Product Description: Until his death in 1944, Holloway attended almost every performance of the Abbey Theatre and daily recorded in his journal his reactions to plays and players and his comments about and conversations with literary and theatrical people...read more

Lawrence's family, friends, and various environments are brought to light in this pictorial review of his life and literary career

Product Description: Harry T. Moore, major biographer and pi­oneer in Lawrence scholarship, character­izes this book as “altogether one of the truly fine critical and expository volumes on the man whom so many major critics now re­gard as the outstanding English writer of this century...read more

The twelve original essays in this volume are joined by a common interest in the forms the shadows of an author’s imagination can take and in analyzing the shapes that can cast such shadows. This collection will be of interest to a wide audience: the general reader, the science-fiction devotee, and students of twentieth-century literature. Taken together, the essays provide a comprehensive view and critical evaluation of the fantasy fiction of Lewis, Tolkien, and Williams.

Product Description: Unique among D. H. Lawrence’s writings, The Boy in the Bush, pub­lished in 1924, is the novel he wrote in collaboration with Mollie Skinner, a native of Western Australia, who provided the background that Law­rence’s vivid and matchless prose transformed into an exciting story of adventure and romance on the Australian frontier of the 1880s...read more

Product Description: The certainty that deep down we are all schlemiels is perhaps what makes America love an inept ball team or a Woody Allen who unburdens his neurotic heart in public.In this unique, revised history of the schlemiel, Sanford Pinsker uses psychological, linguistic, and anecdotal approaches, as well as his considerable skills as a spritely storyteller, to trace the schlemiel from his beginnings in the Old Testament through his appearance in the nineteenth-century literature of Mendele Mocher Seforim and Sholom Aleichem to his final development as the beautiful loser in the works of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and Woody Allen...read more

Product Description: The discovery of a “lost” manuscript by H. G. Wells is an exciting literary event, and the publishers of the Crosscurrents Modern Fiction series are proud to present the first publication of Wells’s The Wealth of Mr. Waddy. A study of H...read more