History & Criticism

The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre, an authoritative and lavishly illustrated new history, celebrates the stage's greatest achievements over 4,500 ye...

Christmas. The word alone conjures up a host of happy memories: trees gloriously trimmed; cookies hot from the oven; families gathered together to celebrat...

The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. Each play in the series contains ...

The all-new ARCHIE adventure continues! Superstar writer Mark Waid teams up with the best and brightest artists in comics to bring a modern take to the lege...

Francis Urquhart is about to take his place in the record books as the longest-serving Prime Minister this century. Yet it seems the public is tiring of him...

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, ...

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 ...

1. Canadian People Like Me, You Know? Mulroney On His Rise To Power -- 2. You Had An Option, Sir! The 1984 Coronation -- 3. What Did I Do Wrong? Patronage A...

Anne Perry’s spellbinding Victorian mysteries, especially those featuring William Monk, have enthralled readers for a generation. The Plain Dealer calls M...

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

WITH BILL MAHER, ITS NEVER POLITICS AS USUAL! Conservatives know what they want and they never forget it. Except for the time Reagan went to the Vietnam M...

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...

Paris, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague, 1937. In the back alleys of nighttime Europe, war is already under way. André Szara, survivor of the Polish pogroms and ...

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 premium special edition hardcover will feature an exquisite gold foil jacket, stunning four-color endpapers designed for personal inscription, and beaut...

This Accessible Writer's Guide Provides A Helpful Framework For Creating Poetry And Navigates Contemporary Concerns And Practices. Stephen Dobyns, Author Of...

AN UNFORGETTABLE HEROINE, A KING MISUNDERSTOOD BY HISTORY, A LOVE STORY THAT HAS NEVER BEEN TOLD In A Rose for the Crown, we meet one of history's allege...

There Are Books That Are Suitable For A Million People, Others For Only A Hundred. There Are Even Remedies--i Mean Books--that Were Written For One Person O...

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...

Before the notion of "political correctness" encroached on the ways people spoke, wrote, and conducted themselves in public and private, some of America's ...

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...

About the Author\PAIGE SHELTON had a nomadic childhood, as her father's job as a football coach took her family to seven different towns before she was even...

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 ...

The biography sensitive to the tragic pattern of the story of a great subject: Oscar Wilde - psychologically and sexually complicated, enormously quotable,...

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...

The seeds of Witold Rybczynski's elegant and illuminating new book were sown by The New York Times, whose editors asked him to write an essay identifying "...

The whole world changed with just one phone call...I met Stacie for the first time in May. Her voice was meek and flat on the phone. She wasn't crying but ...

A first full-length investigation into the death of Christopher Marlowe, the sixteenth-century author tragically stabbed to death in a lodging house, reveal...

"Long anticipated and hugely welcome, Paul Holberton's A History of Arcadia is a close and thorough examination of a great number of original texts of class...

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...

The comic who's a guy's guy is now a bookseller's dream. The star of ABC's Home Improvement, the #1 show on television, Tim Allen has written the book mill...

Beliefs in mysterious underworlds are as old as humanity. But the idea that the earth has a hollow interior was first proposed as a scientific theory in 169...

A humiliating military defeat by Bismarck's Germany, a brutal siege, and a bloody uprising—Paris in 1871 was a shambles, and the question loomed, "Could thi...

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...

The Dark Tower is the backbone of Stephen King's legendary career. Inspired more than thirty years ago by works as diverse as J.R.R. Tolkien's epics, Rober...

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

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...

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...

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

Thrust into the unlikely role of professional "literary walking tour" guide, an expat writer provides the most irresistibly witty and revealing tour of Pa...

In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence—which is loosely based on the not...

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...

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...

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

David Sedaris Has Kept A Diary For Forty Years, Recording Everything That Has Captured His Attention -- Overheard Comments, Salacious Gossip, Soap Opera Plo...

Hamlet, Shakespeare 's Most Famous Play, Is Now Available In An All-new, Illustrated Norton Critical Edition. Machine Generated Contents Note: The Text Of H...

A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself “Mogor dell’Amore,” the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal,...

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...