History & Criticism

In 323 B.C.E, having conquered Persia, Alexander the Great set his sights on Arabia, then suddenly succumbed to a strange fever. Locating his final resting...

Robert Bly, renowned poet and author of the ground-breaking bestseller Iron John, mingles essay and verse to explore the Shadow — the dark side of the hum...

The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus is a unique guide to Greek mythology, from the origins of the univ...

A Treat For All Lovers Of The Traditional Ghost Story: Here Are Thirty-five Well-wrought Tales Of Haunted Houses, Vengeful Spirits, And Spectral Warnings Fr...

A cornucopia of comment from Canada’s most opinionated man — a man seen, read, and listened to by millions of Canadians each week.Canada’s most distin...

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...

The Greek writer Lysias is a fascinating source for the study of Athenian law, society and history in the late fifth century B.C. Six of his professional le...

This Volume Brings Together The Era's Classic Works, With More Than A Hundred Selections From A Broad Range Of Sources, Including Kant, Diderot, Voltaire, N...

The Turning Aside Is About Stepping Out Of Our Routines--like Moses Turning From Tending Sheep, Like A Certain Man Selling His Everything To Buy A Field--to...

This student edition of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is based on the earlier so-called A-text of the play, with the B-text scenes included in an ap...

The Stars Shine Down is Sidney Sheldons twelfth and most passionate novel, set against the glamorous world of international business and featuring a comple...

The Romans conquered most of the known world and detailed their conquests in calm, unapologetic histories. They were a supremely urbane people who longed p...

British Literary Critic John Carey Profiles Fifty Books Of Fiction, Nonfiction, And Poetry From Around The World That Were Published In The Twentieth Centur...

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 ...

With this sweet compilation of Rumi's heartfelt work, take a journey into the heart with Rumi's love poems & quotes. Sit with your favorite cup of tea...

Now in its fourth edition, The Harbrace Anthology of Literature continues its tradition of presenting a varied and increasingly diverse selection of poetry,...

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

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Twelfth Night on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. E...

Dramatizes The Life Of The Renaissance Artistic Genius Michelangelo, Recalls His Love Affairs, His Disputes With Cardinals And Popes, And His Years Of Worki...

Preface -- The Good Red Road -- Anodynes And Amulets -- Keep The Drum Playing -- Recovery And Transformation -- From The Inside: Looking At You -- Physical ...

A Debut Collection Of Essays About Growing Up The Daughter Of Indian Immigrants In Canada, A Land Of Ice And Casual Racism, Addressing Sexism, Cultural Ster...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author behind the acclaimed Starz series The White Queen comes the story of lady-in-waiting Margaret Pole and her uni...

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...

Studies the effects of the Vietnam War on West Point's class of 1966 and on the academy, recounting the loss of idealism that prompted many to leave their m...

A thought-provoking and concise rebuttal to E.O. Wilson's Consilience In his best-seller Consilience, E.O. Wilson presented a blueprint for the reconciliat...

Here's a pot-pourri of stimulating reading...for moments when nothing but the most absorbing material will do! No more frantic searches at the last minute ...

This Collection Of Original Essays By Many Of Today's Preeminent Interpreters Of Continental Philosophy Explores The Question Of Whether Western Thought And...

Designed to accompany the survey text Early Modern England: 1485-1714, this updated and expanded Sourcebook brings together an impressive array of Tudor-St...

In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere... As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wut...

With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built-meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound...

From Gregory Maguire, The Acclaimed Author Of Wicked, Comes His Much-anticipated Second Novel, A Brilliant And Provocative Retelling Of The Timeless Cindere...

Copenhagen is a reimagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb. In 1941 the German physicist Werner He...

Millions of us ravenously devour novels every year. It’s not surprising that we also wrestle with them, judge them, press them on our friends (often dema...

San Francisco Book-restoration Expert Brooklyn Wainwright Is On The Case When A Rare Edition Of Rebecca Leads To Murder In This Latest Installment Of The Ne...

How can an honorable lady like Lady Catriona Hennessy unite with a rake like Richard Cynster? Though charmed by his commanding presence, she cannot give u...

Leisured Resistance Examines The Varied Ways In Which Cultured Roman Aristocrats, Of Very Different Periods, Used Their Country Estates As A Political And L...

The World's Greatest War Novel Humans And Gods Wrestling With Towering Emotions. Men Fighting To The Death Amid Devastation And Destruction. Perhaps The Wes...

a Critical Rethinking Of Theories Of National Imagination, the Dawn That Never Comes Offers The Most Detailed Reading To Date In English Of One Of Modern J...

This Norton Critical Edition reprints the authoritative Wesleyan text of Joseph Andrews, edited by Martin Battestin. An accurate text of Shamela (Fielding...

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...

Alexandre Dumas ; Revised Translation, With An Introduction And Notes By David Coward. Originally Published As World's Classics Paperback 1990. Reissued As ...

Critics across the country have raved about Joyce Carol Oates’s ground-breaking memoir A Widow’s Story, lauding its blazing honesty and raw emotion, ca...

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...

Each edition includes:• Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play • Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages fa...

The Art Of Fact Is A Historical Treasury Tracing What Used To Be Called New Journalism Back To Such Pioneers As Defoe, Dickens, And Orwell, And To Crime Wri...

One Of The Best Books Of The Year: O, The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, The Christian Science Monitor Willa Drake Has Had Three Opportunities To Start Her Li...

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 ...