Considered one of the greatest American novelists of the 20th century, Ernest Hemingway composed many classic works, including 'The Sun Also Rises', 'For Whom the Bell Tolls', and 'A Farewell to Arms', earning the Nobel Prize in Literature for his efforts. This new edition also appraises Hemingway's acclaimed short fiction, such as 'Hills Like White Elephants' and 'The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber'. This new volume features a brand-new selection of critical essays about Hemingway, examining the author and his works. A bibliography, chronology, and index are boons to student researchers, and literature professor Harold Bloom offers his insight in the title's introductory essay.

Henry VIII - The King and His Court

Contemporary observers described the young king in glowing terms. At over six feet tall, with rich auburn hair, clear skin, and a slender waist, he was, to many, "the handsomest prince ever seen." From this starting point in Henry VIII, the King and His Court, biographer extraordinare Alison Weir reveals a Henry VIII far different from the obese, turkey-leg gnawing, womanizing tyrant who has gone down in history. Henry embodied the Renaissance ideal of a man of many talents--musician, composer, linguist, scholar, sportsman, warrior--indeed, the Dutch humanist Erasmus (not a man inclined to flattery) declared him a "universal genius."

Teddy Bear Redwork

Teddy Bear Redwork: 25 Fresh, New Designs, Step-by-Step Projects, Quilts and More

English | 45 pages

In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden

Kathleen Cambor - In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden

In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden is the story of a bittersweet romance set against the backdrop of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, flood -- a tragedy that cost some 2,200 lives when the South Fork Dam burst on Memorial Day weekend, 1889. The dam was the site of a gentlemen's club that attracted some of the wealthiest industrialists of the day -- Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Mellon, and Andrew Carnegie -- and served as a summertime idyll for the families of the rich. In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden imagines the lives that were lived, lost, and irreparably changed by a tragedy that could have been averted.

Germaine de Stael, George Sand and the Victorian Woman Artist

By examining literary portraits of the woman as artist, Linda M. Lewis traces the matrilineal inheritance of four Victorian novelists and poets: George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Geraldine Jewsbury and Mrs Humphrey Ward. She argues that while the male Romantic artist saw himself as a god and hero, the women of genius lacked a guiding myth until Germaine de Stael and George Sand created one. The protagonists of Staels "Corinne" and Sand's "Consuelo" combine attributes of the goddess Athena, the Virgin Mary, Virgil's Sibyl and Dante's Beatrice.