In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of...
Narrative, Genre And Ideology In Video Games: An Analysis Of Gender Roles And Structures Of Power
This book sheds light on gender politics and structures of power that can be found in new media, as a single structure that can be found in any game. This book brings to the...
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020
"Rachel Kushner narrates these essays precisely and warmly. Her voice, assured and practiced, moves the text along. An admired novelist, she's a fine storyteller who uses...
The Poet At The Breakfast-table
PREFACE.In this, the third series of Breakfast-Table conversations, a slight dramatic background shows off a few talkers and writers, aided by certain silent supernumeraries. The...
The Iliad
The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a...
The Complete Writings Of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 4
BEING A BOYOne of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, though it needs some practice to be a good one. The disadvantage of the position is that...
The Complete Writings Of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1
INTRODUCTORY LETTERMY DEAR MR. FIELDS,—I did promise to write an Introduction to these charming papers but an Introduction,—what is it?—a sort of pilaster, put...
Under The Greenwood Tree, Or, The Mellstock Quire; A Rural Painting Of The Dutch School
PREFACEThis story of the Mellstock Quire and its old established west-gallery musicians, with some supplementary descriptions of similar officials in Two on a Tower, A Few Crusted...
The Professor At The Breakfast-table
PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION.The reader of to-day will not forget, I trust, that it is nearly a quarter of a century since these papers were written. Statements which were true then...
The Complete Writings Of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 2
PARIS IN MAY—FRENCH GIRLS—THE EMPEROR AT LONGCHAMPSIt was the first of May when we came up from Italy. The spring grew on us as we advanced north; vegetation seemed...
