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Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth...

The Drama Of Herstory, History, And Heresy. Mary Magdalene And The Sacred Feminine ; Echoes Of The Hidden Past ; Keeping The Secrets Secret -- The Da Vinci ...

A Collection Of Sharp, Poignant Essays That Expertly Blends The Personal And Political In An Exploration Of American Culture Through The Lens Of Our Obsessi...

The definitive guide for all fans of Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, and the glittering Regency period Publishers Weekly Meticulously researched yet splend...

The Rules, Guidelines, Principles, Precepts, Decrees, No-no's, Yes-yes's, And Arbitrary Judgments Of Patty's Mother.--back Cover. A Gift Collection Of Witty...

Crossley-Holland--the widely acclaimed translator of Old English texts--introduces the Anglo-Saxons through their chronicles, laws, letters, charters, and...

The Rupaul's Drag Race Legends, Stars Of Unhhhh, And Expert Biological Women Share The Secrets Of Their Feminine Mystique In This Satirical Guide To Beauty ...

Animals bring out the goodness, humanity and optimism in people and speak directly to our souls. This joyous, inspiring and entertaining Chicken Soup collec...

Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English liter...

Through the story of the brilliant but conflicted young Raskolnikov and the murder he commits, Fyodor Dostoevsky explores the theme of redemption through su...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Note On The Text -- Sheridan's Playhouses -- Select Bibliography -- A Chronology Of Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- The Riva...

The biography sensitive to the tragic pattern of the story of a great subject: Oscar Wilde - psychologically and sexually complicated, enormously quotable,...

Winner of the 2018 City of Vancouver Book AwardFrom Vancouver-based writer Chelene Knight, Dear Current Occupant is a creative non-fiction memoir about hom...

This gift book is a collection of photos and quotes from Henri, the existential cat whose ennui has captivated people all over the world. Through his series...

From the author of The Transitive Vampire, comes an invitation to a strangely illuminated City of Light, Paris out of Hand. This seductively beautiful rep...

Emma Koenig, Internet sensation and voice of overly introspective young adults everywhere, provides the prompts in this guided journal that helps 20-somethi...

This book presents a new interpretation of the history of English. Access to large corpuses of English has allowed scholars to assess the minutiae of ling...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERExecutive producer and host Mike Rowe presents a delightfully entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episo...

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers celebrates the special bond between grandmothers and their grandchildren. Grandmothers of all ages and experience w...

Johann Sebastian Bach Holds A Singular Position In The History Of Music. A Uniquely Gifted Musician, He Combined Outstanding Performing Virtuosity With Supr...

In these fresh, vibrant new translations of Chekhov's four greatest plays: Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and Cherry Orchard—the brilliant theatrica...

Nothing beats the friendship between women— the understanding and support during tough times, the laughter and fun during good times.Whether they’ve ju...

This Collection Presents Fifty Of The Most Essential Poems By One Of History's Greatest Poets In Dynamic New Translations, The Result Of An Unprecedented Co...

Between The Great Rivers Tigris And Euphrates Lies The Rich Alluvial Land Of Mesopotamia (now In Modern Iraq), Which Supported A Complex And Prosperous Soci...

The Norton Critical Edition of this influential Harlem Renaissance novel includes related materials available in no other edition. Known only as the “Ex-...

William Shakespeare, The Most Celebrated Poet In The English Language, Left Behind Nearly A Million Words Of Text, But His Biography Has Long Been A Thicket...

A radical reassessment of the famed Victorian author, revealing the true story behind the creator of some of literature's best-known novels. This dynamic ne...

The introduction reviews the few known facts about this early Shakespeare play and discusses the puzzling problems of its date and authorship. The text has ...

The First Gothic Novel In America, Wieland (1798) Is Now Available In A Norton Critical Edition. Wieland, The Story Of Religious Delusion And Horrific Viole...

Jane Austen ; Afterword By Claudia L. Johnson ; Artwork By Leon Steinmetz. Includes Bibliographical References.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences So...

Foreword / Dave King -- Introduction / Michael P.j. Kennedy. First Period: Rules Of The Game. The Sheer Joy Of Shinny / Doug Beardsley -- The Game That Make...

Essays, Meditations, Parables, And Verse Explore Merton's Spirituality And Present His Thoughts On War, Peace, Love, The Psalms, And Christian Life. The Unr...

a Poem In Five Books, Of Circular Narrative Design, Titled With The Greek Name For Homer, Which Simultaneously Charts Two Currents Of History: The Visible...

When Jeannie and Derek Tangye withdrew to a cliff-top flower farm in Cornwall, sophisticated London society protested. But an even wider circle was enriched...

An English-language Rendering Of The World's Oldest Epic Follows The Journey Of Conquest And Self-discovery By The King Of Uruk, In An Edition That Includes...

Son Of The Famous Thomas Mann, Homosexual, Drug-addicted, And Forced To Flee From His Fatherland, The Gifted Writer Klaus Mann's Comparatively Short Life Wa...

For close to forty years, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, The Major Authors, has introduced students to the principal authors of the English lit...

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...

Finally, the unwritten rules of Dadhood have been written in Dad Law. Since the dawn of time, all dads have understood that there are a set of rules for f...

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

"Belcher’s volume contains a much needed and extremely well-integrated overview and discussion of a vast inter-related West African culture complex that ...

Flannery O?connor May Now Be Acknowledged As The ?great American Catholic Author,? But This Was Not Always The Case. With Creating Flannery O?connor, Daniel...

The idea came up over lunch between two old friends. There was a need for a book that, eschewing sensationalism and simplistic answers, would examine the h...

This volume includes works by Spenser (excerpts from all books of The Faerie Queene), Shakespeare (including The Tempest), Marlowe (Dr. Faustus, Hero and Le...

In The Beginning : Etiological Tales -- I Raised Hell While I Was There : Tales Of Heaven And Hell -- Dese Bones Gon' Rise Again : Ghost Tales -- Somebody C...

Review "This ambitious novel tackles some of the biggest issues of our time - climate change and environmental disaster - whilst taking the reader on a...

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...

Pigeonholed In Popular Memory As A Jazz Age Epicurean, A Playboy, And An Emblem Of The Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald Was At Heart A Moralist Struck B...