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Sota ja rauhaLeo Tolstoi (1828- 1910) on yksi tunnetuimmista ven l isist kirjailijoista. Leo Tolstoin tunnetuimpia teoksia ovat Sota ja rauha (1865-1869) sek Anna Karenina (1875-1877). Tyylilt n h n edustaa realismia. Tolstoi oli my s merkitt v yhteiskunnallinen ja uskonnollinen ajattelija. Leo Tolstoi (1828- 1910)...
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Sanctification; The Highway of HolinessThere is but one book in the language admitted by all to be the standard one on "Sanctification." It is the work of the Rev. Walter Marshall, published in 1692, "The Gospel Mystery of Sanctification." It has at all times received the highest praise...
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A Tale of Two Cities The Complete & Unabridged Classic EditionThis premium quality volume includes the complete and unabridged text of Charles Dickens' timeless classic in a freshly edited and newly typeset edition. Not a reproduction or machine-scanned text, this edition has been prepared by human editors working from an exact digital image of...
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The Signature of All ThingsJakob Bohme (also spelled Jacob Boehme), was a German mystic and theologian who lived during the 16th and 17th centuries. De Signatura Rerum (The Signature of All Things), was written in 1621 and is considered his greatest work. From the preface: "THIS book is...
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Oscar Wilde, Complete CollectionOscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The...
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Gary Larson and the Far SideKerry D. Soper reminds us of The Far Side's groundbreaking qualities and cultural significance in Gary Larson and "The Far Side." In the 1980s, Gary Larson (b. 1950) shook up a staid comics page by introducing a set of aesthetic devices, comedic tones, and...
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Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino ReligionJuan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés (Plácido) were perhaps the most important and innovative Cuban writers of African descent during the Spanish colonial era. Both nineteenth-century authors used Catholicism as a symbolic language for African-inspired spirituality. Likewise, Plácido and Manzano subverted...
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The Bears of Blue RiverThe Bears of Blue River describes the adventures of a young boy growing up in early nineteenth-century rural Indiana. Little Balser lives with his parents, a younger brother, and a baby sister in a cozy log cabin on the bank of the Big Blue...
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Keywords for Media StudiesIntroduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studies Keywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media studies by tracing, defining,...
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Leg Over Leg: Volumes One and TwoThe life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'--the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of "the Fariyaq," alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual...
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Dakotah: The Return of the Future"On a bend, I will see it, a piece of ground off to the side. I will know the feel of this place: the leaves stir slowly on the trees, dry air smells like dust, birds dart and the trails are made by beasts...
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The Dutch CourtesanThe Dutch Courtesan is a riotous tragicomedy that explores the delights and perils afforded by Jacobean London. While Freevill, an educated young Englishman and the play's nominal hero, frolics in the city's streets, taverns and brothels, Franceschina, his cast-off mistress and the Dutch courtesan...
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Mothers and Strangers: Essays on Motherhood from the New SouthIn this anthology of creative nonfiction, twenty-eight writers set out to discover what they know, and don't know, about the person they call Mother. Celebrated writers Samia Serageldin and Lee Smith have curated a diverse and insightful collection that challenges stereotypes about mothers and...
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The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave: Related by HerselfMary Prince's narrative was one of the earliest to reveal the ugly truths about slavery in the West Indies to an English reading public that was largely unaware of its atrocities. Prince was born in Bermuda to an enslaved family. She spent her early...
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The Islands Of Magic: Legends, Folk And Fairy Tales From The AzoresSome three-fourths of the distance between America and Europe there is a group of nine beautiful islands called the Azores which belong to Portugal. Their names are Flores, Corvo, Fayal, Pico, S. Jorge, Graciosa, Terceira, S. Miguel, and Santa Maria. Many people think them...
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Moby-Dick: A Pop-Up Book from the Novel by Herman Melville (Pop Up Books for Adults and Kids, Classic Books for Kids, InteractiveIn time for the 200th anniversary of author Herman Melville's birth, this graphically arresting, beautifully rendered pop-up retelling of Moby-Dick is a wonder to behold. Rich linocut artworks portray ten key chronological moments from the story in shadowbox-style pop-ups that reward time spent poring...
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The TrialThe story of The Trial's publication is almost as fascinating as the novel itself. Kafka intended his parable of alienation in a mysterious bureaucracy to be burned, along with the rest of his diaries and manuscripts, after his death in 1924. Yet his friend...
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Slave Cinema"Using a rich compendium of evidence SLAVE CINEMA takes a thorough and uncompromising look at African-American cinema, African-America social identity and the American film industry. This book addresses the specific artistic, ideological, and moral challenges that face every African-American filmmaker." [from back cover]Author: Andr...
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Pudd'nhead WilsonFirst serialized in "The Century Magazine" between 1893 and 1894, Mark Twain's "Pudd'nhead Wilson" is a murder mystery set before the American Civil War in Missouri, more specifically, in a town on the banks of the Mississippi River. During infancy, a light-skinned black baby...
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Candide (Illustrated by Adrien Moreau with Introductions by Philip Littell and J. M. Wheeler)"Candide" is Voltaire's most famous work, a satirical masterpiece, which was first published in 1759. It is the story of its central character, the titular Candide, who lives a sheltered comfortable life and has been indoctrinated into the philosophy of Leibnizian optimism, by his...
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