History & Criticism

Can Poetry Matter? -- The Dilemma Of The Long Poem -- Notes On The New Formalism -- Strong Counsel (robinson Jeffers) -- The Loneliness Of Weldon Kees -- Th...

The Work of Poetry is organized into three parts. "Poetic Substance" explores the nature of poetry and the poet, with essays that cover the poet "being-and...

Review "This ambitious novel tackles some of the biggest issues of our time - climate change and environmental disaster - whilst taking the reader on a...

The films of Hitchcock, Welles and Godard; the aesthetics of photography and the technology of cinema; art and revolution in Russia and in Mexico; the avant...

four Incisive, Elegant Essays On The Life And Work Wilde, Yeats, Joyce And Beckett By A Pre-eminent Critic Of Our Time. publishers Weekly in Four Library O...

Product Description The first book in twenty-five years from “one of our great comic minds” (The Washington Post) features Seinfeld’s best work a...

despite The Reshifting Of Values That Has Affected Every Aspect Of Life In The 21st Century, William Shakespeare Still Stands As The Greatest Writer The E...

This book attempts to build a new assessment, demystifying traditional notions of assessment as a privatized technical apparatus and focusing on the role of...

While Rome Lies In Ruins And In The Shadow Of The Borgia Family, Ezio, The Master Assassin, Seeks To Avenge His Uncle's Death.Categories: Science Fiction &a...

Gathers two collections of Lennon's drawings, poems, and short stories that make use of wordplay and nonsensical phrasesCategories: Literature & Fiction...

Enter a world of mysticism, machinations, and murder in which the mighty and noble do whatever is necessary to protect their supremacy, where rebellion grow...

Tomson Highway is one of Canada's foremost playwrights and novelists. In Comparing Mythologies he addresses a theme that is central to much of his work: the...

In 1859, Edward FitzGerald translated into English the short, epigrammatic poems (or "rubáiyát") of medieval Persian poet Omar Khayyám. If not a true tra...

This book presents a new interpretation of the history of English. Access to large corpuses of English has allowed scholars to assess the minutiae of ling...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERExecutive producer and host Mike Rowe presents a delightfully entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episo...

A powerful political critique of postmodernism. Melancholic and introspective,ironical and apolitical, the urban cynic is a myth of our time. In this origin...

Bhabha, in his preface, writes 'Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and only fully encounter their horizons in the mind's eye'...

from The Bestselling Author Of Earthway Comes A Collection Of Thoughtful And Inspiring Essays On Nature And Life. Together They Light A Path To Genuine Lov...

Spotlighting superb examples of classical Greek art in the context of recent findings in anthropology, social history, psychology, classics, and classical a...

The Cambridge Companion To Henry David Thoreau Is An Accessible Guide To Reading And Understanding The Works Of Thoreau. Presenting Essays By A Distinguishe...

For Years, Theater Director Bryan Doerries Has Led An Innovative Public Health Project That Produces Ancient Tragedies For Current And Returned Soldiers, Ad...

A Mesmerizing And Essential Biography Of The Modernist Poet Marianne Moore The Marianne Moore That Survives In The Popular Imagination Is Dignified, White-h...

William Burroughs Arrived In Mexico City In 1949, Having Slipped Out Of New Orleans While Awaiting Trial On Drug And Weapons Charges That Would Almost Certa...

Raised in poverty as an illegitimate child, Jack London dropped out of school to support his mother, working in mind-deadening jobs that would foster a lif...

To the LighthouseCategories: Literature & Fiction History & Criticism Movements & PeriodsModern

Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with...

The fieldtrip to the planetarium is foiled when the museum turns out to be closed, but Ms. Frizzle saves the day. The Magic School Bus turns into a spacesh...

This book is concerned with the notion of the "stranger" -the foreigner, outsider, or alien in a country and society not their own- as well as the notion o...

A blessed king who strives for peace and justice; the round table where only the most gallant knights may sit; the dramatic quest for the Holy Grail; a fate...

mark Twain's Skeptical Assessment Of Free Will, And Determinism, Religious Belief, And The Nature Of Humanity. He Put Off Publishing It For 25 Years, And Th...

This new, second edition of the popular college textbook offers the beginning philosophy student a comprehensive introduction to several aspects of one of t...

Tracy , JackCategories: Literature & Fiction History & Criticism Genres & StylesMystery & Detective

Becoming Everyone's Aunt, 1868-1900 -- Waxing Nostalgic, 1900-1930 -- Outwitting Poverty And War, 1930-1960 -- Celebrating Sisterhood And Passion Since 1960...

Unlock the more straightforward side of Brave New World with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of...

This Accessible Introduction To Victorian Literature And Its Contexts From 1837-1901 Includes: An Overview Of The Historical, Cultural And Intellectual Back...

In Ruthless Democracy, Timothy Powell reimagines the canonical origins of "American" identity by juxtaposing authors such as Hawthorne, Melville, and Thore...

This issue of Beatdom takes a look at the tricky topic of Religion, examining the role belief played in the lives and literature of the Beat Generation. Fro...

[edited By Carvel Collins].Categories: Literature & Fiction Short Stories & AnthologiesShort Stories

In this marvelous book, acclaimed around the world, Alberto Manguel takes us on a fascinating exploration of what it means to be a reader of books. A Histor...

A bridge between the early life of Nin and the first volume of her Diary. In pages more candid than in the preceding diaries, Nin tells how she exorcised th...

Visionary thinker Jane Jacobs uses her authoritative work on urban life and economies to show us how we can protect and strengthen our culture and communiti...

When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fe...

greek Tragedies, Volume Iii Contains Aeschylus’s 'the Eumenides,' Translated By Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles’s 'philoctetes,' Translated By Davi...

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...