The Symbolist Movement in Literature
Arthur Symons and Matthew Creasy
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First published in 1899, The Symbolist Movement in Literature was a highly influential work of...
The Turn of the Screw: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism
Henry James, Deborah Esch and Jonathan Warren
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Contexts includes twenty-six selections, from James's letters, notebooks, and other writings during...
Think, Pig!: Beckett at the Limit of the Human
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This book examines Samuel Beckett's unique lesson in courage in the wake of humanism's postwar...
Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls
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'You will hear it for yourselves, and it will surely fill you with wonder...' In this selection from...
Victorian Writers and the Environment: Ecocritical Perspectives
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Applying ecocritical theory to the work of Victorian writers, this collection explores what a...
A Pair of Silk Stockings
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'At night, among the reeds on the bayou, Chicot could still hear the woman's wail, mingled now with...
Atheist's Mass
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'This is as much a mystery as the Immaculate Conception, which of itself must make a doctor an...
Piers Plowman: The Donaldson Translation, Select Authoritative Middle English Text, Sources and Backgrounds, Criticism
Elizabeth Robertson, William Langland and Stephen H. A. Shepherd
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Astonishing in its cultural and theological scope, William Langland's iconoclastic masterpiece is at...
Rambling on: An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab
Bohumil Hrabal and David Short
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Novelist Bohumil Hrabal was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and he spent decades working at a variety...
Steve Canyon: Volume 4: 1953-1954
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* The fourth volume of The Complete Steve Canyon opens with Steve as the newly-minted Light Colonel...