Literacy Criticism from Sorensen Books : Your Vancouver Island Bookshop

'A series of aphorism which Huston sometimes leaves in their striking simplicity and sometimes develops with subtle reasoning.' … Read more

This is a page-by-page guide to Ulysses designed to help the student and the general reader to find their way quickly bout Joyce's formidable novel. The guide will enable someone approaching Joyce for the first time to reach an understanding of Ulysses hwich, without help, it might have taken several readings to arrive at. 244 pages.

Contents: Key; Introduction; Outline of the Odyssey; Outline of Ulysses; An informal Comparison; Ulysses, Agenbite of Inwit; 90 pages.

Madeleine L'Engle has been 'serving the work' for decades, bringing words of insight and delight to thousands of readers of all ages. In this volume you will find hundreds of this celebrated author's most illuminating statements about writing, creativity, and the writing life, including material for her workshops and speeches that has never been published before.378 pages.

'A book with such universal appeal that even the most entrenched Hellenaphobe will find it irresistible...Beautifully written, it is nothing short of a joy to read. The Greek had a genius for articulating life's biggest and moast incomprehensible sorrows aesthetically - as Vermeule's work not only demonstrates, but also exemplifies.' … Read more

The author has ordered the quotations under themes, dipping into all of Jane Austen's novels for apt comments on particular subject, among them the battle of the sexes, sorrow and joy, town and country, the gaining of wisdom, and our moral duty.

A collection of 50 articles taken from the Independent on Sunday and the Washington Post.