The American comic book attracted superb artists who could create characters and tell stories as memorable as those in the movies or popular novels. Taking us from the 1930s right through to the 1950s, this title tells the story of the publishers, the artists and the industry itself.
Five volumes of landmark fiction by noted English authors include Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Joseph Conrad's The Heart of Darkness, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. Housed in an attractive slipcase, each of these classic ...
This book draws on the philosopher Rene Girard to argue that three twentieth-century American novels (Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides, Rick Moody's The Ice Storm, and Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road) are tragedies.
Until now, Girardian literary analysis has generally focused on representations ...
