In this book the author reveals a tapestry woven by Christopher Tolkien from different portions o...

Founder of the detective genre and author of works on cryptography, Edgar Allan Poe possessed wha...

Western missionaries in China often considered themselves 'voluntary exiles' in a distant land, w...

Zen and the White Whale: A Buddhist Rendering of Moby-Dickexamines how Herman Melville's Moby-Dic...

A Quaker Goes to Spain is a multifaceted historical narrative. It recounts in detail a unique but...

This bookpresents Jane Austen as a self-conscious artist, a woman keenly aware that literature an...

The essays in this collection were originally presented as talks at the Poe Studies Association's...

In this legislative autobiography Franklin L. Kury tells the story about his election to the Penn...

Franz Kafka is among the most significant 20th century voices to examine the absurdity and terror...

The first book-length study of China's Catholic martyr saints, this work recounts the cultural, r...

Robert J. Houle examines the history of faith among colonial Zulu Christians (known as amaKholwa,...

John Updike’s Early Years reveals for the first time the young Updike’s developing personality an...