`The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation'In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town o...

This acclaimed landmark work - in this substantially revised second edition - is a key study of t...

This acclaimed landmark work - in this substantially revised second edition - is a key study of t...

Working through close rhetorical analysis of everything from fiction and journalism to documents ...

A fun and colorful guide to building over 20 LEGO compatible aircraft and vehicles. From private ...

A fun and colorful guide to building over 20 LEGO compatible aircraft and vehicles. From private ...

First published between 1982 and 1983, this series examines the peculiarly American cultural cont...

An examination of the literary and cultural reaction to the Californian Gold Rush of 1849 50.

This short study guide tells you all you need to know about John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. Con...

Chaucer has been called the father of English literature and here Stephen Fender explores his gre...

Love, sex, death, boredom, ecstasy, existential angst, political upheavalthe history of literatur...

An unrivalled, sumptuous voyage through the highs and lows of the human condition across literatu...

Stephen Fender explains why To Kill a Mockingbird has had such an extraordinary impact on America...

A wonderful new collection of Henry James s short stories about Americans in Europe   Daisy Mille...

The Connell Guide to The American Novel 1880-1940

The land of the free and home of the brave, America is also the country in which this truth is su...