Regional & Cultural

Where do you find Canada’s best fish and chips? Which is the best bar to play in Thunder Bay? Why should you bring cash on the ferry to and from Newfoundl...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

[compiled By] Percy Dearmer, R. Vaughan Williams, Martin Shaw.Categories: Literature & Fiction History & Criticism Regional & CulturalCanadian ...

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...

this 4,500-page Collection Presents The Finest Literature Produced In Great Britain From The Middle Ages Through The Twentieth Century. It Has Been Edited A...

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 ...