Genres & Styles

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 ...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

In This Passionate, Deeply Personal Book, Adam Nicolson Explains Why Homer Matters-- To Him, To You, To The World--in A Text Full Of Twists, Turns And Surpr...

Butts are funny―especially to kids. Award-winning wildlife photographer Stan Tekiela takes advantage of this giggle-worthy topic, using it as an education...

Difficult writing has its way of illuminating the part of the world that counts. One such difficult text is Gertrude Stein’s highly experimental Tender Bu...

Upon publication in 1997, The Norton Shakespeare set a new standard for teaching editions of Shakespeare's complete works. Instructors and students worldwi...

join Professor Helen Vendler In Her Course Lecture On The Yeats Poem Among School Children. View Her Insightful And Passionate Analysis Along With A Conde...

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Othello on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each N...

This student edition of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is based on the earlier so-called A-text of the play, with the B-text scenes included in an ap...

Conversations Between Joseph Campbell And Bill Moyers, A Television Journalist, Discussing Mythology And Our Ties To The Past. Myth And The Modern World -- ...

‘The first time I saw a train, I was standing on a wooded slope outside a tunnel, not far from Kalka. Suddenly, with a shrill whistle and great burst of s...

Great Stories For Children contains a mixed bag of tales, featuring everything from nature and pets to leopards, bears, and even ghosts, written in the inim...

Accompanied By A Critical Introduction, A Biographical Chronology, Incisive Commentary, And A Glossary, This Definitive Dramatic Collection Features All Sev...

The definitive encyclopedia for the blockbuster #1 New York Times bestselling epic fantasy series, now in trade paperback Since its debut in 1990, The Whee...

Seventy-five years after he came to life, Superman remains one of America’s most adored and enduring heroes. Now Larry Tye, the prize-winning journalist ...

On Themorning Of Christ's Nativity -- A Paraphrase On Psalm 114 -- On The Death Of A Fair Infant Dying Of A Cough -- The Passion -- On Time -- Upon The Circ...

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...

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...

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...

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

Ama (diver) -- Atsumori -- Aya No Tsuzumi (damask Drum) -- Chikubu-shima -- Eguchi -- Funa Benkei (benkei Aboard Ship) -- Hagoromo (feather Mantle) -- Hanjo...

Throughout his life (1905-2006) Stanley Kunitz created poetry and tended gardens. This book is the distillation of conversations, none previously published,...

Featuring seven new, never-before-published poems in addition to Chinua Achebe's award-winning earlier work, Collected Poems makes available again after mor...

Jack Reacher’s Rules is the ultimate fan’s guide to the World of Reacher! Featuring selections from all seventeen electrifying Jack Reacher novels and a...

Everyone’s favorite Idiot Girl, Laurie Notaro, is just trying to find the right fit, whether it’s in the adorable blouse that looks charming on the mann...

No Art Has Been Denounced As Often As Poetry. It's Even Bemoaned By Poets: I, Too, Dislike It, Wrote Marianne Moore. Many More People Agree They Hate Poetry...

"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote i...

This anthology of folk and fairy tales brings together 52 stories from a range of historical and geographic traditions. Sections group tales together by t...

A Whopping Big Celebration Of The Work Of The Late, Great Nora Efren, America's Funniest-- And Most Acute-- Writer, Famous For Her Brilliant Takes On Life A...

Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks features sparkling interviews with one of America's most valued poets. Throughout this book, which spans three decades,...

My Ántonia: Willa Cather's Masterpiece Historical Novel of the Immigrant ExperienceCategories: Literature & Fiction Historical Fiction20th Century

The Harry Potter Books Were Just The Beginning of the Story... During the brief span of just one decade, hundreds of millions of perfectly ordinary peopl...

England Resides In A State Of Unrest As Henry Iv Despairs Over His Son And Heir, Prince Henry, Who Is Led Into A Life Of Debauchery By Falstaff, While The P...

Paperback. 13,50 / 21,00 cm. In Turkish. 312 p. Rüzgar Bizi Götürecek Makbule Aras Eivazi'nin Farsça aslindan çevirisiyle, Furug'un Tutsak (1952), Duva...

The Signet Classics edition of one of William Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies.Full of cruelty and betrayal, King Lear is the timeless and timely story o...

The Flowers Of Evil, Which T. S. Eliot Called The Greatest Example Of Modern Poetry In Any Language, Shocked The Literary World Of Nineteenth Century France...

Little Red Riding Hood (1697) / Charles Perrault -- Little Red Riding Hood (1729) / Robert Samber -- The Story Of Little Red Riding Hood (1796) / Anonymous ...

Thomas Hardy once said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. The most famous poet of the Jazz A...

When the gorgeous Henry Crawford and his pretty sister, Mary, come to Mansfield, they have no idea of the commotion they will cause. There they find the Be...

Roald Dahl's famous story of Willy Wonka and his fabulous factory has transcended the world of children's fiction and been absorbed into global culture, wit...