Литературоведение

During the American Civil War, the coast of the southern states is largely blocked and trade in cotton collapses. A young merchant devises a plan to take advantage of this situation and make a pr…

Первая книга, в которой филолог и фольклорист В. Я. Пропп рассматривает русский героический эпос как часть русской культуры, русской истории, русской действительности. Эпос, уходящий корнями в се…

Variety truly IS the spice of life in this jam-packed biography of Bernard Atha. He recounts some of the pleasures and sorrows of a long and varied life. From dancer to councillor, from the RAF t…

"The Courts of the Morning" was written in 1929 by Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician John Buchan (1875–1940), telling the events of a public revolution in the fictional co…

Literary Thoughts edition <br/> presents <br/> Goslings; or, A World of Women by J.D. Beresford <br/> <br/> <br/> – <br/> <br/> <br/> &quot;Goslings; or, A World of Women" is a 1913 post-apocalyp…

&quot;Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot&apos;s character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a …

This book includes classic poems by such eminent poets as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sara Teasdale, William Butler Ye…

Anton de Kom’s [i]We Slaves of Suriname[/i] is a literary masterpiece as well as a fierce indictment of racism and colonialism. In this classic book, published here in English for the first time,…

Nadia Anwar presents a compelling reading framework for the study and analysis of selected post-independence Nigerian dramas, using the conceptual parameters of metatheatre, a theatrical strategy…

&quot;The early years of my life, which were spent in the little cabin, were not very different from those of thousands of other slaves. My mother, of course, had little time in which to give att…

Are you crazy about rugby but frustrated at the modern emphasis on over-regulation; the &apos;closed-up&apos; modern game, as opposed to the free-flowing, open running game of the past? Are you i…

&quot;It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his …

Literary Thoughts edition <br/> presents <br/> The Heart of Cherry McBain by Douglas Durkin <br/> <br/> <br/> – <br/> <br/> <br/> &quot;The Heart of Cherry McBain", written by Douglas Durkin in 1…

Where is Helen? When a wealthy ex pat mysteriously disappears from her sun drenched Greek island home, her friend Lucy has a bad feeling. Convinced of foul play, she persuades the reclusive hard …

Earth Realm has become threatened by ruthless immortals that all want the Kadan-Nitsu, the most powerful weapon in all the realms of the Universe. Whoever had the Kadan-Nitsu had the power to def…

&quot;Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a land owner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and…

Literary Thoughts edition <br/> presents <br/> Death in the Tunnel by Miles Burton <br/> <br/> <br/> – <br/> <br/> <br/> &quot;Death in the Tunnel" is a mystery novel written in 1936 by Cecil Joh…

Literary Thoughts edition <br/> presents <br/> Song of Years by Bess Streeter Aldrich <br/> <br/> <br/> – <br/> <br/> <br/> &quot;Song of Years" is a novel by American author Bess Streeter Aldric…

&quot;Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a land owner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and…

First published in the 1860s, Harry Johnson&apos;s «Bartenders&apos; Manual» is part of the classic bar-books and one of its oldest exemplar. The author has been one of the first bartenders who n…