Overview :More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brillia... Read More
Overview : He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." In this epic story of love, envy, betrayal, and rev... Read More
Overview :It is set in the period preceding the Second World War. It is told in the first person of Harrison, and tells the story of Charles Rainier, ... Read More
Overview :Orphaned with a substantial inheritance at the age of ten, Pauline Quenu is taken from Paris to live with her relatives, Monsieur and Madame... Read More
Overview :"The Dead" is the final and longest story in the "Dubliners", a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce. First published in 1904,... Read More
Overview :From award-winning literary scholar Robert Alter, a masterful exploration of how Nabokov used artifice to evoke the dilemmas, pain, and exal... Read More
Overview :Bringing together Mary Klages's bestselling introductory books Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed and Key Terms in Literary Theory i... Read More
Overview :From the author of HOW TO THINK and THE PLEASURES OF READING IN AN AGE OF DISTRACTION, a literary guide to engaging with the voices of the p... Read More
Overview :What can we learn from reading books? This book poses this broad question by examining the works of some of the greatest writers in history ... Read More
Overview :Soccer star and Olympic gold medalist Christie Pearce Rampone and sports neuropsychologist Dr. Kristine Keane share the best practices that ... Read More
Overview :Erich Auerbach (1892-1957), best known for his classic literary study Mimesis, is celebrated today as a founder of comparative literature, a... Read More
Overview :It was R.H Blyth's belief that "all that is good in European literature and culture is simply and solely that which is in accordance with th... Read More
Overview :"The great poems, plays, novels, stories teach us how to go on living. . . . Your own mistakes, accidents, failures at otherness beat you do... Read More
Overview :The characters, plots, and potent language of C. S. Lewis s novels reveal everywhere the modern writer s admiration for Dante s "Divine Come... Read More
Overview :Take a stroll through some of the most influential pieces of literature of all time with Read the Classics. Take a stroll through some of th... Read More
Overview :The influential and controversial critic takes literary history out of the classroom and into the publicIn the field of literary history and... Read More
Overview :Larry Allums, editor Louise Cowan, general editor The community of scholar-critics that brought out The Terrain of Comedy has produced the s... Read More
Overview :Julietta Singh challenges the drive toward the mastery over self and others by showing how the forms of self-mastery advocated by anticoloni... Read More
Overview :"Take Faust, what is it? A 'tragedy', as its author states? A great philosophical tale? A collection of lyrical insights? Who can say. How a... Read More
Overview :Dr. Louise Cowan, general editor of this collection of eighteen essays on tragedy is the third in a series on literary genre, tragedy, comed... Read More