Henry Carter Hull

Features: • Wide chronological coverage of English literature, especially texts found in the Norton, Oxford, Blackwell and other standard anthologies • Short, punchy essays that engage with the texts, the critics, and literary and social issues • Background and survey articles • Glossaries of Bible themes, images and narratives • Annotated bibliography and questions for class discussion or personal reflection • Scholarly yet accessible,...

"The Jungle , a novel by American journalist Upton Sinclair (1878 -- 1968), was written in 1906 to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants living in Chicago and similar industrialized cities in the United States. While his main goal in describing the working conditions in the meat industry was based on an investigation he conducted for a socialist newspaper with the goal of advancing socialism in the United States, most readers...

"Sepich offers his insight and detailed research to the less knowledgeable reader. He crafts a book that will delight the McCarthy specialists." -- Western American Literature Blood Meridian (1985), Cormac McCarthy's epic tale of an otherwise nameless "kid" who in his teens joins a gang of licensed scalp hunters whose marauding adventures take place across Texas, Chihuahua, Sonora, Arizona, and California during 1849 and 1850, is widely considered...

"The Saints' Everlasting Rest is an updated abridgment of a classic text in Richard Baxter's corpus. In it he argues that we can live a godly life on earth by daily dwelling and meditating on the thought of heaven in order to prepare ourselves for it. We should focus our minds on our eternal rest, not just on the pleasures, distractions, and temptations of our earthly existence. This edition introduces the text and makes it accessible to the modern...

Originally selected by Faulkner scholars Blotner and Litz for their series on the author, this pathbreaking monograph contains a comprehensive and provocative discussion of Faulkner's historical vision. Drawing on the rich literature of historiography (including the writings of R. G. Collingwood and Herbert Butterfield), and on a wide-ranging body of scholarship on the historical novel (including discussions of Scott, Thackeray, and Conrad), Rollyson...

In Bird Box, brilliantly imaginative debut author Josh Malerman captures an apocalyptic near-future world, where a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choice and they will die. And something is following them -- but is it man, animal, or monster? Within these tracks, Malerman, a professional musician, discusses his love of horror and invokes an ethereal and atmospheric experience in an homage...

"An analysis of the depiction of Australia's landscape in its films and literature. Imagined Landscapes teams geocritical analysis with digital visualization techniques to map and interrogate films, novels, and plays in which space and place figure prominently. Drawing upon A Cultural Atlas of Australia, a database-driven interactive digital map that can be used to identify patterns of representation in Australia's cultural landscape, the book presents...

Danger lurks during the holidays in these two Military K-9 Unit stories In Christmas Escape by Valerie Hansen, veterinary assistant Rachel Fielding and her niece spend the holidays hiding from a killer with her boss, Kyle Roarke, and a capable K-9. And in Yuletide Target by Laura Scott, someone's gunning for Senior Airman Jacey Burke and her trusty K-9. But Staff Sergeant Sean Morris will do anything to keep her safe for Christmas.

A 7 LB. 8 OZ. CHRISTMAS PACKAGE! When totally eligible E.R. doctor Michael Sloane found out he was going to be a father at the eleventh hour-make that the ninth month- he set out to tell single mom-to-be Kate Montgomery she was going to have his baby. Which was a good thing because Kate went into labor. They alone, strangers, delivered their healthy infant son on a North Carolina roadside. Now, with a baby between them, Kate and Michael could never...

Excerpt: "Next to its Ballads and Songs, the Stories of Scottish Literature are the most characteristic exponents of the national spirit. Allowing for the changes which time and the progress of civilization have effected in the national manners and character since the beginning of the present century--the era to which the Stories chiefly refer--they shall be found to delineate the social and domestic features of Scottish life as faithfully as the...