Columbia University professor Liza Knapp delivers lectures on the lives, times, and most important works of four great Russian authors. 2006.

Canada's renowned literary critic and theorist analyses the Bible as the single most important influence in the imaginative tradition of Western art and literature. 1982.

A study of how the literature of espionage compares with its actual practice, written by a former CIA officer. Hitz… (Show full summary)

Contains all of Page's classic poems, as well as several unpublished poems. Includes two short essays on poetry. 1985.

Meyer shows how all the greats - Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare and numerous other classic writers - are still… (Show full summary)

This collection of Davies' non-fiction writing, culled from four decades of dialogues, diaries and sketches, gives his views of people, literature, and himself. 1979.

Frye's entries contain self-analysis and self-revelation, as well as humour, dark moods and claustrophobia, and some self-congratulating. They also serve… (Show full summary)

This text provides information on: how to provide and achieve complete satisfaction; enjoying, exploring and refreshing a loving sexual relationship;… (Show full summary)

Hardwick alternates the life and times of Arthur Conan Doyle with the history of Holmes, summarizing the stories' plots. Includes… (Show full summary)

The best selection of George Orwell's non-fiction available, a trove of letters, essays, reviews, and journalism. 1970.

Margaret Atwood considers the Canadian literary landscape of the 1960s to be like the Burgess Shale, a geological formation that… (Show full summary)

Dr. Frye has collected all his essays on Canadian writing and painting which he believes are of permanent value. Includes… (Show full summary)

A personal account of the author's mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other… (Show full summary)

Identifies the role our hormones play in the different sexual stages, exploring the age-old concept of chemistry between the sexes… (Show full summary)

The author, who is an instructor of "prepared childbirth" known as the Lamaze technique, has put together a book of happy experiences from the new parents she has taught. 1970.

From the author of "The seven habits of highly effective people" (DC30225) and father of nine, a method of achieving… (Show full summary)

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Originally published in 1972, Atwood's book redefined what made this country's literature unique in a landscape dominated by its British… (Show full summary)

A collection of essays, anecdotes, travel pieces, and criticism by Canadian poet Al Purdy. The pieces are divided into essays… (Show full summary)

Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet… (Show full summary)