Literary Criticism
Essays on Modern Novelists
A collection of essays on 19th century novelists, both famous ones and those largely forgotten now. Among the writers presented most wrote i…
The Ring and the Book
Francis Bickford Hornbrooke was an American Unitarian minister who in later years was recognized as an expert commentator on literature, in …
Pushing Leaves Towards the Sun
When Oso gets yanked off his motorcycle and killed by a closed parking lot chain, Billy feels guilty for having taught him to hop curbs and …
An Essay on Criticism
The title, An Essay on Criticism hardly indicates all that is included in the poem. It would have been impossible to give a full and exact i…
A Long Way from Disney
It's the 1980s in Boston: the Celtics are rolling, the Patriots got crushed by the Bears, and the Sox are the Sox. Adam Berkman is learning …
La intrusa
Dicen (lo cual es improbable) que la historia fue referida por Eduardo, el menor de los Nelson, en el velorio de Cristian, el mayor, que f…
El ahogado más hermoso del mundo
Los primeros niños que vieron el promontorio oscuro y sigiloso que se acercaba por el mar, se hicieron la ilusión que era un b…
Siddharta
Siddharta marchó a casa del comerciante Kamaswami. Le habían enviado a una rica mansión; los criados le guiaron sobre …
Marianela
Marianela, una joven huérfana y de pobres atributos físicos, sirve de lazarillo de Pablo, un joven ciego y de cómoda po…
Must Not Sleep
By turns hilarious and chilling, poet and novelist Michael Brownstein's latest novel MUST NOT SLEEP is a shamanic initiation into personal f…
Some American Storytellers
Frederic Taber Cooper, who was an editor and author, provides a superb insight into the works of some of the most popular authors of the tur…
Infamy
Infamy is a difficult thing to live with. It removes privacy, infects every aspect of daily life, and even causes the people it encounters c…
The Secret of Charlotte Brontë
Twenty years ago, now, I attempted (but was not especially successful in the task) to establish upon the personal knowledge that my own resi…
Ash Dogs
Marcus Green has just been discharged after a tour of duty in Iraq. Wounded and disfigured, Marcus returns to a life he barely recognizes...…
Prayer At Rumayla
Nineteen year-old Chet Brown arrived home from the Gulf War in the spring of 1991 and found that, for him, the war was only beginning. Betra…
Deutsche Literaturgeschichte
Von den ältesten Zeiten bis zur GegenwartEine Literaturgeschichte von einem Literaten!Der Stil ist modern (für die PD), persö…
El fin
Recabarren, tendido, entreabrió los ojos y vio el oblicuo cielo raso de junco. De la otra pieza le llegaba un rasgueo de guitarra, un…
Schachnovelle
Auf einem Passagierdampfer von New York nach Buenos Aires wird der arrogante und einfältige Schachweltmeister Czentovic während ei…
Collected Prose
Best remembered for his poetry, James Elroy Flecker was also a playwright, novelist and prose writer. This collection of his idiosyncratic p…
Gossip in a Library
A collection of informal essays about books in his library. He combines commentary, translations, and humorous asides about authors and thei…