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Widely Regarded As The World's First Modern Novel, And One Of The Funniest And Most Tragic Books Ever Written, Don Quixote Chronicles The Famous Picaresque ...

A Collection Of Classic Victorian Fairy Tales By Such Authors As John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, And Oscar Wilde. King Of The Golden River / John Ruskin -- Pi...

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

In 1866, tragedy strikes at the  exclusive Windfield School. A young student drowns  in a mysterious accident involving a small circle  of boys. The drown...

Presents The Original Text Of Shakespeare's Play Side By Side With A Modern Version, With Marginal Notes And Explanations And Full Descriptions Of Each Char...

'The white dolphin is a sign that Mum's out there . . .' When they first meet, Kara and Felix can't stand each other. But on discovering an injured dolphin ...

All revolutionary regimes seek to legitimize themselves through foundation narratives that, told and retold, become constituent parts of the social fabric,...

Enter a world of mysticism, machinations, and murder in which the mighty and noble do whatever is necessary to protect their supremacy, where rebellion grow...

R.E. Allen's superb new translations of four Socratic dialogues—Ion, Hippias Minor, Laches, and Protagoras—bring these classic texts to life for modern ...

Parody Is Everywhere In Contemporary Modern Culture. It Runs Through Literature, Theatre And Television, Architecture, Films, And Even Everyday Speech. Draw...

When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this title offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of ...

Ovid Is, After Homer, The Single Most Important Source For Classical Mythology. The Metamorphoses, Which He Wrote Over The Six-year Period Leading Up To His...

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...

Among the most popular of Shakespeare's comedies, this enchanting play humorously celebrates the vagaries of love as it focuses upon the intertwined romanc...

Five classic masterpieces showcase the beauty and passionate imagination of these two extraordinary nineteenth-century novelists. Includes Jane Eyre, Wuther...

SparkNotes Literature Guides: Making the reading experience fun! When a paper is due, and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to su...

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 ...

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of A Midsummer Night's Dream on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on ...

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...

A preeminent medievalist presents a wonderful catalog of real and fanciful beasts, including the manticore, griffin, phoenix, amphivius, jaculus, and many o...

Presents The Story Of A Father And Son's Transformative Shared Journey In Reading In The Wake Of The Father's Late-in-life Enrollment In His Son's Undergrad...

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest g...

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest g...

Art history gets a fun feline makeover with 21 purr-fectly cultured cats in the styles of ancient and modern masters.Become litter-ate in the basics of imp...

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...

Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in ...

When Fatal Strategies was first published in French in 1983, it represented a turning point for Jean Baudrillard: an utterly original, and for many readers...

A Long-awaited New Book On Personal Writing From Lopate--the Celebrated Essayist And The Director Of Columbia University's Nonfiction Program. He Provides T...

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...

Dorothy L. Sayers Took Her Inspiration From A Monk's Account Of The Fire Of 1174, And The Subsequent Rebuilding Of Canterbury Cathedral Quire. She Portrays ...

For Students Trying To Make Sense Of The Performativity And Related Concepts Such As The Speech Act, 'ordinary Language', And Iterability, And For Those See...

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 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman Published Her Landmark Work, The Yellow Wall-paper, Generating Spirited Debates In Literary And Political Circles On Both ...

From The Author Of The Fool's Tale Comes A Brilliantly-crafted Retelling Of Shakespeare's Othello In Which The True Motivations Of Literature's Greatest Vil...

Warrior and master woodcarver Kieran O'Brannon sold himself into captivity to save his brother's life?but to win his freedom, he must carve the image of his...

Having Engineered The Marriage Of The Governess, Emma Now Turns Her Attention Towards Making A Match For Mr. Elton, The Local Vicar. Emma's One Voice Of Rea...

Narrative is an important element in our daily life and the novel is arguably the most popular genre of our times. The theory of narrative or narratology, w...

Many Definitions Of Postmodernism Focus On Its Nature As The Aftermath Of The Modern Industrial Age When Technology Developed Dynamically. In The Postmodern...

Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order f...

"The future of our civilization, our liberties, our very existence may depend upon the acceptance of her commands." —William Thomas Walsh This was the c...

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...

Traces the development of the sonnet from its invention in the early Italian Renaissance to the time of John Milton, showing how the form has developed and ...

Analyzes Samuel Beckett's Novels, Mallarme's Poetry, Pier Paolo Pasolini's Film Salo, Assyrian Palace Reliefs, And Writings By Henry James In Terms Of Freud...

The Fruit Of A Lifetime's Reading And Thinking About Literature, Its Delights And Its Responsibilities, This Book By Acclaimed Poet And Critic Anthony Hecht...

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...

Writings by leading critics survey the history of literary analysis from classical antiquityCategories: Literature & Fiction History & CriticismMove...

For this new edition, the text has been revised and corrected in accordance with the principles of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye series. Frye's origi...