Literary companions books

A study of an award-winning author's extensive corpus written across a broad range of genres  Read More >>

Offers a critical study of the context in which authors such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Stephen Crane, Frank Norris,...  Read More >>

Between 1878 and 1881, Standish O’Grady published a three-volume History of Ireland. At the heart of this history...  Read More >>

A helpful introduction to English and Irish Literature aimed at non-native speakers of English This second edition...  Read More >>

This volume focuses on several Russian authors among many who immigrated to Israel with the ""big wave"" of 1990s...  Read More >>

The LARB Quarterly Journal Summer 2016 issue features established, and award winning writers. This issue highlights...  Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature is a comprehensive reference resource including a wealth of critical...  Read More >>

The original authorised biography, and the only one written by an author who actually met J.R.R. Tolkien, reissued...  Read More >>

This book discusses some rituals of justice--such as public executions, printed responses to the Archbishop of Canterbury's...  Read More >>

Takes a comparative cultural studies approach to the ubiquitous legend of Faust and his infernal dealings. Including...  Read More >>

Illuminates the distinctive historical as well as normative importance of the political thought of American Transcendentalism...  Read More >>

Interviews with the author of Neuromancer, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and Zero History  Read More >>

This volume addresses a problem of high controversy: Relating the Holocaust to poetic and aesthetic phenomena.  Read More >>

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Drawing on an eclectic range of sources Ostrowski analyses how authors as canonical as Nathaniel Hawthorne and as...  Read More >>

With the publication of Susan Sontag's diaries, the development of her career can now be evaluated in a more genetic...  Read More >>

Between 1878 and 1881, Standish O’Grady published a three-volume History of Ireland. At the heart of this history...  Read More >>

From the early twentieth century to the present day, countless books and films have portrayed the solitary exploration...  Read More >>

From the early twentieth century to the present day, countless books and films have portrayed the solitary exploration...  Read More >>

""First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin Inc. 1953""--Copyright page.  Read More >>

Discusses some rituals of justice - such as public executions, and King Charles I's treason trial - in early modern...  Read More >>

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Investigates the myriad ways that Asians throughout the Americas use language, literature, religion, commerce, and...  Read More >>

The essays collected in this book, addressing both the original edition of Storyteller and the 2012 revision, use...  Read More >>

Argues that it is instability that provides the tools to navigate and understand the complexity of the early modern...  Read More >>