Some of the greatest works of literature have wrestled with the task of illuminating the human experience of death. This new title discusses the role of death and dying in works such as Beloved, A Farewell to Arms, Lord of the Flies, Paradise Lost, and many others. Featuring approximately 20 essays, Death and Dying provides valuable insights on this recurring theme in literature.

Contains twenty critical essays that explore themes of the grotesque in various works, such as Voltaire's "Candide," Shelley's "Frankenstein," "Gogol's "The Overcoat," and Kafka's "The Metamorphosis."

A collection of nineteen critical essays that explore the role of the labyrinth in various works of literature, including "The Garden of Forking Paths," "Metamorphoses," "Ulysses," and others.

Writers discussed include Edward Abbey, Ansel Adams, Mary Austin, William Bartram, Jim Battles, William Beebe, Wendell Berry, Henry Beston, Albert Bierstadt, Sally Carrighar, Rachel Carson, Frederic Church, Thomas Cole, Charles Darwin, Annie Dillard, Loren Eiseley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, W.H. Hudson, George Inness, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Jeffries, Clarence King, Aldo Leopold, Barry Lopez, George Perkins Marsh, N. Scott Momaday, John Muir, Pliny the...

The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of...