Living by Fiction is written for--and dedicated to--people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Borges, García Márq ...more on ebook "Living by Fiction..."

Jay Parini, a poet and novelist, teaches at Middlebury College in Vermont.  His novels include and The Last ...more on ebook "Promised Land..."

The classic thriller of love and madness. ...more on ebook "Jane Eyre..."

This non-academic author presents his key to opening James Joyce's infamously difficult and endlessly playful novel "Finnegans Wake." The key was fashioned in Kabbalah, an ancient Jewish mys ...more on ebook "Joyce's Finnegans Wake: The Curse o..."

Playing in the Dark ...more on ebook "Playing in the Dark..."

The Dangerous Summer is Hemingway's firsthand chronicle of a brutal season of bullfights. In this vivid account, Hemingway captures the exhausting pace and pressure of th ...more on ebook "The Dangerous Summer..."

If you have found the Psalms a source of comfort and strength, you will love this treatment of the first thirty psalms. Each psalm contains a commentary on the entire psalm, not just a ve ...more on ebook "Then Sings My Soul..."

How does literature illuminate the way we live? Maurice Natanson, a prominent champion of phenomenology, draws upon this method's unique power to show how fiction can hig ...more on ebook "The Erotic Bird: Phenomenology in L..."

American society has taught children that no one cares for them, that society is indifferent to them. Dill's folks didn't beat or mistreat him. What they did was tell him: All right, we boug ...more on ebook "To Kill A Mockingbird: A critique o..."