Robert McParland

A novel of mystery and suspense, The Last Alchemist points to the troubling reality of contemporary antisemitism and recalls the plight of the Second World War lebensborn. Young adults seek the mysteries of a man who has changed his name and hidden away on the Red Cat farm. They enter the mystery of his alchemy and the secrets of his past - and all that they portend for our future. 

Beyond Gatsby is a cultural history of America through American authors of the 1920s. The book has entered more than 1150 ibraries worldwide.

America's Favorite Bestselling Books across the past 100 years are discussed in this book.

Native Sons to King's Men: The Literary Landscape of the 1940s considers American culture in the 1940s and the key authors who contributed to the literary imagination of the period.

This book emphasizes the relevance of John Steinbeck's fiction and non-fiction for giving voice to the people in our contemporary society.

The international readers and lecture audiences of Mark Twain are examined in this book. 

The uses of science fiction in rock music are explored in this book.

This collection of essays on the intersection of modernist film and literature is available in libraries worldwide.

Through several sources including statistics, literary biography, newspapers, memoirs, diaries, letters, and interviews Charles Dickens's American Audience examines a historical time and an emerging national consciousness that defined the American identity before and after the Civil War. American voices present their views, tastes, emotional reactions and identifications, and deep attachment for Dickens’s characters, stories, themes, and sensibilities as well as for the author himself. Charles Dickens's American Audience has been recognized as a significant contribution to scholarship. The book is now available in more than 2000 library collections.

This book investigates how music played a role in the work of many modernist writers from James Joyce and T.S. Eliot,  to Virginia Woolf and James Weldon Johnson. Composers works are also examined.

“In the Nick of Time is a collection of stories that flow with humor, mystery, and the dangerous possibilities of imagination. With traces of empathy and irony, these stories explore human connections in a space between wakefulness and sleep, today and yesterday, that is reminiscent of The Twilight Zone.” 

This book offers a critical consideration of Joseph Conrad’s works: Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, “Youth,” “The Secret Sharer,” Under Western Skies, Victory. The author discusses Conrad’s works in sections on Themes, Characters, Philosophy, History and Context, Form and Genre. This book is intended for the general reader and for students working on writing about Conrad’s fiction. See Bloom’s Writing About series. Infobase/Chelsea House.