In The Kite Runner, history and personal responsibility come together in the story of Amir, an Afghan boy who is haunted by the guilt of betraying his childhood friend Hassan, the son of his father’s servant. In the background loom the many tumultuous changes that have gripped Afghanistan in the years since Amir’s carefree kite-flying childhood. From the fall of the monarchy through the Sov…
In a single, informative volume, One Hundred Years of Solitude presents a helpful literary guide to Gabriel García Márquez's famous epic. This multigenerational tale tells the story of one family's struggle to cope with their once insular town becoming less isolated as it faces the challenges of modernization. Filled with both beauty and tragedy, Márquez's book has become representative of m…
In a single, engaging volume, The Great Gatsby presents a helpful literary guide to one of America's most prized classic novels. First published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby captured the spirit of the Jazz Age and examined the American obsession with love, wealth, material objects, and class. Considered one of the great novels of the 20th century, Fitzgerald's famous work rem…
Editor Harold Bloom cites the literary origins of Gabriel García Márquez as “Faulkner, crossed by Kafka.” A Colombian writer and Nobel Prize winner, Márquez is best known for his novels One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. In this updated edition, Bloom's Modern Critical Views presents a balanced portrait of the author and journalist through an examination of hi…
In a series that presents a selection of the best current criticism on the most widely read and studied poems, novels and dramas of the Western world, each title offers a collection of cohesive essays on a groundbreaking literary masterpiece along with an illuminating introduction by the editor, a detailed chronology, a bibliography and an index.
Macbeth is William Shakespeare's stark tale of a tormented nobleman driven to pursue a murderous plot by his ambition to usurp the throne of Scotland. The tautly constructed tragedy is a ruthlessly economic drama, marked by a continuous eloquence that is astonishing even for Shakespeare. This new edition of the Scottish play features full-length critical essays suited for in-depth study by high…
"Students preparing research papers and students boning up for class will reach eagerly for these well-designed additions to accessible literary criticism..." "Each attractive volume presents recent essays by noted critics who examine in detail aspects of a single literary work...Highly recommended for academic collections." Since its publication in 1967, One Hundred Years of Solitude has sol…
"Students preparing research papers and students boning up for class will reach eagerly for these well-designed additions to accessible literary criticism for high school students." An inquiry into the meaning of the American Dream, Death of a Salesman is Arthur Miller's most famous play and won him a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award. "Attention must be paid" to its lead character, Willy Loman …