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	Peeling the Onion Gunter Grass' parents ran a corner shop, but his mother, whom he adored, encouraged him towards books and music. This memoir evokes his modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians and concludes with the writing of "The Tin Drum", in Paris. Author: Gunter Grass Publisher: CCV ISBN: 9780099507598 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $27.95 Online Price: $24.46
	The Friendship The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the legendary friendship -- and quarrel -- between Wordsworth and Coleridge, two giants of English Romanticism. Author: Adam Sisman Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 9780007160532 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $31.95 Online Price: $27.96
	Truth and Beauty Bestselling author and Orange Prize winner Ann Patchett's first work of non-fiction is a book about her long friendship with the critically acclaimed, and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy. It is remarkable for me to remember now that I thought it would be possible to walk away from her, that she might have gone on living, but without me. I know now I never would have had the strength of my convictions. I am living in a world without Lucy. I have no choice about that. If she were alive and I had that choice, I wouldn't have been able to last without her for a day.' What happens when the person who is your family is someone you aren't bound to by blood? What happens when the person you promise to love and to honor for the rest of your life is not your lover, but your best friend? In her frank and startlingly intimate first work of nonfiction,Truth & Beauty,Ann Patchett shines light on the little explored world of women's friendships and shows us what it means to stand together. Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981,and after enrolling in the Iowa Writer's Workshop began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work. In her critically acclaimed and hugely successful memoir,Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy wrote about the first half of her life: losing part of her jaw to childhood cancer,the years of chemotherapy and radiation, and then the endless reconstructive surgeries. In Truth & Beauty, the story isn't Lucy's life or Ann's life, but the parts of their lives they shared together. This is a portrait of unwavering commitment that spans twenty years, from the long cold winters of the Midwest, to surgical wards,to book parties in New York. Through love, fame, drugs and despair,this is what it means to be part of two lives that are intertwined. This is a tender, brutal book about loving the person we cannot save. It is about loyalty, and about being lifted up by the sheer effervescence of someone who knew how to live ... Author: Ann Patchett Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 9780007193745 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $21.95 Online Price: $19.21
	Behind the Bestsellers Behind the Bestsellers is a collection of fifty fascinating stories about the lives, loves and literature that inspired the world's greatest books. Full of literary history, dinner party trivia and lore of all kinds, this is a revealing journey through the minds of writers and the events that influenced the creation of our favourite works, from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice to Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and Truman Capote's In Cold Blood via Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Behind these famous titles are compelling and often moving tales of the authors' powerful and rich life experiences, from love to loss, from adversity to opportunity and from failure to success. J. K. Rowling, for instance, had the character of Harry Potter in her mind's eye from a young age, but it was the tragic death of her mother that gave the character a spectacular will to live. And when Charlotte Bronte's passionate bond with a charismatic Belgian professor was broken by the professor's wife, she was spurred on to pour her unrequited emotions into the novel Jane Eyre.Celebrating the novels that have captured the imagination and respect of readers around the world, and bringing to life the brilliant and often flawed personalities responsible for their existence, Behind the Bestsellers is a must-have for every book lover. Author: Jenny Bond & Chris Sheedy Publisher: Random House Publishers ISBN: 9781741668407 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $24.95 Online Price: $21.83
	MItfords The never-before published letters of the legendary Mitford sisters, alive with wit, affection, tragedy and gossip: a charismatic history of the century's signal events played out in the lives of a controversial and uniquely gifted family. Spanning the twentieth century, these magically vivid letters between the legendary Mitford sisters constitute not just a superb social and historical chronicle (what other family counted among its friends Hitler and the Queen, Cecil Beaton and President Kennedy, Evelyn Waugh and Givenchy?) they also give an intimate portrait of the stormy but enduring relationship between six beautiful and gifted women who emerged from the same stock, incarnated the same indomitable spirit, yet carved out starkly different roles and identities for themselves. Nancy, the scalding wit who transferred her family life into bestselling novels Pamela, who craved nothing more than a quiet country life Diana, the fascist jailed with her husband, Oswald Mosley, during WWII Unity, an attempted suicide, obsessed with Hitler Jessica, the runaway communist and fighter for social change and Deborah, the genial socialite who found herself Duchess of Devonshire. Writing to one another to confide, commiserate, tease, rage and gossip, the sisters wrote above all to amuse. A correspondence of this scope is rare, for it to be penned by six such born storytellers makes it unique. Editor Charlotte Mosley -- Diana Mitford's daughter-in-law -- has had unrestricted access to the vast archive of family letters and photographs, most of which have never been published before. Author: Charlotte Mosley Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 9781841157900 Format: Hardback Book In Store Price: $59.99 Online Price: $52.49
