Literature
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An Introduction to Literary StudiesIn this classic beginner's guide to English literature, Mario Klarer offers a concise and accessible discussion of central issues in the study of literary texts, looking at: definitions of key terms such as literature and text the genres of fiction, poetry, drama, and film...
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Death in VeniceClayton Koelb's masterful translation improves upon its predecessors in two ways: it renders Mann into American (not British) English, and it remains true to Mann's original text without sacrificing fluency. For American readers, this is the translation of choice. "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes Mann's...
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The Little Norton Reader: 50 Essays from the First 50 Years, with 2016 MLA UpdateThe Little Norton Reader presents 50 essays from the first 50 years of The Norton Reader, classics like the "Letter from Birmingham Jail" along with newer favorites such as "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" and "Fun Home." Its small size makes it portable, and...
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Cultural Cohesion: The Essential Essays, 1968-2002Six years after the much-heralded publication of Cultural Amnesia, Clive James presents his "prequel"--forty-nine essays that he has selected as the best of his half-century career. Originally appearing as As of This Writing, Cultural Cohesion examines the twisted cultural terrain of the twentieth century...
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Horace's Satires and EpistlesEarly in his life, and again in maturity, Horace sought to turn his poetic skills to the uses of moral and aesthetic discussion in the series of didactic works translated here. In the Satires, Horace adopts one persona after another, each of which reduces...
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Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian LiteratureThe reputation of the Victorian age in England has undergone many vicissitudes, but it is now higher than ever. In this important study, Richard D. Altick moves us toward an understanding of the social, intellectual, and theological crises that Carlyle and Dickens, Tennyson and...
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The Complete Fairy Tales and StoriesThis definitive collection of work from Hans Christian Andersen--one of the immortals of world literature--not only includes his own notes to his stories but is the only version available in trade paperback that presents Andersen's fairy tales exactly as he collected them in the...
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Fanny Hill: Or, Memoirs of a Woman of PleasureFanny Hill, shrouded in controversy for most of its more than 250-year life, and banned from publication in the United States until 1966, was once considered immoral and without literary merit, even earning its author a jail sentence for obscenity. The tale of a...
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The Last of the MohicansAuthor: James Fenimore CooperPublisher: Modern LibraryPublished: 06/12/2001Pages: 400Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 8.02h x 5.16w x 0.86dISBN: 9780375757648Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 12Point Value: 32Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 710 / Last of the Mohicans (Unabridged)About the AuthorLeslie Fiedler is Samuel Clemens Professor and SUNY Distinguished Professor...
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The Turn of the Screw & in the CageThis Modern Library Paperback Classics edition brings together one of literature's most famous ghost stories and one of Henry James's most unusual novellas. In The Turn of the Screw, a governess is haunted by ghosts from her young charges past; Virginia Woolf said of...
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Ethan Frome & SummerA pair of masterly short novels, featuring an introduction by Elizabeth Strout, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Anything Is Possible and My Name Is Lucy Barton Thought Edith Wharton is best known for her cutting contemplation of fashionable New York, Ethan Frome and Summer...
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The Arabian Nights: Introduction by Wen-Chin OuyangThe most famous of all story collections, The Arabian Nights, also known as The Book of the Thousand and One Nights, is beloved around the world. Composed of Persian, Arabic, Greek, Indian, and other sources that accumulated over hundreds of years, these fabulous stories-within-stories...
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The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory LossJonathan Lethem is perhaps our most active literary voice mining the genre margins of our culture. In this unique collection he creates an anthology that no one else could. He draws on the work of such unforgettables as Julio Cortazar, who presents a man...
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Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997-2019The definitive collection of literary essays by The New Yorker's award-winning longtime book criticEver since the publication of his first essay collection, The Broken Estate, in 1999, James Wood has been widely regarded as a leading literary critic of the English-speaking world. His essays...
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Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy TalesFascinating profiles of modern writers and artists who tapped the political potential of fairy tales Jack Zipes has spent decades as a "scholarly scavenger," discovering forgotten fairy tales in libraries, flea markets, used bookstores, and internet searches, and he has introduced countless readers to...
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Good-Bye, Mr. ChipsMr. Hilton's classic story of an English schoolmaster.Author: James HiltonPublisher: Little Brown and CompanyPublished: 01/01/1962Pages: 132Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.65dISBN: 9780316364201Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 6.5Point Value: 3Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 12785 / Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
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Black Mischief"A hilarious and still timely tale of emerging Africa and declining England" (Time), Evelyn Waugh's third novel helped to establish his reputation as a mater satirist. "We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way." When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds...
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What the Dog Saw: And Other AdventuresThe bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience in this "delightful" (Bloomberg News) collection of writings from The New Yorker. What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why...
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Hard TimesThe shortest of Charles Dickens's novels, Hard Times is also his most pointed and impassioned satire of social injustice. Set in Coketown, a fictional industrial town in the north of England, Hard Times was born of its author's indignation at the soul-crushing conditions of...
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Lolita (Spanish Edition)Lolita, la m s famosa y controversial novela de Vladimir Nabokov, cuenta la historia de la obsesi n devoradora del cuarent n Humbert Humbert por la n nfula Dolores Haze. Ternura y fascinaci n --adem s de tristeza y un humor mordaz-- llenan sus...
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