Literary category: 117525 books
Dreams of Exile
Robert Louis Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
"Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child," Robert Louis Stevenson once said in a statement that perfectly captures the magic of his own fiction. Immensely popular during is brief life--he died in 1894 at the age of forty-four--he has never lacked for readers since. In the century...
Virtual Modernism
Writing and Technology in the Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In Virtual Modernism, Katherine Biers offers a fresh view of the emergence of American literary modernism from the eruption of popular culture in the early twentieth century. Employing dynamic readings of the works of Stephen Crane, Henry James, James Weldon Johnson, Djuna Barnes, and Gertrude Stein,...
Imaginary Ethnographies
Literature, Culture, and Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Through readings of iconic figures such as the cannibal, the child, the alien, and the posthuman, Gabriele Schwab analyzes literary explorations at the boundaries of the human. Treating literature as a dynamic medium that "writes culture"—one that makes the abstract particular and local,...
Race, Gender, and Comparative Black Modernism
Suzanne Lacascade, Marita Bonner, Suzanne Césaire, Dorothy West
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Race, Gender, and Comparative Black Modernism revives and critiques four African American and Francophone Caribbean women writers sometimes overlooked in discussions of early-twentieth-century literature: Guadeloupean Suzanne Lacascade (dates unknown), African American Marita Bonner (1899--1971),...
by Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Is it legitimate to conceive of and write a history of medieval French literature when the term "literature" as we know it today did not appear until the very end of the Middle Ages? In this novel introduction to French literature of the period, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet says yes, arguing...
by Emil Hakl, Petr Kopet (translator), Karen Reppin (translator)
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
A prostitute wakes up one morning to discover her boyfriend has tattooed obscene messages all over her body...
A woman tentatively goes back to her new boyfriend’s flat, only to find it packed with toy soldiers and intricately reconstructed war scenes...
A retired pilot flaunts his...
The Farthing Poet
A Biography of Richard Hengist Horne 1802-84: A Lesser Literary Lion
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
First published in 1968. Richard Hengist Horne, virtually unknown today, was one of the more extraordinary figures of the nineteenth century literary scene. The author of an epic poem Orion was acclaimed a work of genius by almost every English critic. His voluminous literary output is for the most...
Romain Gary
The Man Who Sold His Shadow
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
In this book Ralph Schoolcraft explores the extraordinary career of the modern French author, film director, and diplomat—a romantic and tragic figure whose fictions extended well beyond his books. Born Roman Kacew, he overcame an impoverished boyhood to become a French Resistance hero and win the...
The Censorship Effect
Baudelaire, Flaubert, and the Formation of French Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
In 1857 the trials of Flaubert and Baudelaire for offending against religion and public morality drew attention to the features we now associate with literary modernism; but instead of winning praise for their innovations they were indicted for "ideological crimes." With the passage of time...
by Steve Hely
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
This story of a slacker who sets out to take the book-publishing world by storm is “a hilarious send-up of literary pretensions and celebrity culture.” (USA Today).
Pete Tarslaw wants some fame and fortune and, perhaps most importantly, the chance to get back at his ex-girlfriend at her...
The Tender Hour of Twilight
Paris in the '50s, New York in the '60s: A Memoir of Publishing's Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
From Beckett to Burroughs, The Story of O to The Autobiography of Malcolm X, an iconic literary troublemaker tells the colorful stories behind the stories
Richard Seaver came to Paris in 1950 seeking Hemingway's moveable feast. Paris had become a different city, traumatized by World War II,...
by Martin Amis
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Martin Amis is one of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time. With Experience, he discloses a private life every bit as unique and fascinating as his bestselling novels.
The son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis explores his relationship with this father and...
Bandersnatch
C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
An inside look at the Inklings and their creative process
C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the other Inklings met each week to read and discuss each other’s works-in-progress, offering both encouragement and blistering critique. How did these conversations shape the books they were writing?...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Containing entries on over four hundred authors of fiction, poetry and drama from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, this invaluable work of reference presents material of a range and depth that no other book on the subject in English attains. For the second edition, the entries have been updated to...