Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Shakespearean stage, 1574-1642	Andrew Gurr	"For almost forty years The Shakespearean Stage has been considered the liveliest, most reliable and most entertaining overview of Shakespearean theatre in its own time. It is the only authoritative …	OL102630W
How to write critical essays	Pirie, David.	This invaluable book offers the student of literature detailed advice on the entire process of critical essay writing, from first facing the question right through to producing a fair copy for final …	OL122055W
E. M. Forster	Mike Edwards	"This guide seeks to explore creatively the fascination of Forster's writing and to show how interesting ideas can emerge from close reading of extracts from the novels. Detailed analysis brings out …	OL134556W
An Experiment in Criticism	C.S. Lewis	"Professor Lewis believed that literature exists above all for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He doubted the use of strictly evaluative crit…	OL17984009W
A glossary of literary terms	M. H. Abrams	A series of brief essays defining and illustrating literary terms in alphabetical sequence.	OL2026384W
Mahadho	Barwaaqo Farah	This book is about the well-known and now deceased Somali poet Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac, also known as 'Gaarriye'. The book discusses his poems, some with English translations. In addition to this, the …	OL21446117W
Vampyres	Christopher Frayling	Vampire literature is an amazingly varied genre of writing, providing elements of everything from the penny dreadful horrors to powerful doses of myth and eroticism. Because it contains its own mytho…	OL2411812W
King Lear	William Shakespeare	King Lear divides his kingdom among the two daughters who flatter him and banishes the third one who loves him. His eldest daughters both then reject him at their homes, so Lear goes mad and wanders …	OL259026W
The Souls of Black Folk	Slingshot Books,Héctor Arnau,Brent Hayes Edwards,Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,W. E. B. Du Bois,Monica M. Elbert,Karl Simrock,Arnold Rampersad,Eugene F. Provenzo,Farah Jasmine Griffin,Shawn Alexander,Monty,Walter Covell,Prentice Onayemi	Du Bois' 1903 collection of essays is a thoughtful, articulate exploration of the moral and intellectual issues surrounding the perception of blacks within American society.	OL28577W
A reader's guide to contemporary literary theory	Raman Selden	xii, 244p. : 22cm	OL3339725W
Language and control in children's literature	Murray Knowles	Children's literature has in the past received little serious linguistic analysis despite its widely acknowledged influence on the development and socialisation of young people. In this important and…	OL3747947W
The collected works of W.B. Yeats	William Butler Yeats	Features the complete texts of the dramatic works by the Nobel laureate, from "The Countess Cathleen" to "The Death of Cuchulain."	OL38504W
Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad	Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Charles Ma…	OL38663W
Jagendorf's foundry	Siegfried Jagendorf	"Let us take advantage of this historic moment and cleanse the soil of Romania..." These words began the Romanian Holocaust in 1941. Deported Jews were expected to perish. So it might have been for t…	OL4484273W
Charlotte’s Web	E. B. White	Some Pig. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high in the barn. Her spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, as well as her feelings of a little girl named Fern...who loves…	OL483391W
The Good Soldier	Ford Madox Ford	This is the saddest story I have ever heard. We had known the Ashburnhams for nine seasons of the town of Nauheim with an extreme intimacy - or, rather with an acquaintanceship as loose and easy an…	OL509889W
Иванов	Антон Павлович Чехов,Tom Stoppard	"In Ivanov, Anton Chekhov's first full-length play, Chekhov created a portrait of a man plagued with self-doubt and despair. Considered one of Chekhov's most elusive characters, he seeks more in life…	OL55513W
A Vindication of Rights of Woman	Mary Wollstonecraft,Graphyco Editions,Jan Cramer	From Goodreads: Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. P…	OL849186W
Dracula	Bram Stoker	Sink your teeth into the ageless tale of the famous vampire Count Dracula. Dracula first horrified readers over 125 years ago. Today, this original gothic masterpiece includes a detailed explorati…	OL85892W
Howards End	E. M. Forster	Howards End is a novel by E. M. Forster about social conventions, codes of conduct and relationships in turn-of-the-century England. A strong-willed and intelligent woman refuses to allow the pretens…	OL88881W