An anthology of short mystery plays. Better by the dozen! This book of twelve royalty-free mystery plays allows you to choose from a wide variety o...

It is impossible to fully understand the American experience apart from Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. Moreover, it is impossible fu...

This book celebrates the history and evolution of Canadian literature and feminism with some of the most exciting and thought-provoking fiction, po...

A study of the use of history as political ammunition and literature as historical counter-discourse in Mongane Serote's "Gods of Our Time", Mike N...

A man who does not recognise his own face, an aristocrat who keeps his amputated limbs in jars on the shelf, an infant that commits suicide, a cat ...

A reprint of the 1972 Doubleday edition. Contains the most helpful version of Hobbes's political and moral philosophy available in English. Include...

A poem is a vote. It chooses freedom of imagination, freedom of critical thought, freedom of speech. A collection of political poems in its very es...

This essay does not concern the manuscript transmission of the short series of poems (the so-called minor anthologiae) and of the single ‘wandering...

To live in Central Otago is to come to terms with the dominance of nature. Writer Jillian Sullivan set out to walk the hills and mountains of the I...

Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland--one of Canada's most beloved writers and one of Canada's most significant publishers--enjoyed an unusual rap...

Margaret Laurence instinctively turned to the epic mode to create archetypal narratives of loss, exile, and redemption. Drawing on the Bible, Dante...

This portrayal of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) is based on published and unpublished sources. Like many women novelists of her time -- pa...

This book is a fresh appraisal of the writer who made American fiction and travel writing popular worldwide. Looking at his life and his body of wr...

Absurdity reigns in multiple award-winning author and playwright Clem Martini's newest collection of work, Martini with a Twist -- five plays spann...

In this book academics write about significant fantasy books, films, television series and music. The different approaches offer new insights into ...

Merging poetry and historical records, Zits masterfully (re)creates a poetic view of the Frog Lake Massacre of April 2, 1885. His collage and cut-u...

Maurice Gee's fiction for younger readers blends exciting stories with serious issues. Told through a range of genres, from fantasy to realism, adv...