Genres & Styles

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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Sometimes it seems like there are as many definitions of poetry as there are poems. Coleridge defined poetry as “the best words in the best order.” St....

A Monumental Volume Of Egyptian Culture, History, And Arcania, To Help Readers Immerse Themselves In Amelia Peabody's World More Completely Than Ever Before...

Remember the controversy attending the publication of The Western Canon? Well, hold on to your mortarboards -- critic, scholar, and Falstaffian gadfly Haro...

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,...

In 1930 a plucky girl detective stepped out of her shiny blue roadster, dressed in a smart tweed suit, ready to restore a stolen inheritance to its rightf...

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

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...

A Brand-new Translation Of The World's Greatest Satirist. With A Signature Style That Is At Once Bawdy And Delicate, As Well As A Fearless Penchant For Lamp...

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

The Dark Tower is the backbone of Stephen King's legendary career. Inspired more than thirty years ago by works as diverse as J.R.R. Tolkien's epics, Rober...

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...

GOT A MYSTERY TO SOLVE?DON'T GET STUMPED. GET PSYCHED!You've seen him solve unsolvable crimes, stop unstoppable killers, and consume unconsumable breakfast...

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...

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...

Collects Forty Short Stories Published Between 1915 And 2015, From Writers That Include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, And Alice Munro That Exemplify Their ...

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...

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...

An illuminating look at the many forms of poetry’s essential excellence by James Longenbach, a writer with “an ear as subtle and assured as any America...

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...

Twilight Is Anna Deavere Smith's Stunning New Work Of Documentary Theater In Which She Uses The Verbatim Words Of People Who Experienced The Los Angeles Rio...

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

Mae West, wise-cracking vaudeville performer, was one of the most controversial figures of her era. Rarely, however, do people think of Mae West as a writer...

Sophocles' Ajax Is One Of The Most Disturbing And Powerful Surviving Ancient Tragedies. But It Is Also Difficult To Understand And Interpret. What Are We To...