History & Criticism

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...

This Book, Written By The Editor Of The Library Of America Edition Of The Little House Books, Is A Thoroughly Researched Biography Of Not Only Laura Ingalls...

The bestselling book now revised and updated with new content!Hailed as the most popular and best-loved series of the twentieth century, The Lord of the Rin...

Warrior and master woodcarver Kieran O'Brannon sold himself into captivity to save his brother's life?but to win his freedom, he must carve the image of his...

This smart new paperback edition contains the fully-reset text of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containi...

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...

When you want to create a delicious lunch for two, an appetizing snack to share or something special for an intimate dinner, Good Food 101 Meals for Two wil...

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 ...

For this new edition, the text has been revised and corrected in accordance with the principles of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye series. Frye's origi...

A Wisconsin bookstore owner and cryptozoologist is asked to investigate a series of deaths that just might be proof of a fabled lake monster in this first i...

Provides A Modern Retelling, The Biblical Text, And Historical Background Of The Stories Behind Eve, Potiphar's Wife, Lot's Wife, Delilah, And Other Women P...

In this new edition of Best Words, Best Order, Stephen Dobyns further explains the mystery of the poet's work. Through essays on memory and metaphor, paci...

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

An illuminating look at the many forms of poetry’s essential excellence by James Longenbach, a writer with “an ear as subtle and assured as any America...

fetterley's Questions Are Often So Crucial, Her Observations Repeatedly So Acute, That They Force Us To Ask How We Avoided Them In The Past. — Women's Stu...

When Penguin Released A New, Unexpurgated Edition Of D.h. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover In 1960 They Were Charged With The Crime Of Publishing Obscene ...

This is the most complete and generous sampling of the first half of an indispensable American writer's career.Categories: Literature & Fiction United S...

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...

This Collection Of Essays Probes The Ways In Which Classic Children's Literature Tends To Undermine, Rather Than Support, Respectable Adult Values. Subversi...

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...

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 ...

Slight shelf wear on covers w/tight binding...Former owner's name stamped on title page and bottom of pages (when closed)...I scanned/flipped through pages ...

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...

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 literary adventure of D.A.F. (1740-1814) is unique and paradoxical. He was widely read in the nineteenth century, but his books disappeared almost com...

Unrivaled In Its Scope And Depth, The Columbia History Of Twentieth-century French Thought Assesses The Intellectual Figures, Movements, And Publications Th...

This is a completely updated and expanded second edition of the wide-ranging and accessible Routledge History of Literature in English. It covers the main d...

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...

'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 ...

This book is divided into five parts and covers: representation; subjectivity; form, structure and system; history and society; morality, class and ideology...

metaphor Is A Central Concept In Literary Studies, But It Is Also Prevalent In Everyday Language And Speech. Recent Literary Theories Such As Postmodernis...

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

Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order f...

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...

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...

From one of Canada's most respected and high-profile health professionals (and former federal Minister of Health), a timely, practical, ambitious, and deepl...

Extracted from: Enquiries Concerning the Human Understanding, and Concerning the Principles of Morals, By David Hume. Reprinted from The Posthumous Edition ...

Finally, the unwritten rules of Dadhood have been written in Dad Law. Since the dawn of time, all dads have understood that there are a set of rules for f...

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

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

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 ...

Edited by the eminent A.R. Braunmuller, this thorough edition of King John--the first scholarly edition in almost fifteen years--makes a significant contrib...

GOT A MYSTERY TO SOLVE?DON'T GET STUMPED. GET PSYCHED!You've seen him solve unsolvable crimes, stop unstoppable killers, and consume unconsumable breakfast...

The book has a unique status as an emblem of human culture and civilisation. It is a vessel for sharing stories, dispersing knowledge, examining the natu...

grace Nichols Gives Us Images That Stare Us Straight In The Eye—images Of Joy, And Images That Challenge And Accuse. Her Fat Black Woman Is Brash, Rejoices ...

In a fantastic world that is and is not seventeenth-century England, a baby is found floating in the Thames. The child, Jordan, is rescued by Dog Woman and ...

New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics provides a comprehensive lexicon of semiotic concepts, defining over 500 critical terms. The authors address key aspects ...