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A study of William Blake Contents: Part One: The Argument The Case against Locke The Rising God Beyond Good and Evil A Literalist of the Imagination The Word within the Word Part Two: The Developme ... more.
Joseph Gallagher Liguori Publications Retail Price: $19.99 Sale Price: $14.99 You Save: $5
For nearly 700 years, Dante's The Divine Comedy has been a literary cornerstone of the Western canon. Bringing the power and prestige of this medieval classic to a new generation of appreciative ... more.
J. A. Cuddon Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $20.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $9.01
For the lay scholar or English major, this fourth edition of The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory is a key work of reference in the field of literary criticism. De ... more.
While it may be true that you can't judge a book by its cover, it is also true that you can apply biblical principals to judge what's inside that book. Jeff Baldwin of Worldview Academy does a wonderful job of identif ... more.
Organized by the literary ages of American literature, authors are listed with the dates of their lives, famous works, and often a few biographical sentences. Each segment begins with an overview of the ideas and events that influenced ... more.
Surveying the literature of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales from the 5th to the 20th centuries, this guide covers the Middle Ages; the Renaissance; Shakespeare; the prolific 17th century; Romanticism; the Victorian age ... more.
Quickly find the information you need with BarChart' Quick Study Academic charts! Laminated and three-hole-punched to stand up to years of use in a binder, this 2-page guide features a scene-by-scene summary, dichotomie ... more.
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The Road to Middle-Earth, Tom Shippey's classic work, now revised in paperback, explores J.R.R. Tolkien's creativity and the sources of his inspiration. Shippey shows in detail how Tolkien's professional background led hi ... more.
John Zimmerman Random House, Inc Retail Price: $7.99 Sale Price: $6.29 You Save: $1.7
'A knowledge of classical mythology is indispensable in understanding and appreciating much of the great literature, sculpture, and painting of both the ancients and the moderns. Unless we know the marvelous storie ... more.
Edited by Bernard Knox W W Norton Retail Price: $35.00 Sale Price: $24.99 You Save: $10.01
Introduce your older students to the building blocks of modern books---and Western culture---with this esteemed anthology. It's filled with excerpts from well-known ancient writers like Plato, Aristotle, ... more.
David Denby Simon & Schuster Trade Sales Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $5.01
David Denby returned to Columbia University and re-enrolled in two core courses in Western civilization to confront the literary and philosophical masterpieces-the 'great books'- that are now at the heart of the culture wars. In Great Books< ... more.
Charles Boyce Random House, Inc Retail Price: $23.00 Sale Price: $15.49 You Save: $7.51
What famous essayist insisted that Shakespeare's plays were unfit for performance? Which two plays center on the Hundred Years' War? In which scene of Romeo a ... more.
Rose A. Zimbardo & Neil D. Isaacs Houghton-mifflin Retail Price: $25.00 Sale Price: $17.99 You Save: $7.01
When first published, The Lord of the Rings stood far from the mainstream: no one had seen anything like it for decades. Tolkien's almost strident antimodern tale needed valiant defenders, ... more.
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Collected in one place are the most important pieces ever written on Tolkien's masterpiece---W.H. Auden on the nature of the hero quest, C.S. Lewis on the value of myth, Edmund Fuller on t ... more.
C.S. Lewis Cambridge University Press Retail Price: $22.04 Sale Price: $17.99 You Save: $4.05
Why do we read books and how can we judge them? Lewis calls for empathic interaction with other minds to understand their viewpoints. 'He is at one and the same time provocative, tactful, biased, open-minded, old-fashioned, far-se ... more.
In her Introduction Penelope Murray shows how many of the most fruitful approaches to understanding literature in the Western tradition derive from these canonical texts. Plato is often regarded as the most poetic of the great philos ... more.
Leslie Dunton-Downer, Alan Riding & Elizabeth Wyse Dk Publishing Inc. Retail Price: $25.00 Sale Price: $17.99 You Save: $7.01
Keep this handy reference on the shelf for when you run into a Shakespeare reference, want more information on a specific play, or illuminate your reading or play-going experiences. Ar ... more.
Pierre Grimal Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $20.00 Sale Price: $13.99 You Save: $6.01
A good understanding of mythology can greatly enhance our appreciation of ancient art and literature, not to mention the work of many later painters and writers. Drawing on every stage of classical mythol ... more.
A. C. Bradley Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $17.00 Sale Price: $12.99 You Save: $4.01
Approaching the tragedies as drama, wondering about their characters as he might have wondered about people in novels or in life, Bradley is one of the most liberating in the l ... more.
Mary Beard Oxford University Press Retail Price: $11.95
We are all classicists--we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true roots of these influences, however, and how do ... more.
Thomas Bulfinch, Bryan Holme, Joseph Campbell Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $32.00 Sale Price: $23.99 You Save: $8.01
The timeless stories of the gods and goddesses of Greece and Rome come to life beautifully in this lavishly illustrated edition of Thomas Bulfinch's The Age of Fable, compiled by Bryan Holme ... more.
Kevin Osborn & Dana L. Burgess, Ph. D. Alpha Retail Price: $18.95
First told centuries ago, the ancient myths of the Greeks and Romans continue to fascinate and influence the world today. The expanded edition of this popular guide ex ... more.
Thomas Bulfinch Random House, Inc Retail Price: $19.95 Sale Price: $13.49 You Save: $6.46
Born into a Massachusetts family in 1796, Thomas Bulfinch's Mythology has long remained a classic text upon the subject. Orignally published as three volumes: The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry and Le ... more.
William Shakespeare Simon & Schuster Trade Sales Retail Price: $5.99 Sale Price: $5.49 You Save: $0.5
The Comedy of Errors has been popular on the stage during the last three centuries and has proved itself admirably suited to adaptation as pure farce and musical spectacle. For this updated edition, Ros King has provided a compl ... more.
Harold Bloom Simon & Schuster Trade Sales Retail Price: $15.00
'Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?' is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom commences this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For mor ... more.
David Crystal & Ben Crystal Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $20.00 Sale Price: $14.99 You Save: $5.01
One of the world's foremost authorities on the English language, and the actor Ben Crystal, have taken a fresh look at the vocabulary of Shakespeare's poems and plays and compiled a glossary of nearly 14,000 words and m ... more.
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