Literary reference works

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Reclam Lektüreschlüssel XL – hier findest du alle Informationen, um dich zielsicher und schnell vorzubereiten: auf Klausur, Referat, Abitur oder Matura!

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Understanding an epic story's key belief patterns can reveal community-level values, the nature of familial bonds, and how divine and human concerns jockey for power and influence.

Understanding an epic story's key belief patterns can reveal community-level values, the nature of familial bonds, and how divine and human concerns jockey for power and influence.

Scintillating, surprising, inventive fiction from one of the most talented writers in Britain - this is a superb collection of short stories from the acclaimed author of the Chaos Walking series and 'More Than This'.

This is the first-ever scholarly edition of Henry James''s first novel, Watch and Ward.

Jane Austen's Little Book of Wisdom offers more than 300 bite-size quotes of inspiration and wisdom from one of the greatest females writer's in the English language.

First published in 1968, A Handbook to Sixteenth-Century Rhetoric is designed primarily to assist the student of renaissance literature in the science of rhetoric.

First published in 1968, A Handbook to Sixteenth-Century Rhetoric is designed primarily to assist the student of renaissance literature in the science of rhetoric.

Slow to rise in the literary world, Octavia Estelle Butler cultivated musings on earth's future, reaching massive critical acclaim in the process.

Walt Whitman created, in various editions of Leaves of Grass, what is arguably the most influential book of poems anywhere in the past 200 years.

In his 1837 speech "e;The American Scholar,"e; Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, "e;life is our dictionary,"e; encapsulating a body of work that reached well beyond the American 19th century.

The Victorian Era saw a revolution in communication technology.

Reading James Joyce is a ready-at-hand compendium and all-encompassing interpretive guide designed for teachers and students approaching Joyce's writings for the first time, guiding readers to better understand Joyce's works and the background from which they emerged.

Reading James Joyce is a ready-at-hand compendium and all-encompassing interpretive guide designed for teachers and students approaching Joyce's writings for the first time, guiding readers to better understand Joyce's works and the background from which they emerged.

This book of short inspirational readings, based on Indias Thousand Names of Vishnu, gives us warm, practical reminders to support us spiritually in our daily lives.

Analyzes Black expressive culture in the 1980s as authors grappled with the contradictory legacies of the civil rights era.

This volume explores how technology has influenced both the form and content of Irish writing.

This volume explores how technology has influenced both the form and content of Irish writing.

Through classical, Scriptural, and global notions of virtue, this handbook illuminates the shared worlds of Shakespeare''s plays.

A detailed look at the British world of science fiction in the 1950s.

A journey through the English town where the Bronte sisters lived and wrote-for visitors or armchair travelers.

A detailed look at the British world of science fiction in the 1950s.

A journey through the English town where the Brontë sisters lived and wrote—for visitors or armchair travelers.

Thanks to the accurate and detailed Ultimate study guide Collection, you have now the possibility to know everything about Charles Dicken's novel Oliver Twist.

Thanks to the accurate and detailed Ultimate study guide Collection, you have now the possibility to know everything about Charles Dicken's novel Oliver Twist.

Thanks to the accurate and detailed Ultimate study guide Collection, you have now the possibility to know everything about Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Thanks to the accurate and detailed Ultimate study guide Collection, you have now the possibility to know everything about Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.

Thanks to the accurate and detailed Ultimate study guide Collection, you have now the possibility to know everything about Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.

Thanks to the accurate and detailed Ultimate study guide Collection, you have now the possibility to know everything about Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

When Henry Vizetelly was imprisoned in 1889 for publishing the novels of Emile Zola in English, the problem was not just Zola's French candour about sex - it was that Vizetelly's books were cheap, and ordinary people could read them.

When Henry Vizetelly was imprisoned in 1889 for publishing the novels of Emile Zola in English, the problem was not just Zola's French candour about sex - it was that Vizetelly's books were cheap, and ordinary people could read them.

Play Up and Play the Game (1973) examines the type of fictional hero most embodied in the work and character, poetry and philosophy of Sir Henry Newbolt.

Play Up and Play the Game (1973) examines the type of fictional hero most embodied in the work and character, poetry and philosophy of Sir Henry Newbolt.