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  • The Long and the Short of It

    A Practical Guide to European Versification Systems

    Students of English literature now rarely receive instruction in versification (theory or practice) at either the undergraduate or the graduate level. The Long and the Short of It is a clear, straightforward account of versification that also functions as an argument for a renewed attention to the formal qualities of verse and for a renewed awareness of the forms and traditions that have shaped ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The A to Z of Modern Chinese Literature

    by Li-hua Ying ...
    Series Book 186 - The A to Z Guide Series
    Modern Chinese literature has been flourishing for over a century, with varying degrees of intensity and energy at different junctures of history and points of locale. An integral part of world literature from the moment it was born, it has been in constant dialogue with its counterparts from the rest of the world. As it has been challenged and enriched by external influences, it has contributed ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The A to Z of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater

    Series Book 187 - The A to Z Guide Series
    With the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan opened its doors to the West and underwent remarkable changes as it sought to become a modern nation. Accompanying the political changes that Western trade ushered in were widespread social and cultural changes. Newspapers, novels, poems, and plays from the Western world were soon adapted and translated into Japanese. The combination of the rich ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Encyclopedia of Christian Literature

    The written word is one of the defining elements of Christian experience. As vigorous in the 1st century as it is in the 21st, Christian literature has had a significant function in history, and teachers and students need to be reminded of this powerful literary legacy. Covering 2,000 years, The Encyclopedia of Christian Literature is the first encyclopedia devoted to Christian writers and books. ... Read more

    $239.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism offers an ecclectic, comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to the immense cultural impact of the movement that encompassed literature, art, architecture, science, and politics. ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • Wuthering Heights (Collins Classics)

    by Emily Brontë ...
    Series series Collins Classics
    HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil?’Set on the bleak moors of Yorkshire, Lockwood is forced to seek shelter at Wuthering Heights, the home of his new landlord, Heathcliff. The intense and wildly passionate Heathcliff tells the story of his life, his all-consuming love for Catherine ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Word In Your Shell-Like

    by Nigel Rees ...
    Unravel the meaning, origin, and usage of over 6,000 phrases from book and film titles, idioms and cliches, to nicknames, slogans and quotations with this modern and entertaining guide to wonderful phrases by one of the world’s best-known wordsmiths.The ideal replacement or complement to that tatty old copy of Brewer's Phrase and Fable most of us have about the house, A Word in Your Shell-Like is ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Gewönne doch der Konjunktiv!

    Sprachwitz in 66 Lektionen

    In 66 kunstvoll komponierten kleinen Glossen spießt Wolf Schneider auf, was er im öffentlichen Sprachgebrauch von Werbetextern, Journalisten oder Politikern an Marotten, Wortverdrehungen und sinnlosen Anglizismen fand – und an Gemeinheiten gegen die Grammatik. Amüsante kleine Deutschstunden für alle, die nach dem Bestseller «Speak German!» Lust auf noch mehr liebevolle Verteidigung der deutschen ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Critical Terms for Literary Study, Second Edition

    Series series Critical Terms
    Since its publication in 1990, Critical Terms for Literary Study has become a landmark introduction to the work of literary theory—giving tens of thousands of students an unparalleled encounter with what it means to do theory and criticism. Significantly expanded, this new edition features six new chapters that confront, in different ways, the growing understanding of literary works as cultural ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Collins Classics)

    Series series Collins Classics
    HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.'After taking an elixir created in his laboratory, mild mannered Dr Jekyll is transformed into the cruel and despicable Mr Hyde. Although seemingly harmless at first, things soon descend into chaos and Jekyll quickly realises there is only one way to ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Sense and Sensibility (Collins Classics)

    by Jane Austen ...
    Series series Collins Classics
    HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.'Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat.'Spirited and impulsive, Marianne Dashwood is the complete opposite to her controlled and sensible ... Read more

    $1.49 USD

  • The Secret Garden (Collins Classics)

    Series series Collins Classics
    HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.'Where, you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.'Orphaned and sent to live with her uncle in his austere manor on the moors, Mary Lennox is a lonely and unhappy child. A meeting with Dickon, her servant's brother begins her adventure and it is through their friendship and her relationship with her troubled ... Read more

