Literature: history & criticism books

A clear, accessible guide for Years 9-10, simplifying key quotes, themes, context and tragic form. Features an Act-by-Act...  Read More >>

Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the...  Read More >>

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

Deluxe slipcased edition of this previously unknown short satirical fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien edited by his son,...  Read More >>

This open access book offers a groundbreaking exploration of how iconicity: language's resemblance to its referents—is...  Read More >>

How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique...  Read More >>

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How Shakespeare's exploration of central human questions about identity, politics, religion and right and wrong...  Read More >>

The essays in Mezukak Shivatayim pay tribute to Bernard Septimus’s writing and teaching, covering rabbinic culture,...  Read More >>

An outrageously witty tragicomedy-of-manners about a queer black teenager coming of age, introduced by Mendez, author...  Read More >>

Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the...  Read More >>

In The White Album, Joan Didion famously wrote that ""a place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers...  Read More >>

In her struggle to cope with an uncertain world - a world where nothing seemed to make sense any more - she pushed...  Read More >>

The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

This volume offers new perspectives on Emerson in relation to his contemporary moment; his religious and spiritual...  Read More >>

The Victorians invented environmentalism but struggled with their human-centred perspectives and values. This collection...  Read More >>

By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the...  Read More >>

From one of our most distinguished literary voices, a defining essay collection blending personal reflection with...  Read More >>

The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

Will appeal to all readers interested in the ecological power of literature. Views fiction as a sensing instrument...  Read More >>

This inspirational book is a delightful gift for readers and fans of Charlotte Bronte's novels.  Read More >>

A bold, intimate debut novel that follows a young Moroccan woman's flight from shame to self-reclamation. For...  Read More >>

A gripping historical novel that explores how the Fourth Crusade plundered Constantinople and forever changed the...  Read More >>