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Dante in Love
The World's Greatest Poem and How It Made History
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2005
Dante in Love is the story of the most famous journey in literature. Dante Alighieri, exiled from his home in Florence, a fugitive from justice, followed a road in 1302 that took him first to the labyrinths of hell then up the healing mountain of purgatory, and finally to paradise. He found a vision...
Golems, Vampires and Wanderers:
Essays in Gothic Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Welcome to a world of insanity, wicked monks, sublime landscapes, romantic heroines, golems, vampires, and wanderers.... Essays on the relationship between fantasy fiction and the Gothic, including the Gothic clazzics Bram Stoker's Dracula, Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer, Ann...
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author).
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Contents
Adventures among books -- Recollections of...
The War Against Cliche
Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Is there anything that Martin Amis can’t write about? In this virtuosic, career-spanning collection he takes on James Joyce and Elvis Presley, Nabokov and English football, Jane Austen and Penthouse Forum, William Burroughs and Hillary Clinton. But above all, Amis is concerned with literature, and...
Burdens of Proof
Faith, Doubt, and Identity in Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Autobiographical impostures, once they come to light, appear to us as outrageous, scandalous. They confuse lived and textual identity (the person in the world and the character in the text) and call into question what we believe, what we doubt, and how we receive information. In the process, they...
Meditations on Middle-Earth
New Writing on the Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien by Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guin, Raymond E. Feist, Terry Pratchett, Charles de Lint, George R. R. Martin, and more
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2002
NOMINATED FOR THE 2002 HUGO AND LOCUS AWARD
When J.R.R. Tolkien created the extraordinary world of Middle-earth and populated it with fantastic, archetypal denizens, reinventing the heroic quest, the world hardly noticed. Sales of The Lord of the Rings languished for the better part of two...
by John Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
“Fearless, illuminating” criticism from a New York Times–bestselling author and legendary teacher, “proving . . . that true art is moral and not trivial” (Los Angeles Times).
Novelist John Gardner’s thesis in On Moral Fiction is simple: “True art is by its nature moral.” It...
U and I
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Baker muses on the creative process via his obsession with John Updike.
by S.S. Prawer
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
“Very few men,” said Bakunin, “have read as much, and, it may be added, have read as intelligently, as M. Marx.” S. S. Prawer’s highly influential work explores how the world of imaginative literature—poems, novels, plays—infused and shaped Marx’s writings, from his unpublished correspondence,...
The Dark Tower Companion
A Guide to Stephen King's Epic Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
**A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO STEPHEN KING'S BESTSELLING DARK TOWER SERIES.
“A valuable tool for exploring the series. Both newcomers and frequent visitors to Mid-World will be informed and delighted.”—Stephen King**
The story of Roland Deschain of Gilead, the last gunslinger, and...
by Mignon Fogarty
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Millions of people around the world communicate better thanks to Mignon Fogarty, aka Grammar Girl, whose top-rated weekly grammar podcast has been downloaded more than 40 million times. Now she's turning her attention to improving our vocabulary—one smart word at a time—with Grammar Girl's 101...
The Good Story
Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
**J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018.
J.M. Coetzee: What relationship do I have with my life history? Am I its conscious author, or should I think of myself as simply a voice uttering with...
The Politics of 1930s British Literature
Education, Class, Gender
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Winner of the 2019 International Standing Conference for the History of Education's First Book Award
Drawing on a rich array of archival sources and historical detail, The Politics of 1930s British Literature tells the story of a school-minded decade and illuminates new readings of the politics...
by Denise Longrie
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
Those who read by candlelight in centuries past left us an embarrassment of riches in stories of ghosts, werewolves, and other spooks, of lost loves and lost worlds, and of the then new world of science. This book, with its one hundred spoiler-free reviews, is your guide to many of those old tales....