English Literature

About the Book An exciting, seven-level course that enhances young learners' thinking skills, sharpening their memory while improving their languag...

About the Book Summer Resort , the first novel by noted translator Esther Kinsky, is set in a village somewhere on the endless Hungarian plain. It ...

About the Book In Suki, Suniti Namjoshi weaves a witty and delightful tapestry from threads of longing, loss, memory, metaphor, and contemplation. ...

About the Book From Shakespeare to Beckett, the contradictory figure of the fool who possesses unexpected wisdom has been a popular and effective l...

About the Book It takes a strong woman to secure bookish remembrance in future times; to see her life becoming a life. David Wallace explores the l...

Story is a Vagabond [Hardcover] Frank Stewat

About the Book Klaus Merz is one of the most prominent, prolific and versatile Swiss writers working today. Celebrated as a master of concise, cond...

About the Book Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was a controversial figure in American literature and journalism. In a literary career that lasted a mere ...

About the Book In a rundown Los Angeles apartment building the titular Starlite Terrace Patrick Roth unfurls the tragic linked stories of Rex, Moss...

Spoonful of Grey is about ordinary people and the places they inhabit. It’s about most lives subject to regularity and filled with little more than...

About the Book As he leaves the cinema where he has just watched Casablanca , one of his favorite films, Julien is approached by a mysterious young...

About the Book The work of poet Georg Trakl, a leading Austrian-German expressionist, has been praised by many, including his contemporaries Rainer...

About the Book For Anthony Rudolf, reading is a profoundly serious and intense activity, as well as a major source of pleasure and solace. At the s...

About the Book Written in an easy-to-read, accessible style by teachers with years of classroom experience, Masterwork Studies are guides to the li...

About the Book This book is at once an edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets and a guide to how to read these exquisite and complex poems, and is design...

About the Book When Shakespeare's Sonnets were published in 1609 a poem called A Lover's Complaint was included by the publisher, Thomas Thorpe, wh...

About the Book OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers w...

About the Book This book explores how recollections and traces of the reign of Richard III survived a century and more to influence the world and w...

About the Book Oudeyer combines insights from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and linguistics to explore questions about the origins of speech....

About the Book Frederick Garber takes up in detail several problems of the self broached in his previous book, The Autonomy of the Self from Richar...

About the Book The Story of Nuncomar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey (1885) examines some of the most controversial events of 18th century ...

About the Book In the decades before the rise of the Third Reich, "Secret Germany" was a phrase used by the circle of writers around the poet Stefa...

About the Book Our twice-yearly daylight savings holiday, in which we faithfully, collectively adjust our clocks, is purely human tampering with th...

About the Book Fran ois Recanati has proposed a wide-ranging truth-conditional model of pragmatics. In this collection, his theories are addressed ...

Sarojini Naidu: Her Way With Words

About the Book In this powerful book, Sara Paretsky explores the traditions of political and literary dissent that have informed her life and work,...

Editorial Reviews - Samuel Johnson

About the Book Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers an...

About the Book Werner Bräunig was once regarded as the great hope of East German literature—until an extract from Rummelplatz was read before th...

About the Book Praised by Paul Auster as "one of the rare poets in the history of literature to have sustained the highest level of artistic excell...

About the Book Rubble Flora is a selection of poems from the distinguished, half-century-long career of German poet Volker Braun. Born in the forme...

About the Book Taking a thematic approach, this new companion provides an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and international study of American li...

About the Book In this series of illuminating essays, Claire Chambers explores global literature, with a special focus on texts from Pakistan and i...

Rereading Tagore

Life, writings of a prominent Gujarati woman, 19th Century. with critical introd. and notes.

Narmada, the fifth longest river of the Indian subcontinent, has been the lifeline of its Valley since time immemorial. The river winds its way thr...

About the Book Written in 1946, Albert Camus's story vividly reveals the anxieties of its time.

Explores the creation of "The Prince and the Pauper" and includes comparisons to other works by Twain and in-depth biographical information.

A thematic examination of Wilde's play offers a biographical overview of the author, critical essays by varied experts, and a discussion of concurr...

A thematic examination of Dickens' novel offers a biographical overview of the author, critical essays by varied experts, and a discussion of concu...

A thematic examination of Voltaire's novel offers a biographical overview of the author, critical essays by varied experts, and a discussion of con...

Provides an analysis of characters, plot, and themes in Dickens' "A Christmas Carol."