History & Criticism

Satirizes English Society As It Follows Don Juan From An Illicit Teenage Love Affair And Subsequent Exile To Italy, Shipwreck, Slavery, Exploits In Russia A...

Accompanied By A Critical Introduction, A Biographical Chronology, Incisive Commentary, And A Glossary, This Definitive Dramatic Collection Features All Sev...

the Year Is 1502, And Seven-year-old Bianca De Nevada Lives Perched High Above The Rolling Hills And Valleys Of Tuscany And Umbria At Montefiore, The Farm...

A Comprehensive Survey Of The Significant Literature Of The English-speaking WorldCategories: Test Preparation Study Guides & WorkbooksStudy Guides

The definitive encyclopedia for the blockbuster #1 New York Times bestselling epic fantasy series, now in trade paperback Since its debut in 1990, The Whee...

Do You Reckon Tom Sawyer Was Satisfied After All Them Adventures? No, He Wasn't. It Only Just Pisoned Him For More. So Huck Declares At The Start Of The Fir...

These pages capture a thousand years of medieval women's visionary writing, from late antiquity to the 15th century. Written by hermits, recluses, wives, ...

Carolyne Larrington has gathered together a uniquely comprehensive collection of writing by, for and about medieval women, spanning one thousand years and ...

Seventy-five years after he came to life, Superman remains one of America’s most adored and enduring heroes. Now Larry Tye, the prize-winning journalist ...

From New York Times Bestselling Author Naomi Wolf, Facing The Beast Is A Devastating, Detailed Account Of Wrongthink, Deplatforming, And An Unexpected Polit...

The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's comedic play about two enduring human illusions—the dream of a simple life and the ideal of romantic...

On Themorning Of Christ's Nativity -- A Paraphrase On Psalm 114 -- On The Death Of A Fair Infant Dying Of A Cough -- The Passion -- On Time -- Upon The Circ...

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...

To Robbie Feaver the law is all about making a play-to a client, a jury, or a judge. But when the flashy, womanizing, multimillion-dollar personal injury ...

Winner of the 1987 New Zealand Fiction Award, this is a work of spellbinding power that weaves myths of older times into the political realities of today. ...

A Ten-year-old Orphan Comes To Live In A Lonely House On The Yorkshire Moors Where She Discovers An Invalid Cousin And The Mysteries Of A Locked Garden. Inc...

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...

1998 Riverhead jumbo trade paperback, 10th printing. Harold Bloom (The Bright Book of Novels to Read and Reread). America's uncontested expert on Shakespear...

A Writer's Discipline -- English As She's Not Taught -- A Few Words On A Few Words -- Food For The Nrf -- Lincoln The Writer -- Poe As Proofreader -- The Bi...

A captivating anthology that celebrates one of nature’s most majestic creatures and the age-old bond between humans and horses.All kinds of equine charact...

William Trevor's Last Stories is forthcoming from Viking.In Reading Turgenev, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, an Irish country girl is trapped ...

Handsome, wealthy, and well-born, Jonas Tallent has everything a gentleman needs to enjoy London society to the fullest — and he has. He's played cards un...

Warning!* This book contains the following: Unsafe use of powerful firearms in combination with explosives Cultivation of illegal crops Impressionable...

For Everyone Who Loved Pride And Prejudice--and Legions Of Historical Fiction Lovers--an Inspired Debut Novel Set In Austen's World. In This Pride & Pre...

Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs celebrates the astonishing career of Leonard Cohen, revered around the world as one of the great visionaries, writ...

When the Cuthberts send to an orphanage for a boy to help them at Green Gables, their farm in Canada, they are astonished when a talkative little girl steps...

Readers will be amused, comforted, and encouraged by stories about “nutty” families just like their own, and realize we all have the same family matter...

As A Young Bookworm Reading In Her Grandfather's Butcher Shop, Cara Nicoletti Saw How Books And Food Bring People To Life. Now A Butcher, Cook, And Writer, ...

Benjamin Ivry's is the first study of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud's sexuality in relation to his life, work and posterity. Focusing on Rimbaud's great po...

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...

Translated by Michael Alexander. Categories: Literature & FictionAncient & Medieval Literature

This Book Is A Modest Fragment Of A Story About The Life That Millions Of Europeans Lived Until Not So Long Ago. Perhaps It Doesn't Have Any Great Artistic ...

As a poet, editor and essayist, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth century poetry. This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, in...

in Unrelenting Flow Of Choices Confronts Us At Nearly Every Moment Of Our Lives, And Yet Our Culture Offers Us No Clear Way To Choose. This Predicament See...

a href="http://prismmagazine.ca/2014/09/24/an-interview-with-daniel-scott-tysdal/ "PRISM International magazine interview with Daniel Scott Tysdal/a a href=...

A Humorous Account Of Single Fatherhood From A Writer For Chelsea Lately Includes Essays About Putting His Daughter In A Wheelchair To Skip Long Lines At Di...

This Collection Of Essays Brings Together Some Of The Finest Pieces Hitchens Published Over The Last Two Decades For The First Time In One Book, Addressing ...

The book titled, Gems from Tozer, contains various selections from A.W. Tozer and provides an up front and pointedly direct snippet of Tozer's theology. The...

The Local Bookstore, A Place Of Wonder, Refuge, And Rejuvenation For Book Lovers The World Over. Books & Mortar Is A Celebration Of These Literary Stron...

bestselling Author And Literacy Expert Mem Fox Reveals The Incredible Emotional And Intellectual Impact Reading Aloud To Children Has On Their Ability To ...

Moll Flanders is one of the best-selling novels of all time. This Norton Critical Edition is again based on the first edition text (1722), the only text k...

'A great adventure, powerfully told' (Philippa Gregory) A sumptuous tale of passion and danger in the medieval court, Anya Seton's Katherine is an all-time ...

bloom (humanities, Yale U. And English, New York University) Offers Critiques Profiling 100 Of The Most Creative Literary Minds In History Based On His Sel...

Revisit the heart of the O'Brien family in this special release of Harbor Lights by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods—and watch the new ...

By Our Nig. Reprint. Originally Published: Boston : G.c. Rand & Avery, 1859. With A New Introd. / By Henry Louis Gates. Bibliography: P. Xxix-xxxiii.Cat...

Presents a translation of the eighteenth-century Japanese drama.Categories: Literature & Fiction History & Criticism Regional & CulturalAsian ...

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of the court at the he...

Translations of short stories, poems, film scripts, and a full-length play offer a survey of the Japanese literary scene since the end of the Second World W...