His intellectual and sexual awakenings, his exploits as a young salesman in Canadian publishing, his painful struggles to become a writer—all of this is balanced against the extraordinary reception that in the 1970s greeted his first ...

This volume "tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924 - a period during which the world Kafka had known came to an end"--Dust cover. "Stach pursues what can be known of Kafka so far and so exhaustively. . .

Enclosure marshals bold new arguments about the nature of the conflict in Israel/Palestine.

Many photographs vividly illustrate the text. For readers who have long admired Undset’s literature, Inside the Gate provides new insight into the life and work of the Nobel Prize winner.

This collection presents twelve outstanding new essays on Byron by leading critics from the USA, Canada and the UK including Steven Bruhm, Peter Cochran, Paul Curtis, Caroline Franklin, Peter Kitson, Ghislaine McDayter, Tim Morton, David ...

Discusses how women Marines served in noncombat billets during World War 2. The title "Free a Marine to Fight" means that women Marines served in noncombat jobs so that male Marines could fight in battles.

A worthy successor to works like Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon and Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines, The Buried bids fair to be recognized as one of the great books of our time.

Vol. for 1903 contains a list of Constitution conventions of Alabama, 1819-1901 with bibliogtaphy of each convention.