b'Literature CRITICAL INSIGHTS: AUTHORS 31David Foster WallaceAmerican novelist, essayist, and short story writer David Foster Wallace was known for his experimental writing style influenced by contemporary American culture. Essays from his most noted works, includingLITERATUREhis critically acclaimed novel, Infinite Jest, survey the various themes that appear in his work such as his exploration of philosophy, meta-fiction, satire, psychology, and the irony of postmodernism.April 2015 | Print ISBN: 978-1-61925-513-5 | Library Price: $105 CRITICAL H. G. Wells NEW! Fall 2025 INSIGHTS From his scientific romances of the 1890s to his death in 1946, British author H. G. Wells was manyH. G. Wells things: a pioneering science fiction author; a bestselling and sometimes controversial author of realistic fiction; as well as a popular nonfiction writer on history, science, society, and politics. Essays in this volume explore Wells multifaceted career, from his early short stories and novels to later works and film adaptations of his popular fiction. CRITICAL INSIGHTS: AUTHORSPRINTED IN September 2025 | Print ISBN: 979-8-89179-140-4 | Library Price: $105FULL COLOREdith Wharton NEW! This volume examines Whartons major novels The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and The Age of Innocence, along with her war writings, gothic fiction, and later works. It addresses the relationship between Wharton and other writers, including Willa Cather, Henry James, and Charlotte Bront, and offers fresh perspectives on Whartons views on gender, motherhood, law, architecture, and the classical tradition.January 2018 | Print ISBN: 978-1-68217-573-6 | Library Price: $105 Walt Whitman Walt Whitman is widely considered one of the most innovative and influential of all American poets, notable for his way of writing but also for the topics he addressed, including freedom, sexuality, the lives of common people, democratic values, and a kind of spirituality not necessarily tethered to conventional religion. This volume provides readers with a better understanding of Whitman the person, the thinker, and the artist.Oscar WildeAugust 2019 | Print ISBN: 978-1-64265-275-8 | Library Price: $105An interesting collection of scholarly approaches. Recommended. CHOICEThis volume examines the wide range of Wildes work, from the lighthearted to the tragically serious, and discusses Wilde and his exploration of themes of hedonism, morality, aestheticism, beauty, marriage, class, and social expectations.Essays discuss his enduringly popular play, The Importance of Being Earnest, his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, along with several other works of prose and drama.BEST SELLER! BEST SELLER!January 2020 | Print ISBN: 978-1-64265-309-0 | Library Price: $105Tennessee WilliamsThis volume brings together a variety of essays on Williams life and works, his concept of the fugitive kind, the recurring figure of the persecuted artist, and how they are still granted respite in the temporary homes afforded by love. A brief biography of Williams follows, along with an essay by Paris Review contributor Sasha Weiss.Virginia Woolf October 2010 | Print ISBN: 978-1-58765-687-3 | Library Price: $105More than 100 years after the publication of Jacobs Room (1922) Virginia Woolf is more popular than ever. The current social and political climate fosters a new appreciation for Woolfs writings, in particular her critiques of social marginalization, gender identities, queerness, and sexual cultures. This volume offers these valuable and necessary conversations in accessible and understandable language. Richard Wright October 2022 | Print ISBN: 978-1-63700-351-0 | Library Price: $105Readers new to the author, as well as devotees, will take away valuable insights. Library JournalThis volume explores the enduring appeal of the groundbreaking author of Black Boy and Native Son, acknowledging Wrights body of work in the canon of American literature, identity literature, and literature of protest. The volume also explores his relationships with other literary and creative forces such as Langston Hughes and Ralph Ellison, his attraction to Communism in the 1950s, and his self-imposed exile in France.Malcolm X February 2019 | Print ISBN: 978-1-68217-917-8 | Library Price: $105Insightful, well-crafted collection of essays. Recommended. CHOICEMalcolm X is widely known as a leading advocate for African American rights, but he was also the author of numerous speeches and other works of prose, including his autobiography; Malcolm X Speaks; Malcolm X Talks to Young People; and The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches by Malcolm X. This volume examines Malcolm Xs legacy both as a writer himself and as the subject of works by others.FREEJanuary 2020 | Print ISBN: 978-1-64265-379-3 | Library Price: $105Online Access All Critical Insights titles come with free online accessFREEGET ONLINE ACCESS(800) 221-1592 WITH YOUR PRINT BUY! www.salempress.com2024-433 Salem Spring 2025 Catalog.indd 31 2024-12-12 12:25PM'