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As Eric Carl Link writes in his introduction to this volume in the Critical Insights series, Red Badge is much more than a war novel - it is a drama of the human psyche, a pinnacle of American naturalism and impressionism, a precursor to modernism, and a brilliant comment on the relations between human beings and our universe.

Edited and with an introduction by Don Noble, this volume in the Critical Insights series brings together a variety of classic and contemporary essays on this American author. Countering some of the more severe criticisms leveled against Steinbeck, Noble's introduction argues that readers have good reason to respect the Nobel laureate's accomplishments.

This volume in the Critical Insights series collects a variety of old and new essays on Fitzgerald and continues the work of rehabilitating his reputation and re-examining his work.

Perhaps no figure is more central to the myth and promise of America than Benjamin Franklin. A true Renaissance man, Franklin conducted scientific experiments, wrote political satires and treatises, and is credited with numerous inventions. This title examines several facets of America's most famous polymath.

Widely celebrated during his lifetime as the greatest living American poet, Robert Frost remains one of the few poets whose work is enjoyed by scholars and general readers alike. This title presents discussions of his life and works.

Garcia Marquez, a trained journalist, made his indelible mark on literature with the 1967 publication of ""One Hundred Years of Solitude"" which heralded what was later dubbed ""El Boom"", the Latin American literary movement that came to define Latin American literature. This title presents discussions of his life and works.

Presents an array of scholarship on a novel that is becoming a modern classic, Amy Tan's ""The Joy Luck Club"". This title emphasizes the artistic excellence of Tan's text. It features Critical Contexts section that presents four survey essays that provide the reader with a useful framework for studying Tan's novel.

A collection of essays examining the short stories and life of the 19th century American writer Edgar Allan Poe. Presenting some of the best of a broad range of critical perspectives from the psychoanalytical to the postcolonial, it offers an introduction to Poe's tales and the critical conversation surrounding them.

Representing a variety of critical approaches, this collection focuses on one of the most widely taught works of American literature - ""Gatsby"". It explores the deceptive simplicity of the plot and the complex underpinnings of what makes the novel a true masterpiece.

Nathaniel Hawthorne remains one of the most studied authors in the English language. This volume in the ""Critical Insights"" series brings together some of the high points of the last half-decade of Hawthorne criticism. It offers a suitable starting point for those interested in studying this 19th century American literary master.

Poets examined include Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Chaucer, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Wordsworth and Yeats. New to this edition are Leonard Cohen, Christopher Logue and Harold Pinter.

Provides comprehensive coverage of the questions of global warming and climate change, including scientific descriptions and explanations of all factors, from carbon dioxide to sunspots, that might contribute to climate change.

A reference work built around individual events in agricultural history. It presents 150 essays on the rise and development of agriculture throughout the world. It encompasses various aspects of human cultivation of food and fiber crops and the raising of poultry and livestock for human use.

Features 409 essays covering 413 individual inventors (including 27 women) from all time, worldwide. This work takes into account their fame as inventors, the significance of their inventions, the amount of time they spent inventing, their representation of world inventors, and their relevance to class curricula.

Features individuals who are musically classified in categories, including Arrangers (Burt Bacharach and Marvin Hamlisch), Bandleaders (Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller), Hip-Hop Musicians (LL Cool J and Tupac Shakur), Jazz Musicians (Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie), and Rock Musicians (Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix).

Emphasises on sports that are popular in North America. This book also covers sports and athletes from other parts of the world. This book contains articles each of which is divided into four sections that cover the athlete's life and achievements chronologically.

Emphasises on sports that are popular in North America. This four-volume set features 472 athletes who excel in sports associated with the Summer and Winter Olympics.

Emphasises on sports that are popular in North America. Covering a wide variety of topics, this volume includes BMX, auto, horse and boat racing, bowling, chess, cricket, lacrosse, martial arts, rodeo, sailing, sumo wrestling, and yachting.

Profiles golf figures that include Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Tiger Woods. This book also profiles tennis figures that include Jimmy Connors, Billie Jean King and Venus and Serena Williams.

Emphasises on sports that are popular in North America. This book also covers sports and athletes from other parts of the world. It covers athletes' life and achievements chronologically. It features 'Early Life' that covers athletes' family background, early education, introduction to sports, and other formative experiences.

Emphasises on sports that are popular in North America. This title also covers over 200 of the greatest players in college and pro football, including the inspirational stories of Pat Tillman and Tedy Bruschi.

Features a combination of biography and critical analysis, covering major writers from outside the United States and their significant works in fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction. This title offers profiles of major authors of fiction, drama, poetry, and essays, each with sections on biography, and general analysis.

Presents biographical sketches and analytical overviews of 145 of the best-known American and Canadian writers of long fiction from the 19th and 20th centuries, arranged alphabetically by name. This volume surveys the novelists, whose works are included in core curricula of high school and undergraduate literature studies.

Presents critical essays on important women and men in various areas of achievement, and from around the world, who flourished between 1901 and 2000. This set offers more than 1,300 biographies of major personages in world history from 1901-2000.

Contains 1,112 essays on more than 1,100 world events between 1941 and 1970. This work includes historical maps and a keyword list of contents, an additional 84 maps, as well as 235 quotations from primary source documents, lists, and time lines as well as a bibliography, list of URL's and websites, and a chronological list of entries.

Spans human history from ancient times. This title is a six-volume set, which offers coverage of 1,083 events between 1971 and 2000. It also covers the curriculum-oriented geopolitical events of the era. It includes essays which address social and cultural developments in daily life.

Organizes coverage of world events chronologically. Including 1,036 arranged essays, this title brings up the world's most important events and developments in the forty years that included World War I and led up to World War II, from 1901 through 1940 - an average of 26 events per year.

Covering a range of areas of achievement, this title features a worldwide focus that includes coverage of non-Europeans and women. It talks about major world leaders, as well as the giants of religious faith: philosophers, educators, heads of state and religious leaders who left their imprint on political, as well as spiritual institutions.