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One Of The First Russian Writers To Make A Name For Herself On The Internet, Linor Goralik Writes Conversational Short Works That Conjure The Absurd In All ...

Attempts to reconcile two very different images of American life.Categories: Science & Math TechnologyHistory of Technology

How Did Advertising Come To Seem Ordinary And Even Natural To Turn-of-the-century Magazine Readers? The Adman In The Parlor Explores Readers' Interactions W...

Widely Known As The Anthology That Best Unites Tradition With Innovation, The American Tradition In Literature Is Proud To Enter Its Fifth Decade Of Leaders...

Grevillea, Queen Of The Arachnea, Has Decimated Both The Kingdom Of Maluk And Now The Dukedom Of Schtraut One After The Other. When She Investigates Reports...

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

Readers of C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia realize that there is much more to these beloved books than talking animals, mystical creatures, and magic. S...

Edgar Allan Poe's only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is a pivotal work in which Poe calls attention to the act of writing and to t...

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...

'Fear no more the heat of the sun.'Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clar...

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

Published in 1790, two years before the start of the Terror, this work offered a remarkably prescient view of the chaos that lay ahead. It articulates a d...

REA's MAXnotes for Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s Slaughterhouse-FiveMAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting ...

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

The Internet offers an unprecedented opportunity for cats to become superstar “personalities” with revenue-generating multimedia brands—but only if yo...

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...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down ...

This excellent book has over two hundred facts that will surprise and amaze you in equal measure. Sections cover all aspects of the Harry Potter universe a...

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

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 ...

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

Sukeroku: Flower Of Edo.--saint Narukami And The God Fudō.--chronicle Of The Battle Of Ichinotani.--love Letter From The Licensed Quarter.--the Scarlet Pri...

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

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...

Western scholars have tended to read Heian literature through the prism of female experience, stressing the imbalance of power in courtship and looking for...

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

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...

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a Romantic poet of radical imaginings, living in an age of change. His tempestuous life and friendship with Byron, and ...

Umberto Eco ; Translated By William Weaver. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [117]-119) And Index.Categories: Literature & Fiction History & ...

Through their open defiance, women like Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth had a significant impact on the institution of slavery. But what of the millions...

V. 1.the Letters Of Samuel Beckett Offers For The First Time A Comprehensive Range Of Letters Of One Of The Greatest Literary Figures Of The Twentieth Centu...

Kevin Mccabe, Editor. Includes Index.Categories: Literature & Fiction History & Criticism Regional & CulturalCanadian

Frances Burney ; Edited By Stewart J. Cooke. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 488-490).Categories: Literature & Fiction History & Criticism R...

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...

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...

Contains 9,000 Alphabetical Entries Including Biographical Information On Authors, Composers And Artists, 2,000 Plot Summaries, Movements In Literature, Lit...

Long before anyone ever heard of 'protest music', people in America were singing about their struggles. They sang for justice and fairness, food and shelter...

Interpreting The Genre: The Elegy And The Work Of Mourning -- Spenser: The Shepheardes Calendar And Astrophel -- Where Words Previal Not: Grief, Revenge, An...

The literary adventure of D.A.F. (1740-1814) is unique and paradoxical. He was widely read in the nineteenth century, but his books disappeared almost com...

Written by leading English-language educators in Japan, this Handbook provides an in-depth guide for the new generation of teachers at Japanese universities...

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

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...

National consolidation and romantic novels go hand in hand in Latin America. Foundational Fictions shows how 19th century patriotism and heterosexual passio...

This edition is the first to reproduce John Addington Symonds's Memoirs in its entirety. It offers a panoramic view of middle-class Victorian life, shedding...

the Poems Are Drawn Chiefly From The Traditional manyoshu, kokinshu And hyakunin Isshu Collections, But There Are Also Examplaes Of Haiku And Other Later Fo...

The Cambridge Companion To Cervantes Offers A Comprehensive Treatment Of Cervantes' Life And Work.Categories: ReferenceWords, Language & Grammar

It is impossible to imagine contemporary critical theory without the work of Michel Foucault. His radical reworkings of the concepts of power, knowledge, di...