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"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...

turning Away From The Privileged World Of The "eminent Victorians," Gertrude Bell (1868—1926) Explored, Mapped, And Excavated The World Of The Arabs. Recrui...

Nella Larsen’s fascinating exploration of race and identity—the inspiration for the Netflix film directed by Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson and R...

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...

Upon publication in 1997, The Norton Shakespeare set a new standard for teaching editions of Shakespeare's complete works. Instructors and students worldwi...

Upon publication in 1997, The Norton Shakespeare set a new standard for teaching editions of Shakespeare's complete works. Instructors and students worldwi...

The Hudson Series is dedicated to providing the best literature - without commentary or interpretation - at a student-friendly price.Categories: Literature ...

Presents The Classic Study Of Power And Politics Written In 1513 By A Florentine Diplomat That Recommends Guile And Ruthlessness To Achieve And Maintain Pol...

Immortal Poems Here is the most inclusive anthology of verse ever published at so low a price. It contains not only the best-known works of the British a...

Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth...

e.e. Cummings Is Without Question One Of The Major Poets Of This Century, And This Volume, First Published In 1959, Is Indispensable For Every Lover Of Mo...

As An Outspoken Lawyer, Law Professor, Bestselling Author, And Public Personality Extraordinaire, Alan M. Dershowitz Has Been A Controversial And Vocal Crit...

The definitive guide for all fans of Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, and the glittering Regency period Publishers Weekly Meticulously researched yet splend...

A Collection Of Sharp, Poignant Essays That Expertly Blends The Personal And Political In An Exploration Of American Culture Through The Lens Of Our Obsessi...

A graceful biography that was a #1 national bestseller, Flint & Feather confirms Charlotte Gray’s position as a master biographer, a writer with a ra...

Gregory Answers The Question About An Unsolved Crime That Has Fascinated Detectives And Historians For Centuries. Useing Documents And Evidence From The Tud...

The most popular Literature anthology continues to bring students the finest literature from fables to poetweets. The Twelfth Edition of Literature: An Int...

The Rupaul's Drag Race Legends, Stars Of Unhhhh, And Expert Biological Women Share The Secrets Of Their Feminine Mystique In This Satirical Guide To Beauty ...

Animals bring out the goodness, humanity and optimism in people and speak directly to our souls. This joyous, inspiring and entertaining Chicken Soup collec...

By far the best translation. Faithful to the original Greek text and eminently readable. The notes constitute a commentary in their own right.—Albert Henr...

A Novel About Black Americans In Florida That Centers On The Life Of Janie And Her Three Marriages. Foreword / Edwidge Danticat -- Their Eyes Were Watching ...

John Allen Paulos cleverly scrutinizes the mathematical structures of jokes, puns, paradoxes, spoonerisms, riddles, and other forms of humor, drawing exam...

this Pioneering Study Is The First To Show How Jews Have Been Seen Through Modern Ukrainian Literature. Myroslav Shkandrij Uses Evidence Found Within Th...

In this sustained interpretation, Stephen Halliwell demonstrates that Poetics, despite its laconic brevity, contains a coherent statement of mimetic art in ...

The Deadly Theatre -- The Holy Theatre -- The Rough Theatre -- The Immediate Theatre. Peter Brook. A Touchstone BookCategories: Literature & Fiction His...

with Works By Henry James, Stephen Crane, John Cheever, James Joyce And Many Others, This Outstanding Collection Of 35 American And British Short Pieces O...

folger Shakespeare Library the World's Leading Center For Shakespeare Studies each Edition Includes: • Freshly Edited Text Based On The Best Early...

By William Shakespeare ; Edited By Barbara A. Mowat And Paul Werstine. Includes Bibliographical References.Categories: Literature & Fiction History &...

Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English liter...

"Richard Hugo's free-swinging, go-for-it remarks on poetry and the teaching of poetry are exactly what are needed in classrooms and in the world."―James ...

Literature has passed through a crisis of confidence in recent decades-a radical questioning of its traditional values and its importance to humanity. In t...

The bestselling author of Sexual Personae and Sex, Art, and American Culture is back with a fiery new collection of essays on everything from art and celeb...

Through the story of the brilliant but conflicted young Raskolnikov and the murder he commits, Fyodor Dostoevsky explores the theme of redemption through su...

From Homer to Plato, Thackeray to Kafka, Proust to Twain, Freud to Whitman--an introduction to more than 100 classics of Western literature and thought.Cate...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic for Time magazine comes the tremendously controversial, yet highly persuasive, argument that our devotion ...

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

Winner of the 2018 City of Vancouver Book AwardFrom Vancouver-based writer Chelene Knight, Dear Current Occupant is a creative non-fiction memoir about hom...

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

"a great Gatsby For The End Of The Century." — the Baltimore Sun jay Mcinerney's First Novel, bright Lights, Big City, Helped Bring About A Revolution In ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Includes exclusive bonus material Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone has received an anonymous note carrying an u...

Sir Winston Churchill was the greatest orator of his day, the greatest statesman of his age, and the greatest Englishman of the 20th century. This enchantin...

The bestselling author of Seinfeldia offers a fascinating retrospective of the iconic and award-winning television series, Sex and the City, in a “bubbly...

In The Gripping New Novel From The Queen Of Suspense, A Woman Is Haunted By Two Grisly Murders Separated By More Than A Century, Yet Somehow, Inextricably L...

The author of the New York Times bestseller The Girl Who Knew Too Much returns to Victorian London in a novel of deadly obsession... Calista Langley operat...

Join David and Leigh Eddings on a fascinating behind-the-scenes tour of the extensive background materials they compiled before beginning the masterpiece of...

Upon publication in 1997, The Norton Shakespeare set a new standard for teaching editions of Shakespeare's complete works. Instructors and students worldwi...

In Alice Munro’s superb new collection, we find stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives made palpable by the subtlety and empathy of...

With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts Royal Holloway, University of London Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warr...