Homer, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, is the earliest of Greek authors whose works survived. Both works are supreme models of epic poetry and have asserted a profound influence on the history of Western literature. This volume offers a complete critical portrait of Homer. This title, Homer, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of Homer through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on Homer, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
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John Barleycorn
John Barleycorn is an autobiographical novel by Jack London dealing with his enjoyment of and struggles with alcoholism. It was published in 1913. The title is taken from the British folksong "John Barleycorn".
Dr. Bloodmoney: or, How we got along after the bomb
This post-nuclear-holocaust masterpiece presents a mesmerizing vision of a world transformed, where technology has reverted back to the nineteenth century while mutations have given animals speech and humans telekinetic powers. The novel was published in 1965, and owed its title to the inspiration of Stanley Kubrick's film. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel.
Isle of the Dead is an SF published in 1969. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1969, and won the French Prix Apollo in 1972. The title refers to the several paintings by Swiss-German painter A. Böcklin. In the novel, Francis Sandow refers to “that mad painting by Boecklin, The Isle of the Dead.” Böcklin created at least five paintings with that title, each depicting an oarsman and a standing figure in a small boat, crossing dark water toward a forbidding island.
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A Pocket Full of Rye is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 9, 1953 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The book features her detective Miss Marple.
Like several of Christie’s novels (e.g. Hickory Dickory Dock, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe) the title and substantial parts of the plot reference a nursery rhyme, in this case, Sing a Song of Sixpence.
