Empirical Studies of Literature - Prijzen

Roughing It

The celebrated author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn mixes fact and fiction in a rousing travelogue that serves as "a portrait of the artist as a young adventurer."...

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

Nineteen of Plath's surviving stories, the earliest dating from 1952, are joined by five of her best pieces of journalism and selected excerpts from her diaries. Reissue.

Is Sex Necessary?

Enhanced by more than fifty hilarious drawings, a zany look at the mysteries of romance, love, marriage, and sex--first published in 1929--shares the whimsical views of two of America's leading humori...

Breathless

In the early 1960s, most middle-class American women in their twenties had their lives laid out for them: marriage, children, and life in the suburbs. Most, but not all. Breathless is the story of a...

How to Read and Why

At a time when faster and easier electronic media threaten to eclipse reading and literature, the renowned literary critic explores reasons for reading, offering inspirational analyses of seminal work...

Times of Trouble

From the country that has added to our vocabulary such colorful terms as purges, pogroms, and gulag, this collection investigates the conspicuous marks of violence in Russian history and c...

Poems, By Jean Ingelow.

1913. A collection of verse from the poet who published poems and some stories for children. Her best-known poems are Divided and The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire 1571, both of which are inc...

A Death in Vienna

Jurassic Park

“Frighteningly real…compelling.… It’ll keep you riveted.” —The Detroit NewsAn astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasie...

Mia the Way the Cupcake Crumbles

Mia learns that you have to make your own luck&;rather than rely on fun trinkets&;in the latest addition to the Cupcake Diaries series.Mia is having a truly terrible week. So far she&;s failed a pop q...

Eggs Benedict Arnold

The owners of the Cackleberry Club cafe--Suzanne, Toni and Petra--discover that the special of the day is murder when Suzanne, while delivering a pie to funeral director Ozzie Driesden, discovers his...