History & Criticism

To Robbie Feaver the law is all about making a play-to a client, a jury, or a judge. But when the flashy, womanizing, multimillion-dollar personal injury ...

Winner of the 1987 New Zealand Fiction Award, this is a work of spellbinding power that weaves myths of older times into the political realities of today. ...

from The Nuts And Bolts Of Craft To The Sources Of Inspiration, This Book Is For Anyone Who Wants To Write Poetry-and Do It Well. in This Fortuitous Collab...

A Ten-year-old Orphan Comes To Live In A Lonely House On The Yorkshire Moors Where She Discovers An Invalid Cousin And The Mysteries Of A Locked Garden. Inc...

Both noted poets themselves, X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia write of their subject with a humor, style, and verve that makes the joys of poetry accessible to a...

1998 Riverhead jumbo trade paperback, 10th printing. Harold Bloom (The Bright Book of Novels to Read and Reread). America's uncontested expert on Shakespear...

A Writer's Discipline -- English As She's Not Taught -- A Few Words On A Few Words -- Food For The Nrf -- Lincoln The Writer -- Poe As Proofreader -- The Bi...

A captivating anthology that celebrates one of nature’s most majestic creatures and the age-old bond between humans and horses.All kinds of equine charact...

Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood; the Northwest pioneer epic The Living; and the nonficti...

Each book includes the complete text of the play, margin notes, and a collection of related readings to make Shakespeare relevant for today's students. Cat...

William Trevor's Last Stories is forthcoming from Viking.In Reading Turgenev, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, an Irish country girl is trapped ...

Presents The Story Of A Father And Son's Transformative Shared Journey In Reading In The Wake Of The Father's Late-in-life Enrollment In His Son's Undergrad...

Handsome, wealthy, and well-born, Jonas Tallent has everything a gentleman needs to enjoy London society to the fullest — and he has. He's played cards un...

Warning!* This book contains the following: Unsafe use of powerful firearms in combination with explosives Cultivation of illegal crops Impressionable...

For Everyone Who Loved Pride And Prejudice--and Legions Of Historical Fiction Lovers--an Inspired Debut Novel Set In Austen's World. In This Pride & Pre...

Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs celebrates the astonishing career of Leonard Cohen, revered around the world as one of the great visionaries, writ...

When the Cuthberts send to an orphanage for a boy to help them at Green Gables, their farm in Canada, they are astonished when a talkative little girl steps...

Readers will be amused, comforted, and encouraged by stories about “nutty” families just like their own, and realize we all have the same family matter...

As A Young Bookworm Reading In Her Grandfather's Butcher Shop, Cara Nicoletti Saw How Books And Food Bring People To Life. Now A Butcher, Cook, And Writer, ...

Benjamin Ivry's is the first study of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud's sexuality in relation to his life, work and posterity. Focusing on Rimbaud's great po...

Foster set out to gather the disparate strands of Tolkien's published writings on Middle-earth into a single comprehensive volume. The result of that labor...

"I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I...

William Shakespeare's Tragedy, Set In Roman Times, Deals With The Revenge By Titus Andronicus For The Atrocities Committed Against His Family By Tamora, The...

i Feel That I Have Spent Half My Career With One Or Another Pelican Shakespeare In My Back Pocket. Convenience, However, Is The Least Important Aspect Of Th...

Translated by Michael Alexander. Categories: Literature & FictionAncient & Medieval Literature

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and ...

This Book Is A Modest Fragment Of A Story About The Life That Millions Of Europeans Lived Until Not So Long Ago. Perhaps It Doesn't Have Any Great Artistic ...

As a poet, editor and essayist, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth century poetry. This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, in...

in Unrelenting Flow Of Choices Confronts Us At Nearly Every Moment Of Our Lives, And Yet Our Culture Offers Us No Clear Way To Choose. This Predicament See...

a href="http://prismmagazine.ca/2014/09/24/an-interview-with-daniel-scott-tysdal/ "PRISM International magazine interview with Daniel Scott Tysdal/a a href=...

A Humorous Account Of Single Fatherhood From A Writer For Chelsea Lately Includes Essays About Putting His Daughter In A Wheelchair To Skip Long Lines At Di...

This Collection Of Essays Brings Together Some Of The Finest Pieces Hitchens Published Over The Last Two Decades For The First Time In One Book, Addressing ...

The book titled, Gems from Tozer, contains various selections from A.W. Tozer and provides an up front and pointedly direct snippet of Tozer's theology. The...

The Local Bookstore, A Place Of Wonder, Refuge, And Rejuvenation For Book Lovers The World Over. Books & Mortar Is A Celebration Of These Literary Stron...

“ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde...

bestselling Author And Literacy Expert Mem Fox Reveals The Incredible Emotional And Intellectual Impact Reading Aloud To Children Has On Their Ability To ...

With over 650,000 copies in print, Poems That Touch The Heart is America's most popular collection of inspirational verse.Categories: Literature & Ficti...

Moll Flanders is one of the best-selling novels of all time. This Norton Critical Edition is again based on the first edition text (1722), the only text k...

'A great adventure, powerfully told' (Philippa Gregory) A sumptuous tale of passion and danger in the medieval court, Anya Seton's Katherine is an all-time ...

A comprehensive reference guide provides young readers with a detailed look at the many fantastical places, people and creatures discussed in today's world,...

"A triumph of the imagination. Rich, complex, impossible to put down." Alice Hoffman In the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has chan...

bloom (humanities, Yale U. And English, New York University) Offers Critiques Profiling 100 Of The Most Creative Literary Minds In History Based On His Sel...

The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of t...

Gao Xingjian's introduction to his sumptuous collection of watercolour art is a strongly worded manifesto, a rallying cry for a return to the art of painti...

To Seduce An English Lady, A Gentleman Must Always Remember To . . . gaze Longingly Into Her Eyes While Declaring Her Beauty . . . colonel Colin ...

Revisit the heart of the O'Brien family in this special release of Harbor Lights by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods—and watch the new ...

By Our Nig. Reprint. Originally Published: Boston : G.c. Rand & Avery, 1859. With A New Introd. / By Henry Louis Gates. Bibliography: P. Xxix-xxxiii.Cat...

Presents a translation of the eighteenth-century Japanese drama.Categories: Literature & Fiction History & Criticism Regional & CulturalAsian ...