	An Anthology of Classical Myth This volume is designed as a companion to the standard undergraduate mythology textbooks or, when assigned alongside the central Greek and Roman works, as a source-based alternative to those textbooks. In addition to the complete texts of the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod's Theogony, this collection provides generous selections from over 50 texts composed between the Archaic Age and the fourth century AD. Ancient interpretation of myth is represented here in selections from the allegorists Heraclitus, Cornutus and Fulgentius, the rationalists Palaephatus and Diodorus of Sicily, and the philosophers and historians Plato, Herodotus and Thucydides. Appendices treat evidence from inscriptions, papyri and Linear B tablets and include a thematic index, a mythological dictionary, and genealogies. A thoughtful introduction supports students working with the primary sources and the other resources offered here an extensive note to instructors offers suggestions on how to incorporate this book into their courses. Author: R.Scott Smith & Stephen Brunet Stephen M. Trzaskoma Publisher: HACKETT PUBLISHING CO, INC ISBN: 9780872207219 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $24.95 Online Price: $21.83
	Angela Carter This is a fascinating study of the works of Angela Carter - the most inventive British novelist of her generation. Although much of Carter's work is considered part of the contemporary canon, its true strangeness is still only partially understood. Lorna Sage argues that one key to a better understanding of Carter's writings is the extraordinary intelligence with which she read the cultural signs of our times. It discusses her works that range from structuralism and the study of folk tales in the 1960s to fairy stories, gender politics and the theoretical 'pleasure of the text', which she makes so real in her writing. Carter legitimised the life of fantasy and celebrated the fertility of the female imagination more than any other writer. Lorna Sage's authoritative study explores the roots of Carter's originality, covering all her novels as well as some short stories and non-fiction. It is aimed at students of literature in schools and in higher education teachers of literature and scholars valuing the extensive and up-to-date bibliography. It is aimed at school, academic and public libraries. Angela Carter was one of the twentieth-century's most inventive and popular writers. This study covers all her novels and short stories, including some non-fiction. She is widely studied on English Literature courses. Lorna Sage is a well-respected scholar of women writers. Author: Lorna Sage Publisher: Northcote House Publishers Ltd ISBN: 9780746311455 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $29.95 Online Price: $26.21
	Snapshots of Bloomsbury In this enthralling portrait, Maggie Humm makes available, for the first time, a wealth of barely known photographs, both amateur and professional, that cast new light on the private lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, as well as the historical, cultural, and artistic milieux of their circle in Bloomsbury and beyond. We visit the domestic lives of major nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers and artists, such as E. M. Forster, who is pictured happily pruning trees with Leonard Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. There are intimate portraits of Vanessa Bell's children and erotic photos of Duncan Grant's lovers. The parade of characters portrayed in the photographs is long and full, including Vita Sackville-West, Roger Fry, David Garnett, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Walter Sickert, Clive Bell, the Stracheys, Dora Carrington, Cyril Connolly, John Maynard Keynes, and many more. The domestic photographs, taken predominantly with the enormously popular vest-pocket Kodak cameras of the time, are complemented by the professional photographs of Man Ray and Gisele Freund. Meticulously researched and painstakingly organized, this unique book brings critical insight to the remarkable photographs preserved in the archives of Tate and the Harvard Theatre collection. In doing so, it places domestic photography at the forefront of cultural studies of modernism, bringing vividly before us the real lives of the individuals at the heart of the Bloomsbury circle. Author: Maggie Humm Publisher: TATE PUBLISHING ISBN: 9781854376725 Format: Hardback Book In Store Price: $35.00 Online Price: $30.63
