Literature: history & criticism books

Welcome to the vibrant and engaging world of ""Step-by-Step Chinese Characters""! This book is specially designed...  Read More >>

Welcome to ""Difficult Level Chinese Brain Games"", an innovative and engaging guide designed to help foreign learners...  Read More >>

Welcome to the vibrant and engaging world of ""Step-by-Step Chinese Characters""! This book is specially designed...  Read More >>

Learning Chinese doesn't have to feel like climbing a mountain-especially for kids! That's why we created ""Smart...  Read More >>

Learning Chinese doesn't have to feel like climbing a mountain-especially for kids! That's why we created ""Smart...  Read More >>

Learning Chinese doesn't have to feel like climbing a mountain-especially for kids! That's why we created ""Smart...  Read More >>

Welcome to an amazing adventure through the Gansu Province of China! This book, ""Gansu Province of China, Geography,...  Read More >>

Welcome to an amazing adventure through the Gansu Province of China! This book, ""Gansu Province of China, Geography,...  Read More >>

Welcome to an amazing adventure through the Gansu Province of China! This book, ""Gansu Province of China, Geography,...  Read More >>

In an era marked by dizzying technological advances, material excess, and relentless distractions, the call to pause,...  Read More >>

Marcus Aurelius's Meditations offers timeless Stoic wisdom on virtue, resilience, and inner peace-private reflections...  Read More >>

Melville's Maritime Politics: Enlightenment at Sea offers a new account of the political thought of Herman Melville...  Read More >>

When considering the radical change in weather from sunny beaches with pleasant ocean waves to violent hurricanes...  Read More >>

'Echoes Beyond the Page' explores the literature of African American women writers, highlighting the need for Black...  Read More >>

Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (1947) recounts the life of a solitary composer, Adrian Leverkühn, whose personal and...  Read More >>

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This volume contains a generous selection of the short fiction Thomas Mann published in the years 1897 to 1912,...  Read More >>

The idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. Translating His-stories...  Read More >>

Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing is the first dedicated study of British and Irish...  Read More >>

This Element shows how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result...  Read More >>

Race Class identifies two competing aesthetics, the 'recognitional' and the 'redistributive,' that developed in...  Read More >>

A cultural and social critique of early-twentieth-century America, addressing issues of race, ethnicity, class and...  Read More >>

Henry James was a leading commentator on the art of his time. Readers of this complete collection of his nonfictional...  Read More >>

Henry James is a highly readable commentator on the theatre and performance practices of his time. Readers of this...  Read More >>

This book shows how novels and films set in the near future can shed light both on our failures of imagination before...  Read More >>