b'32 CRITICAL INSIGHTS:Each meticulously referenced volume is devoted to aWORKS single classic. Overall, a fresh take on the classics and an excellent choice.School Library JournalProvides a comprehensive critical analysis of the most popular and routinely studied classroom works.LITERATUREBEST SELLER! BEST SELLER! Absalom, Absalom!, by William FaulknerOriginal essays include a close reading of the novel from the critical standpoint of feminist theory, an analysis of the novels cultural and historical context, and a discussion of the critical reception of Absalom, Absalom!Additional essays provide a wide range of perspectives on such subjects as theme, protagonists, feminism, storytelling, race, style, Civil War, and time, among others.BEST SELLER! BEST SELLER! September 2011 | Print ISBN: 978-1-58765-834-1 | Library Price: $105Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark TwainCRITICAL INSIGHTS: WORKSScholars and more casual readers will find this book fascinating. ARBAHenry Nash Smith remarked that Huckleberry Finn, made vernacular language, with its new sources of pleasure and new energy, available for American prose and poetry in the twentieth century. This volume of essays examines what made this vernacular so groundbreaking, as well as the ongoing controversy that still surrounds one of the first great American novels.January 2017 | Print ISBN: 978-1-68217-122-6 | Library Price: $105The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain Never out of print since its original publication in 1876 Tom Sawyer is beloved by both children and adults. Original essays in this volume discuss the novels approach, to nature and realism, a comparative analysis of Tom Sawyer and J. K. Rowlings Harry Potter series, Tom Sawyer in modern classrooms and as bad-boy literature, the novel as autobiography, Mark Twains depictions of Native Americans, and the role of girls in the novel.June 2022 | Print ISBN: 978-1-63700-343-5 | Library Price: $105Aeneid, by VergilEssays discuss many different aspects of Vergils work, including the historical awareness of Romes future greatness, the significant psychological and ethical questions on fate and free will, personal glory versus responsibility by those who lead, and the profound influence Aeneid has had on other authors.September 2011 | Print ISBN: 978-1-58765-835-8 | Library Price: $105All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria RemarqueFinally, the truth about war, reviewers proclaimed when this work was published, just ten years after the end of World War I. Shockingly direct, it paints a decidedly unromantic portrait of the war in which Remarque had briefly fought, and quickly became an international sensation. And today, after more than 100 years, readers keep turning to the novel for answers.October 2010 | Print ISBN: 978-1-58765-719-1 | Library Price: $105All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy RECENTAll the Pretty Horses garnered both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, bringing it widespread attention as both a popular and critical success, and thrust McCarthy into the spotlight as one of the greatest writers of the late twentieth-to-early twenty-first century. The heart of this volume provides a variety of wide-ranging readings that show the reader how to read McCarthys novel more lucidly, more thoughtfully, and more informedly.September 2023 | Print ISBN: 978-1-63700-436-4 | Library Price: $105RECENTAnimal Farm, by George OrwellThis volume offers a multidisciplinary range of perspectives on George Orwells classic satire. It includes a bio-political reading of the text, a discussion of the work within the tradition of beast fables, an analysis of Orwells use of humor, and a comparison of narrative strategies in Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Through this collection, readers will appreciate Animal Farms influence on literature, politics, sociology, and history.October 2018 | Print ISBN: 978-1-68217-918-5 | Library Price: $105Anna Karenina, by Leo TolstoyLong and complex, Anna Karenina presents a detailed portrait of various kinds of life in Russia in the nineteenth century while exploring such broad themes as love, lust, class, family, marriage, adultery, and the relevance of religion to social and personal life. This volume offers a deliberately diverse range of essays on the novels major themes, its compelling literary features, and its complicated structure and intriguing presentations of characters.January 2021 | Print ISBN: 978-1-64265-750-0 | Library Price: $105 FREE All Critical Insights titles come with free online access Online AccessFREEGET ONLINE ACCESS(800) 221-1592 WITH YOUR PRINT BUY! www.salempress.com2024-433 Salem Spring 2025 Catalog.indd 32 2024-12-12 12:25PM'