Adobe Reader Ebooks: $1.99 Electronic add to wish list |
Journeys Through Bookland: A New And Original Plan For Reading Applied To The World's Best Literature For Children Volume IV
by Charles H. Sylvester Publisher Comments One of the fine things about good poetry is that it will not only bear study and examination, but will yield new beauty and new pleasure as it is better understood. For instance, take the first stanza above. Lowell says Longfellow's poetry is sweet and...
|
|||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $30.80 Electronic List Price $32.00 add to wish list |
Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature
by Edward J. Hughes Publisher Comments Hughes explores how cultural centres require the peripheral, and the deviant to define themselves....
|
|||||||
Microsoft Reader Ebooks: $7.06 Electronic add to wish list |
Pocket Companion to Narnia: A Guide to the Magical World of C.S. Lewis
by Paul , F. Ford Publisher Comments The pocket guide is an adventurer's passport to the land of Narnia. From Aslan, the great lion, to Zardeenah, the mysterious lady of the night, this comprehensive and accessible companion contains hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries covering all...
|
|||||||
Microsoft Reader Ebooks: $15.35 Electronic add to wish list |
Autobiography
by Linda R. Anderson Publisher Comments An indispensable introduction to the study of autobiography and a historical overview of autobiographical writing from St Augustine to the present day....
|
|||||||
Microsoft Reader Ebooks: $33.64 Electronic List Price $34.95 add to wish list |
Medieval German Literature
by Marion E. Gibbs Publisher Comments This comprehensive survey examines Germanic literature from the eighth century to the early fifteenth century. The authors treat the large body of late-medieval lyric poetry in detail for the first time....
|
|||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $43.31 Electronic List Price $45.00 add to wish list |
Continental Divides: Revisioning American Literature
by Anne E. Goldman Publisher Comments This book calls for a new iconography of region that unseats New England's status as cultural center of the United States and originary metaphor for national identity. No single territorial or political axis can adequately describe the complex regional...
|
|||||||
Microsoft Reader Ebooks: $15.35 Electronic add to wish list |
Science Fiction
by Publisher Comments In Science Fiction Adam Roberts offers a clear and critically engaging account of the phenomenon illustrating the critical terminology and following the contours of its continuing history....
|
|||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $7.39 Electronic add to wish list |
River of the World
by Chaz Brenchley Publisher Comments The compelling follow-up to Bridge of Dreams. Born to be enemies, Issel of the Sund and Jendre of the Maras have joined forces to save both their peoples and lands from the tyranny of a regime. But Issel's magical power over water may consume him before...
|
|||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $61.60 Electronic List Price $64.00 add to wish list |
The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
by John D. Kerkering Publisher Comments Examining the literary history of racial and national identity in nineteenth-century America, John Kerkering argues that writers such as DuBois, Hawthorne and Whitman used poetic effect to emphasize the distinctiveness of certain groups against a diffuse...
|
|||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $15.35 Electronic add to wish list |
Science Fiction
by Publisher Comments In Science Fiction Adam Roberts offers a clear and critically engaging account of the phenomenon illustrating the critical terminology and following the contours of its continuing history....
|
|||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $2.99 Electronic add to wish list |
American Notes
by Rudyard Kipling Publisher Comments American Notes is the fascinating travel journal of one of 19th century America's most celebrated tourists--Charles Dickens. A lively chronicle of his five-month trip around the United States in 1842, the book records the author's adventures journeying...
|
|||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $65.45 Electronic List Price $68.00 add to wish list |
Modernist Novel Decline Empire
by John Marx Publisher Comments In the early twentieth century, subjects of the British Empire ceased to rely on a model of centre and periphery in imagining their world and came instead to view it as an interconnected network of cosmopolitan people and places. English language and...
|
|||||||
Microsoft Reader Ebooks: $19.20 Electronic add to wish list |
Doing English
by Robert Eaglestone Synopsis Illustrated with examples from essential texts, Doing English examines the evolution of English as a subject and questions the assumptions that lie behind approaches to literature. The book includes chapters on the history of English, doing criticism...
|
|||||||
Palm Reader Ebooks: $7.06 Electronic add to wish list |
Pocket Companion to Narnia: A Guide to the Magical World of C.S. Lewis
by Paul , F. Ford Publisher Comments The pocket guide is an adventurer's passport to the land of Narnia. From Aslan, the great lion, to Zardeenah, the mysterious lady of the night, this comprehensive and accessible companion contains hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries covering all...
|
|||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $13.00 Electronic add to wish list |
Dostoevsky's Conception Of Man: Its Impact on Philosophical Anthropology
by Peter Wolf Publisher Comments Dostoevsky's novels have contributed to a conception of man that reverberates in the conclusions of prominent twentieth-century philosophical anthropologists. Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Albert Camus, among...
|
|||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $34.65 Electronic List Price $36.00 add to wish list |
Dostoevsky and English Modernism 1900
by Peter Kaye Publisher Comments A study of the responses of major English novelists of the early twentieth century to Dostoevsky's work....
|
|||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $34.65 Electronic List Price $36.00 add to wish list |
Shakespeare, Law, and Marriage
by B. J. Sokol Publisher Comments Combining legal, historical and literary approaches to the practice and theory of marriage in Shakespeare's time, this study discovers a broad range of information in a selection of Shakespeare's plays. Jerry and Mary Sokol approach the legal history of...
|
|||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $6.20 Electronic add to wish list |
Slaves of the Death Spiders and Other Essays on Fantastic Literature
by Brian, Stableford Publisher Comments This new collection of critical essays on science fiction and fantasy literature and media features the following pieces: 'Slaves of the Death Spiders: Colin Wilson and Existential Science Fiction,' 'Is There No Balm in Gilead? The Woeful Prophecies of...
|
|||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $7.09 Electronic add to wish list |
The Fever: a Novel
by Dark Publisher Comments A story about how Money + Celebrity = Sex. And always will. it's the summer of 1990. New jack swing has taken hold. Dark, an ambitious music manager who knows his way around the scene, seeks out an unknown singer to become the next R&B star. He finds...
|
|||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $24.01 Electronic add to wish list |
Shakespeare and Modernity
by Hugh Grady Publisher Comments This fascinating collection traces the ways in which Shakespeare has been reassessed over the years and explores many issues concerning Shakespeare's modernity....
|
|||||||








