Overview :Anna Karenina is the wife of a well-respected government official. When she travels to St. Petersburg to reconcile her brother and his wife,... Read More
Overview :This book serves as a retrieval and reevaluation of a rich haul of comic caricatures from the turbulent years between the Reform Bill crisis... Read More
Overview :Narrative innovation is typically seen as the domain of the avant-garde. However, techniques such as nonlinear timelines, multiple points of... Read More
Overview :Data meets literature in this "enlightening" (The Wall Street Journal), "brilliant" (The Boston Globe), "Nate Silver-esque" (O, The Oprah Ma... Read More
Overview :Living by Fiction is written for--and dedicated to--people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon... Read More
Overview :J. R. R. Tolkien was a genius, but do you really know about the mind behind the rings? In this biography, you'll get a glimpse into Tolkien'... Read More
Overview :This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of S... Read More
Overview :An examination of how The Kansas City Star's style guide shaped Hemingway's unmistakable writing style. Acclaimed for his lean, succinct pro... Read More
Overview :Why did Charlotte Bront go to such great lengths on the publication of her acclaimed, best-selling novel, Jane Eyre, to conceal its authors... Read More
Overview :"Illuminating." - The New York Times Book Review Named one of "Ten Books to Read this April" by the BBC What is the future of fiction in an ... Read More
Overview :This book focuses on six brilliant women who are often seen as particularly tough-minded: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan S... Read More
Overview :It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. So runs one of the mos... Read More
Overview :F uck the Fuckity Fuckin' Fucker. Readers of Katherine Dunn won't be surprised that this was her father's favorite sentence, or that, as a y... Read More
Overview :What if we've been reading Jane Austen and romantic classics all wrong? A funny, brainy, eye-opening take on how our contemporary love stori... Read More
Overview :An exploration of Marcel Proust and Anthony Powell's greatest literary achievements. There are few writers about whom opinions diverge so wi... Read More
Overview :War and Peace and Anna Karenina are widely recognized as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author Leo Tolstoy has been honored ... Read More
Overview :A vibrant collection of sharp and essential modern pieces on the perennially controversial Lolita, by a wide range of celebrated writers, ed... Read More
Overview :Cultural critic Fredric Jameson, renowned for his incisive studies of the passage of modernism to postmodernism, returns to the movement tha... Read More
Overview :From the central concept of the field--which depicts the world as a mutually interactive whole, with each part connected to every other part... Read More