Impulsive, passionate, live-wire Zoe was the exact opposite of her more realistic boy-friend, Ben. But together they made a perfect team - both in and out of bed. They had plans to tkae them down the road to success and nothing was going to get in their way. But then the unforseen happened. Would their future be FOR BETTER ... OR... FOR WORSE?
The eleven essays specially written for this book are presented as a contribution to the renewed evaluation of Hardy's poetry, as part of areappraisal which must produce a more satisfying view of his complex, large, experimental, odd, rich, sometimes frustrating, compelling body of poems than it has often in the past managed to call forth from his crtics.
She was only four years old when Fynn found her on London's fog-shrouded docks. He took her back to his mother's home, and from that first moment, their times together were filled with delight and discovery. Anna had an astonishing ability to ask - and answer-life's largest questions. Her total openness and honesty amazed all who knew her. She seemed to understand with uncanny certainty the pup…
"Little Dorrit" stands in Dickens's life chiefly as a signal of how far he went down the road of realism, of sadness and of what is called modernity
"Emerson is a great man still," wrote D.H. Lawrence. And this unique Anthology, the work of two college professors who are also among the leading American literary critics, distills the essence of his greatness. Emerson's crystalline insights and profound observations are presented, with lucid comments by the editors, as the philosophers himself might have arranged them : - Morning, Noon and N…
These stories, the, like all godd stories, are possessed of universal interest. And the reason for this is that everyone of them treats of a subject familiar and understandable, whether at first or second hand, through direct or indirect experience or through empathic projection, to any reader posessed of general interests and some mature experience of life
American Writing Today intends to be a comprehensive critical survey of the past 35 years of American poetry and fiction. The chapters of this book are based upon a series of broadcats that were aired over the Voice of America in 1980