Regional & Cultural

'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...

Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with...

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...

four Incisive, Elegant Essays On The Life And Work Wilde, Yeats, Joyce And Beckett By A Pre-eminent Critic Of Our Time. publishers Weekly in Four Library O...

From the mailbox of the Prime Minister's Office to your bookshelf, a list of more than 100 books that every Canadian should read. This largely one-sided cor...

this Wild And Entertaining Novel Expands On The True Story Of The West Indian Slave Tituba, Who Was Accused Of Witchcraft In Salem, Massachusetts, Arrested...

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...

Bhabha, in his preface, writes 'Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and only fully encounter their horizons in the mind's eye'...

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

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 is one of the best-known plays by Africa's major dramatist, Wole Soyinka. How the Lion hunts the Jewel is the theme of this ribald comedy.Categories: S...

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

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...

Can Poetry Matter? -- The Dilemma Of The Long Poem -- Notes On The New Formalism -- Strong Counsel (robinson Jeffers) -- The Loneliness Of Weldon Kees -- Th...

William Burroughs Arrived In Mexico City In 1949, Having Slipped Out Of New Orleans While Awaiting Trial On Drug And Weapons Charges That Would Almost Certa...

Raised in poverty as an illegitimate child, Jack London dropped out of school to support his mother, working in mind-deadening jobs that would foster a lif...

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...

As November Stubs Out The Glow Of Autumn And The Days Tighten Into Shorter Hours, Winter's Occupation Begins. Preparing For Winter Has Its Own Rhythms, As O...

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...

Exploring the careers of five influential women writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century, Catherine Gallagher reveals the underlying connections be...

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...

mark Twain's Skeptical Assessment Of Free Will, And Determinism, Religious Belief, And The Nature Of Humanity. He Put Off Publishing It For 25 Years, And Th...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

africa Was An Obsession For Hemingway Throughout His Life. Long Before He Wrote The Short Happy Life Of Francis Macomber, Green Hills Of Africa, Or His Pos...

A Patient's Job Is To Tell The Physician What Hurts, And The Physician's Job Is To Fix It. But How Does The Physician Know What Is Wrong? What Becomes Of Th...

Set Against The Bleak Landscape Of Iceland, A Story Of Madness Unfolds As Paul Describes Growing Up In A Working-class Family And His Frequent Retreat Into ...

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 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...

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

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

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...

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

Touching This Leviathan Asks How We Might Come To Know The Unknowable--in This Case, Whales. The Book Is Necessarily Interdisciplinary, Drawing On Biology, ...

Edited & Translated By Sam Hamill & J.p. Seaton. Originally Published: 2004. Translated From More Than One Language.Categories: Religion & Spiri...

As a teenager during China’s Cultural Revolution, Ha Jin served as an uneducated soldier in the People’s Liberation Army. Thirty years later, a resident...

“No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis,” Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more proper instrume...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Homer's The Iliad, one of the earliest and most influential works of the...

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

Product Description The first book in twenty-five years from “one of our great comic minds” (The Washington Post) features Seinfeld’s best work a...

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...