Literary reference works books

"""This highly useful series presents substantial excerpts from the best criticism on the major literary figures...  Read More >>

Each volume of this reference provides substantial critical essays and biographical information on four to eight...  Read More >>

Collecting diverse critical perspectives on the topic of play - from dolls, bilboquets, and lotteries, to writing...  Read More >>

Collecting diverse critical perspectives on the topic of play - from dolls, bilboquets, and lotteries, to writing...  Read More >>

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This edited volume is the first to focus on how concepts of citizenship diversify and stimulate the long-standing...  Read More >>

Discover artifacts from a thousand generations of Jedi history in this must-have guide to the galaxy's greatest...  Read More >>

While web comics, video games and fan fiction have each received scholarly study over the years, this book focuses...  Read More >>

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Building on the ideas of the nineteenth-century Gothic and utopian movements, speculative writers anticipated literary...  Read More >>

A moving and personal anthology from the Sunday Times bestseller, encompassing melancholy, morality, mortality and...  Read More >>

""A vast and vibrant multiverse simply explained"" -- From cover.  Read More >>

From the nation's most trusted news outlets comes an entertaining and authoritative look at the world around us....  Read More >>

In this book, Austen fans or those who wish for a deeper understanding of how stories can alleviate suffering will...  Read More >>

In the decades since his 1992 breakout novel, All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy has gained a reputation as...  Read More >>

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""From the longest-running, most trusted book review in America comes a celebration of The New York Times Book Review,...  Read More >>

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In the decades since his 1992 breakout novel, All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy has gained a reputation as...  Read More >>

Edward Gorey was a fascinating and prolific author and artist. Of the delightful and fascinating books that Gorey...  Read More >>

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Popular perceptions of American writers as either godless radicals or God-fearing reactionaries overlook a vital...  Read More >>

Louise Erdrich is one of the most important, prolific, and widely read contemporary Indigenous writers. Here leading...  Read More >>

The poems in this selection are drawn from Otiono's two pulished collections, Voices in the Rainbow, and Love in...  Read More >>

A convenient source of critical commentary on the careers and works of acclaimed authors who died between 1800 and...  Read More >>