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AN UNFORGETTABLE HEROINE, A KING MISUNDERSTOOD BY HISTORY, A LOVE STORY THAT HAS NEVER BEEN TOLD In A Rose for the Crown, we meet one of history's allege...

This Is The First Systematic Critique Of Edward Said's Influential Work Orientalism, A Book That For Almost Three Decades Has Received Wide Acclaim In Both ...

Recently rediscovered by art historians, and one of the few female post-Renaissance painters to achieve fame during her own era, Artemisia Gentileschi led...

From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lightho...

A Retelling Of Snow White Set In Renaissance Italy Draws A Link Between The Original Fairy Tale And The Borgia Family's Infamous Practice Of Poisoning Its E...

From The Publisher: Lucio, A Normal Man In A Normal (nosy) City Neighborhood With Normal Problems With His Wife (not The Easiest Person To Get Along With) A...

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

Timed to the publication of the author's new illustrated children's book, A Family of Poems, the national bestseller is now available in a specially price...

Harpercollins Is Proud To Present Its New Range Of Best-loved, Essential Classics. 'there Is No Greater Sorrow Then To Recall Our Times Of Joy In Wretchedne...

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...

A wide-ranging and refreshingly up-to-date anthology of primary readings, Critical Theory: A Reader for Literary and Cultural Studies, edited by Robert Dale...

This Companion offers the most comprehensive overview available of modernist poetry, its forms, its major authors and its contexts. The first part explores ...

Psychology And Aesthetics -- The Problem Of Hamlet And The Explanations Proffered -- The Psycho-analytical Solution -- Tragedy And The Mind Of The Infant --...

The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus is a unique guide to Greek mythology, from the origins of the univ...

A Treat For All Lovers Of The Traditional Ghost Story: Here Are Thirty-five Well-wrought Tales Of Haunted Houses, Vengeful Spirits, And Spectral Warnings Fr...

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...

This concise, illustrated dictionary of Shakespeariana, compiled by one of the best-known authorities on his works, contains alphabetically arranged entries...

The Romans conquered most of the known world and detailed their conquests in calm, unapologetic histories. They were a supremely urbane people who longed p...

British Literary Critic John Carey Profiles Fifty Books Of Fiction, Nonfiction, And Poetry From Around The World That Were Published In The Twentieth Centur...

Friendswithyou Is A Contemporary Fine Art Collective That Has Been Spreading Their Unifying Message Of Magic, Luck, And Friendship Worldwide Since Their Fou...

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

Dramatizes The Life Of The Renaissance Artistic Genius Michelangelo, Recalls His Love Affairs, His Disputes With Cardinals And Popes, And His Years Of Worki...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author behind the acclaimed Starz series The White Queen comes the story of lady-in-waiting Margaret Pole and her uni...

This Collection Of Original Essays By Many Of Today's Preeminent Interpreters Of Continental Philosophy Explores The Question Of Whether Western Thought And...

Designed to accompany the survey text Early Modern England: 1485-1714, this updated and expanded Sourcebook brings together an impressive array of Tudor-St...

From Gregory Maguire, The Acclaimed Author Of Wicked, Comes His Much-anticipated Second Novel, A Brilliant And Provocative Retelling Of The Timeless Cindere...

How can an honorable lady like Lady Catriona Hennessy unite with a rake like Richard Cynster? Though charmed by his commanding presence, she cannot give u...

a Critical Rethinking Of Theories Of National Imagination, the Dawn That Never Comes Offers The Most Detailed Reading To Date In English Of One Of Modern J...

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

Critics across the country have raved about Joyce Carol Oates’s ground-breaking memoir A Widow’s Story, lauding its blazing honesty and raw emotion, ca...

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 ...

Tomas O'Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1865 and died there in 1937, a great master of his native Irish. He shared to the full the perilous...

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

For as long as she can remember, Lady Adriana Sutton has adored Colton Wyndham, to whom she has been promised by an agreement of courtship and betrothal si...

A collection of essays and reviews by the British novelist and journalist Martin Amis (son of the late Sir Kingsley Amis), author of "The Rachel Papers," "S...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende, comes a passionate tale of one young woman's quest to save her lo...

For no gentleman is this more true than Charles Morwellan, the eighth Earl of Meredith. Although he's seen the many successful unions of his Cynster conne...

From Achilles's heel to the sword of Damocles, Western culture teems with allusions from the rich heritage of classical literature, and this new edition o...

The Moral Compass, The Inspiring And Instructive Companion Volume To The Book Of Virtues, Offers Many More Examples Of Good And Bad, Right And Wrong, In Gre...

with Classic Simplicity And A Painter's Feeling For Atmosphere And Detail, Isak Dinesen Tells Of The Years She Spent From 1914 To 1931 Managing A Coffee P...

Best Book of June 2015 (The Christian Science Monitor) Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature C. S. Lewis is the 20th century's ...

From The Bible To Ralph Ellison, America's Most Prominent And Bestselling Literary Critic Takes An Enlightening Look At The Concept Of Genius Through The Ag...

The “Guermantes Way,” in this the third volume of In Search of Lost Time, refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess de Guermantes’s châte...

Burns : A Biography Of Robert Burns By James Mackay. Title On Spine: Burns. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 691-724) And Index.Categories: Literatur...

'I always wanted to be historical,' Gertrude Stein once quipped. In 1932, Stein began writing the 'autobiography' of her longtime friend and companion, Alic...

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

Equally suitable for undergraduates and specialists in the humanities, this collection provides an in-depth introduction to debates within post-colonial the...

The ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars. Thoreau’s literary classic, an elegantly written record of his experime...