Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

This book examines the way in which France has failed to come to terms with the end of its empire, and is now haunted by the legacy of its colonial...

Countess Appollonia Zulmer beautiful, rich, and popular can have any man she wants, at least until she meets Count Wiemar. Interested only in sub...

John Clelands Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure has been described as the first erotic novel in English and is perhaps the greatest example of the gen...

Gilbert Patten, writing as Burt L. Standish, made a career of generating serialized twenty-thousand-word stories featuring his fictional creation F...

The Grand Babylon Hotel opens with New York millionaire Theodore Racksole's demand for an Angel Kiss - an American concoction the Grand Babylon do...

Drifting on a sailing boat off the Canary Islands, four British gentlemen take turns reading a manuscript that they find inside a copper cylinder d...

Among the first works of fiction in English by a North American writer of Asian descent, the stories collected in Mrs. Spring Fragrance present a c...

Although Hofmannsthal never completed his only novel Andreas, its theme--the quest for self through memory--haunted the Viennese writer and recurs ...

The history of China, as any history, is a story of and in translation. Translating Early Modern China tells the story of translation in China to a...

Alban Forcione analyzes the problem which has most troubled modern readers of the Persiles, its episodic character and confusing proliferation of a...

In 1859, the historian Lord John Acton asserted: 'two great principles divide the world, and contend for the mastery, antiquity and the middle ages...

Her Own Thinker: Canadian Women Writers as Essayists explores the thinking, ideas, and insights that Canadian women fiction writers have chosen to ...

Based on Ilan Stavans new translation which accurately captures the verve of the original, this Norton Critical Edition includes: an introduction a...

Originally published in 1923, Jean Toomers Cane remains an innovative literary workpart drama, party poetry, part fiction. This revised Norton Crit...

Let the wit and wisdom of America's earliest master of mystery and macabre inspire your own creativity as you write, brainstorm, list, or sketch yo...

In 1929, ten years before James Joyce completed Finnegans Wake, Sylvia Beach published a strange book with a stranger title: Our Exagmination Round...