Tato série nabízí hluboký ponor do klíčových děl světové literatury prostřednictvím analýz předních literárních vědců. Každý svazek se zaměřuje na jednoho autora nebo dílo a představuje soubor esejů, které zkoumají různé interpretační přístupy a kritické perspektivy. Jedná se o neocenitelný zdroj pro studenty, pedagogy i každého, kdo si chce prohloubit porozumění literatuře.
Compared to the works of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, The House on Mango Street is made up of lyrical passages, interconnected vignettes, and meditations and observations that resemble prose poems. This book analyzes the work through critical essays, and features a bibliography, and notes on the contributing writers.
Presents critical essays that discuss the language, characters, plot, and major themes of the novel dealing with one man's memory of the fire-bombing of Dresden.
Cry the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its contemporaneity, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man.