A Little History of Literature, Paperback

This 'little history' takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to...

Reducere. Melody's Song sends a special tribute to Black History Month History Makers in a kid friendly coloring book made for young learners.The perfect com...

In this ground-breaking and fascinating book, Duncan White illuminates a period in history in which literature became one of the most potent of wea...

A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature

Reducere. "In this stimulating and important book Lester Little advances the original thesis that, paradoxically, it was the leading practitioners of volunta...

Important essays from one of the giants of literary criticism, including a dozen published here in English for the first timeErich Auerbach (1892-1...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. Although generations of readers of the Little House books are familiar with Laura Ingalls Wilder's early life up through her first years of marriag...

Reducere. Molly Brodak's The Cipher is a deft and unsparing study of the limits of knowledge and belief, and of what solace can be found within those limits....

Reducere. Sergeant Charles Windolph was the last white survivor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn when he described it nearly seventy years later. A six-y...

Contributor(s): Author: Josette ElayiThe history of the Phoenicians, explorers and merchants, is little known. What a paradox for this ingenious pe...

A blend of literary history, memoir, and self-help that shows how French literature can bring humor, happiness, and romance to our lives Like many ...

Many today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only ...

The story of Little Nell and her "tragedy of sorrows, " told in a blend of realism and fairy-tale The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell,...

Reducere. Is there any such thing as revolutionary literature? Can literature, in fact, be political at all? These are the questions Roland Barthes addresses...

Reducere. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeThe early years of the nineteenth century saw an intriguing yet little-known scientific advance catapult ...

DescriptionOriginally published in 1994, Jewish Views of the Afterlife is a classic study of ideas of afterlife and postmortem survival in Jewish t...

Reducere. A classic work of Christian literature commissioned by the Franciscan Order in the year 1250, The Life of St. Francis by St. Bonaventure--the Tusca...

Reducere. Winner of the National Book Award" Clark's] fantastic blending of science and art, history and journalism, brings the appetite back for life and li...

Reducere. In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus ...

Contributor(s): Editor: Gregory ClaeysEditor: Lyman Tower SargentThe Utopia Reader compiles primary texts from a variety of authors and movements i...

Reducere. In Magical Habits Monica Huerta draws on her experiences growing up in her family's Mexican restaurants and her life as a scholar of literature and...

DescriptionJennifer Craig-Norton sets out to challenge celebratory narratives of the Kindertransport that have dominated popular memory as well as ...

Reducere. When Latin American writers burst onto the world literary scene in the now famous "Boom" of the sixties, it seemed as if an entire literature had i...

Reducere. ... a most illuminating and readable general survey.... This book is well organized, well produced, and well written. It belongs among the ten most...

Reducere. The first book-length study in English of Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948), Perpetual Movement offers both a production history that draws extensivel...

Reducere. DescriptionThis famous book takes you on an extensive gem and mineral collecting tour of Colorado, revealing the interesting places where Nature ha...

Reducere. Shirley Jackson's chilling second novel, based on her own experiences and an actual mysterious disappearance Seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite longs...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James BoyceAlmost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land. There they found a land of bounty a...

Reducere. A powerful love story set in the class-conscious Tsarist Russia of the early 19th century. It embraces every level of that society - serf, provinci...

NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST WINNER OF THE 2012 AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION'S SOPHIE BRODY AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN JEWISH LITE...

Reducere. - A fascinating, illustrated exploration of the integral roles cats have played in our myths, legends, and history. - By the highly acclaimed autho...

Reducere. Anyone Can Read the Great Books . . . with a Little Help "An illuminating, learned, well-written, and entertaining survey of the giants of world li...

Reducere. "The Brehon Laws" explores early Irish--or "Brehon"--law, which shaped everyday life in Early Medieval Ireland. It looks at the history, influences...

Reducere. He journeyed farther than his near contemporary Marco Polo, though Muslim scholar Ibn Battuta (1304-c. 1377) is barely remembered at all compared t...

Ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as a concept as it is today. In this now classic work, origin...

Reducere. Shilappadikaram or the Ankle Bracelet is one of the five major epics of Tamil literature. It was composed as a verse romance in Tamil by Ilango Adi...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceIn April 1903, Diamante, age twelve, and Vita, age nine, are sent by their poor families in southern It...

Reducere. DescriptionGeorge Herbert Box discusses here a pseudepigraphic work of the Old Testament; the Apocalypse of Abraham. A prime example of the early a...

Reducere. Although we are learning a lot from historians about the lives of slaves in the United States, we still know little about slavery in the Caribbean....

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Britt RusertExposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism. Traversing t...

Reducere. In her daring first novel, the youngest Bront sister drew upon her own experiences to tell the unvarnished truth about life as a governess. Like Ag...

Reducere. The mythology of "gifted land" is strong in the National Park Service, but some of our greatest parks were "gifted" by people who had little if any...

Reducere. Written forms of Arabic composed during the era of the Ottoman Empire present an immensely fruitful linguistic topic. Extant texts display a proxim...

Reducere. Greeks were history's great men of thought. John Haaren has collected stories from the lives of thirty famous Greek men, detailing the rise, Golden...

Reducere. Why do the words "little house" go straight to the heart, as Sir John Summerson observed? Clearly, something beyond economy is at work. For centuri...

The unlikely heroes of the Spanish picaresque novels make their way - by whatever means they can - through a colourful and seamy underworld populat...

Reducere. During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her sometimes flashy,...

DescriptionThree plays by Racine For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking ...

Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our mod...

Reducere. The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories (1917) is a collection of nine stories by Russian writer Anton Chekhov. Recognized today as foundational fo...

Reducere. YUNUS EMRE: LIFE & POEMS Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Yunus Emre (d. 1320) is considered one of the most important Turkish poets having a ...

Reducere. This is the earliest record of Breaker Morant s exploits and reprinted for the first time since 1902. Written under the pseudonym of Frank Renar by...

Reducere. After the Ashes is more than a typical survival hand guide. Because of the realization that atomic warfare is likely inevitable, it seeks to both i...

Reducere. My story finds me a somewhat frustrated genealogist, simply because of the meager success I experienced in my search for the origins of my family n...