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The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Major Authors - The Major Authors

Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible The Norton Anthology of English Literature, The Major Authors has been revitalized...

Anthology of Japanese Literature, from the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century

The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre and style, from the celebrated No plays to the poetry and novels of the seventeenth century, find a p...

Labyrinths

The Oxford Book of Short Stories

V. S. Pritchett, one of our greatest short-story writers, has chosen forty-one stories written in the English language for this volume, producing a collection that successfully displays the wealth and variety of an art that spans some 200 years.

The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. III

This critically acclaimed series continues with another eclectic lineup, including Raymond Carver, Norman Mailer, and Joyce Carol Oates. "The interviews are literary landmarks, and the gossip, humor, ideas, and practical advice dispensed are ...

Kafka's Last Love - The Mystery of Dora Diamant

In this gripping literary detective story, Kathi Diamant brings to light the amazing woman who captured Kafka's heart and kept his literary flame alive for decades. This was Dora Diamant, an independent spirit who fled her Polish Hasidic family to...

Sylvie and Bruno

Two little children meet adventure in such places as Dogland, Outland, and Elfland.

Gift Of Love

"A Gift Of Love" captures holiday magic as it transports us...to New York City, where a schoolteacher slips an antique gold ring on her finger and travels back in time to a man who desperately needs her love...to a village in Victorian E...

Under the Covers

"Naughty or Nice?" by Crystal Jordan - Dayna Sharp has the perfect job, the perfect man...the perfect life. So why is the prospect of marrying Mr. Wonderful so perfectly boring? It's a question Dayna can't shake when she brings her fianc...

The Mysterious World of Sherlock Holmes - The Illustrated Guide to the Famous Cases, Infamous Adversaries, and Ingenious Methods of the Great Detective

Over a century since his first appearance in print, Sherlock Holmes remains an iconic figure today. This unique companion is a collectors dream, allowing fans to delve into the criminal environment of foggy, gas-lit Victorian London-the world of t...

The Mammoth Book of Wolf Men - The Ultimate Werewolf Anthology

This collection of 23 dark stories of the supernatural creature, half-man, half-wolf, and entirely unpredictable, is being re-released to coincide with the much-anticipated Wolf Man, starring Anthony Hopkins and Benicio del Toro. Top contributors ...

Great Ghost Stories

Featuring eerily atmospheric modern tales of foreboding and unease by such contemporary authors as Garry Kilworth, Brian Lumley, Ramsey Campbell, Tony Richards, and R. Chetwynd-Hayes, as well as disquieting classic ghost stories by literary giants...

The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes and Impossible Mysteries

From the likes of Robert Randisi, Peter Crowther, and Max Rittenberg, these 30 stories of bizarre and impossible crimes will fascinate and intrigue the reader who grapples with their intricate puzzles. A man alone in an all-glass phone booth, visi...

The Anthology of Chinese Literature: 1

Internationally renowned Chinese literature scholar Cyril Birch was the first to assemble the finest translations of these seminal pieces in his now classic and still definitive introductory anthologies. The selections in this first volume span a ...

Somatic Fictions - Imagining Illness in Victorian Culture

This book focuses on the centrality of illness - particularly psychosomatic illness - as an imaginative construct in Victorian culture, emphasising how it shaped the terms through which people perceived relationships between body and mind, self an...

The Journal of Socho

"The Journal of Socho" is one of the most individual self-portraits in the literary history of medieval Japan. Its author, Saiokuken Socho (1448-1532), the preeminent linked-verse (renga) poet of his time was an eyewitness to Japan's vio...

Nerve: The First Ten Years - Essays, Interviews, Fiction and Photography

Way back in the early days of the internet, Nerve.com challenged the best writers and photographers of the generation to create work that was explicit in both senses of the word: honest and sexy. Now, ten years later, Nerve.com is renowned for its...

The Civilizations of Africa - A History to 1800

With his focus on pre-colonial Africa, Christopher Ehret provides in this volume a complete overview of African history. He examines African inventions and civilizations from 16,000 BCE to 1800 CE, from the northern tip of Tunisia to the Cape of G...

The Lie of the Land - Challenging Received Wisdom on the African Environment

This book addresses the issue of how environmental orthodoxies become established, and what the alternative and appropriate approaches for policy-making are. It shows that many of the established orthodoxies are ill-conceived or represent the inte...

Eroding the Commons - The Politics of Ecology in Baringo, Kenya 1890s-1963

Colonial Baringo was in many respects an unexceptional place, a backwater in the semi-arid Rift Valley of Kenya, lacking in cash crops and distant from larger markets. But in the middle years of colonial rule Baringo's anonymity gave way to notori...