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The CommitteeThis wry take on Kafka's novel The Trial revolves around its narrator's attempts to petition successfully the elusive ruling body of his country, known simply as the Committee. Consequences for his actions range from the absurd to the hideous. Ibrahim offers an unbroken first-person...
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The Erie Canal Reader, 1790-1950The Erie Canal Reader-poems, essays, travelogues, and fiction by major American and British writers-captures the colorful landscape and life along the Erie Canal from its birth in the New York frontier, through its heyday as a passage of culture and commerce, to its present...
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Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a MovementGrowing out of the music scene, afrofuturism has emerged as an important aesthetic through films such as Black Panther and Get Out. While the significance of these sonic and visual avenues for afrofuturism cannot be underestimated, literature remains fundamental to understanding its full dimensions....
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Everyday Use: Alice WalkerAlice Walker's early story, "Everyday Use," has remained a cornerstone of her work. Her use of quilting as a metaphor for the creative legacy that African Americans inherited from their maternal ancestors changed the way we define art, women's culture, and African American lives....
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Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth CenturyVincent Carretta has assembled the most comprehensive anthology ever published of writings by eighteenth-century people of African descent, capturing the surprisingly diverse experiences of blacks on both sides of the Atlantic--America, Britain, the West Indies, and Africa--between 1760 and 1798.Author: Vincent CarrettaPublisher: University Press...
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The WardenThe first of Trollope's popular Barsetshire novels, set in the fictional cathedral town of Barchester, The Warden centers on the honorable cleric Septimus Harding, one of Trollope's most memorable characters. When Harding is accused of mismanaging church funds, his predicament lays bare the complexities...
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Tarzan of the Apes: A Tarzan NovelThe first and best of the Tarzan novels, of which Edgar Rice Burroughs eventually wrote several dozen, Tarzan of the Apes remains one of the signature stories of American popular literature, as readable as it is famous. Tarzan himself, in the words of Arthur...
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The CannibalNo synopsis conveys the quality of this now famous novel about an hallucinated Germany in collapse after World War II. John Hawkes, in his search for a means to transcend outworn modes of fictional realism, has discovered a a highly original technique for objectifying...
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Invisible ManAn African-American man's search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility.Author: Ralph Waldo EllisonPublisher: Turtleback BooksPublished: 03/14/1995Pages: 581Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 8.18h x 5.36w x 1.31dISBN: 9780808554127Accelerated Reader:Reading...
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Reading Vergil's Aeneid, 23: An Interpretive GuideVergil's Aeneid has been considered a classic, if not the classic, of Western literature for two thousand years. In recent decades this famous poem has become the subject of fresh and searching controversy. What is the poem's fundamental meaning? Does it endorse or undermine...
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The Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary CriticismIn the context of the ongoing crisis in literary criticism, The Social Imperative reminds us that while literature will never by itself change the world, it remains a powerful tool and important actor in the ongoing struggle to imagine better ways to be human...
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Underground River and Other StoriesInés Arredondo (1928-1989) published just three slim volumes of stories over twenty-three years, yet her reputation as a great writer, "a necessary writer," is firmly established in Mexico. Her works dwell on obsessions: erotic love, evil, purity, perversion, prostitution, tragic separation, and death. Most...
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'minstrelsy of the Scottish Border' Complete First Edition, 1802This critical edition of Scott's Minstrelsy presents a seminal 19th-century work for a 21st-century audience The first volume in this three volume set contains all Scott's ballad texts with his introductions and notes together with an introductory essay on Border history and an essay...
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Adventures of Huckleberry FinnEnriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work....
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Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela by Elena PoniatowskaOne of the threads that runs through Elena Poniatowska's oeuvre is that of foreigners who have fallen in love with Mexico and its people. This is certainly the case of Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela - a brief novel (so short it was originally...
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A Book of Book Lists: A Bibliophile's CompendiumThis is a book of book lists. Lists that make you smile, make you wonder, and see titles together in entirely new ways. From Bin Laden's bookshelf to the books most frequently left in hotels, from prisoners' favorite books to Member of Parliaments' most...
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The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the RailwaysHowling down the tunnels comes a new collection showcasing the greatest stories of strange happenings on the tracks, many of which are republished here for the first time since their original departure The Platform Edge is a collection of the greatest stories of strange...
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Gilgamesh: The Life of a PoemReflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poets Gilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. It is also the newest classic in the canon of world literature. Lost for centuries to the sands of the Middle East but...
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The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a GenreA provocative new theory about fairy tales from one of the world's leading authorities If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. Yet we still have great...
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Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a LivingWhat Thoreau can teach us about working--why we do it, what it does to us, and how we can make it more meaningful Henry at Work invites readers to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of Henry David Thoreau that has...
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