Literary category: 117525 books
by Clive James
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
“[A] collection of Clive James’s essays on a variety of literary topics . . . This is sanity, humor and acuity in the face of death” (The Wall Street Journal).
In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that “if you don’t know the exact moment when the lights...
Andromaque by Jean Racine (Book Analysis)
Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Unlock the more straightforward side of Andromaque with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Andromaque by Jean Racine, which tells the tragic story of the passion of four characters who fall into unrequited love, leading to their despair and,...
Koestler
The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
From award-winning author Michael Scammell comes a monumental achievement: the first authorized biography of Arthur Koestler, one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals of the twentieth century. Over a decade in the making, and based on new research and full access to its subject’s...
Rubyfruit Jungle
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
“The rare work of fiction that has changed real life . . . If you don’t yet know Molly Bolt—or Rita Mae Brown, who created her—I urge you to read and thank them both.”—Gloria Steinem
Winner of the Lambda Literary Pioneer Award | Winner of the Lee Lynch Classic Book Award
A...
The Solitary House
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Lynn Shepherd’s first acclaimed novel of historical suspense, Murder at Mansfield Park, brilliantly reimagined the time of Jane Austen. Now, in this spellbinding new triumph, she introduces an unforgettable duo of detectives into the gaslit world of Dickens.
London, 1850. Charles Maddox had been...
by James Magnuson
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
"A triumphantly preposterous fish-out-of-water campus caper…hilarious." —Washington Post
In this brilliant mix of literary satire and crime caper, Frankie Abandonato, a small-time con man on the run, finds refuge by posing as V. S. Mohle—a famously reclusive writer—and teaching...
by George Gissing
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
The story deals with the literary world that Gissing himself had experienced. Its title refers to the London street, Grub Street, which in the 18th century became synonymous with hack literature; by Gissing's time, Grub Street itself no longer existed, though hack-writing certainly did. Its two central...
by Juliet Gauvin
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
A story about losing your way and finding your life. Book 1 of 3. Elizabeth Lara built a perfect life as San Francisco’s top divorce attorney, but when she loses her great-aunt Mags, the woman who raised her, she boards a plane and leaves it all behind. The Irish shores welcome her as she learns...
Salvage Work
U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law’s construction of personhood in the Americas. Tracking the extraordinary afterlives of the legal slave personality from the nineteenth century into the twenty-first, Angela Naimou shows the legal slave to be a fractured but generative...
by Toni Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2007
The Nobel Prize-winning author now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race.
Toni Morrison's brilliant discussions of the "Africanist"...
The Daemon Knows
Literary Greatness and the American Sublime
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND KIRKUS REVIEWS
Hailed as “the indispensable critic” by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom—New York Times bestselling writer and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University—has...
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Geoffrey Chaucer, regarded by many as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, whose ‘Canterbury Tales’ helped establish the legitimacy of Middle English, at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin....
DON QUIXOTE
Complete, Over 300 illustrations and Free Audiobook Links
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
The History of Don Quixote Complete !
Full Version
Over 300 illustrations and Free Audiobook Links
Published in two volumes, but complete here, a decade apart, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire...
Reader, I Married Him
Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
This collection of original stories by today’s finest women writers takes inspiration from the famous line in Charlotte Brontë’s most beloved novel, Jane Eyre.
A fixture in the literary canon, Charlotte Brontë is revered by readers all over the world. Her books featuring unforgettable,...