Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Robert Frost.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of John Steinbeck.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Langston Hughes.

In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a girl who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear ... This sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman ; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author; a wealth of critical...

The most important words ever written are the Ten Commandments. These words changed the world when they were first presented at Mt. Sinai to Israelites, and they are changing it now. They are the foundation stones of Western Civilization. Given their staggering importance, you would think that all societies, and certainly our educational and religious institutions, would be intent on studying them closely. Sadly, this is not the case. Our schools...

Examines the life and career of nineteenth-century American artist John Singer Sargent, looking at his oil portraits, watercolors, and murals, and includes over three hundred illustrations in color and black-and-white.

This collection of the lyrical, narrative, and dramatic poetry published by Yeats from 1889 to 1939 incorporates his own final revisions as well as textual changes resulting from the study of his manuscripts.