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CliffsNotes on Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

by Kate Maurer

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into key elements and ideas within classic works of literature. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements...


Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain

by Marilyn Herbert, Laura Godfrey & Graeme Bayliss

Ernest Hemingway was an iconic writer of the 20th century who gave modern literature a unique shape and form. Papa Hemingway was larger than life and created his own personal and professional mythical status....


Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses The Help, by Kathryn Stockett

by Marilyn Herbert

It's 1962 in Jackson, Mississippi, and 22-year-old Skeeter has just graduated from Ole Miss. She comes home with a diploma, but no husband, in a world where her friends are all married and raising children,...


Secret Society: A Novel

by Miasha

"It had been a year and a half since I graduated high school and a year since I been workin' -- workin' niggas, that is."

It's 2001, and Celess and Tina are at the top of their game. With Celess's fine features...


It Looked Different on the Model

Secrets of The Lost Symbol: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code Sequel

by Daniel Burstein & Arne de Keijzer

Unlock the secrets of The Lost Symbol

There is only one Dan Brown—and there is only one Secrets team that has achieved worldwide bestselling success by providing curious readers with compelling and authoritative...


Flora Curiosa: Cryptobotany, Mysterious Fungi, Sentient Trees, and Deadly Plants in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy

by Chad Arment

Flora Curiosa is an anthology of 20 classic short stories involving all manner of strange plants and fungi. These are the precursors (and often direct influences) of contemporary "killer plants" books and movies...


The Narnia Code: C. S. Lewis and the Secret of the Seven Heavens

by Michael Ward

Millions of readers have been captivated by C. S. Lewis's famed Chronicles of Narnia, but why? What is it about these seven books that makes them so appealing? For more than half a century, scholars have attempted...


Vintage Reading: From Plato to Bradbury: A Personal Tour of Some of the World's Best Books

by Robert Kanigel

Vintage Reading brings eighty of the world's most unforgettable books out from behind the high castle walls, lowers the drawbridge, and welcomes readers inside. With lively and concise commentary, award-winning...


Art Spiegelman’s Private Museum

by Art Spiegelman

 

Art Spiegelman’s Private Museum is a 100% digital essay on the history and aesthetics of comics trip.

 

This text, previously unpublished in France, summarizes Art Spiegelman’s thoughts and reflections....


Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

by Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass & Kwame Anthony Appiah

This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume.

Frederick Douglass's Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlightening and...


The Graphic Mythology of Tintin - a Primer

by Tim Mountford

From the black and white pages of a Belgian Catholic newspaper in the late 1920s to the virtual world of a 3D CGI Hollywood movie in 2011, the young adventurous reporter Tintin has come a long way.

When Georges...


100 Must-read Fantasy Novels

by Nick Rennison & Stephen E. Andrews

Fantasy is one of the most visible genres in popular culture - we see the creation of magical and imagined worlds and characters in every type of media, with very strong fan bases in tow.

This latest guide in...


Pocket Companion to Narnia

by Paul F. Ford

The pocket guide is an adventurer's passport to the land of Narnia. From Aslan, the great lion, to Zardeenah, the mysterious lady of the night, this comprehensive and accessible companion contains hundreds of...


American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman

by F. O. Matthiessen

An ambitious literary critique of the works produced during the American Renaissance of the mid-19th century. Matthiessen analyzes and links together the works of five preeminent American writers: Emerson, Thoreau,...


Agatha Christie

by Mark Campbell

The Pocket Essential Guide To Agatha Christie provides an informed introduction to the whole Christie phenomenon; a biography of Dame Agatha Christie; in-depth profiles of ten of her most popular characters...


The Post Office Lady with the Dragon Tattoo: An Essay

by Laurie Notaro

I had been dreading this day for more than a year.

 

Everyone’s favorite Idiot Girl, Laurie Notaro, is very close to wearing out her welcome in her hometown of Eugene, Oregon. Just a year ago, she was eighty-sixed...


This Is a Book

by Demetri Martin

From the renowned comedian, creator, star and executive producer/multiple title-holder of Comedy Central's Important Things with Demetri Martin comes a bold, original, and rectangular kind of humor book.

Demetri's...


Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation about Writing

by Kurt Vonnegut & Lee Stringer

Like Shaking Hands with God details a collaborative journey on the art of writing undertaken by two distinguished writers separated by age, race, upbringing, and education, but sharing common goals and aspirations....


The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

by Wallace Stevens

The Necessary Angel

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Wallace Stevens

"In this book, the first collection of his prose works, he accounts in scintillating language for the peculiarly modern and sometimes deliquescent fervor that has prompted...