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How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why d……続きを見る

**Earn College Credit with REA's Test Prep for CLEP® American Literature Everything you need to pass the exam and get the college credit you deserve.** CLEP® is the most popular credit-by-examinatio……続きを見る

**From the author of the beloved New York Times best-selling The End of Your Life Book Club, an inspiring and magical exploration of the power of books to shape our lives in an era of constant conne……続きを見る

In this study of the study of the linguistic approach to narrative structures, the author examines the question of point of view in fiction, drawing examples from Czech literature. He applies the me……続きを見る

How could a writer who knew no foreign languages call himself a translator? How, too, did he become a major commercial success, churning out nearly two hundred translations over twenty years? Lin Sh……続きを見る

A masterpiece of Irish literature of the Victorian Age, The Real Charlotte draws characters from the worlds of Anglo-Irish aristocracy and the native Irish peasantry. “Delightful.”ーThe Guardian. 続きを見る

Unlock the more straightforward side of The Unbearable Lightness of Being with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Unbearable Lightnes……続きを見る

Twenty of America's bestselling authors share tricks, tips, and secrets of the successful writing life. Anyone who's ever sat down to write a novel or even a story knows how exhilarating and heartbr……続きを見る

Thoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullestーa lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range of……続きを見る

FANTASTIC BEASTS and WHERE to FIND THEM: The Original Screenplay Readers Guide & Textbook Summary - NOT ORIGINAL BOOK This is a double feature! First, you get a great summary of the fantastical "tex……続きを見る

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In this essay collection, Henighan ranges across continents, centuries and linguistic traditions to examine how literary culture and our perception of history are changing as the world grows smaller……続きを見る

In Imaginary Homelands, Salman Rushdie presents ten years’ worth of concentrated thought on topics from the most cherished literary traditions and authors of India, Europe, and America to the politi……続きを見る

A primer on literature and how to read it. The easy-to-use, question-and-answer approach makes it the perfect gift for anyone. Students, English teachers, casual and avid readers will find the text ……続きを見る

Throughout his career, William Gass relentlessly pushed at the boundaries of language, celebrating the music of the sentence and the aesthetics of the written word. Now, the best and most important ……続きを見る

Unlock the more straightforward side of Never Let Me Go with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, a dyst……続きを見る

An inside look into Paul Auster's art and craft, the inspirations and obsessions, mesmerizing and dramatic in turn. A remarkably candid, and often surprisingly dramatic, investigation into one write……続きを見る

As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787). From ……続きを見る

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Décryptez Zazie dans le métro de Raymond Queneau avec l’analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr ! Que faut-il retenir de Zazie dans le métro, le célèbre roman de la littérature française contemporaine ? Retro……続きを見る

Unlock the more straightforward side of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Charlie and the Chocola……続きを見る

The first complete guide-for use by adults and children-to creating fun and educational book clubs for kids. As authors of The Book Club Cookbook, the classic guide to integrating great food and foo……続きを見る

Autobiographical impostures, once they come to light, appear to us as outrageous, scandalous. They confuse lived and textual identity (the person in the world and the character in the text) and call……続きを見る

"Delightful... elegant prose and discussions that span the history of 2,000 years of literature."ーPublisher's Weekly A novel is a story transmitted from the novelist to the reader. It offers distra……続きを見る

In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue des……続きを見る

The fascinating stories behind what have been rightly called the "hottest books on the planet": The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's N……続きを見る

A Pulitzer Prize-winning critic's often surprising meditation on those places where life and books intersect and what might be learned from both Once out of school, most of us read for pleasure. Yet……続きを見る

From Homer and Shakespeare to Toni Morrison and Jonathan Safran Foer, major works of literature have a great deal to teach us about two of life’s most significant stagesーgrowing up and growing old.……続きを見る

In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of……続きを見る

What Every Author Should Know On Getting A Book Published, Approaching Book Publishers, Questions to Ask Publishers Before Accepting an Offer, Other Alternatives to Print Publishing, Easiest books T……続きを見る