History & Criticism

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One Of The First Russian Writers To Make A Name For Herself On The Internet, Linor Goralik Writes Conversational Short Works That Conjure The Absurd In All ...

The Sharpest, Funniest Comedy About Money And Morals In The 17th Century Is Still The Sharpest And Funniest About Those Things In The 21st. The Full, Modern...

Specters of Mother India tells the complex story of one episode that became the tipping point for an important historical transformation. The event at the ...

Widely Regarded As The World's First Modern Novel, And One Of The Funniest And Most Tragic Books Ever Written, Don Quixote Chronicles The Famous Picaresque ...

The Art Of Mulan Was Only Jeff Kurtti's Fourth Published Work, And One Of Which He Remains Enormously Proud. He Is Honored To See This Important And Signifi...

Attempts to reconcile two very different images of American life.Categories: Science & Math TechnologyHistory of Technology

Film teachers and students will welcome this new anthology, which makes available in one source a comprehensive selection of recent theoretical work on fi...

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...

Widely Known As The Anthology That Best Unites Tradition With Innovation, The American Tradition In Literature Is Proud To Enter Its Fifth Decade Of Leaders...

A Collection Of Classic Victorian Fairy Tales By Such Authors As John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, And Oscar Wilde. King Of The Golden River / John Ruskin -- Pi...

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Romeo and Juliet on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right...

Offers An Assortment Of The Most Provocative Essays, Reporting, Rants, And Raves From Bitch Magazine's First Ten Years, Along With New Pieces Written Especi...

Defective Institutions overturns the basis of institutionalism. Faith in classic institutions―exposed as clamorously inadequate by the failure of governan...

Sir Winston Churchill was the greatest orator of his day, the greatest statesman of his age, and the greatest Englishman of the 20th century. This enchantin...

A fascinating collection of myths and stories from around the world that offers gay men a key to discovering the myths and heroes of their lives.Categories:...

In 1866, tragedy strikes at the  exclusive Windfield School. A young student drowns  in a mysterious accident involving a small circle  of boys. The drown...

A Disturbing Murder With Shocking Consequences Sets In Motion The New Installment Of Kellerman's #1 Bestselling Suspense Series Starring Psychologist Alex D...

Presents The Original Text Of Shakespeare's Play Side By Side With A Modern Version, With Marginal Notes And Explanations And Full Descriptions Of Each Char...

'The white dolphin is a sign that Mum's out there . . .' When they first meet, Kara and Felix can't stand each other. But on discovering an injured dolphin ...

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...

All revolutionary regimes seek to legitimize themselves through foundation narratives that, told and retold, become constituent parts of the social fabric,...

When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fe...

With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely r...

Enter a world of mysticism, machinations, and murder in which the mighty and noble do whatever is necessary to protect their supremacy, where rebellion grow...

George Steiner. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Reference Words, Language & GrammarLinguistics

R.E. Allen's superb new translations of four Socratic dialogues—Ion, Hippias Minor, Laches, and Protagoras—bring these classic texts to life for modern ...

This text is viewed by both poets and teachers alike as one of the most practical and most teachable introductory poetry texts available. The overall pedago...

Parody Is Everywhere In Contemporary Modern Culture. It Runs Through Literature, Theatre And Television, Architecture, Films, And Even Everyday Speech. Draw...

When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this title offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of ...

Finding himself thrown into the world of storybook adventure, timid Richard Tyler tries to find the courage to help himself and his new friends, Adventure, ...

With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts Royal Holloway, University of London Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warr...

A New York Times Notable Book Winner Of The 2019 National Book Critics Circle Awards, Criticism Category Finalist For The 2019 Pen / Diamonstein-spielvogel ...

Feminist, historian, and radical religious scholar Uta Ranke-Heinemann caused a media sensation and sent shock waves through the Catholic world with her fir...

Ovid Is, After Homer, The Single Most Important Source For Classical Mythology. The Metamorphoses, Which He Wrote Over The Six-year Period Leading Up To His...

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...

This edition of Othello is especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and ...

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...

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...

'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...

folger Shakespeare Library the World's Leading Center For Shakespeare Studies each Edition Includes: • Freshly Edited Text Based On The Best Early...

Containing 40 Stories In New Translations By Tatar This Celebration Of The Richness And Dramatic Power Of The Legendary Fables Also Features 150 Illustratio...

In these fresh, vibrant new translations of Chekhov's four greatest plays: Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and Cherry Orchard—the brilliant theatrica...

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...

REA's MAXnotes for Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s Slaughterhouse-FiveMAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting ...

This Important New Work Brings A Fresh And Carefully Elaborated Theory Of The Literary Work Of Art To The Current Rediscovery Of The Reader?that Of The Conc...

Among the most popular of Shakespeare's comedies, this enchanting play humorously celebrates the vagaries of love as it focuses upon the intertwined romanc...

Emma Koenig, Internet sensation and voice of overly introspective young adults everywhere, provides the prompts in this guided journal that helps 20-somethi...