Lynd Ward's Wordless Novels, 1929-1937

Anne Tyler's novels strike a deep chord of responsiveness in her readers because her novels bring to life contemporary characters to whom we can instantly relate and in whose exper...

One of the most prolific and popular contemporary novelists, Stephen King has a devoted following of captivated readers. This is the first critical work on King to examine his most...

This chapter focuses on the cult of Micky Ward, the boxer from Lowell, Massachusetts, whose story is told in the 2010 film The Fighter. The cult of Micky Ward, rooted in the Boston...

Ken Follett had the purest of motives when he began writing fiction: he did it for the money. But after ^IEye of the Needle^R catapulted him to success and secured his reputation a...

The book features novels by contemporary Afghan-American novelist Khaled Hosseini. The main goal of the work is to show the significance of Hosseini’s literary heritage in the cont...