Rising sophomore Travis and his best friend, Creature, spend a summer in a Eugene, Oregon, trailer park dealing with cancer, basketball, first love, addiction, gang violence, and a reptilian infestation.

In these eleven in-depth essays, drawn from the award-winning reference work Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, an international cast of experts provides essential information and fresh perspectives on this...

(Australian) A lonely prostitute becomes romantically involved with a married bookshop owner. Eventually, her new-found love gives her the strength and courage to begin a new life for herself. AFI...

The main aim of this text is to advance a method devised through experience of teaching Chaucer's poetry over many years. The method is explained in the introduction, and its underlying objective is a shared experience of reading,...

A collection of essays on medieval literature and culture. It reflects the erosion of the traditional, rigid boundary between medieval and early modern literature. It explores the extent to which medieval literature is in dialogue...

Peter Brown's study examines the factors which proved decisive and the compromises which made the emergence of the Christian 'thought world' possible: how the old gods of the Roman Empire could be reinterpreted as symbols to...