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Life Sentences
Literary Judgments and Accounts
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
A dazzling new collection of essays—on reading, writing, form, and thought—from one of America’s master writers.
It begins with the personal, both past and present. It emphasizes Gass’s lifelong attachment to books and moves on to the more analytical, as he ponders the work of some of his...
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
A Routledge Study Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2007
Offering an insight into African culture that had not been portrayed before, Things Fall Apart is both a tragic and moving story of an individual set in the wider context of the coming of colonialism, as well as a powerful and complex political statement of cross-cultural encounters.
This guide...
Grade 1 Phonics: Early Learning Skills
Phonics for Kids Alphabets Grade One
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
While some parents think that phonics come naturally, a little push will still be welcome. Phonics is a step towards reading and spelling through listening. It will be impossible to spell if a child is unable to recognize the sounds in words. This workbook is composed of letters with corresponding written object examples, accompanied by pictures. Have a copy today!
How to Read Novels Like a Professor
A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Of all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and today's masters, the novel has grown with and adapted to changing societies and technologies, mixing...
The Books They Gave Me
True Stories of Life, Love, and Lit
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
This beautiful full-color treasury of stories about gift book-giving celebrates the enduring power of literature: stories of significant books people have received and what those books mean to them.
THE GIFT OF A BOOK BECOMES PART OF THE STORY OF YOUR LIFE. Perhaps it came with a note as simple...
by Karen Sands-O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
This book examines a critical period in British children’s publishing, from the earliest days of dedicated publishing firms for Black British audiences to the beginnings of the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK. Taking a historical approach that includes education acts, Black protest, community...
Listening to the Page
Adventures in Reading and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2002
When he sold his first short story to The New Yorker in 1979, Alan Cheuse was hardly new to the literary world. He had studied at Rutgers under John Ciardi, worked at the Breadloaf Writing Workshops with Robert Frost and Ralph Ellison, written hundreds of reviews for Kirkus Reviews, and taught alongside...
For the Love of Books
Stories of Literary Lives, Banned Books, Author Feuds, Extraordinary Characters, and More
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
A light-hearted book about books and the people who write them for all lovers of literature.
Do you know:
Which famous author died of caffeine poisoning?
Why Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was banned in China?
Who was the first British writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
What...
by Book Habits
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2018
The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer | Conversation Starters
Spiritual teacher, author, and successful businessman Michael A. Singer says happiness can be achieved by first looking into our concept of the self. But the idea of self is elusive. He proposes to lead readers to the journey...
Literary Miscellany
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Wouldn’t it be great to be a fly on the wall as the great writers took pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard)? While reading this work, you’ll be just that. Here are behind-the-book stories and facts about authors, publishing and everything literary that will entertain both casual and serious readers....
by SpeedyReads
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Wanna Read But Not Enough Time?
Then, grab a SpeedyReads of The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg Now!
Here's a sample of what you'll see in this book:
PROLOGUE
We are introduced to Lisa Allen, a participant in a scientific study centering on how individuals with destructive habits...
How to Write Like Tolstoy
A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
For anyone who has ever identified with a hero or heroine, been seduced by a strong opening sentence, or been powerfully moved by a story’s end, How to Write Like Tolstoy is a thought-provoking journey inside the minds of the world’s most accomplished storytellers, from Shakespeare to Stephen...
by John Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The novel is alive and well, thank you very much
For the last fifteen years, whenever a novel was published, John Freeman was there to greet it. As a critic for more than two hundred newspapers worldwide, the onetime president of the National Book Critics Circle, and the former editor of Granta,...
Bookends
Collected Intros and Outros
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords (plus some liner notes) by New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon—“one of contemporary literature’s most gifted prose stylists” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times).
In Bookends,...