	Athenaze Combining the best features of traditional and modern methods, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, 2/e, provides a unique course of instruction that allows students to read connected Greek narrative right from the beginning and guides them to the point where they can begin reading complete classical texts. Carefully designed to hold students' interest, the course begins in Book I with a fictional narrative about an Attic farmer's family placed in a precise historical context (432-431 B.C.). This narrative, interwoven with tales from mythology and the Persian Wars, gradually gives way in Book II to adapted passages from Thucydides, Plato, and Herodotus and ultimately to excerpts of the original Greek of Bacchylides, Thucydides, and Aristophanes' Acharnians. Essays on relevant aspects of ancient Greek culture and history are also provided. New to the Second Edition: * Short passages from Classical and New Testament Greek in virtually every chapter * The opening lines of the Iliad and the Odyssey toward the end of Book II * New vocabulary and more complete explanations of grammar, including material on accents * Many new exercises and additional opportunities for students to practice completing charts of verb forms and paradigms of nouns and adjectives * Updated Teacher's Handbooks for Books I and II containing translations of all stories, readings, and exercises; detailed suggestions for classroom presentation; abundant English derivatives; and additional linguistic information * Offered for the first time, Student Workbooks for Books I and II that include self-correcting exercises, cumulative vocabulary lists, periodic grammatical reviews, and additional readings Author: M.G. Balme Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780195149562 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $49.95 Online Price: $43.71
	Athol Fugard A succinct and informed account of the career and main themes of South Africa's leading dramatist by an authority in the field. Athol Fugard is widely recognised as one of the most important living dramatists, a total man of the theatre, whose work - individually and in collaboration with his black South African colleagues - has demonstrated the potential of art to bear witness to some of the most extreme events of our times. In this comprehensive critical study of his career over five decades, Dennis Walder asks how successfully the South African playwright's work continues the search for reconciliation and harmony in a country still haunted by its terrible past. Fugard is shown to have created a uniquely powerful and influential cultural form, as a result of his driving concern to acknowledge the doubts and aspirations, the pain and suffering of the poor and disinherited. Issues of protest and survival, difference and identity, place and memory are discussed as they arise in his plays, and as they have engaged audiences locally and internationally, often in significantly varied ways. Author: Dennis Walder Publisher: Northcote House Publishers Ltd ISBN: 9780746309483 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $34.95 Online Price: $30.58
	William Blake With its combination of poetic brilliance and exquisite art, the Poetry for Young People series has won the admiration of critics, educators, children, and parents. Every breathtaking volume in this acclaimed, bestselling collection features magnificent full-color illustrations that enhance each verse, and a renowned scholar's guidance to help children understand and love poetry. There's an introduction to each poem, full annotations that define unfamiliar vocabulary, and fascinating biographical information. The star of this superb new entry in the series is 18th century artist and poet William Blake, who wrote his mystical, spirit-filled verses for children and adults alike. Best known for his masterpieces Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience--both excerpted here--he speaks of love, hate, anguish, relief and above all, mercy and the divine image that comforts us. Blake often uses simple, lovely language that young readers can appreciate, as well as animal metaphors his poems sometimes even come in pairs, with the same subjects seen from different points of view. Professor John Maynard (Poetry for Young People: Alfred Lord Tennyson) provides the excellent biography and notes. Artist Alessandra Cimatoribus contributes richly colored and magically rendered paintings that fully capture the gentleness of The Lamb, the sparkling deep blue sky and angels of Night, and The Tyger, eyes glistening and sharp teeth bared--burning bright. Author: John Maynard, Alessandra Cimatoribus Publisher: Sterling Juvenile ISBN: 9780806936475 Format: Hardback Book In Store Price: $24.99 Online Price: $21.87
	Brave New Words The first historical dictionary devoted to science fiction,Brave New Words:The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction shows how science-fictional words and their associated concepts have developed over time , with full citations and bibliographic information. Not just a useful reference and an entertaining browse, this book also documents the enduring legacy of science fiction writers and fans. Author: Jeff Prucher Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780195305678 Format: Hardback Book In Store Price: $65.00 Online Price: $56.88
