n ancient creation tales of Indian tribes of the American Northwest, nasawaylu, Old Man Coyote,
was the spirit who finished the world started by the Supreme Being. A master of animals, holy person, and trickster, nasawaylu sometimes bestowed special gifts ...
John Smith is an imminent historian, secure in his well-paid position as an endowed professor
at a major university. Any day he expects a favorable reply to his application for a residency at the Villa Sfrondata, a foundation-supported colony for ...
Victorian writer Frances Trollope has largely been relegated to a mere footnote in literary history
as simply the mother of Anthony. Equally unfortunate is that, aside from her nonfiction work Domestic Manners of the Americans, her 34 novels have been ...
“A stellar debut . . . about an unconventional family, fear, hatred, violence, chasing love,
losing it and finding it again just when we need it most.”—The New York Times Book Review WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK AWARD • ...
Known as Madame de Villedieu, Marie-Catherine Desjardins (ca. 1640-83) was a prolific writer who played
an important role in the evolution of the early modern French novel. One of the earliest women to write for a living, she defied cultural ...
Novel horizons analyses how narrative prose fiction developed during the English Restoration. It argues that
after 1660, generic changes within dramatic texts occasioned an intense debate within prologues and introductions. This discussion about the poetics of a genre was echoed ...
How do novels get their start? The answers to that question often prove as varied
as the authors who create them. In Novel Ideas: Fantasy, seven of the genre's most talented tellers of tale are represented by eight masterful short ...
The nightmare continues . . . After rescuing her father and friends from Hell of
all places, Evie is forced to make good on her bargain with the Lord of the Underworld—who by the way isn’t Satan! Her midnight excursions ...