”Literature is not innocent,” Bataille declares in the preface to this unique collection of literary profiles. “It is guilty and should admit itself so.” The word, the flesh, and the devil are explored by this extraordinary intellect in the work of eight

From the classical Greek and Roman dramatists to today's best-selling authors, Literature Lover's Companion showcases the lives and works of over 1,000 of the world's acclaimed masters of narrative, verse, and allegory. Writers of all eras, nationalities,

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"We are swinging high flying way up, higher than in real life.And when I look down, I see all the ordinary stuff -- our brick house, the porch the tool shed, the oil drum barbecue pit, the clothesline, the chinaberry tree.But they are all lit up from insi

When network executives travel back in time in order to broadcast the crucifixion of Christ, they find their plans complicated by a cyberpunk hacker intent on erasing Christianity with a computer virus. By the author of Myra Breckenridge. 75,000 first pri