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Upton Sinclair; The Lithuanian Jungle
Editions Rodopi 2006; US$ 35.00In his legendary novel The Jungle (1905 and 1906), Upton Sinclair included a conspicuous number of Lithuanian words, phrases and surnames. This volume is the first attempt to analyze aspects of Lithuanian linguistic and historical data from The Jungle . Sinclair discovered the Lithuanian language in Chicago and explored it with pleasure. He even confessed... more...
Flannery O'Connor in the Age of Terrorism
University of Tennessee Press 2010; US$ 36.00In any age, humans wrestle with apparently inexorable forces. Today, we face the threat of global terrorism. In the aftermath of September 11, few could miss sensing that a great evil was at work in the world. In Flannery O’Connor’s time, the threats came from different sources—World War II, the Cold War, and the Korean conflict—but... more...
Hemingway's Boat
Random House 2012; US$ 13.34THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'She'd been intimately his, and he hers, for twenty-seven years - which were his final twenty-seven years. She'd lasted through three wives, the Nobel Prize, and all his ruin. He'd owned her, fished her, worked her and rode her, from the waters of Key West to the Bahamas to the Dry Tortugas to the north coast... more...
Infants Of The Spring
Northeastern University Press 2012; US$ 19.99A satirical novel of the Harlem Renaissance. more...
The Cambridge Introduction to Robert Frost
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 18.00An engaging and informative way to start studying and understanding one of America's most popular poets. more...
The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 18.00A lucid overview of Plath's life, work, influence, and the critical reception of her writings to the present day. more...
Home To Harlem
Northeastern University Press 2012; US$ 9.99A novel that gives voice to the alienation and frustration of urban blacks during an era when Harlem was in vogue more...
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley
Basic Books 2009; US$ 12.95In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a time, Wheatley was the most famous black woman in the West. But Thomas Jefferson, unlike his contemporaries Ben Franklin... more...
Unchained Voices
The University Press of Kentucky 2013; US$ 30.00Vincent Carretta has assembled the most comprehensive anthology ever published of writings by eighteenth-century people of African descent, capturing the surprisingly diverse experiences of blacks on both sides of the Atlantic--America, Britain, the West Indies, and Africa--between 1760 and 1798. more...
Mexican American Literature
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95Presenting an up-to-date critical perspective as well as a cultural, political and historical context, this book is an excellent introduction to Mexican American literature, affording readers the major novels, drama and poetry. This volume presents fresh and original readings of major works, and with its historiographic and cultural analyses, impressively... more...