    $1.99 USD $0.99 USD

  • Pride and Prejudice (Collins Classics)

    by Jane Austen ...
    Series series Collins Classics
    HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.’Austen's best-loved tale of love, marriage and society in class-conscious Georgian England still delights modern readers today with its comedy and characters. It follows the feisty, quick-witted Elizabeth ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Jane Eyre (Collins Classics)

    Series series Collins Classics
    HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.'I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.'Bronte's infamous Gothic novel tells the story of orphan Jane, a child of unfortunate circumstances. Raised and treated badly by her aunt and cousins and eventually sent away to a cruel boarding school, it is not until Jane becomes a ... Read more

    $1.49 USD

  • Reading Autobiography

    A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Second Edition

    With the memoir boom, life storytelling has become ubiquitous and emerged as a distinct field of study. Reading Autobiography, originally published in 2001, was the first comprehensive critical introduction to life writing in all its forms. Widely adopted for undergraduate and graduate-level courses, it is an essential guide for students and scholars reading and interpreting autobiographical texts ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Visual Poetics of Raymond Carver

    by Ayala Amir ...
    The Visual Poetics of Raymond Carver draws on the study of visual arts to illuminate the short stories of noted author Raymond Carver, in the broader context of vision and visualization in a literary text. Ayala Amir examines Carver's use of the eye-of-the-camera technique. Amir uncovers the tensions that structure his visual aesthetics and examines assumptions that govern scholarly discussions of ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Pocket Guide to Victorian Writers and Poets

    by Russell James ...
    A fact-filled reference for discovering, and learning more about, the literary greats of the nineteenth century.The Victorian era produced many famous writers and poets, including Dickens, Thackeray, H.G. Wells, and Tennyson. Magazines like The Strand launched famous creations such as Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, whose cliffhanger stories were told in part-works to add to the excitement. And the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science

    Edited by Bruce Clarke, Manuela Rossini ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    With forty-four newly commissioned articles from an international cast of leading scholars, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science traces the network of connections among literature, science, technology, mathematics, and medicine. Divided into three main sections, this volume:links diverse literatures to scientific disciplines from Artificial Intelligence to Thermodynamicssurveys ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The English is Coming!

    How One Language is Sweeping the World

    English has fast become the number one language for everything from business and science, diplomacy and education, entertainment and environmentalism to socializing and beyond—virtually any human activity unfolding on a global scale. Worldwide, nonnative speakers of English now outnumber natives three to one; and in China alone, more people use English than in the United States—a remarkable feat ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Westerns in Literature

    by Paul Varner ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    When in 1902 Owen Wister, a member of the Eastern blueblood aristocracy and friend of novelist Henry James, became a best-selling novelist with the publication of The Virginian, few readers would have guessed that a new kind of American literature was being born. While Owen Wister was enjoying his success, Edwin S. Porter in New Jersey was filming the first cinema Western The Great Train Robbery, ... Read more

    $128.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Surrealism

    by Keith Aspley ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    Surrealism was a broad movement, which attracted many adherents. It was organized and quite strictly disciplined, at least until the death of its leader, AndrZ Breton, in 1966. As a consequence, its membership was in a constant state of flux: persons were constantly being admitted and excluded, and often the latter continued to regard themselves as Surrealists. The wide-ranging nature of the ... Read more

    $166.99 USD

  • 100 Must-Read American Novels

    Discover your next great read...

    Which 100 novels represent the finest American literature ever produced? Let this book be your guide.Ordered A-Z by author this latest title in the popular Must-Read series provides a rich resource for your reading. It features 100 titles from 19th century classics: Melville's Moby Dick and Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, to the 1920s generation: Hemingway, F Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Literary Miscellany

    Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Literature

    by Alex Palmer ...
    Series series Books of Miscellany
    Wouldn’t it be great to be a fly on the wall as the great writers took pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard)? While reading this work, you’ll be just that. Here are behind-the-book stories and facts about authors, publishing and everything literary that will entertain both casual and serious readers. Among the questions asked and answered: When Did Literature Finally Get Sexy? Is Coffee or Opium ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Age of Innocence (Collins Classics)

    by Edith Wharton ...
    Series series Collins Classics
    HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.'I want – I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that – categories like that – won't exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who are the whole of life to each other; and nothing else on earth will matter.’Newland Archer, a successful and charming young lawyer ... Read more

    $0.99 USD