Literary Companions, Book Reviews & Guides

Science fiction imagines a universe teeming with life and thrilling possibility, but also hidden and hideous dangers. Christian theology, often a p...

The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the worldFor six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ev...

Super Hero. Leader. Avenger. One of Marvel Comics most inspiring characters is all this and so much more. With a foreword by the equally legendary ...

Discover over 300 seasonal book recommendations in the ultimate reading list for book lovers everywhere.-----'I will be giving this book to everyo...

Drawn from the manuscript collections at the Bodleian Library, this delightful softback notebook set features the distinctive handwriting of three ...

GRAB A BUMPER, FORGET YOUR FANTEEGS, AND ROAM AT A FOOT-PACE THROUGH THE TWISTY ALLEYWAYS OF THE VICTORIAN VERNACULAR!What larks! Dive into the wor...

Tales featuring anthropomorphic animals have been around as long as there have been storytellers to spin them, from Aesop's Fables to Reynard th...

Writers' relationships with their surroundings are seldom straightforward. While some, like Jane Austen and Thomas Mann, wrote novels set where the...

At the heart of crime fiction is an investigation into an act of violence. Studies of the genre have generally centered on the relationship bet...

The debate surrounding the Christian aspects of C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Philip Pullman's ...

The third edition of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature is the complete and authoritative reference guide to the classical world and its ...

This companion to Frank Herbert's six original Dune novels--Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune and Chap...

This special edition invites fans inside the world of the March sisters. It includes the full text of Little Women, plus gorgeous, removable replic...

Harry Potter and Beyond explores J. K. Rowling's beloved best-selling series and its virtuoso reimagining of British literary traditions. Weaving t...

The rise of YA dystopian literature has seen an explosion of female protagonists who are stirring young people's interest in social and politica...

Ever since Arthur Conan Doyle created the pipe-smoking, deer-stalkered character, Sherlock Holmes, he has become a part of popular culture for gene...

Acknowledged as one of the founding figures of science fiction scholarship and teaching, and one of the genres leading writers, James Gunn in 1951 ...

Plath and Ted Hughes, Into the Forest includes poems related to the Tree Ogham (Gaelic) tree alphabet, which links a species to each letter. Tappin...

Tim O'Brien is the one of the greatest living American authors. He was drafted for service in Vietnam as soon as he graduated from Macalester Colle...

This compact guide covers a wide variety of terms commonly used in academic discussions of poetry, fiction, drama, rhetoric, and literary theory. D...

Two distinctly different meanings of piracy are ingeniously intertwined in Monica Cohen''s lively new book, which shows how popular depictions of t...

During World War I, as young men journeyed overseas to battle, American women maintained the home front by knitting, fundraising, and conserving...

The Spring 2020 issue of the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal is dedicated to Pop, a term as disputable as it is ubiquitous. The param...

How does a culture respond when the limits of childhood become uncertain? The emergence of pre-adolescence in the 1980s, which is signified by t...

When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter,...

A figure from ancient folklore, the doppelganger--in fiction a character's sinister look-alike--continues to appear in literature, television an...

McFarland Companions to Young Adult Literature American novelist Gary Paulsen is best known for his young adult fiction, including bestsellers N...

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle''s (1657-1757) Dialogues were written when he was only twenty-five and published in full in 1683. Donald Schier pro...

This book tells the story of crime fiction published during the first half of the twentieth century. The diversity of this much-loved genre is brea...

Alternate Worlds was first published in 1975 and became an instant classic, winning a Hugo award. This third edition brings the history of scien...

Challenging readers to rethink what they read and why, the author questions the aesthetic assumptions that have led to the devaluing of fanficti...

Every hero needs a villain. But not all villains are dangerous some are incompetent, comical, or just weird. In his follow-up to The League of Regr...

Winner of the 2015 A-Asia/ICAS Africa-Asia Book Prize, a global competition, for the best book in English, French, or Portuguese on any topic linki...

When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter,...

When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter,...

When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter,...

When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter,...

The Storied South features the voices--by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing--of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in t...

Why is the story of romance in books, magazines, and films still aimed at women rather than at men? Even after decades of feminism, traditional ide...

Philip Roth is one of the greatest and most controversial American authors alive. A literary sensation since the publication of Goodbye, Columbus i...

To read a crime novel today largely simulates the exercise of reading newspapers or watching the news. The speed and frequency with which today'...

What exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the literary imagination? Toni Morrison, one of American letters greatest voices, pondered these per...

The most literary gift of the year: a beautiful hardback collection of archive gems from the London Review of Books, published to celebrate their 4...