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Recovering Your Story
Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“Great art discovers for us who we are,” writes eminent literature professor and critic Arnold Weinstein in this magisterial new book about how we can better uncover and understand our own stories by reading five major modern writers. Professor Weinstein, author of the highly acclaimed A Scream...
by Matthew Zapruder
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder
In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. Zapruder argues...
Alphabet Animals: Alphabet Books for Toddlers
Phonics for Kids Preschool Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
Brilliant, bold and effective - this alphabet book makes a fitting introduction to the letters. Each letter is accompanied by a colored image to make learning more engaging. This way, your child will get familiar with the alphabet and learn new words too! Since it's animal-inspired, don't be surprised if your child's awareness of the animal kingdom increases too! Grab a copy today!
by Paula Leverage
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Theory of Mind is what enables us to "put ourselves in another's shoes." It is mindreading, empathy, creative imagination of another's perspective: in short, it is simultaneously a highly sophisticated ability and a very basic necessity for human communication. Theory of Mind is central...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Ultimate Reading List
The Essential Passport to Worlds Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
"Great reads for busy people."
This is a guide to help busy people find great reads in fiction and non-fiction. Filled with recommendations of popular, entertaining reading, this book covers mystery and suspense, romance, womenas fiction and chick lit, westerns, science fiction, such...
by Maureen Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2010
Everything you need to know about classic literature in one handy guide by lecturer Maureen Hughes. Covering everything from the authors to the plays themselves and their common themes, accessibility is a key selling point with factboxes highlighting key or curious facts about the subject. Its size...
Book by Book
Notes on Reading and Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
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 there is another equally important, though often overlooked, reason that we read: to learn how...
Possibility
Essays Against Despair
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
“The essays in Vigderman’s collection dwell not on despair, but on the project of translating chaotic experience into art or memory . . . Lyrical and graceful” (Publishers Weekly).
In this accessible collection of essays, Patricia Vigderman attempts to translate some of life’s disordered...
Beyond Gatsby
How Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Writers of the 1920s Shaped American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Many of the heralded writers of the 20th century—including Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner—first made their mark in the 1920s, while established authors like Willa Cather and Sinclair Lewis produced some of their most important works during this period....
How Not to Read
Harnessing the Power of a Literature-Free Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
The Last Stupid Book You’ll Ever Need to Read
Don’t want to slog through lengthy old books like A Tale of Two Cities or The Giving Tree? Sick of being judged by your avid-reader “friends” who talk about books you’ve never heard of? Want to sound smarter without the strain of actually...
Check These Out
One Librarian's Catalog of the 200 Coolest, Best, and Most Important Books You'll Ever Read
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
Discover a librarian's secret stash of great reads!
We've all been there: in the library, head tilted sideways, doing our best to navigate a blur of spines and titles to find one worth reading. Luckily, the hunt is over. Librarian, author, and book devourer Gina Sheridan has sorted through...
by Orhan Pamuk
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
From the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, an inspired, thoughtful, and deeply personal book about reading and writing novels.
In this fascinating set of essays, based on the talks he delivered at Harvard University as part of the distinguished Norton Lecture series, Pamuk presents a comprehensive...
Introducing Literary Criticism
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
From Plato to Virginia Woolf, Structuralism to Practical Criticism, Introducing Literary Criticism charts the history and development of literary criticism into a rich and complex discipline. Tackling disputes over the value and meaning of literature, and exploring theoretical and practical approaches,...
by John Gilroy
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
The book offers a detailed commentary on the poetry of Philip Larkin, exploring the political and cultural contexts which have shaped his contemporary reputation. Part 1, Life and Times, traces Larkin's early years and follows his development, within his career as a university librarian, into one of...