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The great English Renaissance tragedy―violent, powerful, unforgettable―in a freshly edited and annotated student edition. “Neill’s edit of the play...

America's Workers Have Been Singing, Reciting, Performing, Telling Stories, Writing, And Publishing For More Than Three Centuries. Ranging From Early Coloni...

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

Translated From The Hebrew By Nicholas De Lange In Collaboration With The Author. A Helen And Kurt Wolff Book. Translation Of La-gaʻat Ba-mayim, La-gaʻat ...

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 ...

Presents Eight Twentieth-century Plays From Seven African Countries, Along With Explanatory Notes And Over Thirty Background Writings And Works Of Criticism...

Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo – a stunning feat of historical sleuthing that brings to life the forgotten hero who ...

The most-trusted literature anthology of all time, now in its 50th year. The Ninth Edition offers more complete works and more teachable groupings than eve...

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...

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...

This rich survey of children's literature from the middle ages to the mid-nineteenth century features a remarkable variety of literary forms, including fair...

Hamlet, Shakespeare 's Most Famous Play, Is Now Available In An All-new, Illustrated Norton Critical Edition. Machine Generated Contents Note: The Text Of H...

A responsive, refreshed, and media-rich revision of the best-selling anthology in the field The most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful edito...

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By Georges Poulet ; Translated By Elliott Coleman. Translation Of L'espace Proustien. Includes Bibliographical References.Categories: Literature & Ficti...

First published in 1967, Stop-Time was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of modern American autobiography, a brilliant portrayal of one boy's passage ...

WITH BILL MAHER, ITS NEVER POLITICS AS USUAL! Conservatives know what they want and they never forget it. Except for the time Reagan went to the Vietnam M...

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...

The New South--replete With Shopping Malls, Hub Airports, Educated African Americans, And Immigrants From Vietnam, Cambodia, And Haiti--is Still Haunted By ...

Harold Pinter has been called "one of the most important playwrights of our day" by The New York Times, and his plays, including The Birthday Party, The Hom...

In the Irish town of Schancarrig, the young people carve their initials--and those of their loves-into the copper beech tree in front of the schoolhouse....

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...

First published in 1987, The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories was hailed as "a world-class anthology" in The Washington Post Book World and as "a b...

"I don't want you to rehabilitate me," Philip Roth said to his only authorized biographer, Blake Bailey. "Just make me interesting." Granted complete indepe...

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive for Great Health! will help readers use positive thinking to improve their health with its inspirational stories ...

In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound l...

Satirizes English Society As It Follows Don Juan From An Illicit Teenage Love Affair And Subsequent Exile To Italy, Shipwreck, Slavery, Exploits In Russia A...

A Comprehensive Survey Of The Significant Literature Of The English-speaking WorldCategories: Test Preparation Study Guides & WorkbooksStudy Guides

Do You Reckon Tom Sawyer Was Satisfied After All Them Adventures? No, He Wasn't. It Only Just Pisoned Him For More. So Huck Declares At The Start Of The Fir...

On Themorning Of Christ's Nativity -- A Paraphrase On Psalm 114 -- On The Death Of A Fair Infant Dying Of A Cough -- The Passion -- On Time -- Upon The Circ...

A Ten-year-old Orphan Comes To Live In A Lonely House On The Yorkshire Moors Where She Discovers An Invalid Cousin And The Mysteries Of A Locked Garden. Inc...

Warning!* This book contains the following: Unsafe use of powerful firearms in combination with explosives Cultivation of illegal crops Impressionable...

Readers will be amused, comforted, and encouraged by stories about “nutty” families just like their own, and realize we all have the same family matter...

Benjamin Ivry's is the first study of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud's sexuality in relation to his life, work and posterity. Focusing on Rimbaud's great po...

This Book Is A Modest Fragment Of A Story About The Life That Millions Of Europeans Lived Until Not So Long Ago. Perhaps It Doesn't Have Any Great Artistic ...

A Humorous Account Of Single Fatherhood From A Writer For Chelsea Lately Includes Essays About Putting His Daughter In A Wheelchair To Skip Long Lines At Di...

This Collection Of Essays Brings Together Some Of The Finest Pieces Hitchens Published Over The Last Two Decades For The First Time In One Book, Addressing ...

The book titled, Gems from Tozer, contains various selections from A.W. Tozer and provides an up front and pointedly direct snippet of Tozer's theology. The...

Moll Flanders is one of the best-selling novels of all time. This Norton Critical Edition is again based on the first edition text (1722), the only text k...

Presents a translation of the eighteenth-century Japanese drama.Categories: Literature & Fiction History & Criticism Regional & CulturalAsian ...

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of the court at the he...

"A masterly book . . . will prove of great assistance to a student of Japanese literature and thought from the eleventh century onwards."--Times Literary Su...

From The Turn Of The Century To The 1960s, The Songwriters Of Tin Pan Alley Dominated American Music. Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George And Ira Gershwin, R...

Celebrated And Maligned With Equal Vigor, The Bloomsbury Group Is The Best-documented Artistic Coterie In Twentieth-century Literature. The Novelists Virgin...

Throughout his life (1905-2006) Stanley Kunitz created poetry and tended gardens. This book is the distillation of conversations, none previously published,...

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

Tom Piazza’s sharp intelligence, insight, and passion fuel this new collection of writings on music, literature, New Orleans, and America itself in despe...

Jack Reacher’s Rules is the ultimate fan’s guide to the World of Reacher! Featuring selections from all seventeen electrifying Jack Reacher novels and a...