This collection includes tales from the award-winning author's seven previous books of short stories, as well as four that have never appeared in paperback form in…
Celebrated prose retellings of Shakespeare's plays Charles and Mary Lamb have delighted generations of adults as well as children with their famed prose renderings of Shakespeare's…
An accident has claimed the life of the local paper's eccentric publisher, but to Qwilleran and his feline friends it smells like murder. They soon sniff…
This is the third and final collection of columns by celebrated novelist Hornby from "The Believer" magazine. Hornby's monthly reading diary discusses cultural artifacts the way…
Discussing the work of Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Helene Cixous, this book argues that literary theory is less an external set of ideas anachronistically imposed on Shakespeare's texts than a mode - or several mode…
A wonderful collection of six of Shakespeares best-loved plays. Includes Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest as well…
"Discoverers of the Universe" tells the gripping story of William Herschel, the brilliant, fiercely ambitious, emotionally complex musician and composer who became court astronomer to Britain's…
Tragedy, including grief, pain and suffering, is a common theme in Shakespeare's plays, often leading to the death of at least one character, if not several. Yet such themes can also be found in Shakespearian plays which are classed as comedies, or hi…
INSTALLATION ART IN CLOSE-UP A huge array of contemporary artists are studied and illustrated in this new book on installation and environmental art, including: Andy Goldsworthy,…
Publisher: New York: Prentice-Hall Publication date: 1950 Subjects: English poetry -- 18th century English poetry -- 19th century Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may…
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolutio…
"Renaissance Self-Fashioning "is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance--Mor…
Explores Shakespeare's philosophy of life and illustrates how he was influenced, for example, by the essays of Montaigne that were translated into English while Shakespeare was…
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