To love in a language prised from my wishbone. To sing a landscape where village girls burst the moon with giggles. To dance through the fattest ey...

A pillar of the West African oral tradition for centuries, this epic traces the adventures and achievements of the Mande hero, Sunjata, as he liber...

A pillar of the West African oral tradition for centuries, this epic traces the adventures and achievements of the Mande hero, Sunjata, as he liber...

One can find plenty of literature on the life and works of William Shakespeare. Much less if any can be found and read about his three children. Th...

This is an English translation of Plato account of an important dialogue on the nature of love between Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophan...

Walt Whitman, whose Leaves of Grass was called "the secular Scripture of the United States" by Harold Bloom, is a source of contemporary inspiratio...

Prudence Steiner's lively prose translation of Moliere's great comedy remains close to the original French, while casting the speech of characters ...

Prudence Steiner's lively prose translation of Moliere's great comedy remains close to the original French, while casting the speech of characters ...

Prudence Steiner's lively prose translations remain close to the original French, giving us the speech of the characters in a slightly compressed a...

Prudence Steiner's lively prose translations remain close to the original French, giving us the speech of the characters in a slightly compressed a...

This book explores the interaction between literary culture and the public sphere in Australia in a series of informative, witty, intelligent and t...

Ten years, ten authors, ten critics. The Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne reaches into its ten-year archive of Brown Ba...

In Roman religion, Terminus was an agrarian god who protected boundary markers. Stones were often used to provide an effective means for marking th...

While Dickens used to be seen as a writer of shallow and sentimental children’s literature, as the prolific caterer to the new market of mass liter...

She is a hunter of women brown eyes dilated, I watch her gracefully pouring tea. She smells of the chase, her blood-smeared nails assault you in th...

In this illuminating essay, Neil Bissoondath explores the powerful influence exerted by narrative on the human psyche. Storytelling is a primary ac...

This is an English translation of Aristophanes' greatest comedy the Birds and is the story of birds taking control of the government. Includes back...

Rich with literary awards and honours, Alberto Manguel extends his literary genius to address and complete a thoughtfully crafted extrapolation on ...

The Hackett edition of Teresa of Avila's spiritual autobiography features Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez's authoritative translation of The ...

A fictive traveler's guide to the East, both Near and Far, The Book of John Mandeville was a late--medieval best seller, more popular in its day th...

A fictive traveler's guide to the East, both Near and Far, The Book of John Mandeville was a late--medieval best seller, more popular in its day th...

"The outburst of cultural energy that took place in the 1960s was in part a product of the two decades that came before. It's always difficult for ...

The late-imperial legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the Butterfly Lovers--a story as central to Chinese culture as Shakespeare's Romeo and Ju...

The late-imperial legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the Butterfly Lovers--a story as central to Chinese culture as Shakespeare's Romeo and Ju...