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The Read-Aloud Handbook
Penguin Group US 2013; US$ 9.99The classic million-copy bestselling handbook on reading aloud to children?revised and updated Recommended by "Dear Abby" upon its first publication in 1982, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease?s beloved classic for more than three decades to help countless children become avid readers through awakening their imaginations... more...
Inferno Decoded
Gallery Books 2013; US$ 12.66An all-inclusive guide to key concepts and details about Dan Browns novel Inferno featuring black-and-white illustrations. Go deep into the provocative and always compelling world of Dan Browns novel, Inferno . Delivering crucial background on the characters, codes, symbols, secrets, and setting of the novel, Inferno Decoded also offers a wealth... more...
Romantic Feuds
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95Despite their desire to rise above the so-called 'age of personality' and personal attacks, Romantic-era figures such as Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, Sydney Owenson, and the explorer John Ross became enmeshed in public feuds with the Edinburgh Review and the Quarterly Review. Finding literary genres... more...
Victorian Conversion Narratives and Reading Communities
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95Reading canonical authors such as John Henry Newman, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and Oscar Wilde through a dual lens of literary history and post-liberal theology, Emily Walker Heady suggests that Victorian authors discuss conversion experiences in the context of the modes in which are narrated. Thus, conversion narratives... more...
Reading Like a Girl
University Press of Mississippi 2013; US$ 137.50By examining the novels of critically and commercially successful authors such as Sarah Dessen ( Someone Like You ), Stephenie Meyer (the Twilight series), and Laurie Halse Anderson ( Speak ), Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature explores the use of narrative intimacy as a means of reflecting... more...
The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll
Henry Holt and Co. 2013; US$ 18.99A glamorous, haunted life unfolds in the mesmerizing biography of the woman behind a classic children's book In 1957, a children's book called The Lonely Doll was published. With its pink-and-white-checked cover and photographs featuring a wide-eyed doll, it captured the imaginations of young girls and made the author, Dare Wright, a household... more...
Joseph Conrad
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 29.95The popular yet complex work of Joseph Conrad has attracted much critical attention over the years, from the perspectives of postcolonial, modernist, cultural and gender studies. This guide to his compelling work presents: an accessible introduction to the contexts and many interpretations of Conrad?s texts, from publication to the present ... more...
The New Bloomsday Book
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95Since 1966 readers new to James Joyce have depended upon this essential guide to Ulysses . Harry Blamires helps readers to negotiate their way through this formidable, remarkable novel and gain an understanding of it which, without help, it might have taken several readings to achieve. The New Bloomsday Book is a crystal clear, page-by-page,... more...
Grounds of Comparison
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 39.95Benedict Anderson, professor at Cornell and specialist in Southeast Asian studies, is best known for his book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1991). It is no understatement to say that this is one of the most influential books of the last twenty years. Widely read both by social scientists and humanists,... more...
Modern Print Activism in the United States
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95Print media have been used throughout the twentieth century to promote social and political activism. At a time when the golden age of print appears to be ending, Modern Print Activism in the United States argues that print activism should be studied as a specifically modernist phenomenon and poses questions related to the efficacy of print as a vehicle... more...









