Book Description This is the first volume of essays on Bacon's The New Atlantis, a key text of Early Modern culture, incorporating the practical and visionary, utility and...
Book DescriptionWith searing acuity, renowned Irish novelist Edna O'Brien presents three women-a mistress, wife, and daughter-who expose their passions for the same man an...
Book Description Frank investigates an intertextual exchange between nineteenth-century historical disciplines (philology, cosmology, geology, archaeology and evolutionary...
Book Description A daughter's future and her father's past converge in this explosive first novel exploring identity, assimilation, and the legacy of race "My father is bl...
Book DescriptionDaylight clarifies living. It gives instructions and encourages action. It makes explanations and gives plausible answers. Life can be seen in the daylight...
Book DescriptionThis collection of essays offers a variety of perspectives on John Dryden's work and its contexts. A towering literary figure in the late seventeenth and e...
Book DescriptionFor the past 23 years, a diverse group of writers including Raymond Carver, Primo Levi, Salman Rushdie, Lorrie Moore, Isaiah Berlin, and Richard Ford have ...
Amazon.comTwo sisters, Leeann and Mary Beth, have the debut novel The Song Reader firmly in their grip. Author Lisa Tucker seems almost entranced by her main characters, a...
Book Description Evoking visceral images such as a fire-and-brimstone preacher ranting and a deep-voiced deejay spinning country music and reading the local news of fish f...
Book Description?Abdullah takes us into the hearts and minds, realities and yearnings, and daily existence of women young and aged in and from South Asia. Her stunningly b...
Book DescriptionWith bravura storytelling, daring imagination, and fierce narrative control, this dazzling debut introduces that rare writer who finds humanity in our most...
Considered by many critics the foremost English "metaphysical" poet, John Donne earned renown for both sacred and secular verse, his love poems in the latter genre ranking...
All new, with more great writers than ever?these tales told quickly offer pleasures long past their telling. Responding to America's love affair with the short-short, edi...
It’s not like she’s the only woman to ever have a baby. At thirty-five. On her own. But Anne Lamott makes it all fresh in her now-classic account of how she and her son an...
A celibate husband and wife are the two most dangerous people on earth . . . Neil and Anya Meadows are stuck in a sexless marriage. Anya suffers from a hormonal disorder t...
An unrivalled collection of literary gossip and intimate sidelights on the lives of the authors The dictionary defines an anecdote as 'a short account of an entertaining o...
Mattie J. T. Stepanek lived and died a child, but he had the spirit of a giant. Affected by a rare and fatal neuromuscular disease, Mattie lived almost fourteen years but...
The Poynter Institute once again brings you the year's best newswriting and community service photojournalism, showcasing the winners and finalists of the American Society...
This selection of Frost's poetry contains forty poems spanning his early and mature collections including choices from "A Boy's Will", "North of Boston", "West-Running Bro...
Book Description This is the first volume of essays on Bacon's The New Atlantis, a key text of Early Modern culture, incorporating the practical and visionary, utility and...
Book DescriptionWith searing acuity, renowned Irish novelist Edna O'Brien presents three women-a mistress, wife, and daughter-who expose their passions for the same man an...
Book Description Frank investigates an intertextual exchange between nineteenth-century historical disciplines (philology, cosmology, geology, archaeology and evolutionary...
Book Description A daughter's future and her father's past converge in this explosive first novel exploring identity, assimilation, and the legacy of race "My father is bl...
Book DescriptionDaylight clarifies living. It gives instructions and encourages action. It makes explanations and gives plausible answers. Life can be seen in the daylight...
Book DescriptionThis collection of essays offers a variety of perspectives on John Dryden's work and its contexts. A towering literary figure in the late seventeenth and e...
Book DescriptionFor the past 23 years, a diverse group of writers including Raymond Carver, Primo Levi, Salman Rushdie, Lorrie Moore, Isaiah Berlin, and Richard Ford have ...
Amazon.comTwo sisters, Leeann and Mary Beth, have the debut novel The Song Reader firmly in their grip. Author Lisa Tucker seems almost entranced by her main characters, a...
Book Description Evoking visceral images such as a fire-and-brimstone preacher ranting and a deep-voiced deejay spinning country music and reading the local news of fish f...
Book Description?Abdullah takes us into the hearts and minds, realities and yearnings, and daily existence of women young and aged in and from South Asia. Her stunningly b...
Book DescriptionWith bravura storytelling, daring imagination, and fierce narrative control, this dazzling debut introduces that rare writer who finds humanity in our most...
Considered by many critics the foremost English "metaphysical" poet, John Donne earned renown for both sacred and secular verse, his love poems in the latter genre ranking...
All new, with more great writers than ever?these tales told quickly offer pleasures long past their telling. Responding to America's love affair with the short-short, edi...
It’s not like she’s the only woman to ever have a baby. At thirty-five. On her own. But Anne Lamott makes it all fresh in her now-classic account of how she and her son an...
A celibate husband and wife are the two most dangerous people on earth . . . Neil and Anya Meadows are stuck in a sexless marriage. Anya suffers from a hormonal disorder t...
An unrivalled collection of literary gossip and intimate sidelights on the lives of the authors The dictionary defines an anecdote as 'a short account of an entertaining o...
Mattie J. T. Stepanek lived and died a child, but he had the spirit of a giant. Affected by a rare and fatal neuromuscular disease, Mattie lived almost fourteen years but...
The Poynter Institute once again brings you the year's best newswriting and community service photojournalism, showcasing the winners and finalists of the American Society...
This selection of Frost's poetry contains forty poems spanning his early and mature collections including choices from "A Boy's Will", "North of Boston", "West-Running Bro...