	Upstaged This book tells the stories of some of Australia's largely forgotten playwrights -- women who wrote drama that was performed on the nation's stages and broadcast across the airwaves from the late 1920s to the late 1960s. These women wrote a wide range of dramatic material that addressed the social and political concerns of their era as well as more commercial fare for a mainstream audience. Their work included morally-driven dramas for the stage, people radio series as well as musicals and agitprop sketches performed outside factory gates. The book incorporates personal narratives within a broader social and cultural history which shaped the writing lives of these authors. It focuses on the prevailing industrial and professional conditions and tells how authors survived them, illuminates the battle between art and commerce intrinsic to their identity as writers and investigates the perceptions that has meant much of this work has been forgotten. By concentrating on the working lives of these authors, the book overturns received ideas of the play, and scriptwriting of the period, showing it was both more substantial and significant than has previously been recognised. Author: Michelle Arrow Publisher: Currency Press Pty Ltd ISBN: 9780868196909 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $19.95 Online Price: $17.46
	The Bardo of Waking Life An avant-garde set of improvisational essays, Richard Grossinger's The Bardo of Waking Life is a meditation on the Tibetan Buddhist bardo realm which, in popular culture, is viewed as the bridge between lives, the state people enter after death and before rebirth. This book examines waking life and its history and language as if it were a bardo state rather than ultimate reality, and thus seeks a context for life (and dreams), even as it addresses more 'mundane issues' including genetic theory, the war in Iraq and George W. Bush's presidency, North Korea, advertising, global warming, Prison Industrial Culture, childhood trauma, even country western music.Written with playfulness and precision, Bardo takes a new, probing approach to all the important questions of creation, destruction, and existence. In these intellectual field notes, Grossinger proves thematically fearless as he crosses quantum mechanics with totemic hexes and draws transcendental insight from the ephemeral space-time we call daily life. If, as Tibetan cosmology holds true, all conditional realms are bardos, then the state we all share is nothing less than the bardo of waking life. Author: Richard Grossinger Publisher: North Atlantic Books,U.S. ISBN: 9781556437007 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $25.95 Online Price: $22.71
	Shakespeare and the Practice of Physic By Shakespeare's time, the debate over legitimate medical practice had become vociferous and public. The powerful College of Physicians fought hard to discredit some and rein in others, but many resisted, denied, or ignored its authority. Dramatists did not fail to notice the turmoil, nor did they fail to comment on it - and no one commented more profoundly on stage than William Shakespeare. Going beyond the usual questions posed about Shakespeare and medicine, this study, which won the first Jay L. Halio Prize in Shakespeare and Early Modern Studies, explores Shakespeare's response to the early modern struggle for control of English medical practice. It does not rehearse the fundamentals of early modern medical thought such as the humoral system that have been more than adequately covered numerous times elsewhere. Instead, it undertakes a reading of popular English medical tracts in an effort to reconstruct the terms in which medical practitioners of all kinds were understood. Those who were not busy telling stories about the treatment of illness and injury were busy hearing such stories, and in a time of spectacular outbreaks of infectious disease, in a time of religious transition, and in a time of shifting modes of political power, such stories held especial fascination. Todd Pettigrew is an Associate Professor Cape Breton University. Author: Todd Howard James Pettigrew Publisher: ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITY PRESSES ISBN: 9780874139518 Format: Hardback Book In Store Price: $63.95 Online Price: $55.96
	A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture C.1350-C.1500 A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350-c.1500 challenges readers to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries. It features a ground-breaking collection of newly-commissioned essays on medieval literature and culture. The book encourages students to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries reflects the erosion of the traditional, rigid boundary between medieval and early modern literature stresses the importance of constructing contexts for reading literature explores the extent to which medieval literature is in dialogue with other cultural products, including the literature of other countries, manuscripts and religion includes close readings of frequently-studied texts, including texts by Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain poet, and Hoccleve and confronts some of the controversies that exercise students of medieval literature, such as those connected with literary theory, love, and chivalry and war. Author: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, Peter Brown Publisher: Blackwell Publishers ISBN: 9780631219736 Format: Hardback Book In Store Price: $210.00 Online Price: $183.75
