History & Criticism

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive for Great Health! will help readers use positive thinking to improve their health with its inspirational stories ...

Great Stories For Children contains a mixed bag of tales, featuring everything from nature and pets to leopards, bears, and even ghosts, written in the inim...

"The greatest writer of historical adventures today." —Washington Post Critically acclaimed, perennial New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell...

What Happened To The Public Intellectuals That Used To Challenge And Inform Us? Who Is The Sartre Or De Beauvoir Of The Internet Age? General Intellects Arg...

Narrative is an important element in our daily life and the novel is arguably the most popular genre of our times. The theory of narrative or narratology, w...

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V. 1. The Medieval Period -- V. 2. The Renaissance And The Early Seventeenth Century -- V. 3. The Restoration And The Eighteenth Century -- 4. The Age Of Ro...

Featuring seven new, never-before-published poems in addition to Chinua Achebe's award-winning earlier work, Collected Poems makes available again after mor...

Psychology And Aesthetics -- The Problem Of Hamlet And The Explanations Proffered -- The Psycho-analytical Solution -- Tragedy And The Mind Of The Infant --...

She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love.  She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories—a dark, exotic stranger in a strange ...

In Three Paperback Volumes, The Grene And Lattimore Editions Offer A Selection Of The Most Important And Characteristic Plays Of Aeschylus, Sophocles, And E...

Mozi (fifth century B.C.) was an important political and social thinker and formidable rival of the Confucianists. He advocated universal love--his most imp...

In This Definitive Biography Adam Sisman Reveals The Man Behind The Bestselling Persona. In John Le Carré, Sisman Shines A Spotlight On David Cornwell, An...

Long before anyone ever heard of 'protest music', people in America were singing about their struggles. They sang for justice and fairness, food and shelter...

In the Irish town of Schancarrig, the young people carve their initials--and those of their loves-into the copper beech tree in front of the schoolhouse....

From the bestselling author of The Book of Awesome, You Are Awesome, and the award-winning, multimillion-hit blog 1000 Awesome Things comes even more of th...

“Magical prose stylist” Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) delivers a collection of essays—heartfelt, humorous, insightful, wise—on the mean...

A Collection Of Thirty-three Stories Showing The Scope, Vigour, And Enduring Fascination Of The Detective Story. Introduction -- Stir Outside The Cafe Royal...

Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media―from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremonie...

More and more, first-year writing courses foreground skills of critical analysis and argumentation. In response, A Brief Guide to Arguing about Literature ...

With this sweet compilation of Rumi's heartfelt work, take a journey into the heart with Rumi's love poems & quotes. Sit with your favorite cup of tea...

The Gods, The Creation, And The Earlist Heroes -- Stories Of Love And Adventure -- The Great Heroes Before The Trojan War -- The Heroes Of The Trojan War --...

The first complete annotated edition of Milton's poetry available in a one-volume paperback. The text is established from original sources, with collation...

At a party in Manhattan, Maggie Holloway -- one of the fashion world's most successful photographers -- is thrilled to be reunited with her beloved stepmot...

Everyone’s favorite Idiot Girl, Laurie Notaro, is just trying to find the right fit, whether it’s in the adorable blouse that looks charming on the mann...

A wide-ranging and refreshingly up-to-date anthology of primary readings, Critical Theory: A Reader for Literary and Cultural Studies, edited by Robert Dale...

"[Julian Barnes] reinvents the wheel; I'm always fascinated to see what shape it's going to be next."—Jay McInerney With the same brilliant style and idio...

This Is The First Systematic Critique Of Edward Said's Influential Work Orientalism, A Book That For Almost Three Decades Has Received Wide Acclaim In Both ...

michael Anstruther-wetherby Is A Man Destined For Power. Except That Michael, For All His Political Skill And Intelligence, Lacks The Most Important Elemen...

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...

Contains Shakespeare's Play Involving Young Athenian Lovers, A Boisterous Group Of Local Tradesmen, And The Monarchs And Subjects Of The Fairy Kingdom; And ...

A Gate Enables passage between what is inside and what is outside, and the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives is the fundamental theme ...

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

Designed to accompany the survey text Early Modern England: 1485-1714, this updated and expanded Sourcebook brings together an impressive array of Tudor-St...

My Ántonia: Willa Cather's Masterpiece Historical Novel of the Immigrant ExperienceCategories: Literature & Fiction Historical Fiction20th Century

This anthology of folk and fairy tales brings together 52 stories from a range of historical and geographic traditions. Sections group tales together by t...

Quick, Joyful, And Playfully Astringent, With Surprising Comparisons And Examples, This Collection Takes An Unconventional Approach To The Art Of Poetry. In...

Mark P.o. Morford, Robert J. Lenardon. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Literature & Fiction History & CriticismCriticism &...

America's Workers Have Been Singing, Reciting, Performing, Telling Stories, Writing, And Publishing For More Than Three Centuries. Ranging From Early Coloni...

"What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a better life than we could without it?"Written...

Evie Harlow Runs A Quaint Little Bookshop In London, Which Is The Biggest Adventure An Unmarried Woman With No Prospects Could Hope For. Until Maximillian S...

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

As A Young Bookworm Reading In Her Grandfather's Butcher Shop, Cara Nicoletti Saw How Books And Food Bring People To Life. Now A Butcher, Cook, And Writer, ...

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

The Friendly Dickens Helps You Turn The Pages Of A Masterpiece Like David Copperfield Or An Obscure Novel Like Nicholas Nickleby As Eagerly As You Switch Ch...

Over Twenty Years After The Publication Of Its Groundbreaking First Edition, An Anthology Of Indigenous Literatures In English Continues To Provide The Most...

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

Twelve interconnected essays that describe the ways in which particular virtues are enacted in poetry.Categories: Literature & Fiction History & Cri...