http://www.ebooks.com/Literary-CriticismFeatured Literary Criticism titles at eBooks.comhelp@ebooks.com©2009 Ebooks Corporation Ltd11/16/2009 8:20:04 AMhttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=12994220091611.12994211/16/2009 8:20:04 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=12966620091611.12966611/16/2009 8:20:04 AM Ordinarily a moralist writer, in this novel Fielding creates a comedy of romance, by superimposing the positive act of the imagination on the raw material of the real world. It is ultimately both instructive and entertaining. Here Fielding parodies his own previous novels in this story of a young man resisting the many attempts to seduce him.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=12974920091611.12974911/16/2009 8:20:04 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=12995520091611.12995511/16/2009 8:20:04 AM This concise supplement to Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain 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=12991420091611.12991411/16/2009 8:20:04 AM This concise supplement to William Wordsworth's The Prelude 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=19320420091611.19320411/16/2009 8:20:04 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=12968120091611.12968111/16/2009 8:20:04 AM A greedy, unscrupulous man loses his business and lover. In his humility he begins to think of others and makes not a material, but spiritual and ethical rise. This is a book of tragicomedy, romanticism, realism, society and art, as well as a study of American culture.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=18499420091611.18499411/16/2009 8:20:04 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=12967720091611.12967711/16/2009 8:20:04 AM Fowles tells a brilliant love story about the effects of Victorian English society on an individual's self-awareness and how that awareness dominates and distorts one's life, including relationships with other people.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=12995420091611.12995411/16/2009 8:20:04 AM This concise supplement to Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land 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=22140420091611.22140411/16/2009 8:20:04 AMThis second edition of Professor Dame Gillian Beer's highly acclaimed book incorporates a new preface by the author and a foreword by the distinguished American scholar George Levine. '... a work of criticism that takes its modest place among the other 'cloudy triumphs' of English genius.' Michael Neve, Sunday Timeshttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=12971720091611.12971711/16/2009 8:20:04 AM Widely regarded as one of the best poets of the United States, Dickinson is considered a poetic genius. This survey of 85 of her poems covers an immense array of topics and highlights her themes and taut compression of ideas and images.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=12813220091611.12813211/16/2009 8:20:04 AM Zola's heroine Nana is a prostitute in Napoleon III's France for whom rich men give up their fortunes, and poor men their lives, yet Nana squanders fortunes and her life ends in squalor. This concise supplement to Emile Zola's Nana 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=35584420091611.35584411/16/2009 8:20:04 AMOffers an analyses of the "Potter" books as phenomenon, bringing together scholars from various disciplines to examine the impact of the series. This work features essays that explore on what it has meant for a generation of children to grow up with Harry Potter.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=33540620091611.33540611/16/2009 8:20:04 AMThis classic work covers all of the major movements in literary studies in this century. Noted for its clear, engaging style and unpretentious treatment, Literary Theory has become the introduction of choice for anyone interested in learning about the world of contemporary literary thought.