Baseball: A Literary Anthology
It's one of the great American pastimes... but it's not often linked to literary endeavors. In this collection, Nicholas Dawidoff brings together literary pieces about baseball.
Bram Stoker's Dracula
This book is a great resource if you are a student, looking for influences, context or substantiation. It's also useful for teachers, who are looking for ideas that will make "Dracula" come to life for students.
Brave New World
In a futuristic society based on pleasure without moral reprucussions, Aldous Huxley places a few oddball characters to stir up the plot. With eugenics at its core, this novel harkens back to Shakespeare's "The Tempest," where Miranda say, "O brave new world, that hath such people in it."
Breath of Parted Lips, The
Some of the greatest legacies left to us by great writers are the places they've left behind. The houses they lived in, the pubs or public places they visited... all of these localities seem to tell us something about the writer and their works.
Browser's Ecstasy
In "The Browser's Ecstasy," O'Brien explores the experience of reading. He both celebrates and laments the history of books, recognizing that "books die, disappear, are made to disappear: that certainty is the shadow side of reading."
