Literature: history & criticism books

Yama Aleksandr Kuprin Yama (The Pit) recounts the lives of a group of prostitutes living and working in Anna...  Read More >>

This underground sensation, with heretofore unpublished material by the author, will be released as a movie in 2013....  Read More >>

Thus Spake Zarathustra was Friedrich Nietzsche's favorite of the books he wrote, and has been his most popular amongst...  Read More >>

A new translation by Scot James Hogarth for the first unabridged English edition of the novel, which tells the story...  Read More >>

Tono-Bungay is a realist semi-autobiographical novel written by H. G. Wells and published in 1909. It has been called...  Read More >>

Major work from the American social worker, sociologist, philosopher and reformer, known in America as the mother...  Read More >>

If an advanced civilization were to visit our planet today, would they be impressed or dismayed?  Read More >>

Les Liaisons dangereuses better known as Dangerous Liaisons is a French epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de...  Read More >>

Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls, about a mysterious con man and his victims, is reissued here.  Read More >>

John Dewey’s Democracy and Education (1916) transformed how people around the world view the purposes of schooling....  Read More >>

Downstream Sigfrid Siwertz The five Selambs siblings have suffered the death of their mother and the incapacitation...  Read More >>

An impossible but entertaining tale of love and adventure during the French Revolution. The Scarlet Pimpernel gay...  Read More >>

A landmark in American literature, Lewiss portrait of a golden-tongued evangelist--who lives a life of hypocrisy,...  Read More >>

Presenting the first-edition text of Far from the Madding Crowd for the first time since its 1874 publication, this...  Read More >>

With an introduction by Arthur M Schlesinger, Jr, this work also includes an endnotes.  Read More >>

Also known as The Blackmailers, this story is the third book in the Monsieur Lecoq series.  Read More >>

A Passage to India is a 1924 novel by English author E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and...  Read More >>

A depiction of the poverty and wretchedness of a mining community in northern France under the second empire.  Read More >>

In the late summer of 1839, Thoreau and his older brother John made a two-week boat-and-hiking trip from Concord,...  Read More >>

A grand, sweeping saga of sacrifice and struggle by a Nobel Laureate, this tale recaptures the world of Norwegian...  Read More >>

Hard Times (originally Hard Times-For These Times) was published in 1854, and is the shortest novel Charles Dickens...  Read More >>

Arrowsmith has been inspirational for several generations of med students. Martin Arrowsmith agonizes over his career...  Read More >>

His Masterpiece Émile Zola His Masterpiece, sometimes translated as ""The Work"" or ""The Masterpiece,"" is...  Read More >>

Through an inheritance dispute between two very different families over a charming country house called Howards...  Read More >>

Samuel Butler (1613-1680) was a poet and satirist, best known for his long satirical poem, Hudibras, about the Roundheads,...  Read More >>