In this remarkable book, Tony Hilfer provides a major survey of the wealth of post-war American fiction. He analyses the......more
Each of the five great plays illustrate the Italian dramatist’s concern with the isolation of the individual...more
A spellbinding, exuberant first novel, set in Malaysia, that introduces us to a prosperous Indian immigrant family, as i......more
SOMEONE TO CRAWL BACK TO is a novel-in-stories, a collection of hearts in search of what they ve always wanted or what t......more
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"The most difficult thing for a wise woman to do is to pretend to be a foolish one." -Miss Ley, Mrs. Craddock (1902) by ......more
"The most difficult thing for a wise woman to do is to pretend to be a foolish one." -Miss Ley, Mrs. Craddock (1902) by ......more
"NO pink for me, please; I want that beautiful shimmering green, made up over shining white silk. It will make my glossy......more
The Torrents of Spring is a novella written by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1926. Subtitled "A Romantic Novel in Honor......more
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"It is a book that does for modern industrial slavery what Uncle Tom’s Cabin did for black slavery. But the work is done......more
"It lives and breathes in the light, because it has thousands of unfortunates toiling in the darkness. It lives and has ......more
"We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all." -Sinclair Lewis, The JobIn his novel ......more
. . . this is a flagrant excursion, a tale for people who still read Dickens and clip out spring poetry and love old peo......more
. . . this is a flagrant excursion, a tale for people who still read Dickens and clip out spring poetry and love old peo......more
"It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high pu......more
"Humor is next to Godliness." ― Sinclair Lewis, Mantrap To create Mantrap (1926), Sinclair Lewis adapted journals his br......more
"Humor is next to Godliness." ― Sinclair Lewis, Mantrap To create Mantrap (1926), Sinclair Lewis adapted journals his br......more
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American author, political activist, and lecturer, Helen Keller was the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Ar......more
Pandit Sadanand Naimpalli, one of the outstanding Tabla and Pakhawaj players of India, is a Metallurgical Engineer by tr......more