Easily staged scenes with believable teen characters in a variety of comic situations.

Gertrude Stein in her 1926 lecture on Composition as Explanation wrote: 'the creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw, until [s]he i...

Explore the rise and fall of pre-Code comics with 500 covers revealing America's cultural shifts, censorship, and controversy.From 1940 to 1955, Am...

Rosa Mayreder (1858-1938) of Vienna, Austria, was a major European feminist and peace activist as well as an excellent scholar and superb writer. T...

Based on the assumption that gender roles have become increasingly complex and differentiated in recent decades, the volume's articles analyze the ...

George Washington speaks for himself on behalf of liberty and the emerging American republic in this book, the only one-volume compilation in print...

Rendered in an idiom drawn from present-day nature guides, gardening handbooks, how-to manuals, and scientific treatises--and in a style influenced...

Rendered in an idiom drawn from present-day nature guides, gardening handbooks, how-to manuals, and scientific treatises--and in a style influenced...

Gerald Murnane is one of Australia's most important contemporary authors, but for years was neglected by critics. In 2018 the New York Times descri...

Coal mines have become rare, but the miners of Germinal are immortal. This new edition of the novel, with a translation by Raymond MacKenzie, is an...

"Poet Siobhan Harvey’s latest collection is about migration, outcasts, the search for home, and the ghosts we live with, including the ones who occ...

In the arena, she shot cigarettes and coins from her trusting husband's hand. Some women wished she would miss. --from "Little Sure Shot" Kat Camer...

The three Lebanese writers discussed in this volume -- Kahlil Gibran, Ameen Rihani and Mikhail Naimy -- all emigrated to the USA early in life. The...

This stirring new version of the great Babylonian epic includes material from the recently discovered "monkey tablet" as well as an Introduction, t...