History & Criticism

Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for...

A radical reassessment of the famed Victorian author, revealing the true story behind the creator of some of literature's best-known novels. This dynamic ne...

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

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

The 1960s. Kennedy. Martin Luther King. Civil rights. Viet Nam. Tana Roberts comes of age in this turbulent decade, and begins a journey that will lead...

Jane Austen ; Afterword By Claudia L. Johnson ; Artwork By Leon Steinmetz. Includes Bibliographical References.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences So...

A young woman caught in the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half sister, Elizabeth, must find her true destiny amid treason, poisonous rivalries, loss ...

This distinguished historical narrative of the Tudor period considers the major themes of the period: the resoration of order, reformation of the Church and...

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

Provides A Modern Retelling, The Biblical Text, And Historical Background Of The Stories Behind Eve, Potiphar's Wife, Lot's Wife, Delilah, And Other Women P...

Along with Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, Othello is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies. What distinguishes Othello is its bold treatment of racia...

For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to...

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

grace Nichols Gives Us Images That Stare Us Straight In The Eye—images Of Joy, And Images That Challenge And Accuse. Her Fat Black Woman Is Brash, Rejoices ...

The Garcías—Dr. Carlos (Papi), his wife Laura (Mami), and their four daughters, Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—belong to the uppermost echelon of Spani...

When Jeannie and Derek Tangye withdrew to a cliff-top flower farm in Cornwall, sophisticated London society protested. But an even wider circle was enriched...

When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this book offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of k...

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...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Jonathan Kellerman has been universally hailed as the master of psychological suspense, and the blockbuster new thriller feat...

An English-language Rendering Of The World's Oldest Epic Follows The Journey Of Conquest And Self-discovery By The King Of Uruk, In An Edition That Includes...

Kingmaker Richard, Earl Of Warwick, Uses His Daughters As Political Pawns Before Their Strategic Marriages Place Them On Opposing Sides In A Royal War That ...

Son Of The Famous Thomas Mann, Homosexual, Drug-addicted, And Forced To Flee From His Fatherland, The Gifted Writer Klaus Mann's Comparatively Short Life Wa...

In the CliffsComplete guides, the play's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual w...

A Winner Of The Alex Award, A Finalist For The Los Angeles Times Book Prize For First Fiction, Named A Best Book Of The Year By Npr, Los Angeles Times, And ...

Finally, the unwritten rules of Dadhood have been written in Dad Law. Since the dawn of time, all dads have understood that there are a set of rules for f...

Edited By Thomas Colchie. Reprint. Originally Published: New York : Dutton, 1991.Categories: Literature & Fiction World LiteratureCaribbean & Latin ...

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

Sometimes it seems like there are as many definitions of poetry as there are poems. Coleridge defined poetry as “the best words in the best order.” St....

A Monumental Volume Of Egyptian Culture, History, And Arcania, To Help Readers Immerse Themselves In Amelia Peabody's World More Completely Than Ever Before...

"Belcher’s volume contains a much needed and extremely well-integrated overview and discussion of a vast inter-related West African culture complex that ...

Narratology Has Been Conceived From Its Earliest Days As A Project That Transcends Disciplines And Media. The Essays Gathered Here Address The Question Of H...

Remember the controversy attending the publication of The Western Canon? Well, hold on to your mortarboards -- critic, scholar, and Falstaffian gadfly Haro...

Flannery O?connor May Now Be Acknowledged As The ?great American Catholic Author,? But This Was Not Always The Case. With Creating Flannery O?connor, Daniel...

frank Mccourt's Glorious Childhood Memoir, angela's Ashes, Has Been Loved And Celebrated By Readers Everywhere For Its Spirit, Its Wit And Its Profound Hum...

This volume includes works by Spenser (excerpts from all books of The Faerie Queene), Shakespeare (including The Tempest), Marlowe (Dr. Faustus, Hero and Le...

Presents The Original Text Of Shakespeare's Play Side By Side With A Modern Version, With Marginal Notes And Explanations And Full Descriptions Of Each Char...

The American book tour that catapulted Gertrude Stein from quirky artist to a household name. In 1933, experimental writer and longtime expatriate Gertrude...

The Ninth Edition Offers More Complete Works, More Teachable Groupings Than Ever Before And The Apparatus Teachers Trust. Read By More Than 8 Million Studen...

Every life has a soundtrack. All you have to do is listen. Music has set the tone for most of Zoe Baxter’s life. There’s the melody that reminds her o...

Essays Discuss Race Relations, Segregation, The Role Of The Writer In Society, And The Work Of Andre Gide, Richard Wright, And Norman Mailer.Categories: Pol...

Pigeonholed In Popular Memory As A Jazz Age Epicurean, A Playboy, And An Emblem Of The Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald Was At Heart A Moralist Struck B...

This book contains the 101 best stories from Chicken Soup's library on the mother-daughter bond. Mothers and daughters will laugh, cry, and find inspiratio...

When you want to create a delicious lunch for two, an appetizing snack to share or something special for an intimate dinner, Good Food 101 Meals for Two wil...

This Book Offers A Short, Spirited Defense Of Rhetoric And The Liberal Arts As Catalysts For Precision, Invention, And Empathy In Today's World. The Author,...

In 1866, tragedy strikes at the  exclusive Windfield School. A young student drowns  in a mysterious accident involving a small circle  of boys. The drown...

This book is divided into five parts and covers: representation; subjectivity; form, structure and system; history and society; morality, class and ideology...

Parody Is Everywhere In Contemporary Modern Culture. It Runs Through Literature, Theatre And Television, Architecture, Films, And Even Everyday Speech. Draw...

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...