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Terry Eagleton examines and explicates in his celebrated polemical style the wide-ranging developments theoretical writing has undergone since his ... More

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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek has continued to change people's lives for over thirty years. A passionate and poetic reflection on the mystery of creation ... More

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Introduction to literature classes that only need the essentials.

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The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde's works, and is available ... More

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"The Compact Bedford Introduction to Drama "presents a well-balanced selection of plays, commentaries, and casebooks in a concise, affordable format. ... More

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VOCES DE HISPANOAMERICA, the market-leading anthology, features the most distinguished authors of Spanish-American literature from the Pre-Colonial ... More

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This is a seductive and stunningly evocative epic on an intimate scale, which tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than ... More

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"The Bedford Introduction to Literature "is a best-seller for a reason: It brings literature to life for students -- helping to make them lifelong ... More

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"The greatest historian that ever lived." Such was Macaulay's assessment of Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) and his history of the Peloponnesian War, the ... More

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With this generous collection Bernard Knox introduces the modern reader to the enormous breadth and rich variety of classical literature. These ... More

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VOCES DE HISPANOAM RICA, the market-leading anthology, includes authors from the colonial period to the present and incorporates some of the most ... More

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This collection aims to make the best of Shakespearean theatre accessible to a younger audience. Richard, Duke of Gloucester, is a ruthless, ... More

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Born in the slums of Dublin in 1902, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer and settler of scores, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time ... More

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Classic work by great Victorian expresses his deepest convictions of the nature and role of architecture and its aesthetics. Authoritative edition ... More

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"The Bedford Anthology of Drama" is the most comprehensive introductory drama resource available. Its 54 chronologically arranged plays represent ... More

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In the history of Western culture we find lists of saints, rosters of soldiers, catalogues of grotesque creatures or medicinal plants, and hordes of ... More

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, ... More

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Poet Jane Hirschfield illuminates the craft and mind of poetry, from the work of anonymous Egyptian love poets to that of Rilke, Dickinson, Yeats, ... More

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In this introduction to literary criticism, the major critical theories of literary interpretation-- historical, formal, reader-response, mimetic, ... More

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The last Isaac Asimov science fiction collection which contains all of his previously uncollected stories. Gold is Isaac Asimov's last science ... More

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Tolkien's classic essay on fantasy, "On Fairy Stories", is complemented by his charming story, "Leaf by Niggle" and the poem "Mythopoeia".

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"The Persians "("Persae") is Aeschylus' first surviving play. Unlike all other surviving Greek tragedies, which deal with persons and events from the ... More

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First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became a modern classic, and has had an enormous ... More

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A cornucopia of history, culture and imagination, Elizabeth Peters' lively and informative reference celebrates every aspect of mystery fiction's ... More

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