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Charles Neider
First published in 1949, Kafka: His Mind and Art presents an extended analysis of the Kafka literature, with emphasis on its shortcomings and their effect on Kafka's vogue. This is…
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This anthology of 42 essays concentrates on the masters of world literature - writers best known for novels, plays and poems - and on how they put essays to their…
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A collection of perhaps, the ten finest short novels ever written including Melville, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Chekov, Kafka, D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce.
In one of the great autobiographies of the English language, Mark Twain recounts everything that ever happened to me, and a lot of things besides. Nothing ever happened to Mark…
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Forty-nine short stories, selected for their richness of detail, accurate depictions of human passion, and international scope, fill this collection.
Mark Twain’s hilarity and irreverence shine through in this impeccably chosen collection.
In Neider’s third tour of the Antarctic landscape he talks of the international stations in Antarctica and the goals they are working towards. He also devotes scrutiny to the international…
A stark and violent exploration of an American myth, this is a novel about the doomed gunslinger Billy the Kid.
Charles Neider,Clive Sinclair
Two compelling novellas explore the tensions and eruptive violence of human relationships.
Washington Irving
Edited by Charles Neider who provides an introduction to the tales by Irving along with a critical discussion of Irving’s life. Neider has collected all 61 of Irving’s tales which…
Mark Twain
Mark Twain is best known as a humourist and a novelist, but, as this collection confirms, he was also a fine essayist. English as She is Taught , What is…
Count Leo Tolstoy,Charles Neider
36 stories by one of the world’s masters of literature, Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a writer of power and originality, who penned such classics as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Weir of Hermiston. The…
