History & Criticism

Hailed By The Press As A Publishing Phenomenon, The Country Flowers Of A Victorian Lady Is A Classic Work That Will Change The Way We Look At Flowers Foreve...

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...

This handsomely illustrated book offers a broad synthesis of Archaic Greek culture. Unlike other books dealing with the art and architecture of the Archaic ...

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

Song For A Raggy Boy -- Song For A Poor Boy -- Song For A Fly Boy. Patrick Galvin.Categories: Literature & Fiction History & CriticismCriticism &...

Foster set out to gather the disparate strands of Tolkien's published writings on Middle-earth into a single comprehensive volume. The result of that labor...

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...

"Already I looked with other eyes upon the sea. I knew it capable of betraying the generous ardor of youth as implacably as, indifferent to good and evil, i...

With Echoes Of Romeo And Juliet, Noughts & Crosses Is An Electrifying, Bittersweet Love Story Set In A Society Divided By Racial Bigotry And A World Roc...

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...

Introduction to Mythology: Contemporary Approaches to Classical and World Myths introduces students to a wide range of myths from various critical perspecti...

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...

Gathers two collections of Lennon's drawings, poems, and short stories that make use of wordplay and nonsensical phrasesCategories: Literature & Fiction...

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

As recent reports suggest, many fewer weddings are now taking place in church. For those that are not having the traditional wedding service, it can be a pr...

The stories and sketches in this collection penetrate to the heart of human experience with the passion and intelligence readers have come to expect of Do...

Both noted poets themselves, X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia write of their subject with a humor, style, and verve that makes the joys of poetry accessible to a...

This anthology is the sister volume to The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama. It contains sixteen of the most important, innovative, and dramatically exciting ...

This book is an exceptionally wide-ranging alphabetically arranged collection of stories spanning all genres of short fiction. It includes myth, fairy ta...

Designed to facilitate the use of children's books from all genres, this exceptional resource helps teachers, librarians, and media specialists select the...

Henriette Walter. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.Categories: Literature & Fiction History & CriticismMovements & Periods

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...

Whitman is today regarded as America's Homer or Dante, and his work the touchstone for literary originality in the New World. In Leaves of Grass, he abandon...

In the 1990s, American televison audiences witnessed an unprecedented rise in programming devoted explicitly to women. Cable networks such as Oxygen Media, ...

An Engaging And Provocative Contribution To The Unending World Of Shakespeariana . . . An Enchanting Work That Bibliophiles Will Savor And Shakespeare Fans ...

From One Of His Generation's Most Inventive And Gifted Writers (the New York Times), Intimate And Sharply Observed Commentary On Life, Art, Politics, And Th...

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...

This concise, illustrated dictionary of Shakespeariana, compiled by one of the best-known authorities on his works, contains alphabetically arranged entries...

Friendswithyou Is A Contemporary Fine Art Collective That Has Been Spreading Their Unifying Message Of Magic, Luck, And Friendship Worldwide Since Their Fou...

A Woman Alone is a collection of autobiographical writings, sketches, and essays that covers the entire span of Bessie Head's creative life, up to her death...

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 ...

Literature has passed through a crisis of confidence in recent decades-a radical questioning of its traditional values and its importance to humanity. In t...

This Accessible Introduction To Victorian Literature And Its Contexts From 1837-1901 Includes: An Overview Of The Historical, Cultural And Intellectual Back...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Originally published in 1903-1904, The Return of Sherlock Holmes...

William Shakespeare's Tragedy, Set In Roman Times, Deals With The Revenge By Titus Andronicus For The Atrocities Committed Against His Family By Tamora, The...

As a literary agent, Noah Lukeman hears thousands of book pitches a year. Often the stories sound great in concept, but never live up to their potential on...

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...

Historians have long whispered that Elizabeth the Virgin Queen's passionate, lifelong affair with Robin Dudley, Earl of Leicester, may have led to the bir...

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...

Chris Baldick. Rev. Ed. Of : The Concise Oxford Dictionary Of Literary Terms. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [360]-361).Categories: Literature &...

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...

Sophocles' Ajax Is One Of The Most Disturbing And Powerful Surviving Ancient Tragedies. But It Is Also Difficult To Understand And Interpret. What Are We To...