Genres & Styles

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...

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

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 ...

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

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,...

Marvelous Transformations is an anthology of tales and original critical essays that moves beyond canonized “classics” and old paradigms, documenting ...

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...

Brimming with poetry, art, and nature writing―Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them beforeJune 1797 to September 1798 is the most famous yea...

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,...

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...

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 ...

Imagine a world where whole epochs will pass, cultures rise and fall, between a telephone call and the reply. Think of the human race multiplying 500-mill...

My Antonia (Collins Classics)Categories: Literature & Fiction Historical Fiction20th Century

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...

Have you enjoyed the journey with Meg, Mara, Charissa, and Hannah? This companion guide will take you deeper into their world and give you an opportunity to...

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...

JOYCE'S MOTTO has had much fame but few apostles. Among them, there has been Jack Gilbert and his orthodoxy, a strictness that has required of this poet, ...

Stranger Music Brings Together, At Last, The Words Of A Canadian Artist Who Has Been Anything But A Stranger To So Many Of Us For So Long ... Cohen Has Wove...

Robert Bly, renowned poet and author of the ground-breaking bestseller Iron John, mingles essay and verse to explore the Shadow — the dark side of the hum...

The Turning Aside Is About Stepping Out Of Our Routines--like Moses Turning From Tending Sheep, Like A Certain Man Selling His Everything To Buy A Field--to...

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...

With this sweet compilation of Rumi's heartfelt work, take a journey into the heart with Rumi's love poems & quotes. Sit with your favorite cup of tea...

With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built-meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound...

Copenhagen is a reimagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb. In 1941 the German physicist Werner He...

Alexandre Dumas ; Revised Translation, With An Introduction And Notes By David Coward. Originally Published As World's Classics Paperback 1990. Reissued As ...

Each edition includes:• Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play • Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages fa...

With Echoes Of Romeo And Juliet, Noughts & Crosses Is An Electrifying, Bittersweet Love Story Set In A Society Divided By Racial Bigotry And A World Roc...

As selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two ...

The greatest sonnets ever written, by the greatest poet and playwright in the English language—now in a handsome edition featuring exquisite color illustr...

Patrice Pavis is one of France's most brilliant academics and a leading expert internationally in the theory of theatre. Dictionary of the Theatre is an En...

The Penguin Classics debut that inspired a classic film and a current Broadway revival Reginald Rose's landmark American drama was a critically acclaimed ...

One century after the death of Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), his plays are celebrated throughout the world as a major milestone in the history of theatre and d...