Greetings. Hodge & Braddock, Publishers, is a small press featuring four select books by Ronald L. Ecker.
Three of the books have been college-course adoptions, and the fourth title has been a widely used reference work.
All four are available (one in a screenplay version) for reading online.
Below are descriptions of the books with links.
The Canterbury TalesA complete modern-English translation by Ecker and Chaucer scholar Eugene J. Crook of Geoffrey Chaucer's 15th-century masterpiece. The review journal Choice wrote of the Ecker and Crook translation, "It is difficult to imagine anyone doing a better job." The book was adopted in over 100 college and university literature courses. The complete translation can now be read online. You may want to start here to learn more about Chaucer's classic and this distinguished translation.
The Evolutionary TalesWhether you want to understand the creation/evolution debate, simply be entertained, or both, read The Evolutionary Tales: Rhyme and Reason on Creation/Evolution, with Apologies to Chaucer and Darwin. This light verse on origins is in the form of a Chaucer parody. It's a serious work, though, that was adopted in courses at DePaul University, Miami of Ohio, and Arkansas-Monticello. You're invited to learn more about it, and read the online edition.
And Adam Knew EveBiblical sexuality, from the lovemaking of Adam and Eve to the book of Revelation's depiction of imperial Rome as a harlot on a scarlet beast, is given A to Z coverage in And Adam Knew Eve: A Dictionary of Sex in the Bible. Recommended by American Reference Books Annual, this work includes index, bibliography, and fine-art reproductions. Click here to learn more about it, or proceed to the online edition.
Night of the Dragon's BloodA comic first novel by William Pridgen (an Ecker pen name) featuring Eva Perón and Adolf Hitler as vampires. Learn more about this off-the-wall thriller (adopted for the laughs in a course on Hitler at Ithaca College), and enjoy the unproduced screenplay version online.
And Adam Knew Eve | The Canterbury Tales | The Evolutionary Tales
Night of the Dragon's Blood
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