 | P.S. Your Cat Is Dead
Publication Date: November 15, 2003It's New Year's Eve in New York City. Your best friend died in September, you've been robbed twice, your girlfriend is leaving you, you've lost your job...and the only one left to talk to is the gay burglar you've got tied up in the kitchen...P.S. your cat is dead.An instant classic upon its initial publication, P.S. Your Cat is Dead received widespread critical acclaim and near fanatical reader devotion.The stage version of the novel was equally successful and there are still over 200 new productions of it staged every year. Now, for the first time in a de...
 |  | A Trav
Release Date: May 15, 2007A través de cien montañas es un relato asombroso y conmovedor de migración, pérdida y hallazgo; de cómo dos mujeres -- una nacida en México y la otra en los Estados Unidos -- encuentran que sus vidas coinciden de la manera más improbable. Luego de una tragedia que la separa de su madre, Juana García abandona su pueblo en México para encontrar a su padre que había dejado casa y familia dos años antes para buscar trabajo en los Estados Unidos. Sin dinero y necesitada de que alguien la ayudara a cruzar la front...
|  | Beyond Archipelago: Selected Poems (Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series)
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|  | The Seat Beside Me
Release Date: June 1, 2006That strange, snoring, legroom-invading person next to you on the airplane -- have you ever imagined owing your life to him? Nancy Moser tells the gripping story of five passengers and their seatmates who get casually acquainted -- then plunge headlong into an icy river in a sudden plane crash. The moments that follow are more intense than any they have ever lived, changing the way the passengers see God and the meaning of life itself. This book reveals the eternal impact a brief interaction can have and the drastic measures it takes for some to reexamine their soul...
|  | Kiss Of Death
Publication Date: December 1998They lurk among the shadows in grimy city alleys, they revealthemselves amidst humanity's own man-made horrors, they rise from thedarkness in fog shrouded forests, they may even hide in the houseright next door, sitting there beside us, mirroring our strangestdreams and our most terrifying nightmares, weaving their dark magic ofsin and lust and delicious violence, just waiting to embrace us withtheir kiss of madness...their kiss of dark desire...their kiss ofdeath. ...
|  | Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion
Release Date: August 31, 2006| ISBN-10: 0195153871 | ISBN-13: 978-0195153873Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion presents twenty-eight original essays on the major poems of the English Renaissance. Each essay is written by a leading scholar and examines a poem in the context of an important topic in early modern culture. The selections provide groundbreaking scholarship on subjects ranging from the invention of English verse, Petrarchism, pastoral, elegy, and satire to women's religious verse, the politics of town, the place of homoeroticism, and Cavalier poetry. An ideal su...
|  | The Hunting of the Snark (Graphic Novel)
Release Date: November 2, 2010| Series: Graphic Novel The Hunting of the Snark,Lewis Carroll’s classic masterpiece of nonsense verse, takes the readeron a wonderfully witty and inventive hunt for the ever-elusive Snark.The tantalizing mysteries of the poem are here perfectly matched inthese brilliant new illustrations by artist Mahendra Singh, who hascreated a visual treasure hunt, full of riddles, puns, and allusions. When asked what his poem meant, Carroll would always reply that he didnot know. But, on one occasion, he did write to friends that perhaps“…the who...
|  | Recapturing Sophocles' Antigone (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches)
Publication Date: August 13, 1998| ISBN-10: 0847692175 | ISBN-13: 978-0847692170In this book, Wm. Blake Tyrrell and Larry J. Bennett examine Sophocles' Antigone in the context of its setting in fifth-century Athens. The authors attempt to create an interpretive environment that is true to the issues and interests of fifth-century Athenians, as opposed to those of modern scholars and philosophers. As they contextualize the play in the dynamics of ancient Athens, the authors discuss the text of the Antigone in light of recent developments in the study of Greek antiquity and tragedy, and th...
|  | The Poems of Robert Henryson (TEAMS Middle English Texts)
Publication Date: June 1997| ISBN-10: 187928894X | ISBN-13: 978-1879288942This is the first serious attempt to produce a critical text for all Henryson's poems. The text is based on all available material. There is a commentary and a glossary, and an introduction discusses Henryson's life and the sources of his poems. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness
Publication Date: May 17, 1993This landmark anthology, the first of its kind, takes it impulse from the words of Bertolt Brecht: "In these dark times, will there also be singing? / Yes, there will be singing. / About the dark times."Bearing witness to extremity—whether of war, torture, exile, or repression—the volume encompasses more than 140 poets from five continents, over the span of this century from the Armenian genocide to Tiananmen Square. ...
