b'42 CRITICAL INSIGHTS: WORKS LiteratureThe Woman Warrior BEST SELLER! BEST SELLER! A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee WilliamsEssays offer an examination of the play in light of postwar American culture and censorship, as well as a comparison of Williams treatment of tragedy with Arthur Millers in his equally iconic play, Death of a Salesman. LITERATURE BEST SELLER! BEST SELLER! BEST SELLER! The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest HemingwayOther essays consider how repression drives the plays action, and review a selection of Streetcar criticism.October 2009 | Print ISBN: 978-1-58765-628-6 | Library Price: $105 Though Hemingway went on to write dozens of works before winning the Nobel Prize, The Sun Also Rises, his second novel, endures as a quintessential American classic. With its vivid characters and spare, laconic prose, it effectively captures the despair, disillusionment, and muted hope of a generation struggling to find meaning in a world torn apart by war.October 2010 | Print ISBN: 978-1-58765-713-9 | Library Price: $105CRITICAL INSIGHTS: WORKSA Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens RECENTA Tale of Two Cities has long been valued as one of Dickens most important and fascinating novels. Set during a time of great historical turmoil, presenting a fascinating cast of memorable characters, and exploring some of the most important themes, this book has long commanded the intense attention of anyone who has read it. This volume explores the novel from various deliberately diverse perspectives, setting it in historical, critical, and aesthetic contexts. August 2021 | Print ISBN: 978-1-64265-992-4 | Library Price: $105The Tales of Edgar Allan PoeThe original essays in this volume illuminate the influences that shaped Poe, contextualize his work, and RECENT assess his enduring impact on American and European poetry and fiction. Featured essays include critical readings of The Fall of the House of Usher, The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart, and Berenice.October 2009 | Print ISBN: 978-1-58765-616-3 | Library Price: $105Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurstons Their Eyes Were Watching God is now seen as one of the most important books in twentieth-century American literature, after being nearly forgotten until the 1970s. This volume explores the book from numerous and diverse perspectives, including race, gender, and class; and gives full attention to its remarkable artistry.December 2020 | Print ISBN: 978-1-64265-746-3 | Library Price: $105Things Fall Apart, by Chinua AchebeIntroductory essays reflect on Achebes pioneering achievement and evaluate the enduring, international popularity of Things Fall Apart. Also included is a comparison of Things Fall Apart to major literary works within the Western canon, such as The Odyssey and The Iliad; the novels depiction of gender; presentation of cultural violence; and portrayal of colonization.October 2010 | Print ISBN: 978-1-58765-711-5 | Library Price: $105BEST SELLER! To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper LeeOverview essays consider the cultural contexts surrounding the novel and the critical reception of Lees work. Other essays offer a close examination of the novel as wisdom literature and consider the lessons being taught in the novel, and a consideration of narrative strategies in both the novel and the film.October 2009 | Print ISBN: 978-1-58765-618-7 | Library Price: $105War and Peace, by Leo TolstoyThe student of War and Peace is sure to find new insights in this resource.ARBATolstoys epic novel is one of the most famous pieces of Russian literature and is on the short list of the most important works of literature in the world. War and Peace expresses concern whether Russia should continue to conform its culture to the Western European ways, through the lens of five Russian aristocratic families. Essay topics explore historical fiction, war drama, and realism.INSIGHTS April 2014 | Print ISBN: 978-1-61925-393-3 | Library Price: $105CRITICAL CRITICALLinda Trinh Moser teaches and writes about multicultural American and worldMoser INSIGHTSand Assistant Head of the English Dal Identityin Far (Edith Eaton). Dr. Moser has edited andWest The Woman Warrior The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingstonliterature and womens literature at Missouri State University where she is professor Insights: American Multiculturui S epar, coedited with Kathrshe contributed an essay on S tment. Her work has appearyn West, for which ed in Critical introduced the work of OA Hnoto alf CWasteatanna in M and Other e: A Book of RWritings (U of Iemembrllinois Pance (UP of , 2003). Edited by Linda Trinh Moser by Maxine Hong Kingstonand Kathryn WestMathryn West is professor and chair of the Dentucky. 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