Literary Criticism

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Report copyright infringementby Alistair McCallum (Author)The Shakespeare Handbooks provide a helpful, straightforward guide to the work of the world's most celebrated dramatist. Along with a clear, easy-to-follow description of the plot, each book contains plenty of quotations from the text - with simple explanations of any unfamiliar words and phrases - and some thought-provoking comments from critics, past and present. The Shakespeare Handbooks include a few intriguing Shakespearean facts ...

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Report copyright infringementby B. K. De Fabris (Editor), Bjornstjerne Bjornson (Author)Bj rnstjerne Martinius Bj rnson (8. December 1832 - 26. April 1910) was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit", becoming the first Norwegian Nobel laureate. With "The Newly Married Couple" (1865), virtually ...

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Report copyright infringementby Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Author), David McDuff (Translator), David McDuff (Introduction by)Fyodor Dostoyevsky's harrowing, semi-autobiographical novel about the internal transformation of a man serving ten years in a remote Siberian prison "In order to understand the significance of the style and structure of the book, it is necessary to bear in mind that it was the result of a terrible mental, spiritual, and physical ordeal. . . . The point about the novel, however...

Style and the Single Girl: How Modern Women Re-Dressed the Novel, 1922-1977

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Report copyright infringementby Hope Howell Hodgkins (Author)Style and the Single Girl by Hope Howell Hodgkins reveals how four very different single-girl novelists employed modern modes to re-dress the traditional English marriage plot. In the first monograph to use fashion theory and history to trace the literary progress of British women in later modernity, Hodgkins argues that correspondences between a gendered sartorial style and a gendered literary style persisted throughout the modern ...

The Great Events by Famous Historians: A Comprehensive and Readable Account of the World's History, Emphasizing the More Important Events, and Present

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Francis Horne (Author), John Rudd (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and ot...

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Report copyright infringementby Simone de Beauvoir (Author), Marybeth Timmermann (Translator)The groundbreaking writings on the philosophy of the individual by iconic feminist and social thinker, Simone de Beauvoir How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity of our notions of good and evil, and show instead how we make our own destiny simply by being. Throughout history, some books h...

Cú Chulainn's Death: A Critical Edition of Brislech Mór Maige Murthemni

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Report copyright infringementby Bettina Kimpton (Author)The death tale of the early medieval Irish warrior hero Cú Chulainn features a taut narrative interwoven with stunningly complex poetry. This revised critical edition with introduction, text, translation, textual notes, and glossary provides linguistic, literary, and metrical analyses of the tale, as well as a brief discussion of early Irish poetics. Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN ...

An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Mendelsohn (Author)A New York Times/PBS NewsHour Book Club Pick From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading--and reliving--Homer's epic masterpiece. When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it ...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Marcinko (Author)A brilliant virtuoso of violence, Richard Marcinko rose through Navy ranks to create and command one of this country's most elite and classified counterterrorist units, SEAL TEAM SIX. Now this thirty-year veteran recounts the secret missions and Special Warfare madness of his worldwide military career--and the riveting truth about the top-secret Navy SEALs. Marcinko was almost inhumanly tough, and proved it on hair-raising missions acro...

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Report copyright infringementby John Yorke (Author)In the exciting and wholly original Into the Woods: A Five-Act Journey Into Story, John Yorke not only shows that there is truly a unifying shape to narrative--one that echoes the great fairytale journey into the woods, and one, like any great art, that comes from deep within--he explains why, too."A marvelous analysis of screenwriting and, with any luck, should help a great many people achieve their dreams." --Julian Fellowes, creator of Dow...

Inkling, Historian, Soldier, and Brother: A Life of Warren Hamilton Lewis

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Report copyright infringementby Don W. King (Author)The first full biography of Warren Lewis, brother and secretary of C. S. Lewis Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) 2023 Bronze Medal Winner in World History Detailing the life of Warren Hamilton Lewis, author Don W. King gives us new insights into the life and mind of Warren's famous brother, C. S. Lewis, and also demonstrates how Warren's experiences provide an illuminating window into the events, personalities, and culture of 20th-cen...

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Report copyright infringementby Vladimir Nabokov (Author)Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude," an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last days in an absurd jail, where he is visited by chimerical jailers, an executioner who masquerades as a fellow prisoner, and by his in-laws, who ...

A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare's London

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Report copyright infringementby Scott Oldenburg (Author)William Muggins, an impoverished but highly literate weaver-poet, lived and wrote in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, when few of his contemporaries could even read. A Weaver-Poet and the Plague's microhistorical approach uses Muggins's life and writing, in which he articulates a radical vision of a commonwealth founded on labor and mutual aid, as a gateway into a broader narrative about London's "middling sort" during the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (Author), Walter Kaufmann (Translator), Walter Kaufmann (Introduction by)A poetic exploration of good and evil from the towering figure of world literature in the best translation available. This edition of Faust provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann's translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm of the play as well as the complex depth of Goethe's brilliant language in this...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles F. Horne (Editor), Sadi (Author)The Gulistan or Rose Garden of Beauties is a book written by Charles F. Horne. It is a translation of the Persian literary work, Gulistan, which was written in the 13th century by the poet Saadi. The book is a collection of stories, fables, and aphorisms that offer moral and ethical lessons for readers. The stories are set in different parts of the world and feature characters from different walks of life, including kings...

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Report copyright infringementby Sheik Nefzawi (Author), Richard F. Burton (Author)The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawi is a classic Arabic erotic literature written in the 15th century by the Tunisian author, Sheikh Nefzawi. The book is a comprehensive guide to lovemaking, covering everything from sexual positions to aphrodisiacs to the art of seduction. It is divided into 21 chapters and includes stories, advice, and poetry on the topic of sex. The book is written in a poetic and flower...

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Dassow Walls (Author)"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live." That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small woods at the edge of his hometown of Concord has been a touchstone for individualists and seekers since the publication of Walden in 1854. But there was much more to Thoreau than his bri...

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Report copyright infringementby Eliot Weinberger (Author), Octavio Paz (Afterword by)The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty--from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth's loose interpretation. As Octavio Paz writes in the afterword, "Eliot Weinberger's commentary on the successive translations of Wang Wei's little poem illustrates, with succinct...

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Report copyright infringementby Sumana Roy (Author)An exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek "Sumana Roy has written--grown--a radiant and wondrous book."--Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot "Beautiful. . . . Roy weaves together science, nature, personal narrative, literature, sociology, and more to keep the r...

Examining Lois Lane: The Scoop on Superman's Sweetheart

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Report copyright infringementby Nadine Farghaly (Editor)In June 1938, Superman made his debut in Action Comics #1, which also featured his romantic interest--and Clark Kent's journalistic rival--Lois Lane. In the decades since, the intrepid reporter has become an iconic figure almost as recognizable as the Man of Steel himself. Lois has appeared in multiple adaptations, from her own comic book to various films and television shows, and millions of women have seen--and continue to see--her as ...

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Report copyright infringementby Raju Mahajan (Author)A unique examination of supercharacters in the West and the East, Neelkamal: The Bengali Batman addresses key differences and similarities between America's Batman and Bangladesh's Neelkamal to highlight civilization's view of its heroes. The first of its kind, this analysis celebrates the diversity of societal traditions and invites the reader on a journey toward greater cultural understanding for future cooperation between societies. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ralph Griffiths (Author), G. E. Griffiths (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), an...

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