History & Criticism

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...

The Internet offers an unprecedented opportunity for cats to become superstar “personalities” with revenue-generating multimedia brands—but only if yo...

The Female Quixote, a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays Arabella, the beautiful daughter of a marquis, whose passion f...

"What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a better life than we could without it?"Written...

Five classic masterpieces showcase the beauty and passionate imagination of these two extraordinary nineteenth-century novelists. Includes Jane Eyre, Wuther...

This Accessible Writer's Guide Provides A Helpful Framework For Creating Poetry And Navigates Contemporary Concerns And Practices. Stephen Dobyns, Author Of...

SparkNotes Literature Guides: Making the reading experience fun! When a paper is due, and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to su...

each Edition Includes: • Freshly Edited Text Based On The Best Early Printed Version Of The Play • Full Explanatory Notes Conveniently Placed On Page...

The national bestseller, now in paperback. In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. T ...

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of A Midsummer Night's Dream on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on ...

In the CliffsComplete guides, the play's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual w...

In Alice Munro’s superb new collection, we find stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives made palpable by the subtlety and empathy of...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down ...

This excellent book has over two hundred facts that will surprise and amaze you in equal measure. Sections cover all aspects of the Harry Potter universe a...

Nothing beats the friendship between women— the understanding and support during tough times, the laughter and fun during good times.Whether they’ve ju...

A preeminent medievalist presents a wonderful catalog of real and fanciful beasts, including the manticore, griffin, phoenix, amphivius, jaculus, and many o...

The introduction reviews the few known facts about this early Shakespeare play and discusses the puzzling problems of its date and authorship. The text has ...

A Winner Of The Alex Award, A Finalist For The Los Angeles Times Book Prize For First Fiction, Named A Best Book Of The Year By Npr, Los Angeles Times, And ...

The Garcías—Dr. Carlos (Papi), his wife Laura (Mami), and their four daughters, Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—belong to the uppermost echelon of Spani...

Presents The Story Of A Father And Son's Transformative Shared Journey In Reading In The Wake Of The Father's Late-in-life Enrollment In His Son's Undergrad...

Cliffs™ Test Preparation Guides help students prepare for and improve their performance on standardized tests ACT™ Test Preparation Guide CBEST® Preparati...

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest g...

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...

These essays (and a ballad) have their origins in Terry Eagleton’s continuing engagement with the possibilities of a literary criticism that is both mater...

Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a pl...

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest g...

the Chronicles Of Narnia Series Has Sold Over 85 Million Copies Worldwide And Introduced People Of All Ages To The Central Doctrines Of Christianity. Antici...

Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The latest from legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie, and moving s...

The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. Each play in the series contains ...

Art history gets a fun feline makeover with 21 purr-fectly cultured cats in the styles of ancient and modern masters.Become litter-ate in the basics of imp...

Along with Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, Othello is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies. What distinguishes Othello is its bold treatment of racia...

"Concise, learned, revisionary... should enrich the passionate conversation about poetic forms for years to come."— Edward Hirsch, author of How to Read ...

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

One of the most celebrated writers and teachers of fiction, Richard Bausch, pairs his insight and inspiration with Norton’s trusted editorial standards t...

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...

One book. Nine readers. Ten changed lives. New York Times bestselling author Erica Bauermeister's No Two Persons is "a gloriously original celebration of ...

Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in ...

When Fatal Strategies was first published in French in 1983, it represented a turning point for Jean Baudrillard: an utterly original, and for many readers...

Western scholars have tended to read Heian literature through the prism of female experience, stressing the imbalance of power in courtship and looking for...

Horror Has The Gripping Ability To Captivate...and Enthrall. Audiences Love To Be Scared But Behind Every Muffled Scream Is Something Deeper And Even More F...

A Long-awaited New Book On Personal Writing From Lopate--the Celebrated Essayist And The Director Of Columbia University's Nonfiction Program. He Provides T...

Steampunk—a grafting of Victorian aesthetic and punk rock attitude onto various forms of science-fiction culture—is a phenomenon that has come to influ...

Patricia Williams is a lawyer and a professor of commercial law, the great-great-granddaughter of a slave and a white southern lawyer. The Alchemy of Race ...

The poet of the Odyssey was a seriously flawed genius. He had a wonderfully inventive imagination, a gift for pictorial detail and for introducing naturalis...

A new philosophy of movement that explores the active relation between sensation and thought through the prisms of dance, cinema, art, and new media. With ...