|  | Ghazal Games: Poems
Publication Date: June 28, 2011As an Iranian American poet, Roger Sedarat fuses Western and Eastern traditions to reinvent the classical Persian form of the ghazal. For its humor as well as its spirituality, the poems in this collection can perhaps best be described as “Wallace Stevens meets Rumi.” Perhaps most striking is the poet’s use of the ancient ghazal form in the tradition of the classical masters like Hafez and Rumi to politically challenge the Islamic Republic of Iran’s continual crackdown on protesters. Not since the late Agha Shahid Ali has a poet tran...
|  | The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam: Translated By Edward Fitzgerald & Illustrated By Austin P. Torney
Publication Date: May 22, 20088x10 edition. 114 quatrains are presented via a merge of the first four editions of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward FitzGerald, and illustrated and arranged by Austin P. Torney. New sections added on the Titanic's "Great Omar", the colorizations of Edmund Sullivan's b/w illustrations, a new calendar, and more. The 80+ illustrations, all in color, are a mixture of ancient and modern styles, ranging from Austin's own nature compositions to his enhancement ofengravings and drawings obtained from very old books.Austin has also written and publishe...
|  | Door Languages (German Edition)
Publication Date: October 1, 2008Born in Ankara in 1961, Zafer Senocak has lived in Germany since 1970. Over the years, he has become a leading voice in the German discussions on multiculturalism and national identity. His volume of essays Atlas of the Tropical Germany is currently included on the American Association of University Professors list of books to further our understanding of issues surrounding 9/11.Between 1996 and 2000, Senocak was writer-in-residence at four US universities and was a featured author at the 2007 PEN World Festival in New York City. Door Languages contains mater...
|  | Postmodern Sophistry: Stanley Fish and the Critical Enterpise
Publication Date: March 2004| ISBN-10: 0791462137 | ISBN-13: 978-0791462133An intensive examination of the theoretical writings of cultural and literary critic Stanley Fish. ...
|  | Gender, Genre, and Victorian Historical Writing (Literature and Society in Victorian Britain)
Publication Date: October 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0815328974 | ISBN-13: 978-0815328971| Edition: 1 This important interdisciplinary study traces transformations in Victorial historical writing that made possible new ways of thinking about and representing women in history. Combining literary history with cultural studies and feminist historiography, it examines a wide array of essays and reviews from Victorian periodicals to provide the terms and context for innovative readings of George Eliot's novels "Romola "and "Middlemarch "and of a range of nineteenth-century historical works, including ...
|  | Past Midnight
Release Date: May 3, 2011It's time to push the boundaries of erotic sensibility. A devastating blow rocked Erin and Dominic's marriage, and now only extreme sexual games can soothe their emotional pain. But their most daring erotic adventure is just ahead, and it could ultimately destroy everything they hoped to save. ...
|  | The Simon & Schuster Book of Greek Gods and Heroes
Release Date: September 1, 1985| Age Level: 7 and up The gods and heroes of ancient Greece shake heaven and earth in a collection of over thirty stories that breath new life into the myths of Olympus. Here is the triumphant tale of the Trojan Horse, the tragedy of Oedipus, the downfall of Medusa and more. Witness the grand drama of some of the best known heroes of all time in a fresh rendition of these timeless tales. ...
|  | A Gift from Zeus
Publication Date: June 1, 2001Here are myths from Creeks and Romans, With chimeras, curses, omens, Strange seductions, gold abounding, Transformations most astounding, Sorceresses, swans, and mazes, Goddesses with lethal gazes, Flying horses-goodness gracious! Snaky heads and bulls salacious, Minotaurs and monsters strangled, Passions kinkily entangled--All herein--A Gift From Zeus(which, by the way can cook your goose). ...
|  | Dragon Snatcher
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|  | Momotaro
Publication Date: October 1972| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Momotaro, the brave samurai born from a peach, journeys to Ogre Island to battle the evil oni in this classic Japanese folktale. With the help of a giant dog, a clever monkey, and a courageous pheasant, the young warrior fights to rescue his family and village from plunder. But will his strength and loyalty overcome the ogres' evil powers. ...
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