Literary category: 117525 books
by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
* National Bestseller and winner of the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
*** Hailed by Edmund White as "a brilliant new novel" on the cover of the New York Times Book Review
* Lauded by Jonathan Franzen, E. L. Doctorow and many others
From a global literary star comes a prize-winning...
Lost in a Good Book
A Thursday Next Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
The second installment in Jasper Fforde’s New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England—from the author of Early Riser
The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that...
by Bradford Morrow
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
An Indie Next pick for October 2017, a Buzz Books pick for fall/winter, and chosen as one of 7 titles featured in the Publishers Lunch October Buzz Books Monthly. It was also selected for Vanity Fair's "Hot Type." Surrounding pub, Bradford Morrow has published original pieces in the Literary Hub,...
American Bloomsbury
Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
Even the most devoted readers of nineteenth-century American literature often assume that the men and women behind the masterpieces were as dull and staid as the era's static daguerreotypes. Susan Cheever's latest work, however, brings new life to the well-known literary personages who produced such...
Judging a Book By Its Lover
A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
“Leto is as funny as she is well-read; a delight for bibliophiles and wannabes alike.”
—Wylie Overstreet, author of The History of the World According to Facebook
Lauren Leto, humor blogger and co-author of Texts from Last Night, now offers a fascinating field guide to the hearts and...
by Jonathan Culler
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What is Literary Theory? What is the relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is Literature, and does it matter? These are the sorts of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in a book which steers a clear path through a subject often perceived to be impenetrable. It offers insights...
Thrill Me
Essays on Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Bold new essays on how to craft a thrilling read--in any genre--from the bestselling author of The Dead Lands
Anyone familiar with the meteoric rise of Benjamin Percy's career will surely have noticed a certain shift: After writing two short-story collections and a literary novel, he delivered...
by Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
American author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is extensively quoted. During his lifetime, Twain became a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists and European...
by Charlotte Wood
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
“A Handmaid’s Tale for the 21st century” (Prism Magazine), Wood’s dystopian tale about a group of young women held prisoner in the Australian desert is a prescient feminist fable for our times. As the Guardian writes, “contemporary feminism may have found its masterpiece of horror.”
Drugged,...
Writers in Paris
Literary Lives in the City of Light
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
A revealing history of writers who lived in Paris, from Moliére to Henry Miller: the basis for one of Lonely Planet’s Top 10 Literary Walking Tours.
No city has attracted so much literary talent, launched so many illustrious careers, or produced such a wealth of enduring literature as Paris....
Nikki Giovanni: A Literary Biography
A Literary Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Nikki Giovanni: A Literary Biography focuses on one of the most widely read poets to emerge from the Black Arts Movement, providing a thorough examination of Giovanni's life and work, from her earliest volume of poetry, Black Feeling Black Talk, to the recent Bicycles. The book addresses Giovanni's...
Kafka's The Trial
Philosophical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Kafka's novel The Trial, written from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925, is a multi-faceted, notoriously difficult manifestation of European literary modernism, and one of the most emblematic books of the 20th Century. It tells the story of Josef K., a man accused of a crime he has no recollection...
Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature
Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the Authority of the Vernacular
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Giovanni Boccaccio played a pivotal role in the extraordinary emergence of the Italian literary tradition in the fourteenth century, not only as author of the Decameron, but also as scribe of Dante, Petrarch and Cavalcanti. Using a single codex written entirely in Boccaccio's hand, Martin Eisner brings...
Writing America
Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee (A Reader's Companion)
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Winner of the John S. Tuckey 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award for Mark Twain Scholarship from The Center for Mark Twain Studies
American novelist E.L. Doctorow once observed that literature “endows places with meaning.” Yet, as this wide-ranging new book vividly illustrates, understanding...