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Among the 18 authors included in this supplement are Rachel Carson, Zelda Fitzgerald, Shirley Jackson, Tony Kushner, Jean Toomer, David Wagoner and more.

Das Buch zum Film! Mit Helen Mirren ("The Queen") und Christopher Plummer - Filmstart am 28. Januar 2010 Im Jahre 1910, "Anna Karenina" und "Krieg und Frieden" sind erschienen, ist Tolstoj der berühmteste Autor der Welt. Aber er zahlt einen hohen Preis für seinen Ruhm. Jünger umlagern ihn, seine Frau Sofja kämpft um Aufmerksamkeit und Liebe, aber auch um sein Erbe und Tantiemen. Von dem verzweifelten Wunsch getrieben, am Ende seines Lebens...

An original point of view on the ancient Grand Tour

Twenty-two of the most studied and most popular writers in British literature are reexamined in this second retrospective supplement to the" British Writers Series." Authors covered include Jane Austen, Chaucer, Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Tom Stoppard, Oscar Wilde and others.

Biographical and critical essays on 18 British writers"--

This collection of critical and biographical articles covers hundreds of notable authors from the 17th century to the present day. Signed essays, 12-15 pages in length by noted scholars, provide thought-provoking insights into the lives, careers and works of American writers. Each Supplement covers approximately 20 additional authors.

When Alex Massolini's brother is killed in Vietnam, he drops out of school to live in Capri and serve as secretary to world-famous writer Rupert Grant. Told with wry humor in an elegant prose style, "The Apprentice Lover" is a remarkable piece of fiction that includes appearances by such colorful literary figures as Graham Greene and W.H. Auden.

With the same masterly touch that made The Last Station so powerful, Jay Parini penetrates the mind and soul of another literary titan. Through the eyes of his long-suffering wife, Lizzie, we are introduced to an aging, angry, and drunken Herman Melville. He is decades past his flourishing career as a writer of bestselling tales of seagoing adventures. His epic but ungainly Moby-Dick was meant to make him immortal, but critics scoffed and read...

Although he's one of America's most admired and prolific writers, Gore Vidal has been steadfastly ignored by many critics. His radical polemics and undisguised contempt have hardly endeared him to the critical establishment. Now comes the first collection of critical essays on this important American writer. Includes an interview with Vidal.

Gore Vidal, known for such best-sellers as The City and the Pillar, Burr, Lincoln, and Myra Breckenridge, is a household name. The controversial Vidal ran for Congress in 1960, and set sparks flying with his public debates challenging William F. Buckley and Norman Mailer. Although one of America's most admired and prolific writers, Vidal has been steadfastly ignored or impugned by many critics. This is partly owing to the vast scope of his wri...

This collection of critical essays covers hundreds of writers who have made significant contributions to British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the 14th century to the present day. The contributors analyze many individual works and engage the reader withtheir distinctive themes and stylistic approach. Introductory essays and chronological tables open each volume and provide historical background.

Ongoing series of critical and biographical articles covering hundreds of notable authors who have made contributions to American literature from the 17th century to the present day. Part of the American Writers Collection.

Covers hundreds of writers who have made contributions to British, Irish and Commonwealth literature from the 14th century to the present day. Introductory essays and chronological tables open each volume and provide historical background. Each Supplement covers approximately 20 additional authors.

By 1910, Leo Tolstoy had become an almost religious figure, surrounded on his lavish estate by family and followers alike. Too ill to continue beyond the tiny station of Astapovo, he believes he is dying alone. This book centres on the battle for his soul waged by his wife and his leading disciple.

Like Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, Robert Frost looms large in the American literary landscape, straddling the 19th and 20th centuries like a poetic colossus: whosoever desires passage must, at some point, contend with the monolithic presence of Robert Frost. As they did in Visiting Emily and Visiting Walt, in Visiting Frost, Sheila Coghill and Thom Tammaro once again capture the conversations between contemporary poets and a legend whose ...

Biographical and critical essays on 17 British writers"--

Cumulative index to volumes I-IV and supplements I-XXV and retrospective supplements I-II"--Cover.

This collection of critical essays covers hundreds of writers who have made significant contributions to British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the 14th century to the present day. The contributors analyze many individual works and engage the reader with their distinctive themes and stylistic approach. An introductory essay by Editor-in-chief Jay Parini opens each volume and provides historical context.

This collection of critical and biographical articles covers hundreds of notable authors from the 17th century to the present day. Signed essays, 12-15 pages in length by noted scholars, provide thought-provoking insights into the lives, careers and works of American writers. Each Supplement covers approximately 18 additional authors.

A comprehensive study of American poetry from colonial times to the present day, which features a wealth of views and reviews by contemporary American literary critics. The poets discussed range from Longfellow and Poe to Ginsberg and Plath.