Fiction Literature category: 621673 books
You Should Come With Me Now
Stories of Ghosts
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
** LONGLISTED for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2018 **
M. John Harrison is a cartographer of the liminal. His work sits at the boundaries between genres – horror and science fiction, fantasy and travel writing – just as his characters occupy the no man’s land between the spatial and...
Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists of the Twentieth Century
A Biographical Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
This biographical dictionary presents full information on 400 artists whose influence and illustrative contributions to the fields of science fiction and fantasy literature helped define the 20th century as the “Science Fiction Century” and helped established science fiction and fantasy as unique...
Fiction and the Ways of Knowing
Essays on British Novels
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
In this highly individual study, Avrom Fleishman explores a wide range of literary references to human culture—the culture of ideas, facts, and images. Each critical essay in Fiction and the Ways of Knowing takes up for sustained analysis a major British novel of the nineteenth or the twentieth...
Literary Miscellany
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Wouldn’t it be great to be a fly on the wall as the great writers took pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard)? While reading this work, you’ll be just that. Here are behind-the-book stories and facts about authors, publishing and everything literary that will entertain both casual and serious readers....
The Assembler of Parts
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
A dual Kirkus Best Fiction and Best Debut Fiction selection, this stunning novel is an emotional fable about love, forgiveness, and what most makes us human.
At the outset of this extraordinary first novel, eight-year-old Jess finds herself in heaven reviewing her short life. She is guided...
The Washington Irving Anthology
The Complete Fiction and Collected Non-Fictional Works
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Washington Irving sits atop the American literary canon alongside Mark Twain and Edgar Allan Poe. Indeed he was the first truly international American writer to achieve acclaim around the world as well as at home, and to make his living exclusively as a man of letters. His most famous stories "The...
by James Blish
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
A space-traveling Jesuit priest confronts a moral but godless alien race in this Hugo Award–winning novel by the author of the Cities in Flight saga.
Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man, a Jesuit priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He doesn’t feel...
How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised
A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
A thoroughly revised and updated edition of Thomas C. Foster's classic guide—a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics, including symbols, themes, and contexts—that shows you how to make your everyday reading experience more rewarding and enjoyable.
While...
My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs
The Nobel Lecture
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
The Nobel Lecture in Literature, delivered by Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans) at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 7, 2017, in an elegant, clothbound edition.
In their announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy...
by John Flower
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Almost all of us know French literature, even if we don’t know French, because it is probably the second largest and certainly the most translated into English. And, even if we don’t read, we would have seen film and television versions (think Count of Monte-Cristo) and even a musical rendition...
Campbell's Scoop
Reflections on Young Adult Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2010
At the request of her many fans, Patty Campbell, editor of the Scarecrow Studies in Young Adult Literature series, has selected some of her best essays, articles, columns, and speeches in Campbell's Scoop. These pieces define the boundaries between children's and adult literature and review the trends,...
Black Stereotypes in Popular Series Fiction, 1851-1955
Jim Crow Era Authors and Their Characters
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Even well-meaning fiction writers of the late Jim Crow era (1900–1955) perpetuated racial stereotypes in their depiction of black characters. From 1918 to 1952, Octavus Roy Cohen turned out a remarkable 360 short stories featuring Florian Slappey and the schemers, romancers and ditzes of Birmingham’s...
What is Literature for?
Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 30 November 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Along with the theoretical or traditionally historical question “What is literature?”, the critical and political question “What can literature do?” begs an answer. What value do contemporary society and culture ascribe to literature? What utility? What role? “My confidence in the future...
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,...