian England is a country of...

The great English Renaissance tragedy―violent, powerful, unforgettable―in a freshly edited and annotated student edition. “Neill’s edit of the play...

This anthology is the sister volume to The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama. It contains sixteen of the most important, innovative, and dramatically exciting ...

In early 1895, the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of Wilde's young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, left a card at Wilde's club bearing the phrase "posing s...

Canada’s best-known storyteller, Dan Yashinsky, lives his life as teller and listener, and shows how storytelling can and does create vital connections be...

autumn 1558 all The Bells In Norfolk Were Ringing For Elizabeth, Pounding The Peal Into Amy's Head, First The Treble Bell Screaming Out Like A Mad Woman, ...

The Definitive Biography Of Dancer And Choreographer Martha Graham, One Of The Great American Artists Of The Twentieth Century-- Provided By Publisher.Categ...

America's Workers Have Been Singing, Reciting, Performing, Telling Stories, Writing, And Publishing For More Than Three Centuries. Ranging From Early Coloni...

English versions of Sophocles’ three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index. ...

A Collection Of Essays That Explore The Effects Of Contemporary Patterns Of Thought On American Fiction, Considering Topics Such As The Belief In Hell, The ...

* INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER *"This novel delivers sweet, smart escapism." ―People"Fans of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir and The Guernsey Literary and Potato...

"Alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny."—New York Times “Deliciously readable . . . Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought...

France, 1685. Jeanne is the wife of a wealthy merchant, but now she risks losing everything. Louis XIV’s soldiers will stop at nothing to forcibly conver...

Translated From The Hebrew By Nicholas De Lange In Collaboration With The Author. A Helen And Kurt Wolff Book. Translation Of La-gaʻat Ba-mayim, La-gaʻat ...

As a twenty-three-year-old graduate student, Aaron Lanskey set out to save the world's abandoned Yiddish books before it was too late. Today, twenty-five y...

A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself “Mogor dell’Amore,” the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal,...

The young W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood spent, between them, the years 1928 to 1933 in Berlin. It was a crucial stage in the development of the two ...

A Collection Of Thirty-three Stories Showing The Scope, Vigour, And Enduring Fascination Of The Detective Story. Introduction -- Stir Outside The Cafe Royal...

In this wonderfully inventive follow-up to his bestseller Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson brings to life a cast of unforgettable characters in a time of bre...

The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre, an authoritative and lavishly illustrated new history, celebrates the stage's greatest achievements over 4,500 ye...

This Book Delves Into The Author's Longtime Fascination With The Ghost Of Hamlet's Father, And His Daring And Ultimately Gratifying Journey Takes Him Throug...

Presents Eight Twentieth-century Plays From Seven African Countries, Along With Explanatory Notes And Over Thirty Background Writings And Works Of Criticism...

All's faire in love and war for two sworn enemies who indulge in a harmless flirtation in a laugh-out-loud rom-com from debut author Jen DeLuca.Emily knew ...

Whitman is today regarded as America's Homer or Dante, and his work the touchstone for literary originality in the New World. In Leaves of Grass, he abandon...

Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo – a stunning feat of historical sleuthing that brings to life the forgotten hero who ...

This anthology offers a lively introduction to the study of fiction, poetry, and drama, and is appropriate for introduction to literature courses as well as...

The most-trusted literature anthology of all time, now in its 50th year. The Ninth Edition offers more complete works and more teachable groupings than eve...

The whole world changed with just one phone call...I met Stacie for the first time in May. Her voice was meek and flat on the phone. She wasn't crying but ...

The Ninth Edition Offers More Complete Works, More Teachable Groupings Than Ever Before And The Apparatus Teachers Trust. Read By More Than 8 Million Studen...

The Ninth Edition Offers More Complete Works, More Teachable Groupings Than Ever Before And The Apparatus Teachers Trust. Read By More Than 8 Million Studen...

This rich survey of children's literature from the middle ages to the mid-nineteenth century features a remarkable variety of literary forms, including fair...

Hamlet, Shakespeare 's Most Famous Play, Is Now Available In An All-new, Illustrated Norton Critical Edition. Machine Generated Contents Note: The Text Of H...

This anthology aims to enable the reader to gauge the achievement of principal authors of English literature by providing examples of their most characteris...

Barbara Kingsolver has entertained and touched the lives of legions of readers with her critically acclaimed and bestselling novels The Bean Trees, Animal ...

Studying Literature: The Essential Companion is a unique guide for English undergraduates. It combines practical advice on study skills with key informati...

Divorced at ten, a mother at thirteen & three times a widow. The extraordinary true story of the 'Red Queen', Lady Margaret Beaufort, matriarch of the T...

A responsive, refreshed, and media-rich revision of the best-selling anthology in the field The most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful edito...

To win her love. . . As an extremely wealthy laird, Gowan Stoughton, Duke of Kinross, can have any of the maidens at the ball he attends. The only problem...

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Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander Vi, And His Children Are At The Center Of The Passions And Intrigue That Swirls Around Fifteenth-century Rome. Mario Puzo ; C...

John Updike's Seventeenth Novel Begins In 1910, And Traces God's Relation To Four Generations Of An American Family, Beginning With Clarence Wilmot, A Presb...

set In North Dakota At A Time In This Century When Indian Tribes Were Struggling To Keep What Little Remained Of Their Lands, tracks Is A Tale Of Passion ...

By Georges Poulet ; Translated By Elliott Coleman. Translation Of L'espace Proustien. Includes Bibliographical References.Categories: Literature & Ficti...

The inside story of how A League of Their Own--one of the most beloved baseball movies of all time--developed from an unheralded piece of American history...

Provides new insights and observations from Vogler's pioneering work in mythic structure for writers.Categories: Reference Writing, Research & Publishin...

The premium special edition hardcover will feature an exquisite gold foil jacket, stunning four-color endpapers designed for personal inscription, and beaut...

Following Clifford Geertz and other cultural anthropologists, the New Historicist critics have evolved a method for describing culture in action. Their "thi...

in 1977, The new York Times Trade Paperback Bestseller List Back Then The Exclusive Province Of Self-help Guides, Cartoon Collections, And Any Number Of Ca...