This magisterial book radiates gratitude for the constancy and benevolence of God’s abiding faith in Creation.

The first collection of essays from America's most revered literary critic--incisive, accessible, and passionately written.

Presents excerpts on the subject of religion from the writings of such notable non-believers as John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, Albert Einstein, Richard Dawkins, and Salman Rushdie.

Shylock, the cunning moneylender in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, is one of the great familiar figures of the world of drama. He is also one of the most controversial characters ever conceived. Photos.

Mostly chronological, the book makes extensive use of Twain's works and, often neglected in such studies on Twain, the Bible, his most important literary source.

Presents John Milton's epic poem, which chronicles man's fall from grace and Satan's rebellion against God. A biblically annotated edition.

This work is a major contribution to the study of Dostoevsky and Russian Literature in Europe, the USA, Russia and throughout the world.

In Herman Melville's iconic novel Moby Dick (Complete Unabridged Edition), readers are immersed in the harrowing tale of Captain Ahab's obsessive quest for revenge against the elusive white whale, Moby Dick.

Stemming from Harvard University's Carl Newell Jackson Lectures, Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood's Tragedy and Athenian Religion sets out a radical reexamination of the relationship between Greek tragedy and religion.

Verlyn Flieger's expanded and updated edition of Splintered Light, a classic study of Tolkien's fiction first published in 1983, examines The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings in light of Owen Barfield's linguistic theory of the ...