Literature
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Historical Dictionary of American Cinema, Second EditionOne of the most powerful forces in world culture, American cinema has a long and complex history that stretches through more than a century. This history not only includes a legacy of hundreds of important films but also the evolution of the film industry...
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The FoolThe year is 1877 and the Ottoman Empire is embroiled in war. A young man escapes a crumbling fortress during a military siege. Disguising himself as a jester, he entertains the enemy camp before disappearing into the night. He sets out on a passionate...
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The Ancient Wisdom: The Physical, Mental and Astral Planes, Karma, and Buddhist Reincarnation in the Spiritual Lore of TheosophyAnnie Besant brings readers on a journey through the planes of existence, explaining the interplay of the physical reality we perceive and the spiritual planes beyond our perception.By quoting ancient documents of Buddhism and Taoism, Besant describes the composition and processes of the mysterious...
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The Last Glacier at the End of the WorldThe poems in The Last Glacier at the End of the World act as glacial bandings marking time and place, imagining a near future in the Anthropocene. Humans, animals, and ice share characteristics, and science and myth animate a symbiotic indigenous worldview. Ultimately, the...
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The Color of Books: 8 Bright Notebooks; 160 Reading RecommendationsRead the rainbow with The Color of Books, a stylized collection of eight blank notebooks that evoke the full spectrum of color, as represented by 160 different must-read books. Each brightly hued notebook cover in The Color of Books features a diverse and inclusive...
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Living with WolvesWhat is possible when people learn to listen not only to each other, but also to the wolves? On a remote island in British Columbia, the wolves are back. After this island had its own "war on wolves," by the 1970s, the whole population...
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The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth CenturyA revelatory history of twentieth-century poetry by prize-winning poet and memoirist John Burnside Poetry helps us to make sense of our world, transforming what the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam called the "noise of time" into a kind of music. The Music of Time is...
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Charles Dickens: Nicholas NicklebyAn illustrated adaptation of Charles Dickens's Victorian classic - at an easy-to-read level for readers of all ages!Kate and Nicholas Nickelby's life is bliss until their father dies. After that they're left penniless, living in London with only their horrible uncle to help them....
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Yesterday's Tomorrows: The Story of Science Fiction in 100 BooksFrom the enrapturing tales of H. G. Wells to the punishing dystopian visions of 1984 and beyond, the evolution of science fiction from the 1890s to the 1960s is a fascinating journey to undertake. Setting out this span of years as what we can...
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Worldbuilding For Fantasy Fans And AuthorsMillions of fantasy worlds have been made, but does yours have what it takes to make millions?Drawing from authors like J. R. R. Tolkien, Brandon Sanderson, N. K. Jemisin, Orson Scott Card, Ursula Le Guin, Neil Gaiman, and Steven Erikson, plus his years in...
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The Gulf South: An Anthology of Environmental WritingThe first collection of environmental writing about the Gulf South region, this volume features a diverse array of voices from the past 100 years. The work of these writers and artists enriches how we understand and represent the relationship between people and the rapidly...
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The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesThis classic edition of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is perfect for all ages: it comes complete with the novel, plus an introduction providing context and a glossary explaining key terms. - Fantastic value for Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes book -...
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Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean FictionsThere is a tendency to think of Korean American literature-and Asian American literature writ large-as a field of study involving only two spaces, the United States and Korea, with the same being true in Asian studies of Korean Japanese (Zainichi) literature involving only Japan...
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Selected Letters: Volume 54Isabella d'Este (1474-1539), daughter of the Este dukes of Ferrara and wife of Marchese Francesco II Gonzaga of Mantua, co-regent of the Gonzaga state, art collector, musician, diplomat, dynastic mother, traveler, reader, gardener, fashion innovator, and consummate politician, was also, as this volume attests,...
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The Book of the Mutability of Fortune: Volume 52Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364-ca. 1431) has long been recognized as France's first professional woman of letters, and interest in her voluminous and wide-ranging corpus has been steadily rising for decades. During the tumultuous later years of the Hundred Years' War, Christine's lone but...
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The Collected Proceedings of the College of Universal Wisdom Vol.8. Numbers. 7, 8 & 10. 1968-69Saucerian Publisher was founded with the mission of promoting books in Science Fiction. Our vision is to preserve the legacy of literary history by reprint editions of books which have already been exhausted or are difficult to obtain. Our goal is to help readers,...
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Twenty-Eight Years a Slave: or the Story of My Life in Three Continents - North America, Europe and Africa - An AutobiographyThomas L. Johnson's remarkable life, wherein he was born into slavery before going on to a successful career as a minister and missionary, is told here in his own words.Until the age of twenty-eight, Johnson lived under the yolk of his slave masters. As...
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Let Me Tell You What I MeanA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what...
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Useless Joyce: Textual Functions, Cultural AppropriationsTim Conley's Useless Joyce provocatively analyses Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake and takes the reader on a journey exploring the perennial question of the usefulness of literature and art. Conley argues that the works of James Joyce, often thought difficult and far from practical,...
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Poësy Matters & Other MattersThis two-volume set, Poesy Matters and Other Matters, presents selected texts by the Swedish polymath Catherine Christer Hennix. Volume one, Poesy Matters, is divided into two sections: poetry and drama, with each section also containing pieces of commentary by Hennix or her longtime collaborator...
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