Literary Criticism

Where Four Roads Meet is a translation and elucidation on eight folk tales originally brought to the English speaking world by Professor R A Millow in the late 1800s. This edition, from 1990, was intended to reintroduce readers both to the legends,...

Wie weit w?rdest Du gehen f?r Geld? W?rdest Du sogar Deine eigenen Freunde verraten? Diese neuartige Spielshow wird Dir schlaflose N?chte bereiten, also nimm Dich in Acht. Vergiss blo nicht Deinen Rucksack, denn den wirst Du noch fr?h genug brauchen .....

In this academic study, "MY KIND OF COMEDY: AN EXEGETICAL READING OF FLANNERY O'CONNOR AS MEDIEVAL DRAMA" deciphers Flannery O'Connor's fiction through the lens of medieval biblical exegesis and the English dramatists of the medieval miracle, mystery,...

John Galsworthy OM ( 14 August 1867 - 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906-1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932...

An adorable story about two young sisters who love their visits to an organic farm. At the farm, they learn about farming, where their food comes from, and why organic farming is important both for their health and for the earth.Author: Alisha...

Literary and Social Essays : 9781494485337Author: George William CurtisPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Dec 14, 2013Number of Pages: 220 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1494485338ISBN-13: 9781494485337

Georgina's reasons Henry James Henry James's 1884 tale "Georgina's Reasons" presents readers with an insoluble hermeneutic problem regarding its heroine's motivation. This essay applies four interpretative frameworks - theological, political, scientific...

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Confidence By Henry James American/British author of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best-known for novels and novellas of morals. As such, he favors internal, psychological drama; his work is frequently about alienation, his prose frequently...

Excerpt: ...her a new patience and a new subtlety. It shouldn't really be for nothing that she had given so much; deep within her burned again the resolve to get something back. So what she wrote to Owen was simply that she had had a great scene with his...

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has...

Gustave Flaubert, ne a Rouen le 12 decembre 1821 et mort a Canteleu, au hameau de Croisset, le 8 mai 1880, est un ecrivain francais. Prosateur de premier plan de la deuxieme moitie du XIXe siecle, Gustave Flaubert a marque la litterature francaise par la...

London Films : 9781499227123Author: W. D. HowellsPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Apr 23, 2014Number of Pages: 198 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1499227124ISBN-13: 9781499227123

The Man Who Watched Batman is the ultimate companion book to Batman: The Animated Series. Whether you can quote every line or are watching for the very first time, this novel will leave no stone unturned to give you the ultimate BTAS experience. Every...

"Who could resist a study of a writer that begins, 'If his writing had taken a flying fuck into a deep canyon, it was always balls-to-the-wall.' Jan Herman has written a riveting, gonzo mini-biography." -- Heathcote Williams The text for this second...

Meu "eu l?rico" ?, na verdade, Um ente coletivo, ainda que, Inconsciente da sua pr?pria coletividade.? uma maneira "trans" de ver o mundo, De senti-lo, de interagir com ele.Meu eu l?rico ? o que sou, Mas tamb?m que n?o cabe em mim: ? o que me transpassa,...

Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, it includes one of his better-known short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." All of...

"Tremendous Trifles by G. K. Chesterton: " Publisher: Kindle E-Book Edition: ISBN-13: 978-1-78379-145-3 This collection shows off Chesterton's talent as a master of short-form prose. These "fleeting sketches," which originally appeared the London...

This brief book, which includes the text of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," analyzes the narrative progression of the poem and its relationship to the Christian symbols and allusions that Coleridge uses and suggests a connection between them and a...

Es posible acceder a lo real por medio de la interpretaci?n? Se puede uno aproximar a lo imposible de decir, a lo que no se puede significar por los caminos de la significaci?n? La respuesta es, obviamente, no, pero hay que a?adir precisiones: no por el...

Having five dots instead of six makes Red a little bit different from all of the other ladybugs. However, things get really hard when Red begins to be bullied by a bumblebee named Zap. Will Red ever be able to stand up to Zap or will she let the bullying...

Take the luck out of finding a book to get lost in. Whether you seek the best fiction from contemporary authors or tried and true classics, reading recommendations encompass over 400 of the best books in 45 fiction genres, according to a team of book...

Friedrich Schulz first published his version of Rapunzel in German in his 1790 series of books: "Kleine Romane." This version of the tale shows the fairy as a benevolent mother figure whose only desire is to protect Rapunzel. The tale is very different...

William Shakespeare: Liebes Leid und Lust / Love's Labor's Lost. Deutsch - Englisch Zweisprachige Ausgabe. ?bersetzt von Wolf Graf Baudissin (Schlegel/Tieck-Ausgabe) Gro format, 216 x 279 mm Berliner bilinguale Ausgabe, 2015 Absatzgenau synchronisierter...

This volume is a selective listing of doctoral dissertations and master's theses worldwide that deal with the writings of the author Isabel Allende. Each listing contains the author's name, title of dissertation/theses, degree awarded, educational...

This volume is a selective listing of doctoral dissertations and master's theses worldwide that deal with the work of the Chilean writer Jose Donoso. Each listing contains the author's name, title of dissertation/theses, degree awarded, educational...

William Shakespeare. Charles Dickens. Mark Twain. These are a few of the people who, were they still alive, would be seriously irritated to see their names in this book. But after nearly a decade as a high school English teacher, Blake M. Petit knows...

Few, if any, authors of science fiction writing since the publication of A PRINCESS OF MARS can say that they were not influenced, to a greater or lesser degree, by the pulp adventure and science-fiction storyteller, Edgar Rice Burroughs. A seminal work,...

En Brisas de agosto, segundo libro de relatos cortos despu?s de Hojas de oto?o, de la saga de cuatro obras que espera completar en breve, el autor nos hace viajar y conocer aspectos de distintos pa?ses que ha visitado. Hace hincapi? especial en los...

For more than half a century a handful of Florida mystery novelists have raised within their works a clear and consistent environmental voice that tells the continuing saga of a once pristine land nearly loved to death. For them, the Sunshine State...