Orphaned Jane eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, where she endures loneliness and cruelty, and at a charity school with a harsh regime. This troubled childhood ...more

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 ...more

Walden and Civil disobedience...more

A new edition of the pocket guide to one of english literature's best loved and finest creations, Sherlock Holmes. Holmes was the brainchild of Portsmouth GP Arthur Conan ...more

Oedipus, the banished king of Greek mythology who killed his father and married his mother, is the subject of Sophocles's Oedipus Trilogy, a series of three...more

In August, 1959, an anxious William Rueckert wrote Kenneth Burke to ask, "When on earth is that perpetually 'forthcoming' A Symbolic of Motives forthcoming? Will it be soon ...more

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 ...more

In the tradition of coming-of-age stories, Holden Caulfield's "odyssey" of four days leaves him broken by society, yet still compassionate. This was one of the first...more

An accessible, irreverent guide to one of the most admired—and entertaining—novels of the past century. There is no other guide like this; a user-friendly and ...more