Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was a gifted poet, literary critic and translator of the Augustan Age, whose powerful poetic satire and perfection of the English heroic couplet makes him one of the most famous and respected poets of all time. Pope embodied eighteenth-century neoclassical ideals like orde[...]

Never has a Pope, in a book-length interview, dealt so directly with such wide-ranging and controversial issues as Pope Benedict XVI does in Light of the World. Taken from a recent week-long series of interviews with veteran journalist Peter Seewald, this book tackles head-on some of the greatest is[...]

This work offers students on literary and cultural studies courses an interactive strategy for textual intervention. It draws on a combination of discourse analysis, performance techniques, critical theory and creative writing, and engages with cultural debates about production and reproduction.[...]

This interdisciplinary volume of contributed essays focuses on issues of gender in the British novel of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly Hardy and Trollope. Approaching the topic from a variety of backgrounds, the contributors reinvigorate the law-and-literature movement by disp[...]

Get ready for a world of adventure with the first two books of the "New York Times" bestselling Magic Tree House series This boxed set also includes the first nonfiction companion title, Magic Tree House Fact Tracker: "Dinosaurs," and the fun activity book "Games and Puzzles from the Tree House" as[...]

Jack and Annie are ready for their next fantasy adventure in the bestselling middle-grade series--the Magic Tree House
The show must go on
That's what Jack and Annie learn when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to Elizabethan England. There they meet William Shakespeare himself--one of[...]

Track the facts with Jack and Annie
When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in "Magic Tree House #16: Polar Bears Past Bedtime, " they had lots of questions. Why is the Arctic so cold? What did the first people of the Artic eat? How do polar bears cross thin ice? What other animals l[...]