Presents nearly thirty reviews and essays on African-American author Toni Morrison's novel "Beloved" by such writers as Margaret Atwood, Rosellen Brown, Stanley Crouch, and Morrison herself, and includes a scholarly introduction.
Contains seventeen essays in which the authors analyze various aspects of James Joyce's early-twentieth-century work "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.".
A biography of Charles Dickens, discussing how his father's debts forced him to go to work in a shoe polish factory, and looking at how his observations of the poor led him to write novels with an eye toward bringing attention to the plight of London's destitute children.
Traces the process and influences behind the writing of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was published when the nation was torn over the issue of slavery and headed toward Civil War.
Traces the process and influences behind the writing of Esther Forbes' novel, Johnny Tremain, for which she won a Newbery Award in 1943--just a year after winning the Pulitzer Prize for her first novel.
Presents an annotated edition of the nineteenth-century novel about Uncle Tom, an African-American man who never lost his dignity under the inhumane circumstances of slavery; and includes backgrounds and contexts, and a selection of critical essays.
the official guide to Anne Rice's Lives of the Mayfair witches
Ramsland, Katherine M.
1994
A-to-Z encyclopedia of information, interpretation, and analysis of Anne Rice's saga of the Mayfair witches, played out in her novels, "The Witching Hour," "Lasher," and "Taltos.".
