"There are the acknowledged classics of world literature: the canonical works assigned in schools, topping every must-read list . . . and then there are the B-Sides. These are the books that slipped through the cracks, went unread, missed their rightful appointment with posterit…
"There are the acknowledged classics of world literature: the canonical works assigned in schools, topping every must-read list ... and then there are the B-Sides. These are the books that slipped through the cracks, went unread, missed their rightful appointment with posterity.…
Whatever your personal preference, the BBC's Big Read sparked the country's imagination like no other book event. Thousands of people across the UK discussed the nation's best books and voted for their particular favourites. From Dostoyevsky to Archer, Winnie the Pooh to Terry P…
From Anna Karenina and Beowulf to Ulysses and Wuthering Heights, SnarkNotes condenses the great (but long and complicated) novels, plays, and poems of world lit into bite-size nuggets, cutting out the bloated analysis and nauseating debate of other reading guides. Each of the 10…
Presents accessible plot summaries for one hundred classic books, plays, and poems, including such works as "The Odyssey, " "Hamlet, " "Pride and Prejudice, " and "Animal Farm."
The perfect companion to courses in Asian civilization and culture, Finding Wisdom in East Asian Classics provides nonspecialists with essential background on frequently assigned texts. With essays addressing foundational materials in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese tr…
Finding Wisdom in East Asian Classics is an essential, all-access guide to the core texts of East Asian civilization and culture. Essays address frequently read, foundational texts in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, as well as early modern fictional classics and nonfi…
This is an essential, all-access guide to the core texts of East Asian civilisation and culture. Chapters address frequently read, foundational texts in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, as well as early modern fictional classics and non-fiction works of the seventeenth…
