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Amelia Peabody’s Egypt: A Compendium, Hardcover/Elizabeth Peters
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Aeneid, the (Maxnotes Literature Guides), Paperback/Tonnvane Wiswell
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Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry, Paperback/Gary Glazner
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Literary Theory: The Basics, Paperback/Hans Bertens
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J.K. Rowling: A Bibliography, Paperback/Philip W Errington
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The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation, Hardcover/David Crystal
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Theatre of Caryl Churchill, Paperback/R Darren Gobert
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Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers, Hardcover/Taisia Kitaiskaia
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A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X, Paperback/Jared Ball
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Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo, Paperback/John N Duvall
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Autobiography of Malcolm X as Told to Alex Haley, the (Maxnotes Literature Guides), Paperback/Anita J. Aboulafia
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Blank: Essays & Interviews, Paperback/M. Nourbese Philip
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Cambridge Companion to Chekhov, Paperback/Vera Gottlieb
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Palgrave’s Golden Treasury, Paperback/Francis Turner Palgrave
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Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda, Paperback/Jackson R Bryer
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Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras, Hardcover/Jean Moorcroft Wilson
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Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden, Paperback/Stan Smith
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Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel, Paperback/Maryemma Graham
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Emerson: Poems, Hardcover/Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Cambridge Companion to William Blake, Paperback/Morris Eaves
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A Tale of Two Cities, Paperback/Charles Dickens
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Women of Will: The Remarkable Evolution of Shakespeare’s Female Characters, Paperback/Tina Packer
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The Phenomenon of Anne Frank, Paperback/David Barnouw
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Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, Paperback/Jack Zipes
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Literature Class, Berkeley 1980, Paperback/Julio Cortazar
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Cambridge Introduction to George Orwell, Paperback/John Rodden
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Little Library Cookbook, Hardcover/Kate Young
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Remembering Tanizaki Jun’ichiro and Matsuko: Diary Entries, Interview Notes, and Letters, 1954-1989, Paperback/Anthony H. Chambers
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Romeo and Juliet, Paperback/William Shakespeare
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Discovering the Hidden Wisdom of the Little Prince: In Search of Saint-Exupery’s Lost Child, Hardcover/Pierre Lassus
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Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War, Paperback/Vincent Sherry
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Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis, Hardcover/Liesl Olson
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Lucretius: De Rerum NaturaBook III, Paperback/Lucretius
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Yellow Wallpaper And Selected Writings, Paperback/Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Taste of France, Hardcover/Carol Hilker
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Comics of Charles Schulz: The Good Grief of Modern Life, Paperback/Jared Gardner
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Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell, Paperback/Jill L Matus
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Crime Fiction: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback/Richard Bradford
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The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays, Paperback/M. M. Bakhtin
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Double Falsehood, Paperback/William Shakespeare
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Catiline’s Conspiracy, The Jugurthine War, Histories, Paperback/Sallust
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In the Beginning, She Was, Paperback/Luce Irigaray
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Six Characters in Search of an Author, Paperback/Luigi Pirandello
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The Egypt that so enticed and enchanted intrepid archaeologist-sleuth Amelia Peabody in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a place of wonder, mystery, danger, and the lure of…
REA's MAXnotes for Virgil's Aeneid MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject,…
Poetry slams--the Olympics of poetry--have become a cultural phenomenon. This groundbreaking anthology documents 10 years of poetry slams, with 100 poems from national slam champions and a dozen essays on…
3rd edition. This is one of the most successful books in this series, and provides a comprehensive and accessible guide to the latest developments in this field.
Available in paperback for the first time, it has been updated to include the 2014 and 2015 }Harry Potter{ editions. Drawing on unprecedented access to the author, it includes a…
The Shakespeare Book is the perfect primer to the works of William Shakespeare, packed with witty illustrations and inspirational quotes. Covering every work, from the comedies of Twelfth Night and…
This dictionary is the first comprehensive description of Shakespearean original pronuniciation (OP), enabling practitioners to deal with any queries about the pronunciation of individual words. It includes all the words…
A detailed study of the works of one of Britain's leading playwrights, mapping Churchill's work through 5 key areas that characterise her broad-ranging output.
Celebrate the witchiest women writers with beautiful illustrations and imaginative vignettes. Literary Witches draws a connection between witches and visionary writers: both are figures of formidable creativity, empowerment, and general…
These legendary stories, from the classic first fifteen issues of Bagge's Hate comic, are a defining icon of Seattle's early 1990s culture (the Seattle Weekly has written, "20 years from…
A Lie of Reinvention is a response to Manning Marable s biography of Malcolm X, A Life of Reinvention. Marable s book was controversially acclaimed by some as his magna…
An overview of the works and career of the postmodern American author of }White Noise{ and }Underworld{.
REA's MAXnotes for Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts…
Blank is a collection of previously out-of-print essays and new works by one of Canada's most important writers and thinkers. Through an engagement with her earlier work, M. NourbeSe Philip…
A volume of specially commissioned essays exploring the world of the classic playwright, and his work. 4 half-tones.
