An innovative collection of essays examining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualitiesFollowing the golden age of British Gothic in the late eighteenth century, the American Gothic’s pinnacle is often recognized as having taken place during the decades of American Romanticism. However, Haunting Realities explores the period of American Realism—the end of...

In The Ecological Thought, eco-philosopher Timothy Morton has argued for the inclusion of “dark ecology” in our thinking about nature. Dark ecology, he argues, puts hesitation, uncertainty, irony, and thoughtfulness back into ecological thinking.” The ecological thought, he says, should include “negativity and irony, ugliness and horror.” Focusing on this concept of “dark ecology” and its invitation to add an anti-pastoral perspective to ecocriticism, this collection of essays on American ...

Dearest Kitty is a non-fiction book of letters written from a sailor, Elbert "Bert" Judkins, to his girl back home, Kathryn "Kitty" Kimzey during World War II. Kathryn kept all Bert's letters their entire married life and when Bert passed away in 2008, she got them out and began reading them. She worked for several years compiling them into manuscript format adding bits of her life, history, thoughts and feelings between the letters. Kathryn passed away in 2012 without seeing her manuscrip...

Die amerikanischen Klassiker, die jeder Mensch in seinem Leben erleben sollte – in dieser Sammlung finden Sie die wahren Meisterwerke der Literatur: die großen Abenteuerromane und Reiseberichte, die meisterhaften Klassiker des Horrors, die einflussreichen psychologischen und philosophischen Werke sowie die gesellschaftskritischen Romane von bleibender Bedeutung: Grashalme (Walt Whitman) Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) Bartleby, der Schreiber (Herman Melville) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Über ...

Saleem, Trey, Bruce and Shymire are four teenagers that are fed up with living a penniless lifestyle. Together they decide their only way to escape poverty and get lots of money is to enter the lucrative drug trade in the city of Pittsburgh.In their quest to take over the entire city, the four knew they will have to set examples out of people to let the streets know they’re not to be played with even if it meant starting a war with the most ruthless drug lord in the city.Will...

A Franny és Zooey két hosszabb történet egy testvérpárról. Franny, a végzős kollégista egy hétvégén barátjával találkozik, és az összeomlás határára kerül, annyira elégedetlen a fiúval, önmagával és általában az élettel.Bátyja, Zooey, a tévében szereplő színész ez után a katasztrofális hétvége után a maga érzékeny módján megpróbálja megvigasztalni, s ennek történetét bátyjuk, Buddy (Salinger alteregója) írja meg.A kötet a nagy virtuális Salinger-regény, a soha el nem készült...