Overview :Anna Karenina is the wife of a well-respected government official. When she travels to St. Petersburg to reconcile her brother and his wife,... Read More
Overview :Living by Fiction is written for--and dedicated to--people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon... Read More
Overview :Data meets literature in this "enlightening" (The Wall Street Journal), "brilliant" (The Boston Globe), "Nate Silver-esque" (O, The Oprah Ma... Read More
Overview :A vibrant collection of sharp and essential modern pieces on the perennially controversial Lolita, by a wide range of celebrated writers, ed... Read More
Overview :"Illuminating." - The New York Times Book Review Named one of "Ten Books to Read this April" by the BBC What is the future of fiction in an ... Read More
Overview :F uck the Fuckity Fuckin' Fucker. Readers of Katherine Dunn won't be surprised that this was her father's favorite sentence, or that, as a y... Read More
Overview :Focusing on some of the best known characters in all of literature--chosen to trace the arc from childhood to old age--a brilliant psychoana... Read More
Overview :A thoughtfully researched, movingly presented dual-biography of two iconic American writers, each trying to find the ideal friend with whom ... Read More
Overview :Why did Charlotte Bront go to such great lengths on the publication of her acclaimed, best-selling novel, Jane Eyre, to conceal its authors... Read More
Overview :It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. So runs one of the mos... Read More
Overview :ORIGINAL STORIES SET IN JOHN RINGO'S BEST-SELLING BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES. The zombie apocalypse is here in these all-new stories from John... Read More
Overview :A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times ... Read More
Overview :Did Charlotte Bront take opium? Did the Reverend Bront carry a loaded pistol? What, precisely, does 'wuthering' mean? Distinguished litera... Read More
Overview :From the central concept of the field--which depicts the world as a mutually interactive whole, with each part connected to every other part... Read More
Overview :"A mesmerizing study of books by despots great and small, from the familiar to the largely unknown."--The Washington PostA darkly humorous t... Read More
Overview :"An analysis of script interpretation for the theater. The text includes theories on performance as well as examples from the works of Shell... Read More
Overview :Andrew Shaffer's Literary Rogues is an unflinching look at the bad behavior of some of our most beloved authors, from Oscar Wilde and Edgar ... Read More
Overview :In 1956 W. E. B. Du Bois was denied a passport to attend the Pr sence Africaine Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris. So he sent t... Read More