Literary Criticism

Discover everything you ever wanted to know about the world's greatest novels! From mediaeval romances and tales of chivalry through the realist novels of the 19th century to experimental modernist works and today's explorations of the self, Great Novels explores the finest novels from around the world and through time. Tilt at windmills with Don Quixote, experience heartbreak with Tolstoy, discover the society in which Jane Austen lived, and delve into the complex rites of passage experience

This is a rare treat, a collection of folktales and fables from South Sudan - the newest country in the world. These stories will be most familiar amongst the Dinka, one of the country's many ethnicities, but they are also known in other parts of the country. While South Sudan's many groups vary in language and culture, they share a history of orality: the oral tradition of sharing stories verbally and retelling them through many generations. But times are changing rapidly and there is a risk t

Emily and Eva is about sweet, endearing friendship.

First Fly Last Fly is a collection of personal musings - an event-filled literary adventure, embracing along the way stories heroic, magical, mystical, improbable, murderous, masterful, comic, musical, and meditative.

This book is a biography of Joseph Conrad's life on sailing ships. It was his experiences on a trading ship based out of Singapore that provided the material for his first books.

This math division workbook is an excellent example for your child to get some extra practice in math. It helps him to focuses on learning times tables and the related division facts. Your kid will be excited about doing these practice pages. You can use this workbook every day; it can be like a family competition; there are many questions on one page. Your children will challenge themself to do each page faster and not make any mistakes so that you can give them something as a reward. The

Je M'Accuse... (I Accuse Myself...), written by Leon Bloy and published in 1900, is a blistering, unforgiving, and often hilarious attack on Emile Zola, the founder of the Naturalist movement of French literature, famous internationally for his participation in the Dreyfus Affair through an open letter, "J'Accuse...!", which he addressed to Felix Faure, then President of the French Third Republic, and which was published (in 1898) on the front page of Aurore magazine. Je M'Accuse... is also a s

A decade after making Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula available to the public, Robert Eighteen-Bisang and Elizabeth Miller reach a new plateau with this revised and updated version of their groundbreaking work. - J. Gordon Melton, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead. Robert Eighteen-Bisang and Elizabeth Miller's Drafts of Dracula builds upon their pioneering work on Bram Stoker's notes to give us new insights into Stoker's typescript, his play of 1897, and the mystery of Dracula'

A decade after making Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula available to the public, Robert Eighteen-Bisang and Elizabeth Miller reach a new plateau with this revised and updated version of their groundbreaking work. - J. Gordon Melton, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead. Robert Eighteen-Bisang and Elizabeth Miller's Drafts of Dracula builds upon their pioneering work on Bram Stoker's notes to give us new insights into Stoker's typescript, his play of 1897, and the mystery of Dracula'

Donna Haraway's celebrated observation that "our machines are disturbingly lively, while we ourselves are frighteningly inert" has given this issue a certain currency in contemporary cyber-theory. But what is in- teresting about Haraway's remark - its challenge to the oppositional think- ing that sets up free will against determinism, vitalism against mechanism - has seldom been processed by a mode of theorizing which has tended to reproduce exactly the same oppositions. These theoretical faili

English Literature: A Very Short Introduction discusses why literature matters, how narrative works, and what is distinctly English about English literature. Jonathan Bate considers how we determine the content of the field, and looks at the three major kinds of imaginative literature - English poetry, English drama and The English novel.