Palgrave's Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language is probably the most famous poetry anthology ever compiled. Originally published in 1861, it quickly established…
Collection of love letters chronicling the romance between F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
In this study of the short story collection, "Le Mur", Sartre is situated in the context of the 1930s and each story is analyzed in turn for its ideas and…
A pioneer of LGBTQ studies dares to suggest that gayness is a way of being that gay men must learn from one another to become who they are. This book…
The Rhetorica ad Herrenium was traditionally attributed to Cicero (106 43 BCE), and reflects, as does Cicero s De Inventione, Hellenistic rhetorical teaching. But most recent editors attribute it to…
Go where there's violence. Silicon Valley. The future. A rocket launches. Luke is an aerospace billionaire who can talk to anyone. But God is talking to him. He sets out…
The first full biography of Edward Thomas, (one of the major poets of WWI) for 30 years, from a respected and eminent literary biographer and expert on WWI literature.
Doing English presents the ideas and debates that shape how we ¿do¿ English today, explaining arguments about the value of literature, the canon, Shakespeare, theory, politics and the subject itself.…
Brings together specially commissioned essays on the life and work of W.H. Auden, one of the major English-speaking poets of the 20th century.
An overview of the one hundred and fifty years of the African American novel. Examines a wide range of topics, including slavery, the blues novel and the protest novel. Will…
Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the best-loved figures in nineteenth-century American literature. Though he earned his central place in our culture as an essayist and philosopher, since his death…
A guide to the full range of Blake's work with advice on further reading. Illus.
This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at…
Women of Will is a fierce and funny exploration of Shakespeare's understanding of the feminine. Tina Packer, one of our foremost Shakespeare experts, shows that Shakespeare began, in his early…
While Anne Frank was in hiding during the German Occupation of the Netherlands, she wrote what has become the world's most famous diary. But how could an unknown Jewish girl…
The fairy tale is arguably one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until the first publication of Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion,…
A master class from the exhilarating writer Julio Cortázar “I want you to know that I’m not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for…
Five brand new editions of Shakespeare's plays, each with an introduction by the renowned scholar Professor Jonathan Bate, a clear, fresh page design and scene-by-scene analysis. They also include selected…
A much-needed guide to a burgeoning field of study, which presents a history of the concept of memory and its uses, and examines debates around the term.
An introductory guide to the life, work and legacy of George Orwell.
A giftable cookery book with over 100 delicious recipes taken from the author's favourite works of fiction. Accompanied with beautiful photography and divided into chapters to take you through the…
Remembering Tanizaki Jun'ichiro and Matsuko provides previously unpublished memories, anecdotes, and insights into the lives, opinions, personalities, and writings of the great novelist Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886 - 1965) and his…
Indispensable to an understanding of Medieval and Renaissance texts and a topic of controversy for the Romantic poets, allegory remains a site for debate and controversy in the twenty-first-century. In…
Developed with the Royal Shakespeare Company, with interviews with actors such as David Tennant and directors such as Alexandra Gilbreath. Page notes explain key words and phrases unfamiliar to the…
Finally, one of the most of the most beloved books every published--explained. The Little Prince is revered around the world. Two hundred million copies have been sold in 270 languages;…
A collection of new essays on First World War literature offering critical overviews of the major genres and contexts.
An introductory guide to King Lear in performance offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, contextual documents, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key productions,…
Developed by and for the RSC, with unique material including interviews and introductions by leading actors and directors. With photos of classic and unusual performances, on-page notes to explain unfamiliar…
Contains a wide range of poems and detailed commentaries designed to develop and enhance the vital analytical skills and critical appreciation needed for studying and reading poetry.
A fascinating history of Chicago's innovative and invaluable contributions to American literature and art from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century This remarkable cultural history celebrates the great Midwestern…
The third book of Lucretius' great poem on the workings of the universe is devoted entirely to expounding the implications of Epicurus' dictum that death does not matter, 'is nothing…
"It is stripped offthe paperin great patches . . . The colour is repellent . . . In the places where it isn’t faded and where the sun is just…
Two of our foremost poets provide here a lucid, straightforward primer that "looks squarely at some of the headaches and mysteries of poetic form": a book for readers who have…
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Taste of France is a culinary tour of Paris and the Riviera during the 1920s. Take a culinary tour of Paris and the Riviera in the 1920s,…
With contributions by: Leonie Brialey, MJ Clarke, Roy T. Cook, Joseph J. Darowski, Ian Gordon, Gene Kannenberg Jr., Christopher P. Lehman, Anne C. McCarthy, Ben Owen, Lara Saguisag, Ben Saunders,…
The most comprehensive book available to students of this Victorian novelist.
Educating Rita portrays a working-class Liverpool woman's hunger for education. It premiered in London, in 1980 and won the Society for West End Theatres (SWET) award for Best Comedy of the Year.…
Tells the story of crime fiction, discussing what features define the genre and how it has developed, and poses questions about crime fiction's status as a brand of popular culture…
These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)—known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky—as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the…
3rd edition. The only fully annotated edition available, edited by Brean Hammond. With a fully illustrated introduction provided a comprehensive overview of the debates and opinions surrounding the play.
A new translation capturing the energy and severity of Sallust's Latin style.
-It makes me very happy that I can read this novel written over a hundred years ago as if it were contemporary and be deeply affected by it. It cannot…
The author presents a poetic version of the alphabet that is based structurally on Fibonacci's mathematical sequence in which every number is the sum of the two previous numbers.
In this new book, crucial for understanding her journey, Luce Irigaray goes further than in Speculum and questions the work of the Pre-Socratics at the root of our culture. Reminding…
One of the major figures of modern theater, Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) wrote dramas and satires that sparked controversy with their radical departures from conventional theatrical techniques. His most celebrated work,…