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Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children: Selections from Shakespeare, Twain, Dickens, O.Henry, London, Longfellow, Irving Aesop, Homer, Cervantes, HawA perennially popular collection of short stories, poems, legends, and myths from great works of literature that are especially appropriate for parents to read aloud to their children aged five to twelve. Line drawings.Author: William F. RussellPublisher: HarmonyPublished: 01/28/1992Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 9.16h...
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The Book Lover's Journal: My Personal Reading RecordCalling all book lovers! Here is the reading journal youve always wanted. At last, a place to record the books youve read. Months and years from now, this journal will help you instantly recall long-forgotten details of your reading experience. This is also the...
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We, the Barbarians: Three Mexican Writers in the Twenty-First Century"We, the Barbarians" embarks on a careful and exhaustive reading of three of the most prominent authors in the latest wave of Mexican fiction: Yuri Herrera, Fernanda Melchor, and Valeria Luiselli. Originally published in Mexico in 2021, this work is divided into three parts,...
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We, the Barbarians: Three Mexican Writers in the Twenty-First Century"We, the Barbarians" embarks on a careful and exhaustive reading of three of the most prominent authors in the latest wave of Mexican fiction: Yuri Herrera, Fernanda Melchor, and Valeria Luiselli. Originally published in Mexico in 2021, this work is divided into three parts,...
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Twelfth Night Shakespeare for kids: Shakespeare in a language children will understand and loveEmbark on a magical journey into "Twelfth Night," a place where the serene coastlines of Illyria become the backdrop for a whimsical tale of love, disguise, and festive revelry. This isn't just another comedy; it's an intricate dance of affection, identity, and the pursuit...
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Treasure-house of Mysteries: Exploration of the Sacred Text Through Poetry in the Syriac Tradition: Exploration of the Sacred Text Through Poetry iPopular Patristics Series Volume 45Why was Cain's sacrifice rejected, but Abel's accepted? How did Joseph react when he came home and found Mary with child? Questions such as these served as the starting points for St Ephrem and other poets of the early Syriac...
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Translation as Home: A Multilingual LifeTranslation as Home is a collection of autobiographical essays by Ilan Stavans that eloquently and unequivocally make the case that translation is not only a career, but a way of life.Born in Mexico City, Ilan Stavans is an essayist, anthologist, literary scholar, translator, and...
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The Writings of Norman MacLean: Seeking Truth Amid TragedyWith a foreword by John N. Maclean, son of Norman Maclean The Writings of Norman Maclean: Seeking Truth amid Tragedy provides the first critical reassessment of this celebrated author's work in more than a decade. In his study, Timothy P. Schilling focuses on Maclean's...
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The Shelf: From Leq to Les: Adventures in Extreme ReadingPhyllis Rose embarks on a grand literary experiment -- to systematically read her way through a random shelf of books in the library, LEQ-LES, "fairly sure that no one in the history of the world has read exactly this series of novels." An original...
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The Saga of Eric Brighteyes (Ed. Tom Shippey - Uppsala Books)Tom Shippey's new edition of H. Rider Haggard's saga-inspired Eric Brighteyes includes: - An introduction to the work's literary and historical context- Extensive annotations on its sources and influences- Discussions of medieval Scandinavia and J.R.R. Tolkien- 17 full-page illustrations by Lancelot SpeedEric Brighteyes, published...
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The Enchaf?d Flood: Three Critical Essays on the Romantic SpiritPut simply, The Enchaf?d Flood is an "attempt to understand the nature of Romanticism through an examination of its treatment of a single theme, the sea." Auden focuses his Christian existentialist eye especially on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, though he draws widely from works as...
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Seneca Ray Stoddard: Transforming the Adirondack Wilderness in Text and ImageSeneca Ray Stoddard's photographic and literary work paralleled the era of exploration of this region as well as the early years of photography. It was during his lifetime--as a result of the changing perceptions of the wilderness--that the area first attracted artists, tourists, and...
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Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and BessRomancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess is a literary and cultural history of a place: the Gullah Geechee Coast, a four-state area that's one of only a handful of places that can truly be said to be the "cradle of...
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Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and BessRomancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess is a literary and cultural history of a place: the Gullah Geechee Coast, a four-state area that's one of only a handful of places that can truly be said to be the "cradle of...
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Restoring Relations Through Stories: From Dinétah to DenendehThis insightful volume delves into land-based Diné and Dene imaginaries as embodied in stories--oral, literary, and visual. Like the dynamism and kinetic facets of hózhǫ́, * Restoring Relations Through Stories takes us through many landscapes, places, and sites. Renae Watchman introduces the book with...
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Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative"Extraordinary and amazingly erudite. Hammad shows how art and especially literature can be much, much more revealing than political writing." -- Rashid Khalidi, New York Times bestselling author of The Hundred Years' War on PalestineFrom the award-winning author of The Parisian and Enter Ghost...
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Ready Reader One: The Stories We Tell With, About, and Around VideogamesReady Reader One explores the many ways literature depicts, engages with, and imagines videogames and gamers. The diverse group of authors included in this collection take an expansive view of "videogame literature," with essays that consider written works ranging from life writing to speculative...
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Ready Reader One: The Stories We Tell With, About, and Around VideogamesReady Reader One explores the many ways literature depicts, engages with, and imagines videogames and gamers. The diverse group of authors included in this collection take an expansive view of "videogame literature," with essays that consider written works ranging from life writing to speculative...
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Pragmatic Liberation and the Politics of Puerto Rican Diasporic DramaPragmatic Liberation and the Politics of Puerto Rican Diasporic Drama explores the work of a unique group of playwrights--Puerto Rican dramatists writing in the United States--who offer a model of political engagement. As members of the Puerto Rican diaspora, they have a heightened awareness...
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Pragmatic Liberation and the Politics of Puerto Rican Diasporic DramaPragmatic Liberation and the Politics of Puerto Rican Diasporic Drama explores the work of a unique group of playwrights--Puerto Rican dramatists writing in the United States--who offer a model of political engagement. As members of the Puerto Rican diaspora, they have a heightened awareness...
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