Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This is the only authoritative text of this late novel. It reproduces the manuscript which Mark Twain wrote last, and the only one he finished or called the "The Mysterious Stranger." Albert Bigelow Paine's edition of the same name has been shown to be a textual fraud.

American fiction. --- American literature --- american literature. --- austria. --- canon. --- classic fiction. --- classics. --- comedy. --- evil. --- famous authors. --- fear. --- fiction. --- good. --- historical fiction. --- human nature. --- humanity. --- humor. --- literary criticism. --- literature. --- magic. --- mercy. --- morality. --- novella. --- paranormal. --- religion. --- religious fanaticism. --- righteousness. --- samuel clemens. --- satan. --- satans nephew. --- satire. --- simple people. --- sin. --- social commentary. --- spirituality. --- supernatural powers. --- supernatural. --- temptation. --- village. --- western canon. --- witch trials.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Memory and commemoration play a vital role not only in the work of Shakespeare, but also in the process that has made him a world author. As the contributors of this collection demonstrate, the phenomenon of commemoration has no single approach, as it occurs on many levels, has a long history, and is highly unpredictable in its manifestations. With an international focus and a comparative scope that explores the afterlives also of other artists, this volume shows the diverse modes of commemorative practices involving Shakespeare. Delving into these “cultures of commemoration,” it presents keen insights into the dynamics of authorship, literary fame, and afterlives in its broader socio-historical contexts.

Memory in literature. --- Recollection (Psychology) in literature. --- Shakespeare, William, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- anthology. --- artist life. --- artists. --- author. --- authorship. --- collection of essays. --- commemoration. --- comparative scope. --- controversy. --- famous authors. --- famous playwrights. --- fine arts. --- globe theater. --- historical reference. --- middle ages. --- performing arts. --- plays. --- shakespeare. --- sociohistorical context. --- the bard. --- world history.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"Nothing short of a masterpiece. . . . One of the great critical works produced since the 1950s."--New York Times.

Adventure stories, English. --- 19th century. --- british authors. --- british literature. --- classics. --- conrad scholars. --- contemporary critics. --- critical biography. --- cultural studies. --- english literature. --- european. --- famous authors. --- heart of darkness. --- history of literature. --- joseph conrad. --- literary analysis. --- literary criticism. --- literary critics. --- literary development. --- literary studies. --- major themes. --- nonfiction account. --- nonfiction. --- novelist. --- reference. --- romanticism. --- social ethics. --- symbolism.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

When Theodore Dreiser first published Sister Carrie in 1900 it was suppressed for its seamy plot, colloquial language, and immorality-for, as one reviewer put it, its depiction of "the godless side of American life." It was a side of life experienced firsthand by Dreiser, whose own circumstances often paralleled those of his characters in the turbulent, turn-of-the-century era of immigrants, black lynchings, ruthless industrialists, violent labor movements, and the New Woman. This masterful critical biography, the first on Dreiser in more than half a century, is the only study to fully weave Dreiser's literary achievement into the context of his life. Jerome Loving gives us a Dreiser for a new generation in a brilliant evocation of a writer who boldly swept away Victorian timidity to open the twentieth century in American literature. Dreiser was a controversial figure in his time, not only because of his literary efforts, which included publication of the brutal and heartbreaking An American Tragedy in 1925, but also because of his personal life, which featured numerous sexual liaisons, included membership in the communist party, merited a 180-page FBI file, and ended in Hollywood. The Last Titan paints a full portrait of the mature Dreiser between the two world wars-through the roaring twenties, the stock market crash, and the Depression-and describes his contact with important figures from Emma Goldman and H.L. Mencken to two presidents Roosevelt. Tracing Dreiser's literary roots in Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, and especially Whitman, Loving has written what will surely become the standard biography of one of America's best novelists.

Novelists, American --- Journalists --- Dreiser, Theodore, --- Dreiser, Theodore --- Novelists [American ] --- 20th century --- Biography --- United States --- american authors. --- american literature. --- american novels. --- biography. --- class. --- classics. --- communism. --- dreiser. --- emerson. --- emma goldman. --- factory workers. --- famous authors. --- fbi. --- fdr. --- gender. --- hawthorne. --- hollywood. --- immigration. --- industrialists. --- journalist. --- labor movement. --- literary celebrity. --- literature. --- lynchings. --- mencken. --- naturalism. --- new woman. --- nonfiction. --- politics. --- progressive era. --- realism. --- roaring 20s. --- robber barons. --- roosevelt. --- sexual morality. --- sexuality. --- social change. --- social commentary. --- thoreau. --- urban life. --- western canon. --- whitman. --- workers rights.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Meir Wieseltier's verbal power, historical awareness, and passionate engagement have placed him in the first rank of contemporary Hebrew poetry. The Flower of Anarchy, a selection of Wieseltier's poems spanning almost forty years, collects in one volume, for the first time, English translations of some of his finest work. Superbly translated by the award-winning American-Israeli poet-translator Shirley Kaufman-who has worked with the poet on these translations for close to thirty years-this book brings together some of the most praised and admired early poems published in several small books during the 1960's, along with poems from six subsequent collections, including Wieseltier's most recent, Slow Poems, published in 2000. Born in Moscow in 1941, Wieseltier spent the first years of his life, during the war, as a refugee in Siberia, then again in Europe. He settled in Tel-Aviv a few years after coming to Israel in 1949 and has lived there ever since. A master of both comedy and irony, Wieseltier has written powerful poems of social and political protest in Israel, poems that are painfully timeless. His voice is alternately anarchic and involved, angry and caring, trenchant and lyric.

Electronic books. --- POETRY / General. --- Books in machine-readable form --- Digital books --- E-books --- Ebooks --- Online books --- Books --- Electronic publications --- Wieseltier, Meir --- Ṿizelṭir, Meʼir --- Ṿizalṭir, Meʼir --- ויזלטיר, מאיר --- 20th century. --- anarchism. --- art and literature. --- contemporary poetry. --- english translation. --- european poetry. --- famous authors. --- hebrew poetry. --- historical poetry. --- israel. --- israeli poets. --- judaism. --- life changes. --- lit students. --- literary criticism. --- literary critics. --- lyric poetry. --- moscow. --- poems in translation. --- poetry collection. --- poetry scholars. --- political poetry. --- political protest. --- protest poems. --- russian poets. --- siberia. --- social protest. --- tel aviv. --- world poets. --- Hebrew poetry, Modern