Questa serie offre un'immersione profonda in opere seminali della letteratura mondiale attraverso la lente di importanti studiosi letterari. Ogni volume si concentra su un singolo autore o testo, presentando una raccolta di saggi che esplorano diversi approcci interpretativi e prospettive critiche. Rappresenta una risorsa inestimabile per studenti, educatori e chiunque cerchi di approfondire la propria comprensione dei capolavori letterari.
Compared to the works of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, The House on Mango Street is made up of lyrical passages, interconnected vignettes, and meditations and observations that resemble prose poems. This book analyzes the work through critical essays, and features a bibliography, and notes on the contributing writers.
Presents critical essays that discuss the language, characters, plot, and major themes of the novel dealing with one man's memory of the fire-bombing of Dresden.
Cry the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its contemporaneity, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man.