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The Life and Lies of Charles DickensA radical reassessment of the famed Victorian author, revealing the true story behind the creator of some of literature's best-known novels. This dynamic new study of Charles Dickens will make readers re-examine his life and work in a completely different light. First, partly due...
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Do You Want to Be Happy and Write?: Critical Essays on Michael OndaatjeMichael Ondaatje has achieved international prominence and recognition in a way that few other writers have, let alone Canadian writers. This popularity is most pronounced for works of historical fiction such as The English Patient, winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize, and In...
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The Complete Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Travels, Non-Fiction, Plays and PoemsDive into the captivating world of Robert Louis Stevenson with this comprehensive collection. "The Complete Robert Louis Stevenson" brings together all of the author's beloved novels, enchanting short stories, thrilling travels, thought-provoking non-fiction, mesmerizing plays, and evocative poems. Immerse yourself in Stevenson's masterful storytelling...
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ShinerIn this electrifying and raw debut anthology, Maggie Nelson unpicks the everyday with the quick alchemy and precision of her later modern classics The Argonauts and Bluets. The poems of Shiner experiment with a variety of styles-syllabic verse, sonnets, macaronic translation, Zen poems, walking...
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Jumping Off ShadowsAn important celebratory collection of Irish poetry by graduates of University College, Cork writing in both English and Irish, which groups together poets of international standing in a single volume, Paul Durcan, Eileain Ni Chuilleanain and Michael Davitt. Irish language poetry, long considered the...
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Healing Narratives: Women Writers Curing Cultural Dis-easeIn Healing Narratives, Gay Wilentz explores the relationship between culture and health. In close reading of works by five women writers - Toni Cade Bambara, Erna Broder, Leslie Marmon Silko, Keri Hulme, and Jo Sinclair-she traces the narrative and structural similarities of a main...
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Chicana Portraits: Critical Biographies of Twelve Chicana WritersThis innovative collection pairs portraits with critical biographies of twelve key Chicana writers, offering an engaging look at their work, contributions to the field, and major achievements. Artist Raquel Valle-Sentíes's portraits bring visual dimension, while essays delve deeply into the authors' lives for details...
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Best of Lsu FictionBest of LSU Fiction is a long-overdue collection of the great fiction writers who have been associated with Louisiana State University. Beginning with three-time Pulitzer Prize--winner Robert Penn Warren, this anthology records the journey of LSU's prestigious literary tradition.The twenty writers collected in this...
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The Hobbit EncyclopediaDelve into Middle-earth, decipher the Dwarves' alphabet and more, with this indispensable and comprehensive guide to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. This wide-ranging encyclopedia covers all the characters, places, and objects included in the seminal book that first introduced the world of Middle-earth, highlighting the...
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Italian Literature: A Very Short IntroductionIn this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey examine Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, looking at themes and issues which have recurred throughout its history. The authors illuminate such topics as regional identities, political disunity, and the...
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Reading Backwards Lib/EReading Backwards opens with the autobiographical My Life in the Theater, a memoir of the younger Crowley's earliest ambitions, and closes with the moving and memorable Practicing the Arts of Peace. In between, the author offers us more than thirty carefully crafted essays, each...
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Human Brain Coloring Book: The Human Brain Coloring Book. Human Brain Model Anatomy, Human Brain Diagram, Human Brain Art, Human Brain and HumanThe Human Brain Coloring Book provides a means of learning about the structure and function of the human brain through a process of coloring-by-directions. It was developed by internationally recognized neuroscientists and teachers.Coloring the human brain and its nerves is the most effective way...
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Holinshed's Chronicles: The Historie of England, Bookes I-IVHolinshed's Chronicles, famous as the source for the stories in many Shakespeare's plays, such as King Lear and Cymbeline, were written in the sixteenth century as a collaborative effort, but consistently sustain a lively and highly readable style. A wide variety of sources were...
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The Who Is Johnny Dollar? Matter Volume 1 (2nd Edition)"Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar" graced the airways of America from 1942 until the end of the "Golden Age of Radio" in 1962. Six Actors portrayed Johnny Dollar, supported by the best radio actors available.Volume I contains a character profile of "America's fabulous insurance investigator,...
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Prancing Novelist: In Praise of Ronald FirbankOne of the most penetrating and sympathetic explorations ever undertaken by one writer into the mind of another, Prancing Novelist is far more than a simple tribute or work of research. In these pages--by turns instructive, mischievous, and even gossipy--Brigid Brophy seeks nothing less...
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The Complete Magazine Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1921-1924As we celebrate the centennials of F. Scott Fitzgerald's works, this volume offers a timely new approach to the short stories of the Poet Laureate of the Jazz Age. Foregrounding reception, this volume is the first to bring together and reprint all of the...
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Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and CaribbeanIn the first half of the twentieth century, Black hemispheric culture grappled with the legacies of colonialism, U.S. empire, and Jim Crow. As writers and performers sought to convey the terror and the beauty of Black life under oppressive conditions, they increasingly turned to...
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The Bossale Civilisation: Reflections on the Oral Literature of Guadeloupe and MartiniqueThe Bossale Civilisation, first published in 1978, is as relevant today as when it first appeared. It illumines History as to its calculated falsehoods, and the persistence, through care and attentiveness, of what can only be qualified as the Truth. The Bossale is the...
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Theology and the DC UniverseTheology and the DC Universe contains fifteen scholarly explorations of the role of theology and religion in DC's comics, films, and television shows.Author: Gabriel McKeePublisher: Fortress AcademicPublished: 06/15/2023Pages: 312Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.39lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88dISBN: 9781978716117About the AuthorGabriel Mckee (M.T.S., Harvard Divinity...
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Reading GenesisOne of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book of Genesis.For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents, by various hands, expressing different factional interests, with borrowings from other ancient...
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