history and criticism

One of the most popular and widely known characters in all of fiction, Sherlock Holmes has an enduring appeal based largely on his uncanny ability to make the most remarkable deductions from the most mundane facts.

The legend of Robin Hood began more than 600 years ago. The man, if he existed at all, lived even earlier. In this definitive work, Professor Sir James Holt, one of Britain's premier historians and author of the standard work on the Magna Carta, unravels pure invention from real possibility and offers the results of some thirty years of research.

Collects memoirs, critiques, anecdotes, narratives, interviews, and other writings on the art of dance; and discusses Frederick Ashton, Fred Astaire, George Balanchine and his ballets, August Bournonville, Martha Graham, Anna Pavlova, Jerome Robins, as well as ballet productions, teachers, and more.

Collects writings, including poems, novel excerpts, travel pieces, memoirs, diaries, and letters, by various immigrants to the United States, including Joseph Brodsky, Edwidge Danticat, Edward Said, Jamaica Kincaid, and Charles Simic, in which they discuss the challenges and hopes that define their experiences in a multicultural democracy.

Presents a representative selection of poems by Ben Jonson and the Cavalier poets, including Thomas Carew, Edmund Waller, Sir John Suckling, Richard Lovelace, and others; and features criticism written from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries.

A collection of essays, magazine articles, and television transcripts in which the author expresses her views on sexuality, the gay and feminist movements, and politics, with some discussion of public personalities and autobiographical memoirs.

Profiles the twenty-two twentieth-century American composers chosen as "mavericks" for the June 2000 San Francisco Symphony American Mavericks festival--including figures ranging from Duke Ellington to Frank Zappa--and provides a CD of performances and conversations with artists at the festival.