http://www.ebooks.com/Literary-CriticismFeatured Literary Criticism titles at eBooks.comhelp@ebooks.com©2009 Ebooks Corporation Ltd11/5/2009 1:00:04 AMhttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=12994220090511.12994211/5/2009 1:00:05 AM This concise supplement to Honore De Balzac's Pere Goriot helps students understand the overall structure of the work, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives of the author. http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=18499420090511.18499411/5/2009 1:00:05 AMIn his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His world is alive with obscure desires and hidden motives - a world where forgiveness is automatic and an argument can be the highest form of love. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim is another unforgettable collection from one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today. http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=12974920090511.12974911/5/2009 1:00:05 AM This classic poem of 14th-century Italy is an allegory of a journey through the various levels of heaven and hell. In between, Dante describes Purgatory (Purgatorio). It is the first great poetic work written in Italian. http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=12812120090511.12812111/5/2009 1:00:05 AM Who is John Galt? This famous rhetorical question rings through Ayn Rand's best-selling novel as the people's anthem of despair in depressed economic times. Set in the future, the novel follows capitalist magnates as they battle looters, strikers, and the impending ruin of the United States' economy. The romantic and intellectual relationship between Dagny Taggart, the heroine, and John Galt, whose identity as the leader of the strike is eventually revealed, carries the novel to its climax.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=12756420090511.12756411/5/2009 1:00:05 AM A Room of One´s Own is a curious essay. Presented originally as two speeches to the Arts Society at Newham in 1928, the work is remarkable for its distinctive tone, for Woolf´s witty and deceptively casual style, and for her decision to largely eschew abstract arguments in favor of narrative, anecdote and the guidance of a strong, abiding first person narrator. She also, refreshingly, avoids doctrine and bombast, instead infusing her arguments with subtlety, curiosity and open-minded speculathttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=43139320090511.43139311/5/2009 1:00:05 AMThis selection brings together thirty of Woolf's best essays across a wide range of subjects including writing and reading, the role and reputation of women writers, the art of biography, and the London scene. They are enchanting in their own right, and indispensable to an understanding of this great writer. - ;'A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.'. According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay 'is simply that it shttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=34713920090511.34713911/5/2009 1:00:05 AMA practical guide providing literature students with the reading and writing skills needed to make the most of their degree.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=12968320090511.12968311/5/2009 1:00:05 AM Heilbroner's book gives a simple but comprehensive explanation of the ideas of the Great Economists. Translated into more than 20 languages, it is an excellent overview of the political, social, and ethical concepts of economic thought.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=13004920090511.13004911/5/2009 1:00:05 AM This dramatic poem in two parts is Goethe's greatest work. The poem is based on the legend of a man who sells his soul to the devil and deals with the man's sense of alienation and his need to come to terms with the world as it is.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=19320420090511.19320411/5/2009 1:00:05 AMWe all have dreams—things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi’s dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=13002520090511.13002511/5/2009 1:00:05 AM Miller's most famous play, it is the story of the American Dream gone awry when a small man is destroyed by society's false values. Death of a Salesman won the Pulitzer Prize in 1949 and continues to shine on stages throughout the world even today. This concise supplement to Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman helps students understand the overall structure of the play, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives of the author.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=12996920090511.12996911/5/2009 1:00:05 AM This is a novel from Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha series, dealing with the Sartori and Snopes families, representing the noblest aspects of humanity and the worst, respectively.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=43815320090511.43815311/5/2009 1:00:05 AMIn this study, Ronald Berman examines the work of the critic/novelist Edmund Wilson and the art of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway as they wrestled with the problems of language, experience, perception and reality in the "age of jazz."http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=44941320090511.44941311/5/2009 1:00:05 AMSander L. Gilman brings together Kafka's literary works, personal writings, and biography to create a compelling and accessible narrative of the literary master's life.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=12819820090511.12819811/5/2009 1:00:05 AM The CliffsComplete Hamlet is a revised and expanded study edition. It contains Shakespeare's original play, a glossary, and expert commentary in a unique, 2-column format. To enhance your learning, notes and definitions appear directly opposite the line in which they occur, and a review section follows the play. This edition also introduces you to the life, works, and times of William Shakespeare.