3,315円 A collection of extraordinary columns on all things literary from an accomplished Southern critic, historian, and preservationist Southern Bound represents a running conversation on books, writers, and literary travel written for the Mobile Press-Register Books page from 1995 to 2011 by John S. S...

164円 TABLE OF CONTENTS:Sir Richard Steele (Born in 1672, died in 1729.)I: Of Companions and FlatterersII: The Story-Teller and His Art. (From The Guardian)III: Sir Roger and the Widow. (From The Spectator)IV: The Coverley Family Portraits. (From The Spectator)V: On Certain Symptoms of Greatness. (From...

7,752円 Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside occupies a distinctive and somewhat notorious place within George Meredith’s already unique body of work. Modern Love is now best known for the emotionally intense sonnet cycle which Meredith’s own contemporaries dismissed as scandalously confessional...

525円 The sweet core of every life is surrounded by many protective layers. In other words: getting to the good stuff means cutting through the ! And for childhood friends Julia, Krissy and Laura, there s a lot to cut through! Each grew up with grandiose dreams of happily-ever-after, only to find that ...

1,709円 Three delightful one-act plays set in and around New York, in which sophisticated characters confound one another in ways only Woody Allen could imagine Woody Allen’s first dramatic writing published in years, “Riverside Drive,” “Old Saybrook,” and “Central Park West” are humorous, insightful, an...

164円 From 1970s London to the London of the 1870s via the perils of the internet and time travel, this collection of short stories recounts the vicissitudes of life, love, a bit of romance and a bit of fooling around.

2,254円 When Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in April of 1861, Walt Whitman declared it "the volcanic upheaval of the nation"--the bloody inception of a war that would dramatically alter the shape and character of American culture along with its political, racial, and social landscape. Prior to t...

777円 George Bernard Shaw demanded truth and despised convention. He punctured hollow pretensions and smug prudishnessーcoating his criticism with ingenious and irreverent wit. In Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Arms and the Man, Candida, and Man and Superman, the great playwright satirizes society, military...

1,856円 Beyond the brash modern stereotypes of Essex there exists a landscape that has inspired some of England's finest writing. This book tracks the paths of those literary figures who have ventured into the wilder parts of Essex. Some are illustrious names: Shakespeare, Defoe, John Clare, Joseph Conra...

1,500円 In the Land of the Dinosaur: Ten Stories and a NovellaーIn the Land of the Dinosaur is set in 1980s small-town and rural Wisconsin. The title story, which opens the collection, creates its landscape and sets the tone of an insular world buffeted by change. The stories are not connected in terms o...

239円 Helios is a collection of short stories by author Che Parker that skillfully sheds light on the writer's many varied interests, including a fantastical tale of a single mother with a daughter dying from cancer, a future tense telling of revenge and murder, several humor pieces and an essay relivi...

175円 This Halcyon Classics ebook contains the eleven extant comedies by the ancient Athenian playwright Aristophanes.  One of the foremost of the Old Comedy playwrights, Aristophanes penned at least thirty additional works which have not survived.  Includes an active table of contents for e...