	Chapters in a Mythology Judith Kroll's Chapters in a Mythology - groundbreaking when it was published in 1976, and now a classic - is essential reading for anyone interested in Sylvia Plath. It was the first full-scale study of Plath's poetry and proved immensely influential for the flood of Plath scholarship that followed. Kroll persuasively disputed the image of Plath as a death-obsessed poet whose poems were little more than vivid symptoms, a biographical record of anguish foreshadowing her suicide in 1963. Chapters challenged its readers to confront a writer whose verse is full of tremendous complexity and nuance. Kroll shows that Plath's poems form a mythic biography, presided over by a 'Moon-Muse', in which depictions of death are nearly always matched with visions of rebirth and transformation.In a substantial new Foreword, Kroll - who entered Smith College just six years after Plath graduated - describes how, a year before Plath's suicide, she was introduced to Plath's first book of poetry by one of Plath's own teachers six years later, after the publication of Ariel, Plath became the subject of Kroll's PhD dissertation. Kroll's Foreword also puts to rest definitively the mistaken notion that she was somehow aided in her analysis by Plath's husband, the poet Ted Hughes. Kroll's account of her meetings with Hughes, which took place after she had written her dissertation, make for intriguing reading - including Hughes' surprise that Kroll had independently identified the sources that had influenced Plath's writing most deeply. Chapters in a Mythology is an original work of fresh scholarship and impressive insight. It remains a compelling examination of one of the 20th century's great poets. Author: Judith Kroll Publisher: The History Press Ltd ISBN: 9780750943451 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $29.95 Online Price: $26.21
	Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology of Writing in English, 1375-1575 In this key anthology Derek Pearsall offers a radically new approach to those teaching and studying English writing from Geoffrey Chaucer to the early work of Edmund Spenser. Ignoring the traditional barrier between medieval, or Middle English, and Tudor, Elizabethan or early modern writing, he sets out to emphasize continuities and so counter the distorting view that English literature begins with Thomas Wyatt and the Earl of Surrey. Extensive coverage is given to key figures such as Chaucer and Langland, but this is not an anthology of English literature, but of writing. All forms of discursive writing - literary, political, legal, personal, polemic, spiritual, practical - are represented in an attempt to demonstrate the close mesh between writing, of all kinds, and the political, social and cultural practice of the time. The assumption of the collection is that written texts, though they may be analyzed from many points of view, including some that are legitimately ahistorical, are never better understood than when studied in their historical context. All texts are newly edited from the best sources and presented in their original spelling (apart from the substitution of obsolete letter-forms). On-the-page glossaries throughout give help with harder words. Headnotes and explanatory notes are provided for each text. Author: Derek Pearsall Publisher: Blackwell Publishers ISBN: 9780631198390 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $69.95 Online Price: $61.21
	Chinua Achebe The publication of Things Fall Apart in 1958 brought world-wide attention to the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe and established him as the pre-eminent African writer working in English. Achebe has been instrumental in bringing African literature to world attention through his fiction, his essays and his editorship. Over a long career Achebe has won many accolades and awards and his Anthills of the Savannah was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1987. This book examines Chinua Achebe's novels but it also draws on his criticism, and locates his writing in terms of current developments in postcolonial theory. The unifying focus is Achebe's preoccupation with language, politics and power in pre- and post-independence Nigeria and his examination of the relationship between cultural identity and literary form. Exploring the opposition between the colonial and the postcolonial, the individual and the community, and tradition and modernity, Achebe makes a major contribution to our understanding of African life and literature. Author: Nahem Yousaf Publisher: Northcote House Publishers Ltd ISBN: 9780746308851 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $34.95 Online Price: $30.58
	The Tempest: Complete Study Edition In the CliffsComplete guides, the play's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature. CliffsComplete The Tempest tells the famous story of Prospero and his daughter Miranda. Through magic, Prospero has conjured up a storm that brings a ship full of his enemies to the island on which he and Miranda live. What follows is Shakespeare's comic masterpiece that's full of intrigue and romance. Discover what happens to Prospero and Miranda - and save valuable studying time - all at once. Enhance your reading of The Tempest with these additional features: A summary and insightful commentary for each act Bibliography and historical background on the author, William Shakespeare A look at the historical context and structure of the play Discussions on the plays symbols and themes A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters Review questions, a quiz, discussion topics (essay questions), activity ideas A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites Streamline your literature study with all-in-one help from CliffsComplete guides! Author:* William Shakespeare, Sidney Lamb Publisher: John Wiley and Son ISBN: 9780764585760 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $14.95 Online Price: $13.08

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