From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearbylighthouse, Virginia Woolf constructs a remarkable and movingexamination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life,and the conflict between male and female principles, in what isprobably her most popular novel.
The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily livesare explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updikein this wise, witty, and sexy story. Harry Angstrom--known to allas Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters--findshis dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice.How he resolves or further complicates his problems makes for anovel of the first order. --This text refers to an out of print orunavailable edition of this title.
This Norton Critical Edition reprints the 1897 editions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and the 1876 edition of The Hunting of the Snark. New to the Second Edition is "The Wasp in a Wig," a recently discovered episode Carroll deleted from Through the Looking-Glass, but which fits into the story in interesting ways. Each text is accompanied by ample explanatory notes. "Backgrounds" reprints new selections from recent biographies of Carroll and from recent editions of his diaries and letters. Our understanding of and appreciation for Carroll’s life and literature are deepened by new contributions from Anne Clark, Tony Beale, E. M. Rowell, and, most revealingly, Carroll himself. "Criticism" retains seven seminal critiques from the First Edition while adding four important recent essays by Nina Auerbach, Roger Henkle, Robert Polhemus, and Donald Rackin. A revised and updated Selected Bibliography is also included.
“Long live the King,”hailed Entertainment Weekl yupon the publication of Stephen King's ON WRITING.Part memoir,part master chass by one of the bestselling authors of al time,this superbvolume is a revealing and practical view of the wroter's craft,comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have.King's advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood throunded his emergence as a writer,from his struggling early career to his widely reported,near-fatal accident in I999-and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery.Brilliantly structured,friendly and inspiring,ON WRITING will empower and entertain everyone who reads it-fans,writers,and anyone who loves a great story well told.
