Encounter the opening passage to this fiction novel by Iain Pears.
Offers a slice of this Dale Peck novel about violence and prejudice in small town America.
Thriller set in a racially divided Kansas town earns a laudatory New York Times review that compares it to works by Faulkner, McCullers, and O'Connor. Hear an excerpt.
Scott Peck's official page offers a guide to his books, a biography of the author, and excerpts from lectures he's given.
Contains information on the author of "Seal Child," plus a mailing list. Write Ms. Peck via email or letters and receive a reply.
Writer's bestselling self-help series, "Family Manager," offers home-management tips for working parents. Sign up for the mailing list.
Supplies two representative poems by the author and links to the poetry indexes of the University of Toronto.
Find an encyclopedia entry for Charles Peguy, a Catholic French poet whose works include "The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc."
Catholic and socialist, poet and polemicist, founder and editor of "Les Cahiers de la Quinzaine," or "Fortnightly Notebooks," Peguy is discussed. Includes an print.
Scroll down to a famous quotation from the great French Catholic writer, polemicist, poet, and Dreyfusard, active just before WWI.
Read this essay by the French author, poet, and editor, translated by Ann and Julian Green. From the Catholic Information Network, or CIN.
Furnishes an excerpt from Peguy's long poem, "The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc," translated from the French, and titled "A Curse on War."
Roger Kimball presents an essay about the French poet and controversialist on the occasion of the publication of "Temporal and Eternal," translated by Alexander Dru.
Read an English translation, by Julian Green, of Peguy's poem. From the Catholic Information Network, or CIN.
Find several quotations from the Catholic socialist essayist and poet who died in the opening days of the First World War.
Home page for the author of the Angie Amalfi series of culinary mystery novels, including information about her, her books and her recipes.
Find an encyclopedia entry for Thomas Percy, an English poet best known for editing "Reliques of Ancient English Poetry."
Percy collected ballads, sonnets, and historical songs from C15th to C18th in his "Reliques of Ancient English Poetry."
The poet tries his hand at wooing by means of suicide threats. To find out more, link to the commentary.
Twenty sonnets to the Fairest Coelia by William Percy are reproduced without line numbers. Percy called them "toys and amorous devices."
Find an encyclopedia entry for Benito Perez Galdoz, a distinguished Spanish author whose works include "Episodios nacionales" and "Mariucha."
Explore background on the Spanish mystery author's works through a bibliography, reviews and an author bio.
Find an encyclopedia entry for American editor Maxwell Perkins, who helped start the careers of numerous famous American writers.
Find an encyclopedia entry for Charles Perrault, a French writer famous for his collection "Stories or Tales from Olden Times."
Sample the novel by Marta Perry, and follow a link to her homepage.
Read a scholarly review of this book which is about a fundamentalist Christian school. Includes commentary about the social issues pertaining to alternative education.
Find an encyclopedia entry for the Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist Julia Peterkin, author of "Scarlet Sister Mary" and "Black April."
Find an encyclopedia entry for the Hungarian poet Sandor Petofi, whose works include "Rise, Magyar" and "Janos the Hero."
Find an encyclopedia entry for Petronius Arbiter, a Roman writer believed to be the author of "Satyricon."