Emily Overton: 3 books

This fun filled world adventure stars a boy named Max and his dog Jack. Max and Jack live on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and each day travel to a new country of the world. In each country they meet a new boy or girl and their pets, which then tell them about their country and take...

Once merely a footnote in Restoration and eighteenth-century studies and rarely taught, Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (1688), by Aphra Behn, is now essential reading for scholars and a classroom favorite. It appears in general surveys and in courses on early modern British writers, postcolonial literature,...

Despite the increasing number and variety of older characters appearing in film, television, comics, and other popular culture, much of the understanding of these figures has been limited to outdated stereotypes of aging. These include depictions of frailty, resistance to modern life, and mortality....