Regional & Cultural

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...

mark Twain Founded The American Voice. His Works Are A Living National Treasury: Taught, Quoted, And Reprinted More Than Those Of Any Writer Except Shakesp...

From a master biographer, the life story of the daring French aviator who became one of the twentieth century's most beloved authors Antoine de Saint-Exup...

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...

hus Spake Zarathustra is a masterpiece of literature as well as philosophy. It was Nietzsche's own favorite and has proved to be his most popular. In this b...

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...

The Cambridge Companion To Henry David Thoreau Is An Accessible Guide To Reading And Understanding The Works Of Thoreau. Presenting Essays By A Distinguishe...

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) Lived A Richly Imaginative Life That He Expressed In His Poems. The Whole Harmonium Presents Stevens Within The Living Context O...

Pt. I Influences On Malthus -- [divine Mandates For Humanity] / King James Bible -- From Concerning The Causes Of The Greatness And Magnificence Of Cities (...

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...

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'...

The text reprinted here is based on award-winning translator Burton Raffel’s masterful translation of Don Quijote, which is consistent,fluid, and mode...

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

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...

[edited By Carvel Collins].Categories: Literature & Fiction Short Stories & AnthologiesShort Stories

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

In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence—which is loosely based on the not...

Timothy Findley (1930-2002) was one of Canada's foremost writers--an award-winning novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who began his career as an...

The First Volume Encompasses His Youth, His Experience In World War I, And His Arrival In Paris. The Letters Reveal A More Complex Person Than Hemingway's T...

Edited By Zachary Leader. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Literature & Fiction History & Criticism Regional & Cultural...

... This Treasury Of 'words That Have A Tale To Tell' Has Established Itself As One Of The Great Reference Classics -- The First Port Of Call For Tens Of Th...

Multiculturalism Has Been The Subject Of Cover Stories In Time And Newsweek And Other Newspapers And Magazines Around America. A Leading Literary And Cultur...

This study examines Exeter riddles, Anglo-Saxon biblical poems (Exodus, Andreas, Judith) and Beowulf in order to uncover the poetics of spolia, an imaginati...

Winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Best Biographical Work, this is "an excellent biography of the man who created Sherlock Holmes" (David Walton, The New Yo...

The idea for Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told came up between Carol Shields and longtime friend Marjorie Anderson over lunch. It appeared that after d...

In the years following World War II a group of gay writers established themselves as major cultural figures in American life. Truman Capote, the enfant ter...

"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...

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...

A fully-annotated, two-volume work which presents the major literary achievements of English writers from the medieval period to the twentieth centuryCatego...

By The End Of Volume 1 Of The Life Of William Faulkner (a Filling, Satisfying Feast For Faulk7ner Aficianados-- Kirkus), The Young Faulkner Had Gone From An...

Irwin Traces The Development Of The Stories Within Stories From Prehistoric India And Pharaonic Egypt To Modern Times, Explores Translations, Additions, Imi...

In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mourning political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original...

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 5, spanning 1932 through May 1934, traces the completion and publication of Death in the Afternoon and Winner Take N...