Examines different aspects of Orwell's anti-utopian classic, with a biographical sketch of the author and critical essays on this work.
George Orwell's dystopian portrait of li...
This series presents the most important criticism on major 20th century poems, novels and dramas of the Western literary tradition. Each book contains numerous critical essays on t...
In Cormac McCarthy's ultimate Western epic, cowboys pursue the non-existent romantic ideal of the American Southwest, only to learn the stark reality of the hardship and dangers fa...
Arguably Toni Morrison's best novel, Beloved addresses the powerful legacy of slavery and those whose voices have been historically silenced by it. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 19...
Huxley's imaginatively futuristic novel, unprecedented at the time of its publication in 1932, warns of the dangers of sacrificing freedom and individuality for scientific progress...
Alan Paton's striking novel set in pre-apartheid South Africa puts forth the possibility of the existence of goodness in humankind against a backdrop of racial inequality, hate, an...
In Shakespeare's timeless play of truth and revenge, the character Hamlet must overcome his own self-doubt and avenge the murder of his father to take the throne of Denmark.
Written in the politically turbulent 1980s, Margaret Atwood's feminist novel examines a world in which women are stripped of their rights after an ultra right-winged group takes co...
Published in 1984 to instantaneous acclaim, Sandra Cisneros draws on her own experience as a Hispanic woman writer facing obstacles in a patriarchal Hispanic community to write The...
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