History & Criticism

Tomas O'Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1865 and died there in 1937, a great master of his native Irish. He shared to the full the perilous...

With Echoes Of Romeo And Juliet, Noughts & Crosses Is An Electrifying, Bittersweet Love Story Set In A Society Divided By Racial Bigotry And A World Roc...

As selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two ...

The greatest sonnets ever written, by the greatest poet and playwright in the English language—now in a handsome edition featuring exquisite color illustr...

With The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad has given readers a first-hand look at Afghani life as few outsiders have seen it. In...

Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart...

For as long as she can remember, Lady Adriana Sutton has adored Colton Wyndham, to whom she has been promised by an agreement of courtship and betrothal si...

A collection of essays and reviews by the British novelist and journalist Martin Amis (son of the late Sir Kingsley Amis), author of "The Rachel Papers," "S...

what Is Culture? What Are Cultures? Are Literary Texts And Cultural Texts Different? What Do Literature And Other Fields Engaged In Cultural Work Hav In Com...

From The Creator Of The Good Place And The Cocreator Of Parks And Recreation, A Hilarious, Thought-provoking Guide To Living An Ethical Life, Drawing On 2,5...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'This book is about a whole new way of studying the mind ... En...

Prof. Nafisi Resigned From Her Job As Professor Of English Literature At A University In Tehran In 1995 Due To Repressive Government Policies. For The Next ...

George Steiner. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Reference Words, Language & GrammarLinguistics

From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende, comes a passionate tale of one young woman's quest to save her lo...

Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her...

For no gentleman is this more true than Charles Morwellan, the eighth Earl of Meredith. Although he's seen the many successful unions of his Cynster conne...

A hilarious collection of the funniest family-friendly jokes, quotes, stories, cartoons, and anecdotes from the past 100 years of Reader’s Digest magazine...

Booker Prize—winning novelist Penelope Lively's latest masterpiece opens with a snapshot: Kath, before her death, at an unknown gathering, holding hands w...

“What are you reading?” That’s the question Will Schwalbe asks his mother, Mary Anne, as they sit in the waiting room of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering ...

Patrice Pavis is one of France's most brilliant academics and a leading expert internationally in the theory of theatre. Dictionary of the Theatre is an En...

A mischievous youth encounters a runaway slave and together they travel down the Mississippi in search of adventure, in the classic novel accompanied by ess...

A New Translation Of Prometheus Bound With Extant Fragments Of The Lost Prometheus Plays. Aeschylus ; Translated By James Scully And C.j. Herington. Include...

The Penguin Classics debut that inspired a classic film and a current Broadway revival Reginald Rose's landmark American drama was a critically acclaimed ...

From Achilles's heel to the sword of Damocles, Western culture teems with allusions from the rich heritage of classical literature, and this new edition o...

John Gray Was Among The Tragic Generation Of English Decadent Artists Of The 1890s And The Reputed Model For The Hero In Oscar Wilde's Novel The Picture Of ...

The Moral Compass, The Inspiring And Instructive Companion Volume To The Book Of Virtues, Offers Many More Examples Of Good And Bad, Right And Wrong, In Gre...

with Classic Simplicity And A Painter's Feeling For Atmosphere And Detail, Isak Dinesen Tells Of The Years She Spent From 1914 To 1931 Managing A Coffee P...

One century after the death of Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), his plays are celebrated throughout the world as a major milestone in the history of theatre and d...

Best Book of June 2015 (The Christian Science Monitor) Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature C. S. Lewis is the 20th century's ...

the Wild Boys Is A Futuristic Tale Of Global Warfare In Which A Guerrilla Gang Of Boys Dedicated To Freedom Battles The Organized Armies Of Repressive Pol...

From The Bible To Ralph Ellison, America's Most Prominent And Bestselling Literary Critic Takes An Enlightening Look At The Concept Of Genius Through The Ag...

Review\"[Olivia Laing is] a kind of cultural sage… an accidental literary grande dame of the emotional havoc wrought by late capitalism and digital discon...

The “Guermantes Way,” in this the third volume of In Search of Lost Time, refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess de Guermantes’s châte...

Burns : A Biography Of Robert Burns By James Mackay. Title On Spine: Burns. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 691-724) And Index.Categories: Literatur...

When the Fifth Edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature appeared in 1985, it received a glowing front-page review in The New York Times Book Re...

When Mahatma Gandhi died in 1948 by an assassin's bullet, the most potent legacy he left to the world was the technique of satyagraha (literally, holding ...

'I always wanted to be historical,' Gertrude Stein once quipped. In 1932, Stein began writing the 'autobiography' of her longtime friend and companion, Alic...

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

Edited From The Manuscripts By C.w. Hatfield ; [foreword By Irene Taylor]. Includes Index. Facsimile Manuscripts: P. [20]-21. Sources From Which The Text Of...

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...

Umberto Eco ; Translated By William Weaver. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [117]-119) And Index.Categories: Literature & Fiction History & ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “All the Steve Berry hallmarks are here: scale, scope, sweep, history—plus breathless second-by-second suspense. I love t...

This book provides a detailed examination of the writings of Chinua Achebe, Africa's best-known and most widely-read author, shortlisted for the 1987 Booker...

Welcome to Our Book of Awesome, a celebration of the small joys that bring us together.\In a world that is often overwhelming, it’s time to return to the ...

Equally suitable for undergraduates and specialists in the humanities, this collection provides an in-depth introduction to debates within post-colonial the...

The ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars. Thoreau’s literary classic, an elegantly written record of his experime...

This book contains the 101 best stories from Chicken Soup's library honoring the lifelong relationship between mothers and their male offspring. There is ...

"White's prose is as fresh as a series of slaps to the face, filled with reckless energy . . . [Our Young Man] speeds you along with its winningly hectic pr...