Women Authors category: 700 books
by Grace Livingston Hill
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
A Chautauqua Idyl by Grace Livingston Hill
Down in a rocky pasture, on the edge of a wood, ran a little brook, tinkle, tinkle, over the bright pebbles of its bed. Close to the waters edge grew delicate ferns, and higher up the mossy bank nestled violets, blue and white and yellow. Later...
Voice in the Wilderness
Conversations with Terry Tempest Williams
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
With her distinctive, impassioned voice and familiar felicity of language, Terry Tempest Williams talks about wilderness and wildlife, place and eroticism, art and literature, democracy and politics, family and heritage, Mormonism and religion, writing and creativity, and other subjects that engage...
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American Writer on the Prairie
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote stories that have defined the American frontier for generations of readers. As both author and character in her own books, she became one of the most famous figures in American children’s literature. Her famous Little House on the Prairie series, based on her childhood...
Alfonsina Storni
Literatura y feminismo en la Argentina de los años 20
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 6, 2016
La sociedad argentina de principios del siglo XX mostró signos claros de dinamismo y modernidad, especialmente en sus principales centros urbanos. Como parte de esta sociedad moderna y movilizada, encontramos el accionar de las feministas que continuaron con sus reclamos y reivindicaciones, originados...
Gertrude Stein in Europe
Reconfigurations Across Media, Disciplines, and Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Although often hailed as a 'quintessentially American' writer, the modernist poet, novelist and playwright Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) spent most of her life in France. With chapters written by leading international scholars, Gertrude Stein in Europe is the first sustained exploration of the European...
by Ursula K. Le Guin, David Naimon
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Ursula K. Le Guin discusses her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry?both her process and her philosophy?with all the wisdom, profundity, and rigor we expect from one of the great writers of the last century.
When the New York Times referred to Ursula K. Le Guin as America’s greatest writer of...
Summary and Analysis of Americanah
Based on the Book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Americanah tells you what you need to know before or after you read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
This...
Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools
New Interpretations and Transatlantic Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Containing pieces by distinguished scholars including Darlene Harbour Unrue and Robert Brinkmeyer, this book is the first full investigation of the links between Porter's only novel and European intellectual history. Beginning with Sebastian Brant, author of the late medieval Narrenschiff, whom she acknowledges...
Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright
The Poetics and Politics of Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
After the Second World War Gertrude Stein asked a friend's support in securing a visa for Richard Wright to visit Paris. "I've got to help him, she said. You see, we are both members of a minority group." The brief, little-noted friendship of Stein and Wright began in 1945 with a letter. Over the...
by Mary Loeffelholz
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
The Value of Emily Dickinson is the first compact introduction to Dickinson to focus primarily on her poems and why they have held and continue to hold such significance for readers. It addresses the question of literary value in light of current controversies dividing scholars, including those surrounding...
Engendering Genre
The Works of Margaret Atwood
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Winner of the 2010 Margaret Atwood Society Best Book Prize.
In Engendering Genre, renowned Margaret Atwood scholar Reingard M. Nischik analyzes the relationship between gender and genre in Atwood’s works. She approaches Atwood’s oeuvre by genre – poetry, short fiction, novels, criticism,...
Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale
by Sydney Owenson
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
This is the first modern scholarly edition of Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale (1818). Owenson's seventh novel, it is the most sophisticated of her four 'national tales'. Owenson combined conventional romance plotlines with the political and social problems in Ireland, following the passing of the Act of Union in 1800.
by Deborah Lutz
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
An intimate portrait of the lives and writings of the Brontë sisters, drawn from the objects they possessed.
In this unique and lovingly detailed biography of a literary family that has enthralled readers for nearly two centuries, Victorian literature scholar Deborah Lutz illuminates the complex...
by Toni Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, reads the speech she delivered in Stockholm, Sweden, at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony.