Literary Criticism - General

"A Student's Pastime" is a fascinating collection of articles reprinted from the renowned "Notes and Queries" journal. Compiled by Walter William Skeat, a distinguished philologist and scholar, this volume offers a diverse range of literary and historical insights. From etymological explorations to curious historical...

Dive into the enchanting world of J.M. Barrie with "The Novels, Tales, and Sketches of J.M. Barrie, Volume 10." This carefully curated collection showcases the breadth and depth of Barrieâ€(TM)s literary genius, featuring a selection of his most captivating short stories, insightful sketches, and...

“Essays and Studies, Educational and Literary” is a collection of insightful essays by Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, a renowned classical scholar and educator. Published in 1890, this volume offers a glimpse into the educational and literary landscape of the late 19th century. Gildersleeve's essays explore...

“Essays and Studies, Educational and Literary” is a collection of insightful essays by Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, a renowned classical scholar and educator. Published in 1890, this volume offers a glimpse into the educational and literary landscape of the late 19th century. Gildersleeve's essays explore...

Legendary authors are the stars of The Burning Typewriter, the first major book to concern itself with acting appearances by writers, as well as biographical films about writers. From macho epics based on the lives and works of Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, and Zane...

Legendary authors are the stars of The Burning Typewriter, the first major book to concern itself with acting appearances by writers, as well as biographical films about writers. From macho epics based on the lives and works of Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, and Zane...

An indepth study of the films and literary fiction of Irish director Neil JordanAuthor: Paul McGuirkISBN-13: 9798646859786Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/19/2020Pages: 474Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.52lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.06d

Breaking Through the Inky Night isn't just a collection of essays; it's a reckoning, a hard stare into the half-light of history, memory, and the spectral weight of our humanity. Martin Smallridge lays bare the odd pulse of existence, where the so-called trivial beats...

What does it mean to have common sense in a world full of contradictions? In Judgment, Trust, and Common Sense, Jacob S. Oliver explores this question through the lens of American literature, philosophy, and history. Using works like Thomas Paine's Common Sense, Mark Twain's...

Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern...

The love letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a...

This book "" Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation "", 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...

The book, "" Anthony John "", 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...

NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERS The Study Of Celtic Literature This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an...

A window onto a living city, and a voice that makes history intimate. A diary not just read, but walked through-your entry into seventeenth century London, where the Thames glints, theatres glow, and daily life unfolds with surprising modernity. Diary Of Samuel Pepys -...

A vivid window into an astonishingly precise moment in time, this diary offers more than a recollection; it is daily life in motion, a living history you can hear and smell. Diary Of Samuel Pepys volume 63 invites readers to walk the crowded streets...

A doorway to the mind of a Renaissance thinker, and a compass for modern readers navigating timeless questions. Michel de Montaigne's Essays Of Michel De Montaigne (Volume 15) offers a lucid, unfolds as a classic essay collection that speaks with enduring clarity. This edition...

A window into one of history's most turbulent years, Diary Of Samuel Pepys - Volume 36: July 1665 invites you to walk the crowded lanes of plague-ridden London and witness daily life through Pepys's keen, restless eyes. A vivid, human chronicle that blends personal...

A brisk, intimate window into a world just waking to modern life. Pepys's private epistolary journal becomes a living, breathing companion when read in this newly restored edition. Diary Of Samuel Pepys - Volume 18: September/October 1662 offers a concise, gripping slice of seventeenth...

A one-man time machine and a window into a city in flux. Diary Of Samuel Pepys - Volume 41 invites you to step into the daily life of London in the plague era and the aftermath of the great fire, through the intimate, searching...

A spark of wonder, a mirror held to the self. Montaigne's Essays of Michel de Montaigne (Volume 18) invites you to pause, question, and listen to the voice of a perceptive mind centuries ahead of its time. This edition offers more than the sum...

This book examines the historical linguistic panorama of Western South America, focusing on the minor languages that were partially or fully replaced by the expansion of the Quechuan family through the region.The author presents a coherent and generally applicable framework for studying prehistoric language...

In his memoir The Mad Artist, Roger Keen details his past psychedelic experiences in the 1970s. As a result of its publication, he became part of the current alternative scene and wrote for magazines and websites, such as Psychedelic Press, The Oak Tree Review,...

For nearly a hundred years, Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome has been considered one of the great works of American literature, a book that nearly everyone has heard of, if not required to read in school. Ethan Frome: Analysis in Context is a contextual close...

The Latin American Short story in the 20th Century is a critic and analytic journey through the thirteen best short stories of the past century. This book consists of sixteen literary articles about writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Horacio Quiroga, Felisberto Hernández, Julio...

"True criticism is a search for beauty and truth and an announcement of them." "Among the many volumes of critical essays which have recently come to this country from England this is assuredly the best....In 'The Art of Letters' Robert Lynd has once more...

New Worlds for Old identifies two "Main Generalizations of Socialism" "The ideas of the private individual rights of the parent and of his isolated responsibility for his children are harmfully exaggerated in the contemporary world. "The idea of the private ownership of things and...

Charles Brockden Brown (January 17, 1771 - February 22, 1810) was an American novelist, historian, and editor of the Early National period. He is generally regarded by scholars as the most important American novelist before James Fenimore Cooper. He is the most frequently studied...

Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as the theatre, journalism, propaganda and films.Author: Arnold BennettISBN-10: 172218468XISBN-13: 9781722184681Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/03/2018Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 9.02h x...

James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 - September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances draw a picture of frontier and American Indian life in the early American days which created a unique form...

The Card is a short comic novel written by Arnold Bennett in 1911. Like much of Bennett's best work, it is set in the Potteries District of Staffordshire. It chronicles the rise of Edward Henry ("Denry") Machin from washerwoman's son to Mayor of Bursley...

Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination.Author: Edibooks,Gilman Charlotte...

Sequel to Herland. Published serially in the author's monthly magazine, Forerunner, volume 7 (1916). Herland described an all-women utopia in a secluded high valley, where 3 adventurous young men visit by airplane. Eventually, 2 of the 3 are expelled, along with a young Herland...

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes.Author:...

Neil Jordan is indisputably the most important filmmaker to emerge in the context of contemporary Irish cinema to date. However, Jordan began his career as a fiction writer and has written five novels - The Past (1980), Sunrise With Sea Monster (1994), Shade (2005),...

John Burroughs (April 3, 1837 - March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the U.S. conservation movement.[1] The first of his essay collections was Wake-Robin in 1871.In the words of his biographer Edward Renehan, Burroughs' special identity was less...

William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 - June 5, 1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise endings.Author: O. HenryISBN-10: 1535325364ISBN-13: 9781535325363Publisher: Createspace Independent...

An off-hand speculation by ex-pat and professor, David Moran, sends his celebrated historian colleague, Graham Guade, on an investigation that peels back American use of, and protection for, Japanese doctors who committed unspeakable medical experiments in WWII. The inquiry into the legacy of those...

Stories have always enabled people to make sense of the world and others, and this book encourages a radical rethinking of how we tell stories about climate change. This book proposes that, while climate change may be a result of policy failures and the...

New Worlds For Old-A Plain Account of Modern Socialism is a classic H. G. Wells politics essay. Mr. Wells claims the name of socialist without blindly subscribing to the programme of any present form of socialistic theory. He aims in this book (which is...

Many of us live dual lives, as though we live in two worlds. This divergence is perhaps greatest for those embedded in what may be called "multiculturalism." Multicultural people, with their unique life experiences, are migrating around the globe, carrying their own baggage while...

Goronwy Owen (1723-1769) was a Welsh poet and clergyman who spent the last dozen years of his life in Virginia. As a poet, Owen is still revered in his native land as in his work he revived the ancient bardic meters of Welsh poetry....

Late twentieth-century Jesus novels carve out a completely new picture of Jesus. Those written by Norman Mailer, Jose Saramago, Michele Roberts, Marianne Fredriksson, and Ki Longfellow, among others, provide inversive revisions of the canonical Gospels. Their adaptations often turn into a critique of the...

The stories, tales, and memories of Life-Arc Teaching Tales deal with the instructiveness of teaching, as well as the hammered, ironic learning of getting through any lifetime.Author: John ZeugnerISBN-10: 1498219020ISBN-13: 9781498219020Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)Language: EnglishPublished: 04/14/2015Pages: 204Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Paul Snell, novice reporter, gets assigned a weekly column on chess, mostly because of his faux-filial attachment to the Hane Tribune's owner Waldo Turner. In return Snell promises to attend to, and probably marry, Waldo's fragile, unhinged niece Pamela Snow. The unlikely couple soon...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1920 Edition.Author: Jean LangISBN-10: 1498059899ISBN-13: 9781498059893Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 386Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.97lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.80d

This is a new release of the original 1958 edition.Author: Agnes BoultonISBN-10: 149408709XISBN-13: 9781494087098Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 330Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.69d

This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.Author: Ross CalvinISBN-10: 1494094215ISBN-13: 9781494094218Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 358Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.74d

This book facilitates the learner's appreciation and delectation of literary genre and adequately prepares candidates for the Cameroon General Certificate of Education (CGCE) Examination in both the essays and Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) and also sharpens the skills of anyone interested in literary analysis....

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, better known as G.K. Chesterton, was an English writer. He wrote on philosophy, ontology, poetry, plays, journalism, public lectures and debates, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction. Chesterton is often referred to as...