Regional & Cultural

V. 1. The Medieval Period -- V. 2. The Renaissance And The Early Seventeenth Century -- V. 3. The Restoration And The Eighteenth Century -- 4. The Age Of Ro...

“Magical prose stylist” Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) delivers a collection of essays—heartfelt, humorous, insightful, wise—on the mean...

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....

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...

This Is The First Systematic Critique Of Edward Said's Influential Work Orientalism, A Book That For Almost Three Decades Has Received Wide Acclaim In Both ...

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

The Friendly Dickens Helps You Turn The Pages Of A Masterpiece Like David Copperfield Or An Obscure Novel Like Nicholas Nickleby As Eagerly As You Switch Ch...

The American book tour that catapulted Gertrude Stein from quirky artist to a household name. In 1933, experimental writer and longtime expatriate Gertrude...

Over Twenty Years After The Publication Of Its Groundbreaking First Edition, An Anthology Of Indigenous Literatures In English Continues To Provide The Most...

This book contains the 101 best stories from Chicken Soup's library on the mother-daughter bond. Mothers and daughters will laugh, cry, and find inspiratio...

The doctor's office is cool, white, sterile. But the doctor's words are searing: blood tests prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Margaret and Arthur Crawf...

Collects both humorous and inspirational stories about family gatherings, holiday mishaps, and the good and bad experiences involving family life.Categories...

Maria Laurino sifts through the stereotypes bedeviling Italian Americans to deliver a penetrating and hilarious examination of third-generation ethnic ident...

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

Sir Orfeo -- Lay Le Freine -- Sir Degare -- Emare -- Sir Launfal -- Sir Gowther -- Erle Of Toulous -- Sir Cleges. Edited By Anne Laskaya And Eve Salisbury. ...

In this retitled and revised edition of The Problems of Mathematics, renowned mathematician Ian Stewart gives math buffs and non-technical readers—as well...

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...

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...

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

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

'My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memorie...

Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks features sparkling interviews with one of America's most valued poets. Throughout this book, which spans three decades,...

This novel offers a contemporary and explosive picture of the nuclear family, which pivots on the bizarre odyssey of a Japanese father and son.Categories: P...

A portrait of the prominent twentieth-century French writer is based on a wealth of primary material only recently made available and considers the intellec...

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

Enduring Literature Illuminated By Practical Scholarship In This Extraordinarily Rich And Complex Novel, Anna Karenina Defies The Conventions Of Nineteenth-...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Imagined Italies / John Dickie -- Comparing Italy : The Case Of Corruption / Michael Eve -- Anthropological Perspectves On Culture In Italy / Paola Filippuc...

what Is Lost In Translation May Be A War, A World, A Way Of Life. A Unique Look Into The Nineteenth-century Clash Of Empires From Both Sides Of The Earths...

Examines The Life And Career Of Leslie Mcfarlane, Author Of The Hardy Boys Mysteries, Describing How He Was Embarrassed By His Secret Identity As The Author...

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

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...

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...

The Second Volume In The Life Of Literary Giant Saul Bellow, Vividly Capturing A Personal Life That Was Always Tumultuous And Career That Never Ceased Being...

These two complementary lives of Cuthbert illuminate both the secular history of the golden age of Northumbria and the historic shift from Celtic to Roman e...

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 this first book-length study of the role women played in two of the most momentous revolutions of the twentieth century, Tabea Alexa Linhard provides ...

Introduction: Literature and the Political Problem 1. Since 1917: A Brief History Soviet Literature Persistence of the Past Fellow Travelers Proletari...

By the time Lucien Carr stabbed David Kammerer to death on the banks of the Hudson River in August 1944, it was clear that the hard-partying teenage compan...

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...

Anthony Trollope was a giant of Victorian letters whose works are still read avidly today. Now, in what is surely the definitive biography, the world's lead...

Preface -- The Good Red Road -- Anodynes And Amulets -- Keep The Drum Playing -- Recovery And Transformation -- From The Inside: Looking At You -- Physical ...

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