History & Criticism

No Fear Shakespeare Gives You The Complete Text Of macbeth On The Left-hand Page, Side-by-side With An Easy-to-understand Translation On The Right. each No...

The Harry Potter Books Were Just The Beginning of the Story... During the brief span of just one decade, hundreds of millions of perfectly ordinary peopl...

Explores The History Of American Film Noir, Focusing On Its Dreamlike, Erotic, Ambivalent, And Cruel Atmosphere, And Setting It In The Social Context Of Mid...

alice Munro, Who Received The National Book Critics Circle Award For Her Latest Collection Of Stories, the Love Of A Good Woman, Is Widely Acknowledged As...

Here are The Prince and the most important of the Discourses newly translated into spare, vivid English. Why a new translation? Machiavelli was never the du...

Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media―from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremonie...

Shank's Mare (Hizakurige) follows two amiable scoundrels, Yajirobei and Kitahachi, on a madcap journey of adventure and misadventure along the great highway...

This novel offers a contemporary and explosive picture of the nuclear family, which pivots on the bizarre odyssey of a Japanese father and son.Categories: P...

In The Art Of Time In Memoir, Critic, Editor, And Memoirist Sven Birkerts Examines The Human Impulse To Write About The Self. Memoir Is, For Better And Ofte...

The doctor's office is cool, white, sterile. But the doctor's words are searing: blood tests prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Margaret and Arthur Crawf...

Presents a selection of spiritually and morally uplifting literature, organized according to the stages along life's wayCategories: Politics & Social Sc...

Presents The Nineteenth-century Short Story In Which A Governess Believes Her Two Charges, Ten-year-old Miles And Eight-year-old Flora, Are Being Haunted By...

In this volume along with its companion, The Library of America presents all of the most significant and best-loved works of Eudora Welty. Of her own work, ...

A GLOBE & MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR 2012 “Glover is a master of narrative structure.” —Wall Street Journal In the tradition of E.M. Forste...

A Tour Of Key Historic Sites In America Where Incidents Of Political Violence Have Occurred Reveals Lesser-known Points Of Interest Pertaining To Each And S...

"An extraordinary book . . . Peter Ackroyd is arguably the most talented and prolific writer working in Britain today." ―Daily Express (UK) In Foundation...

The Autobiography The Food Network Would Write If It Could Write One--a Candid, Behind-the-scenes Look At How One Network Launched One Of The Biggest Cultur...

Using The Multiple Meanings Of Wake To Illustrate The Ways Black Lives Are Determined By Slavery's Afterlives, Christina Sharpe Weaves Personal Experiences ...

For A Duchess With Practical Desires, Falling In Love Is An Inconceivable Part Of Her Plan… As Owner Of The Elysium Club Which Caters To Women’s Fantasi...

The De Doctrina Christiana ("On Christian Teaching") is one of Augustine's most important works on the classical tradition. Undertaken at the same time as...

With grace and insight, celebrated writer bell hooks untangles the complex personae of women writers. Born and raised in the rural South, hooks learned earl...

Originally published in 1973, the groundbreaking, uninhibited story of Isadora Wing and her desire to fly free caused a national sensation. It fueled fanta...

The "hilarious and super-relatable" (Cosmopolitan) New York Times bestselling guide to living your best life, with a new foreword and updated material If y...

From the bestselling author of The Book of Awesome, You Are Awesome, and the award-winning, multimillion-hit blog 1000 Awesome Things comes even more of th...

"The greatest writer of historical adventures today." —Washington Post Critically acclaimed, perennial New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell...

England Resides In A State Of Unrest As Henry Iv Despairs Over His Son And Heir, Prince Henry, Who Is Led Into A Life Of Debauchery By Falstaff, While The P...

Twelve essays written between 1928 and 1945 that demonstrate key points in the development of Eisenstein’s film theory and in particular his analysis of ...

When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. Here,...

The Signet Classics edition of one of William Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies.Full of cruelty and betrayal, King Lear is the timeless and timely story o...

In this new biography, based on a reexamination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on retracing of his trips, Robert Richardson offers a view of Thoreau's life a...

"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...

Orphaned At Birth, Eliza Sommers Is Raised In The British Colony Of Valparaíso, Chile, By The Well-intentioned Victorian Spinster Miss Rose And Her More Ri...

The Friendly Dickens Helps You Turn The Pages Of A Masterpiece Like David Copperfield Or An Obscure Novel Like Nicholas Nickleby As Eagerly As You Switch Ch...

Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness’s Under the Glacier is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outs...

"[Julian Barnes] reinvents the wheel; I'm always fascinated to see what shape it's going to be next."—Jay McInerney With the same brilliant style and idio...

How Does One Live? How Does One Do The Good Or Honorable Thing, While Flourishing And Feeling Happy? This Question Obsessed Renaissance Writers, None More T...

Meet Artist Leonardo da Vinci!Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists series combines a delightful mix of full-color historical reproductions, photos,...

April, 1536. Danilo Del Medigo Arrives Incognito In Venice From Istanbul, With Two Assassins From Suleiman The Magnificent's Court Hot On His Trail. Western...

Here is a lovingly assembled, essential A-Z companion to Dorothy Dunnett’s brilliant Lymond Chronicles and the first five novels in the House of Niccolò s...

With this book, 8-12 year-olds should never again cry, 'What will I read next?'. This is an up-to-date guide to the best children's books around - from clas...

responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone Recognizes These Traits As Essentials Of Good Character. In Order Fo...

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...

Preeminent Shakespeare Scholar James Shapiro Shows How The Tumultuous Events In England In 1606 Affected Shakespeare And Shaped The Three Great Tragedies He...

The Oxford Classical Texts, or Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, are renowned for their reliability and presentation. The series consists of a ...

michael Anstruther-wetherby Is A Man Destined For Power. Except That Michael, For All His Political Skill And Intelligence, Lacks The Most Important Elemen...

Put dullards and miscreants in their place with more than 150,000 handy mix-and-match insults in the bard's own words. This entertaining insult generator an...

The Care of the Self is the third and possibly final volume of Michel Foucault's widely acclaimed examination of "the experience of sexuality in Western s...

The elusive image of the Holy Grail has haunted the Western imagination for eight centuries. It represents the ideal of an unattainable yet infinitely desi...