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F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age
Alison Morretta
Library Binding (Cavendish Square, Aug. 1, 2014)Blends information on the politics, culture, and events of the author's life to provide historical context and understanding of his work.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Abolitionist Movement
Alison Morretta
Library Binding (Cavendish Square, Aug. 1, 2014)Blends information on the politics, culture, and events of the author's life to provide historical context and understanding of her work.
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John Steinbeck and the Great Depression
Alison Morretta
Library Binding (Cavendish Square, Aug. 1, 2014)A unique insight into the life of John Steinbeck that details his incredible hunger for telling stories, his experience with the Great Depression, and the works that shaped him.
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Herman Melville: Moby Dick and Other Works
Raychel Haugrud Reiff
Library Binding (Benchmark Books, Jan. 15, 2008)Presents the life of Herman Melville, describes the plots and offers literary analysis of his major works, and details the influence his works have had on literature.
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Ray Bradbury and the Cold War
Joseph Kampff, Greg Clinton
Library Binding (Cavendish Square, Aug. 1, 2014)Blends information on the politics, culture, and events of the author's life to provide historical context and understantding of his work.
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Ernest Hemingway and World War I
Richard Andersen
Library Binding (Cavendish Square, Aug. 1, 2014)A fascinating insight into the life of Ernest Hemingway, exploring his involvement in World War I and the Spanish Civil War, and detailing how these events and love influenced his most celebrated works.
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Willa Cather and Westward Expansion
Greg Clinton
Hardcover (Cavendish Square Publishing, Aug. 1, 2014)A compelling dive into the life and times of Willa Cather, a fascinating woman who lived during the great migration across western America and whose works influenced a region.
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Charles Dickens
Nicola Barber, Patrick Lee-Browne
Paperback (Evans Brothers, July 1, 2008)The extraordinarily energetic life of Charles Dickens is examined and his era brougth vividly to life. Best known as the author of 15 major novels, Dickens was also a respected journalist and editor, an accomplished actor and theater producer, and a passionate yet practical social reformer. A lively and authoritative text, supported by carefully chosen pictorial and literary evidence, makes this book the ideal companion for young students of this famous novelist.
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Suleyman the Magnificent and the Ottoman Empire
Miriam Greenblatt
Library Binding (Benchmark Books, Dec. 1, 2002)Provides an overview of the lives of Suleyman I and his subjects in the Ottoman Empire of the late sixteenth century, and includes excerpts from poems, letters, and stories of the time.
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William Shakespeare: Measure for Measure
Kate Chedgzoy
Paperback (Liverpool University Press, Jan. 6, 2000)In a time exceptionally preoccupied with the relations between the personal and the political, sexuality and power, Measure for Measure is one of the most frequently staged and discussed of Shakespeare's plays. Drawing on performance history and current critical approaches, this study considers the play in relation to its historical contexts and contemporary relevance. It traces the dramatic unfolding of the plot through the social and theatrical spaces of Shakespeare's Vienna: court, convent, prison, and public street. It explores the intertwining of religion, sexuality, politics and morality in the institutions associated with the maintenance of social order in Vienna, and asks whether the world of the play holds open any possibilities for challenging the power of these institutions. The reader is led carefully through some of Measure for Measure's most problematic moments, but the compelling theatrical pleasures offered by this strange and fascinating play are not overlooked.
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Charlemagne and the Early Middle Ages
Miriam Greenblatt
Hardcover (Cavendish Square Publishing, Oct. 1, 2002)From Alexander the Great to Queen Victoria... their names fire the imagination with epic triumphs and influential reigns. The lives of their people forged and defined modern civilization. Writings and art left behind from their eras still inspire today. In this series, readers are introduced to these rulers and their times in an innovative approach to history.
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William Shakespeare
Stewart Ross
Paperback (Evans Brothers, July 1, 2008)Painting an outline of Shakespeare's life within the contemporary political and social scene, this book also introduces his work in the context of the theater of his day. A lively yet authoritative text, supported by carefully chosen pictorial and literary evidence, makes this book the ideal companion for young students of Britain's master dramatist and poet.