Writers. Their Lives and Works

Reducere. From Shakespeare and Jane Austen to Gabriel Garc a M rquez and Toni Morrison, this DK book features more than 100 biographies of the world's greate...

Reducere. The Women Who Wrote Their Way Into HistoryA packed timeline of the greatest women writers: From the first recorded writer to current bestsellers, B...

Reducere. Literary Works by 10 Dominican Women is an ode and an incentive to learn more about these amazing creative mujeres. This book brings together ten t...

Modernism's most contentious rivals, James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence, are traditionally seen as opposites. This is the first book to explore the reso...

Reducere. Turning Points celebrates the 75th anniversary of Off Campus Writers' Workshop, a member-managed non-profit organization that has helped thousands ...

Reducere. Father Luigi Gambero, internationally-known expert on early Christianity, presents a comprehensive survey of the development of Marian doctrine and...

DescriptionThe combined events of the end of the American Civil War in 1865, the first transcontinental railroad opening in 1869, and the financial...

An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices'A father...is a necessary evil.' Stephen De...

Reducere. Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë--faced with an ailing father and an alcoholic brother--pursue independence through art in this graphic vision of ...

Reducere. From 1936 to 1938, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), a part of the New Deal's Works Progress Administration, hired writers, editors, and research...

Reducere. DescriptionIt would be incorrect to say that Asian American literature began during the Civil Rights Movement. Since the late nineteenth century, C...

Reducere. DescriptionWith Norton's publication of The Black House, Patricia Highsmith's entire body of work is now back in print. First published in 1981, th...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat do we talk about when we talk about attention? We might start with the studies: the average American unlocks their iPhone eighty ti...

Reducere. A landmark anthology of full-length works by Black American women writers of the 19th century including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Jacob...

Reducere. A landmark anthology of full-length works by Black American women writers of the 19th century including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Jacob...

Reducere. Unflinching portrayals of desire and alienation fill Bonnie Chau's award-winning story collection. Chau's short fiction explores the lives of young...

DescriptionOn their vast estates, the landowning families of the plains have preserved a rich and distinctive culture. Obsessed with their own habi...

Reducere. Mabel Dodge Luhan, hostess and visionary, made Taos, New Mexico, a center for artists and utopians when she moved there in 1917 and began inviting ...

Reducere. As Lucinda, LaMeka, Charice, and Trinity struggle to turn their lives around, they each hit a crossroads. Despite their surmounting troubles, they ...

Reducere. Facing your fears can come at a price, and these ladies come face to face with their worst nightmares. No matter what they decide, changes are on t...

We're here. We're queer. We're fat. This one-of-a-kind collection of prose and poetry radically explores the intersection of fat and queer identiti...

Reducere. Religion and the Rebel, Colin Wilson's second volume from his internationally acclaimed Outsider Cycle, is a casebook about and for rebels. With in...

Reducere. Twenty-one-year-old Christina Lamb left suburban England for Peshawar on the frontier of the Afghan war. Captivated, she spent two years tracking t...

Contributor(s): Author: Walter BenjaminTranslator: Howard EilandTranslator: Kevin McLaughlin"To great writers, " Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finis...

Reducere. In this innovative and wide-ranging book, Byatt and the psychoanalyst Ignes Sodre bring their different sensibilities to bear on six novels they ha...

Reducere. Meet Tajon. Tajon is sixteen and black. He's tall and skinny, and he has dreadlocks. Tajon works hard and tries his best to be good. He does O.K. i...

Reducere. Description Iris Murdoch is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.This collection brings together friends, co...

Reducere. The Dancer, a trilogy, recounts the tumultuous days of mid-1960s Indonesia. It highlights the lives of Srintil, a dancer, and Rasus, a bewildered y...

Reducere. In today's world, the lines between Europe and the Middle East, between Christian Europeans and Muslim immigrants in their midst, seem to be harden...

Reducere. Description" Cane] has been reverberating in me to an astonishing degree. I love it passionately; could not possibly exit without it." -- Alice Wal...

Reducere. When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. Loss within Loss is a moving collaboration by some of ...

Reducere. In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives w...

I found these stories both heartening. . . and terrifying as the expression of a racial hatred that has never ceased to grow and gets no chance to ...

Michael Moorcock's epic fantasy, illustrated by two visionary artists. Seminal sword-and-sorcery author Michael Moorcock weaves stunning blend of m...

Reducere. Across the Third World, people grew up reading inexpensive, beautifully-produced books from the Soviet Union - children's books, classics of world ...

Reducere. DescriptionRoping a buffalo, running off cattle rustlers, sitting out a winter storm in a cave--adventures like these were all part of everyday lif...

Reducere. Brian Daldorph first entered the Douglas County Jail classroom in Lawrence, Kansas, to teach a writing class on Christmas Eve 2001. His last class ...

Reducere. Get ready for Book 5 in the ongoing chapter book series based on Minecraft The adventures continue in the fifth official Minecraft chapter book bas...

Reducere. Catherine Cookson was one of the world's most beloved writers. Her books have sold millions of copies, and her characters and their stories have ca...

Reducere. No one lives for very long in the houses they buy from Mr Vane. Neighbours complain of noises that chill the blood, and then deathly silence. Maybe...