1933-

A collection of essays in which scholars offer original readings and reevaluations of three works by Cormac McCarthy, exploring "All the pretty horses," "No country for old men," and "The road.".

Tells the life story of Tibetan nun Ani Pachan, discussing her idyllic childhood in Tibet, her role as a leader of the resistance after the Chinese invaded Tibet, her twenty-one-year imprisonment and torture by the Chinese, and the faith that sustained her until she was freed and finally realized her dream of meeting the Dalai Lama.

The memoir of a Polish-American woman who, with her family in Poland in 1942, at age nine, was forced into hiding in a crawl space under a barn to escape Nazi persecution.

Chronicles the events behind a white uprising that occurred when Air Force veteran James Meredith tried to become the first African-American student to register at the University of Mississippi in 1962.

Presents biographical and critical profiles of twenty-two British writers spanning the Anglo-Saxon era through the twentieth century, each with a selected bibliography; also includes a chronology and a cumulative index of the "British Writers" series up to Supplement VI. Includes authors from Peter Ackroyd to A.N. Wilson.

Presents biographical and critical profiles of twenty-two British writers spanning the Anglo-Saxon era through the twentieth century, each with a selected bibliography; also includes a chronology and a cumulative index of the "British Writers" series up to Supplement VI. Includes authors from Peter Ackroyd to A.N. Wilson.

Discusses how Polish director Jerzy Grotowski's physical exercises can help actors broaden their skills.

A critical study of the fiction of twentieth-century American author Cormac McCarthy, featuring a chronological examination of seven of his novels, beginning with "The Orchard Keeper, " published in 1965; discussing the two phases of his writing; and including biographical information.