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Georgetown University professor George O'Brien provides the biographical background of the four masters of Irish literature and an in-depth analysis of their greatest works. O'Brien discusses the very qualities that set these works apart and the...
They were two of the most talented beauties Hollywood ever produced: the elegant Joan Crawford, a former chorus girl who shot through the ranks at MGM, and the brash, tempestuous Bette Davis, a Broadway star notorious for refusing to bow to the...
An Italian master's magnum opus about three generations of women, now in the first-ever unabridged English translation. Elsa Morante is one of the titans of twentieth-century literature--Natalia Ginzburg said she was the writer of her own...
When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post )--critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, New...