Utopianism in Postcolonial Literatures - Prijzen

Seeing Things

A technological revolution has changed the way we see things. The storytelling media employed by Pixar Animation Studios, Samuel Beckett, and William Shakespeare differ greatly, yet these creators sha...

Reading Today

Today we're just as, if not more, likely to scroll, click, and tap the cold, shiny screen of a laptop, tablet, or smartphone as we are to turn the pages of a book. How has the advent of new technologi...

Afternoon Raag

Described as a 'felicitous prose poem', Afternoon Raag is the account of a young Bengali man who is studying at Oxford University and caught in complicated love triangle. His loneliness and melancholy...

Kindler Kompakt

Die Kindler Kompakt Bande prasentieren in handlicher Form die 30 - 40 wichtigsten Autoren und Werke einer Literatur eines Jahrhunderts. Auf 192 Seiten werden sie vorgestellt. Dazu gibt es eine kompakt...

The Complete Humorous Sketches and Tales of Mark Twain

This is the first and most complete collection of all 136 humorous sketches and tales that Samuel Clemens (1835-1910), a.k.a. Mark Twain, started writing as a young reporter for various newspapers and...

Kipling's Lost World

The Hobbits of Tolkien

An entire race was born when J.R.R. Tolkien scrawled on a leaf, 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' From the invention of that single word (hobbit) Tolkien became the explorer and chronicl...

An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting

Wickedly funny and bitingly satirical, The Art is a comedy of manners that gives insights into eighteenth-century behavior as well as the timeless art of emotional abuse. It is also an advice book, a...

Seed to Plant

Explores the life cycle and life span of plants, following a sunflower's growth process from seed to seedling to mature plant.

Trouble Gum

From Matthew Cordell, the author-illustrator of the Caldecott award-winning book Wolf in the Snow, comes this delightful picture book that's as charming as it is fun. It's raining. There's nothing to...

Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

From the dream team David Levithan and Rachel Cohn who brought you Nick and Norah's Infinite playlist. Naomi and Ely prove that any great friendship can be as confusing, treacherous, inspiring and won...

Gods of Ancient Egypt

In ancient Egypt, the gods were considered supernatural forces that controlled everyday occurrences. There were hundreds of these figures &; from the sun god Amun-Ra, who was worshipped in festivals t...