Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing...  Read More >>

Introduction to Old English is a leading text designed to help students engage with Old English literature for the...  Read More >>

Thoroughly expanded and updated, this widely acclaimed Companion provides a series of stimulating insights into...  Read More >>

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This 1908 volume of Samuel Butler's writings is comprised of a series of character sketches and essays on various...  Read More >>

This 1891 French translation of Latin documents details the regulations concerning bookselling in Paris in the thirteenth...  Read More >>

It has long been said that a woman's hair is her crowning glory. Indeed, throughout history, hair has remained an...  Read More >>

Throughout literary history, female writers have faced challenges different from those of their male counterparts....  Read More >>

This book explores how natural hazards in the Philippines can amplify the environmental harm prevalent in mining...  Read More >>

This is a quick reference guide for the prevention and treatment of common fracture complications, including the...  Read More >>

Includes seven plays that explore themes of memory and identity.  Read More >>

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Sampling from Walden, Civil Disobedience, The Maine Woods, and Henry David Thoreau's abolitionist and nature...  Read More >>

A valuable resource for understanding Canadian literary modernism, diasporic Judaism, and the culture of Montreal,...  Read More >>

Considers, in prose and photographs, a fertile landscape that has been farmed for centuries. With a democratic attention,...  Read More >>

Offers a long meditation on reading and writing that strives to situate the otherwise innocuous activities in a...  Read More >>

A collection of studies about the Passion of Perpetua, the diary written by the young Christian martyr Perpetua....  Read More >>

The first monograph on Ovid's epic simile, offering fresh perspectives on central episodes of this important work....  Read More >>

* A fascinating biography of Lawrence Durrell's first wife, Nancy  Read More >>

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This edition features a new introduction and new material by Patti Smith.  Read More >>

Elegant representations of nature, explicitly the four seasons, fill a wide range of Japanese genres and media -...  Read More >>

Throughout the centuries, poets have been inspired by mothers - their joys and sorrows, their loyalty and love,...  Read More >>

Filming Forster focuses upon the challenges of producing film adaptations of five of E. M. Forster's novels. Rather...  Read More >>

Focuses on collective forms of modernist expression - the art collection, the anthology, and the archive - and their...  Read More >>