Literary reference works

Ulysses is one of the foundational texts of modern literature, yet has a reputation for complexity and controversy.

**Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year**The Penguin Classics Book is a reader's companion to the largest library of classic literature in the world.

Addressing texts produced by writers who lived through the Civil War and wrote about it before the end of Reconstruction, this collection explores the literary cultures of that unsettled moment when memory of the war had yet to be overwritten by later impulses of reunion, reconciliation, or Lost Cause revisionism.

In 2009 it was How NOT to Write a Novel ('A hilarious, wickedly observed and deeply useful guide' Observer).

James Fenton's An Introduction to English Poetry offers a master class for both the reader and writer of poetry.

A vital resource for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by or are unknown to a modern audience.

This compilation, in the tradition of the Victorian miscellany, gathers together essential facts and fascinating insights into the plays and poems, the man behind them (insofar as this is known), and the context in which he worked.

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An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholarsThis book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history of French literature from the Renaissance through the twentieth century, from Rabelais and Marguerite de Navarre to Samuel Beckett and Assia Djebar.

Published to great acclaim in 2006, the hardcover edition of Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape met with outstanding reviews and strong sales, going into three printings.

The detailed and wide-ranging Penn Commentary on "e;Piers Plowman"e; places the allegorical dream-vision of the poem within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval England, and within the long history of critical interpretation of the work, assessing past scholarship while offering original materials and insights throughout.

The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century, the Penn Commentary places the allegorical dream-vision of Piers Plowman within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval England, and within the long history of critical interpretation of the poem, assessing past scholarship while offering original materials and insights throughout.

Here, for the first time in English, is celebrated French classicist Jacques Jouanna's magisterial account of the life and work of Sophocles.

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

Dublin: A Writer''s City takes the reader, area by area, through one of the world''s great literary cities.

Dublin: A Writer''s City takes the reader, area by area, through one of the world''s great literary cities.

This book traces the major writing of New Orleans through its five most famous streets as well as its outskirts.

This book traces the major writing of New Orleans through its five most famous streets as well as its outskirts.

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Pasatiempos Lectores es un libro didáctico creado para ayudar y acompañar a los y las estudiantes de Enseñanza Básica en su proceso de iniciación y profundización de la lectoescritura, y de paso entregar orientaciones a los y las apoderados/as sobre cómo apoyar a los/as niños/as en este proceso tan complejo, que consiste en la adquisición de las habilidades y competencias necesarias para aprender a leer, interpretando un texto, y escribir, utilizando el alfabeto.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Shakespeare's Christmas Gift to Queen Bess"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

The first book-length study of a writer whose work has been shaped by his unique heritageAward-winning writer and journalist Francisco Goldman is the author of novels and works of nonfiction and is a regular contributor to the New Yorker magazine.

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The first of its kind, this book presents a wide range of passages exploring many aspects of the Greco-Roman watery world: physics, philosophy, weather, medicine, marine biology, religion and mythology, infrastructure, sailing, mercantile activities, and waterways that have been politicized.