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Shakespeare
Dorling Kindersley Ltd 2011; Not AvailableDK Eyewitness Shakespeare is a spectacular and informative guide to one of history's most well known playwrights. Amazing photographs offer your child a unique "eyewitness" view of William Shakespeare. Did you know special effects were used in Shakespeare's plays including devils and ghosts that came up through trapdoors in the stage? Let... more...
Meanjin Anthology
Melbourne University Publishing 2012; Not AvailableMeanjin is Australia?s second oldest literary journal. Founded by Clem Christesen in 1940, it has documented both the changing concerns of Australians and the achievements of many of the nation?s writers, thinkers and poets. This anthology offers a broad sweep of essays, fiction and poetry published in Meanjin since the magazine began. Readers will... more...
Recipes for Sad Women
Pushkin Press 2012; US$ 10.19A book of ambiguous genre and delicate, playful wisdom, Recipes for Sad Women is not a novel and not a cookbook. But should you wish to know what food to prepare in the case of sobbing or of nervousness, what the closest thing to dinosaur meat is (and therefore the best remedy for guilt), or what to eat when you are perfectly healthy and enjoying... more...
Faulkner and Material Culture
University Press of Mississippi 2007; US$ 50.00Essays by Charles S. Aiken, Katherine R. Henninger, T. J. Jackson Lears, Miles Orvell, Kevin Railey, D. Matthew Ramsey, Joseph R. Urgo, Jay Watson, and Patricia Yaeger. Photographs, lumber, airplanes, hand-hewn coffins--in every William Faulkner novel and short story worldly material abounds. The essays in Faulkner and Material Culture provide a fresh... more...
One Life at a Time, Please
Henry Holt and Co. 1988; US$ 17.99From stories about cattlemen, fellow critics, his beloved desert, cities, and technocrats to thoughts on sin and redemption, this is one of our most treasured writers at the height of his powers. more...
A Review of English Literature
ABD Publishers 2007; US$ 30.00A Review of English Literature English Literature has traversed many stages down from Romanticism to Victorian, Edwardian and Modernism. Modernist literature grew out of a great disillusionment with attitudes of certainty, consercatism and objective truth of early periods. more...
H.G. Wells
Infobase Publishing 2011; US$ 35.00The early life of Herbert George Wells was filled with poverty, injuries, failed apprenticeships, brief periods of schooling, and the breakdown of his parents' marriage. Yet, somehow, he overcame it all to become one of the world's most famous authors. Today, he is best remembered for such works as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, and... more...
Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler)
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 36.00In this new biography, discover what makes Lemony Snicket's novels about the adventures of the three Baudelaire children so wildly popular and explore the curious relationship between Daniel Handler and his alter ego, Lemony Snicket. more...
The Education of a British-Protected Child
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 14.95From the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart comes a new collection of autobiographical essays?his first new book in more than twenty years. Chinua Achebe?s characteristically eloquent and nuanced voice is everywhere present in these seventeen beautifully written pieces. From a vivid portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria to considerations... more...
Hopes and Impediments
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 14.00One of the most provocative and original voices in contemporary literature, Chinua Achebe here considers the place of literature and art in our society in a collection of essays spanning his best writing and lectures from the last twenty-three years. For Achebe, overcoming goes hand in hand with eradicating the destructive effects of racism and injustice... more...









