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The Three Treasures: A Revised and Illustrated Study and Translation of Minamoto No Tamenori's Sanboe Volume 97When the young Princess Sonshi became a Buddhist nun in the year 984, a scholar-official of the royal court was commissioned to create a guide to the Buddhist religion that would be accessible for her. He did so in the form of the illustrated...
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The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of FearMore relevant than ever, this seminal collection of essays encourages us to believe in the power of ordinary citizens to change the world In today's turbulent world it's hard not to feel like we're going backwards; after decades of striving, justice and equality still...
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The Three Treasures: A Revised and Illustrated Study and Translation of Minamoto No Tamenori's Sanboe Volume 97When the young Princess Sonshi became a Buddhist nun in the year 984, a scholar-official of the royal court was commissioned to create a guide to the Buddhist religion that would be accessible for her. He did so in the form of the illustrated...
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The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Literary CriticismOscar Wilde's infamous wit, taste for scandal, and gift for revealing the hypocrisies of fashionable society are on display here in this collection of his finest plays. A genius both of and ahead of his time, he built his craft on the eternal questions...
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Cadide, Zadig and Selected StoriesFrance's most distinguished man of letters This essential collection from the genius Voltaire includes his masterpiece and best-known work Candide, as well as his novel Zadig and fourteen short stories: "Micromegas," "The World as It Is," "Memnon," "Bababec and the Fakirs," "History of Scarmentado's...
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The Signet Classic Book of American Short StoriesThe best of American short fictionSpanning over 100 years of literary history, here are 33 of the finest short stories by Washington Irving * Nathaniel Hawthorne * Edgar Allan Poe * Herman Melville * Harriet Beecher Stowe * Bret Harte * Bayard Taylor *...
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Eminent OutlawsFascinating...fun to read and will be the standard text of the defining era of gay literati. -- Philadelphia Inquirer In the years following World War II a group of gay writers established themselves as major cultural figures in American life. Truman Capote, the enfant...
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Literary Theory: The Basics: The BasicsThis third edition of Hans Bertens' bestselling book is an essential guide to the often confusing and complicated world of literary theory. Exploring a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism and new historicism Literary Theory: The Basics covers contemporary...
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La Place: Annie ErnauxThe full French text is accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.Author: Annie ErnauxPublisher: RoutledgePublished: 10/15/1987Pages: 140Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.33dISBN: 9780415059268This title is not returnable
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Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and MortalityThomas Lynch, poet, funeral director, and author of the highly praised The Undertaking, winner of an American Book Award and finalist for the National Book Award, continues to examine the relations between the literary and mortuary arts.Author: Thomas LynchPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished:...
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Oroonoko: Or, the Royal Slave (Revised)Taken up by reformers in the long battle against the slave trade, reprinted and imitated countless times, Oroonoko remains a popular tale that introduces powerful themes onto the literary stage.Author: Aphra BehnPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 05/01/1997Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 8.25h x...
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Best English Short Stories IIIThis is the sixth annual collection of stories we consider to be the best by British and Commonwealth writers since our last volume. The two Irish writers we include, even the solitary Scot, will have gown wryly used to being classed British. But these...
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The Norton ShakespeareThe attractive print and digital bundle offers students a great reading experience at an affordable price in two ways--a hardcover volume for their dorm shelf and lifetime library, and a digital edition ideal for in-class use. Students can access the ebook from their computer,...
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Meditations on QuixoteFirst published in 1914, Meditations on Quixote was Ortega's first book. It has immensely grown in value with time, and since the 1930's, when Ortega himself began to refer back to it in his later writings, it has become more and more important among...
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Typee: A Peep at Polynesian LifeMelville's first and most popular novel during his lifetime, Typee is a provocative and lively account of his exploits in the exotic South Seas during the early 1840s, where he journeyed as a young sailor. This edition includes notes on the text.Author: Herman MelvillePublisher:...
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Women in LoveSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time With an Introduction by Joyce Carol Oatesforeword by the authorCommentary by Carl van Doren, Rebecca West, Aldous Huxley, and Henry Miller It is . . . the world of...
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Winesburg, OhioSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Before Raymond Carver, John Cheever, and Richard Ford, there was Sherwood Anderson, who, with Winesburg, Ohio, charted a new direction in American fiction--evoking with lyrical simplicity quiet moments of...
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Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They LoveIs a book the same book--or a reader the same reader--the second time around? The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer: Never. The editor of Rereadings is Anne Fadiman, and readers of her bestselling book...
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Critical WritingsThe Futurist movement was founded and promoted by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, beginning in 1909 with the First Futurist Manifesto, in which he inveighed against the complacency of cultural necrophiliacs and sought to annihilate the values of the past, writing that there is no longer...
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Legends of ModernityLegends of Modernity, now available in English for the first time, brings together some of Czeslaw Milosz's early essays and letters, composed in German-occupied Warsaw during the winter of 1942-43. Why did the European spirit succumb to such a devastating fiasco? the young Milosz...
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