Genres & Styles

The Sharpest, Funniest Comedy About Money And Morals In The 17th Century Is Still The Sharpest And Funniest About Those Things In The 21st. The Full, Modern...

The Art Of Mulan Was Only Jeff Kurtti's Fourth Published Work, And One Of Which He Remains Enormously Proud. He Is Honored To See This Important And Signifi...

With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts Royal Holloway, University of London Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warr...

folger Shakespeare Library the World's Leading Center For Shakespeare Studies each Edition Includes: • Freshly Edited Text Based On The Best Early...

Containing 40 Stories In New Translations By Tatar This Celebration Of The Richness And Dramatic Power Of The Legendary Fables Also Features 150 Illustratio...

This Important New Work Brings A Fresh And Carefully Elaborated Theory Of The Literary Work Of Art To The Current Rediscovery Of The Reader?that Of The Conc...

The Female Quixote, a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays Arabella, the beautiful daughter of a marquis, whose passion f...

This Accessible Writer's Guide Provides A Helpful Framework For Creating Poetry And Navigates Contemporary Concerns And Practices. Stephen Dobyns, Author Of...

each Edition Includes: • Freshly Edited Text Based On The Best Early Printed Version Of The Play • Full Explanatory Notes Conveniently Placed On Page...

The national bestseller, now in paperback. In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. T ...

In the CliffsComplete guides, the play's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual w...

This excellent book has over two hundred facts that will surprise and amaze you in equal measure. Sections cover all aspects of the Harry Potter universe a...

the Chronicles Of Narnia Series Has Sold Over 85 Million Copies Worldwide And Introduced People Of All Ages To The Central Doctrines Of Christianity. Antici...

The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. Each play in the series contains ...

Along with Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, Othello is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies. What distinguishes Othello is its bold treatment of racia...

"Concise, learned, revisionary... should enrich the passionate conversation about poetic forms for years to come."— Edward Hirsch, author of How to Read ...

This edition of Romeo and Juliet is especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background informat...

One of the most celebrated writers and teachers of fiction, Richard Bausch, pairs his insight and inspiration with Norton’s trusted editorial standards t...

Horror Has The Gripping Ability To Captivate...and Enthrall. Audiences Love To Be Scared But Behind Every Muffled Scream Is Something Deeper And Even More F...

Steampunk—a grafting of Victorian aesthetic and punk rock attitude onto various forms of science-fiction culture—is a phenomenon that has come to influ...

The poet of the Odyssey was a seriously flawed genius. He had a wonderfully inventive imagination, a gift for pictorial detail and for introducing naturalis...

Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies, but no book-length portrait has appeared be...

This Book Offers A Short, Spirited Defense Of Rhetoric And The Liberal Arts As Catalysts For Precision, Invention, And Empathy In Today's World. The Author,...

The bestselling book now revised and updated with new content!Hailed as the most popular and best-loved series of the twentieth century, The Lord of the Rin...

A perennially popular collection of short stories, poems, legends, and myths from great works of literature that are especially appropriate for parents to ...

This Book, Written By The Editor Of The Library Of America Edition Of The Little House Books, Is A Thoroughly Researched Biography Of Not Only Laura Ingalls...

A Collection Of Essays, Most Of Them By Fantasy Writers, On J.r.r. Tolkien And The Influence Of His Work On The Contributors' Own Literary Endeavors. Our Gr...

Adolescence is a trying time for both the child and the parents. So many changes are occurring physically, emotionally, and mentally. A teenager is learning...

Here is a lively look at how Shakespeare's treatment of human sexuality in his plays and poems relates to the sexual conventions, sexual mores, and actual...

Beliefs in mysterious underworlds are as old as humanity. But the idea that the earth has a hollow interior was first proposed as a scientific theory in 169...

Interpreting The Genre: The Elegy And The Work Of Mourning -- Spenser: The Shepheardes Calendar And Astrophel -- Where Words Previal Not: Grief, Revenge, An...

According To Harold Bloom, The Best Of Alvin Feinman's Poetry Is As Good As Anything By A Twentieth-century American. His Work Achieves The Greatness Of The...

This Book Takes A Snapshot Of A Moving Target: The Ever-shifting Conversation About Today's Poetry. The Ten Essays In This Collection Offer Reflections And ...

To find a personal style is, for a writer, to become adult; and to write one's first "perfect" poem—a poem that wholly and successfully embodies that sty...

The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory is the most comprehensive collection of poetry from the period ever published. Included are g...

This smart new paperback edition contains the fully-reset text of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containi...

This is the only anthology to present a full history of Canadian poetry — from the early 1600s through the expansiveness of poetic activity during the 18t...

it Is A Very Short List Of 20th-century American Plays That Continue To Have The Same Power And Impact As When They First Appeared—57 Years After Its Bro...

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From The Publisher: This Extraordinary Best-seller Is A Brilliant Evocation Of The Noted Scholar's Teachings On Mythology. Joseph Campbell And Bill Moyers O...

grace Nichols Gives Us Images That Stare Us Straight In The Eye—images Of Joy, And Images That Challenge And Accuse. Her Fat Black Woman Is Brash, Rejoices ...

One of the hallmarks of FIELD magazine has always been its attention to what poets have to say about poetry. Many of these essays—by William Stafford, Den...

The play begins in the present, with the meeting of Emma and Jerry, whose adulterous affair of seven years ended two years earlier. Emma's marriage to Robe...

Can Poetry Matter? -- The Dilemma Of The Long Poem -- Notes On The New Formalism -- Strong Counsel (robinson Jeffers) -- The Loneliness Of Weldon Kees -- Th...

The Work of Poetry is organized into three parts. "Poetic Substance" explores the nature of poetry and the poet, with essays that cover the poet "being-and...

For Years, Theater Director Bryan Doerries Has Led An Innovative Public Health Project That Produces Ancient Tragedies For Current And Returned Soldiers, Ad...

A Mesmerizing And Essential Biography Of The Modernist Poet Marianne Moore The Marianne Moore That Survives In The Popular Imagination Is Dignified, White-h...

Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with...