Modern Children's Literature, Paperback

From The Hobbit to Harry Potter, how fantasy harnesses the cultural power of magic, medievalism, and childhood to re-enchant the modern world Why a...

The "York Notes" series covers major works from medieval to modern English literature, and classic and contemporary works from Europe, America, the...

Reducere. DescriptionA love for reading is one of the most precious gifts that we can give children. It nurtures their imagination and creativity, lets them ...

Reducere. "One of the greatest achievements of modern literature." -Richard Howard "A major achievement . . . . Genet transforms experiences of degradation i...

Reducere. This book offers the entire text of the Holy Qur'an translated into modern, free-flowing English. It provides explanatory background information so...

Reducere. Before children's stories came to exemplify the French fairy tale, early modern audiences read the works of women writers known as conteuses. From ...

Reducere. Before children's stories came to exemplify the French fairy tale, early modern audiences read the works of women writers known as conteuses. From ...

Reducere. Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (1850-1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in ...

Reducere. Bartleby is an endlessly inventive comic masterpiece, and the finest continuation of Tristram Shandy ever written. The novel contains copious inter...

Reducere. Finally in paperback, a timeless collection celebrating the joys of poetry for children of all ages--an indispensable introduction to literature an...

Edith Nesbit (1858 - 1924) was an English author and poet; she published her books for children under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collabora...

Reducere. When a young woman is shipwrecked in the kingdom of the Blazing World, she befriends the natives, a highly intelligent and tolerant group of humano...

Best-selling Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery published the first book in her charming series in 1908, making it a literary favorite for more t...

Reducere. Sixteenth century Italy produced a genius who marked the world with his studies and hypotheses about mathematical, physical and astronomical truths...

"Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."-W.H. Auden "The common experience of Kafka's readers is one of...

Reducere. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon was the first book to be awarded the Newbery Medal for an outstanding contribution to children's li...

Reducere. A coming-of-age novel set during the Korean War, by Pak Wan-Suh, one of Korea's leading contemporary writers. The award-winning author of more than...

Reducere. Designed for parents and elementary/middle grade students (grades 4-8) to share together, The Story of the World, Volume 4: The Modern Age Revised ...

Reducere. THE GODS OF PEGANA is a rich tapestry of imaginative fantasy, one of the landmark collections of short stories from the early 20th century, and a t...

DescriptionVivaldo Bonfim was a bored book-keeper whose main escape from the tedium of his work was provided by novels. In the office, he tended to...

Reducere. Spring semester of Bridger Whitt's senior year of high school is looking great. He has the perfect boyfriend, a stellar best friend, and an accepta...

Reducere. The thirteen stories of Dialogues in Paradise are eloquent in a way the West associates with both the modern and the ancient: the dark oracles of A...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by William Golding, winner of the Nobel Prize in...

The acclaimed, bestselling translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's masterwork, an undisputed classic of Russian and world literature An audacious revisio...

Reducere. New edition of J.S. Scott's 1925 English translation of Segelfoss Town (original title: Segelfoss By) by Knut Hamsun, winner of the Nobel Prize for...

The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, ever since they were first written down nearly two millenn...

Reducere. Octave Mirbeau, author of The Torture Garden and Diary of a Chambermaid, wrote this scathing novel on the cusp of the twentieth century. Driven mad...

Reducere. Miniatures & Morals: The Christian Novels of Jane Austen Not only are Austen's novels still widely read, they continue to influence modern film and...

"The Secret Garden should be on every child's bookshelf."--Amanda Craig, The Time An enchanting story of transformation and compassion, Frances Hod...

Reducere. Just in time for the major motion picture Dolittle starring Robert Downey Jr.--soaring into theaters on January 17, 2020 Journey into the world of ...

Reducere. Exploring the fascinating world of dreams, this comprehensive reference examines more than 250 dreamrelated topics, from art to history to science,...

DescriptionAlthough otherwise ignorant and ineffectual, McTeague has managed to eke out a meager career as an unlicensed dentist. His dreary existe...

DescriptionIn this, his first collection of short stories, Hardy sought to record the legends, superstitions, local customs, and lore of a Wessex t...

Reducere. Hubert Crackanthorpe (1870-1896) made a critically significant contribution to the evolution of the modernist short story in Britain. His unexplain...

Description" gota Krist f packs volumes into this elegant shape-shifting novella. It's simultaneously a sly exploration of storytelling and a power...

Reducere. Huckleberry Finn has been taken in by the Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson, who intend to "sivilize" him. But when Huck's violent drunk of...

Jung's landmark seminar sessions on dream interpretation and its historyFrom 1936 to 1941, C. G. Jung gave a four-part seminar series in Zurich on ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Story of Mankind was written and illustrated by Dutch-American journalist, professor, and author Hendrik Willem van Loon and publish...

Reducere. A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for G nter Grass's The Tin Drum, the most widely read postwar Germa...

Reducere. A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, a didactic play written with t...

Description"Biting and beautiful." -- Jonny Sun, author of everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too Everyone talks about falling in love, but falli...

Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro ...

Reducere. Set in Cleveland, Ohio, from its earliest beginnings as a forested frontier to the urban blight of modern times, Mistakes by the Lake is a collecti...

Reducere. A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Joseph Heller's Catch-22, which eponymously coined the term so ...

Reducere. Bethany C. Morrow's A Song Below Water is the story for today's readers -- a captivating modern fantasy about Black sirens, friendship, and self-di...

Reducere. Gene Luen Yang was the fifth the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and is a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of what's popularly known...

Reducere. DescriptionOn a hot afternoon, a boy sitting in his garden suddenly finds himself transported into a land full of ridiculous creatures talking absu...

Con el d ptico de Los siete locos/Los lanzallamas, Roberto Arlt (Argentina, 1900-1942), inaugura en la literatura latinoamericana un nuevo espacio ...

Reducere. From the New York Times-bestselling author of Matterhorn and What It Is Like to Go to War, a rich family saga about Finnish immigrants who settle a...

Reducere. When a shocking discovery is found among ancient artifacts during an archaeological dig in an orchard, an investigation of a different kind begins....

In this modern classic of global feminist literature, the only novel by one of Romania's most heralded poets, styled as a long letter addressed to ...

Reducere. Con el d ptico de Los siete locos/Los lanzallamas, Roberto Arlt (Argentina, 1900-1942), inaugura en la literatura latinoamericana un nuevo espacio ...

Reducere. "If Twain was hinting that Huck Finn had no worldview or deeper meaning in it whatsoever, then he was trying to pull the wool over your eyes-becaus...

Fifteen-year-old Donald Leroy Samson is the son of an absentee St. Lucian father and a drug-addicted English mother. Growing up in dire poverty in ...

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Few American cities are as steeped in history as Boston. Starting with its Native American and Puritan roots, through its pivotal role in the Revol...

Reducere. DescriptionNSTA Best STEM Books for K-12 SelectionNSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books SelectionDolly Gray Children's Literature Award RecipientA M...

Reducere. Complete and unabridged with all original illustrations. The Collected Works of Ingersoll Lockwood: The Baron Trump Novels & 1900; Or, The Last Pre...

"Those who lament that the novel has lost its prophecy should pay heed and cover-price: Muck is the future, both of Jerusalem and of literature. Go...

Reducere. St. Augustine's was founded to unite the best of the modern home school with the tradition of a Catholic liberal arts education. The goal of Cathol...