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Selected Folktales/Ausgewählte Märchen
A Dual-Language Book
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
The 27 world-famous tales in this collection have inspired countless adaptations in many languages. Included are such favorites as "Hänsel and Gretel," "The Brave Little Tailor," "Cinderella," and "Little Red Riding Hood," as well as the less familiar tales...
by BookRags
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
This study guide includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Characters, Objects/Places, Themes, Style, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.
Disputed Titles
Ireland, Scotland, and the Novel of Inheritance, 1798–1832
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Disputed Titles: Ireland, Scotland, and the Novel of Inheritance, 1798-1832 argues for the centrality of inheritance—often impeded, disrupted inheritance—to the novel’s rise to preeminence in Britain during the Romantic period. Novels by Maria Edgeworth, Sydney Owenson, Charles Maturin, Walter...
Off the Books
On Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Head Off the Books in this collection of newspaper columns, where J. Peder Zane uses classic and contemporary literature to explore American culture and politics. The book review editor for the Raleigh, North Carolina News & Observer from 1996 to 2009, Zane demonstrates that good books are essential...
Transatlantic Literature and Transitivity, 1780-1850
Subjects, Texts, and Print Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This book makes an important contribution to transatlantic literary studies and an emerging body of work on identity formation and print culture in the Atlantic world. The collection identifies the ways in which historically-situated but malleable subjectivities engage with popular and pressing debates...
The Grasping Imagination
The American Writings of Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
There has been almost no study of the American writings of Henry James, that is, the fiction, essays, and travel literature with an American setting. The great bulk of Jamesian criticism deals with the international novels, particularly his late works.
This study places James’s career in...
Sweet Theft
A Poet's Commonplace Book
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Centuries ago, when books were rare, those who owned them would lend them to friends, who in turn would copy out passages they especially liked before returning the precious book to its owner. These anthologies came to be known as Commonplace Books, and modern writers as different as W. H. Auden and...
The Bestseller Code
Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
"When a story captures the imagination of millions, that's magic. Can you qualify magic? Archer and Jockers just may have done so."—Sylvia Day, New York Times bestselling author
Ask most people about massive success in the world of fiction, and you’ll typically hear that it’s a game of...
A Dangerous Profession
A Book About the Writing Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Frederick Busch has an enduring love affair with great books, and here he brilliantly communicates his passion to us all. Whether expounding on Melville or Dickens, or celebrating Hemingway or O'Hara, he explains what literature can ineffably reveal about our own lives. For Busch, there was no other...
Dive Deeper:Journeys with Moby-Dick
Journeys with Moby-Dick
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Herman Melville's epic tale of obsession has all the ingredients of a first rate drama--fascinating characters in solitude and society, battles between good and evil, a thrilling chase to the death--and yet its allusions, digressions, and sheer scope can prove daunting to even the most intrepid reader....
by BookRags
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
The Arc of Justice Study Guide contains a comprehensive summary and analysis of Arc of Justice by Kevin Boyle. It includes a detailed Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Character Descriptions, Objects/Places, Themes, Styles, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.
The L.M. Montgomery Reader
Volume Two: A Critical Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Following on the heels of the first volume of The L.M. Montgomery Reader, this second volume narrates the development of L.M. Montgomery’s (1874–1942) critical reputation in the seventy years since her death. Edited by leading Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre, it traces milestones and turning...
by I Talk You Talk Press
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
A graded reader for learners of English (EFL)
Level 2 A1/A2 Starter (2)
Word count: 6,582
Collette Roy is a teacher in Canada. She is tired of working in the city, so she finds a job at a school in a very small town.
Her house is in the forest. There is only one other house...
by BookRags
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
The Drowned and the Saved Study Guide contains a comprehensive summary and analysis of The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi. It includes a detailed Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Character Descriptions, Objects/Places, Themes, Styles, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.