Movements & Periods

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the first book in a stunning new historical saga. Victorian England is a country of...

This anthology is the sister volume to The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama. It contains sixteen of the most important, innovative, and dramatically exciting ...

Canada’s best-known storyteller, Dan Yashinsky, lives his life as teller and listener, and shows how storytelling can and does create vital connections be...

autumn 1558 all The Bells In Norfolk Were Ringing For Elizabeth, Pounding The Peal Into Amy's Head, First The Treble Bell Screaming Out Like A Mad Woman, ...

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

A Collection Of Essays That Explore The Effects Of Contemporary Patterns Of Thought On American Fiction, Considering Topics Such As The Belief In Hell, The ...

* INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER *"This novel delivers sweet, smart escapism." ―People"Fans of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir and The Guernsey Literary and Potato...

"Alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny."—New York Times “Deliciously readable . . . Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought...

France, 1685. Jeanne is the wife of a wealthy merchant, but now she risks losing everything. Louis XIV’s soldiers will stop at nothing to forcibly conver...

A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself “Mogor dell’Amore,” the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal,...

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 ...

A Collection Of Thirty-three Stories Showing The Scope, Vigour, And Enduring Fascination Of The Detective Story. Introduction -- Stir Outside The Cafe Royal...

In this wonderfully inventive follow-up to his bestseller Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson brings to life a cast of unforgettable characters in a time of bre...

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...

All's faire in love and war for two sworn enemies who indulge in a harmless flirtation in a laugh-out-loud rom-com from debut author Jen DeLuca.Emily knew ...

This anthology offers a lively introduction to the study of fiction, poetry, and drama, and is appropriate for introduction to literature courses as well as...

The whole world changed with just one phone call...I met Stacie for the first time in May. Her voice was meek and flat on the phone. She wasn't crying but ...

The Ninth Edition Offers More Complete Works, More Teachable Groupings Than Ever Before And The Apparatus Teachers Trust. Read By More Than 8 Million Studen...

Studying Literature: The Essential Companion is a unique guide for English undergraduates. It combines practical advice on study skills with key informati...

Divorced at ten, a mother at thirteen & three times a widow. The extraordinary true story of the 'Red Queen', Lady Margaret Beaufort, matriarch of the T...

To win her love. . . As an extremely wealthy laird, Gowan Stoughton, Duke of Kinross, can have any of the maidens at the ball he attends. The only problem...

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Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander Vi, And His Children Are At The Center Of The Passions And Intrigue That Swirls Around Fifteenth-century Rome. Mario Puzo ; C...

Provides new insights and observations from Vogler's pioneering work in mythic structure for writers.Categories: Reference Writing, Research & Publishin...

The premium special edition hardcover will feature an exquisite gold foil jacket, stunning four-color endpapers designed for personal inscription, and beaut...

Following Clifford Geertz and other cultural anthropologists, the New Historicist critics have evolved a method for describing culture in action. Their "thi...

Shakespeare Everyone Can Understand--now In This New Expanded Edition Of Midsummer Night's Dream! Why Fear Shakespeare? By Placing The Words Of The Original...

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...

This handsomely illustrated book offers a broad synthesis of Archaic Greek culture. Unlike other books dealing with the art and architecture of the Archaic ...

The all-new ARCHIE adventure continues! Superstar writer Mark Waid teams up with the best and brightest artists in comics to bring a modern take to the lege...

In Three Paperback Volumes, The Grene And Lattimore Editions Offer A Selection Of The Most Important And Characteristic Plays Of Aeschylus, Sophocles, And E...

With over 10 million copies sold worldwide, here is the towering epic about three generations of a remarkable family in the Australian outback that was the ...

The first complete annotated edition of Milton's poetry available in a one-volume paperback. The text is established from original sources, with collation...

The Disc Contains Two Original Signed Asl Narratives Based On The Deaf Experience. Bird Of A Different Feather By Ben Bahan Explores The Experiences Of A Di...

Historians have long whispered that Elizabeth the Virgin Queen's passionate, lifelong affair with Robin Dudley, Earl of Leicester, may have led to the bir...

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...

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...

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

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...

"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...

Henriette Walter. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.Categories: Literature & Fiction History & CriticismMovements & Periods

From The Apparently Simple Adaptation Of A Text Into Film, Theatre Or A New Literary Work, To The More Complex Appropriation Of Style Or Meaning, It Is Argu...

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...

Leonardo da Vinci was a gifted painter, talented musician, and dedicated scientist and inventor, designing flying machines, submarines, and even helicopters...

The Art Of Fact Is A Historical Treasury Tracing What Used To Be Called New Journalism Back To Such Pioneers As Defoe, Dickens, And Orwell, And To Crime Wri...

This third edition of Modern Criticism and Theory represents a major expansion on its previous incarnations with some twenty five new pieces or essays inclu...

A Net Of Complex Currents Flowed Across Jacobean England. This Was The England Of Shakespeare, Jonson And Bacon; Of The Gunpowder Plot; The Worst Outbreak O...