A collection of stories and poems, arranged in four sections corresponding ...More
With their unique combination of biography and criticism, these engaging bo...More
Each title, covering four to six short stories, features: a user's guide; a...More
Prolific author, Stephen King published his first short story, ""I Was a Te...More
Composed about CE 1000, ""Beowulf"" is the longest known poem written in Ol...More
Perhaps best recognized for the horror films it has spawned, ""Frankenstein...More
Published in 1960, and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, ""To Kill a Mock...More
Charlotte Bronte's ""Jane Eyre"", published in October 1847, was an immedia...More
Editor, Harold Bloom cites the literary origins of Gabriel Garcia Marquez a...More
John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, ""The Grapes of Wrath"", was...More
Novelist, short story writer, and photographer, Eudora Welty has come to ty...More
Attributed to Homer, ""The Iliad"", along with ""The Odyssey"", is among th...More
Romantic poet, John Keats was only 25 when he died of tuberculosis, but his...More
Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of America's most influential thinkers. His ess...More
Sylvia Plath's short life and intense poetry continue to draw considerable ...More
Tennessee Williams is recognized as one of America's greatest dramatists, a...More
George Orwell wrote many essays and political pamphlets, yet most know him ...More
An allegorical tale of passion, adultery, guilt, and social repression, Nat...More
Jane Austen's ""Pride and Prejudice"", perhaps her most recognizable work, ...More
Stephen Crane is widely recognized as a master and innovator of literary na...More
Poet, playwright, novelist, and public figure, Langston Hughes is regarded ...More
Emily Dickinson, one of the most famous American poets of the 19th century,...More
Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, ""The Color Purple"" is the st...More
The Bluest Eye is one of Toni Morrison's most powerful novels. The Nobel La...More
Ken Kesey's debut novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" uses an innovativ...More
Zora Neale Hurston was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Although her...More
Shakespeare's multifaceted ""Antony and Cleopatra"" has been seen on one ha...More
This is a useful guide to studying Shakespeare's enthralling tragedy. ""Mac...More
This is an invaluable study guide to Shakespeare's ""Othello"". The most st...More
It has been suggested that Hemingway's art has both the virtues and limitat...More
Suggests that Melville's rejection of biblical theology finds powerful expr...More
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner's fourth novel, was his first atte...More
Presents criticism on My Antonia, a nostalgic novel about an earlier Americ...More
Richard Wright's works are universally acknowledged as a starting point for...More
This new edition in the ""Bloom's Modern Critical Views"" series gathers to...More
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein, a story she wrote at the age of...More
This new edition of ""Hispanic-American Writers"" offers critical perspecti...More
First appearing in 1965, ""The Autobiography of Malcolm X"" has proved an e...More
Thoreau was renowned as a naturalist and a noted social critic and iconocla...More
Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte left an indelible mark on the literature ...More
