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When Sir Charles Baskerville is found mysteriously dead in the grounds of Baskerville Hall, everyone remembers the legend of the monstrous creature that haunts ...

Describes the domestic obligations, social limitations, and economic factors that impede literary creativity in women, in the story of William Shakespeare's ...

Together, the stories form one interwoven tapestry which provides a rich and subtle picture of the struggles of men and women to rise above the constraints of ...

The story of one brave man's attempt to restore Richard the Lion-Hearted to the throne stolen by his evil brother, Prince John.

In nineteenth-century England, Dorthea Brooke's wishes to defy social conventions are inhibited by the strict nature of her surroundings.

Prince Myshkin, a good yet simple man, is out of place in the corrupt world created by Russia's ruling class 'The chief thing is that they all need him' -thus ...

Presents the four novels and fifty-six short stories which comprise the entire Sherlock Holmes saga

First published in 1978, Tillie Olsen's Silences revolutionized literary studies and inspired an explosion of new creative voices.

Studies the eruption of Mount St. Helens, its impact on scientific knowledge, and the gradual return of life to its barren slopes

A senior editor of National Review and leading conservative spokesperson provides commentary to accompany this anthology of character-building stories from ...

This work explores the role of the literary in theory, with wide-ranging analysis of key concepts and disciplinary practices.

It’s not just a brilliant polemical essay; it’s also a remarkable feat of condensation, explication, and synthesis.” —Sunday Times (London) “A concise ...

A lively and entertaining introduction to the art of reading literature demonstrates how to make everyday reading more rewarding by helping readers understand ...

Two short novels, one set in New York and the other in Hollywood, dramatically depict the extremes of the human condition and the destructive forces pervading ...

These essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena of ...

Moraes Zogoiby offers a revealing account of his family, their evolving fortunes, and the lost world of possibilities in twentieth-century India, recounting a ...

I — Introductory Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy days of the word " orthodox." In former days the heretic was proud of not being a heretic. ...

The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles (496-46 BC) to create a powerful trilogy about mankind's struggle against fate.

The French literary master's work depicting young Fabrizio's struggles to keep his love for Clelia a secret in the small court of Parma