Literature
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The SymphoniesAndrei Bely is best known for the modernist masterwork Petersburg, a paradigmatic example of how modern writers strove to evoke the fragmentation of language, narrative, and consciousness. In the early twentieth century, Bely embarked on his life as an artist with texts he called...
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The Idea of Europe: A Critical HistoryThere is an increasingly widespread sense that Europe is in crisis. Notions of a shared European identity and a common European culture appear to be losing their purchase. This crisis is often seen as a conflict between a cosmopolitan and a nationalist idea of...
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Beric the Briton: Historical NovelBeric the Briton takes place during the Emperor Nero's reign and follows the adventures of a young Beric who, as a young boy, gets captured by Romans and spends several years being held hostage. During captivity Beric learns Latin language and Roman history, and...
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Dickens by Chesterton: Critical Study, Biography, Appreciations & Criticisms of the Works by Charles DickensCharles Dickens was an English writer and social critic, widely recognized as a literary genius. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. G. K. Chesterton took great interest in...
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Rumi's QuotesThis book is a treasure." What you seek is seeking you. The true reality is right in front of you, though hidden. You need only turn on the light of awareness, banish the illusions, and find peace in wisdom."Rumi Quotes is a guidebook for...
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Informing the Inklings: George MacDonald and the Victorian Roots of Modern FantasyMagdalen College, where C.S. Lewis taught in Oxford, was an appropriate site for the "Informing the Inklings" conference hosted by the George MacDonald Society. Participants explored how MacDonald and fellow literary figures such as S.T. Coleridge, Lewis Carroll, Charles Kingsley, and Andrew Lang paved...
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Adult Coloring Book Christmas Owl: coloring book perfect gift idea for Christmas owl lover men, women, girls, boys, family and friends.This book 60 pages and 8.5" x 11" trim size One cute Christmas owl image per page and one color test page, so you can color with pencils, pens or markers. this book is not suitable for children under 36 months of age. Are...
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Robert E. Howard: A Closer LookIn 1987, Charles Hoffman and Marc Cerasini published a volume on Robert E. Howard for the acclaimed Starmont Reader's Guides series. Even then, the book was a pioneering study of Howard's life and work. In the decades that have followed, a great deal of...
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Statesmanship: The Best of the New Statesman, 1913-2019No British periodical or weekly magazine has a richer and more distinguished archive than The New Statesman, which has long been at the centre of British political and cultural life. Some astonishing things were first published in its pages: great poems such as W.B....
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African-American Classic Three Book Set - The Souls of Black Folk, Up From Slavery, and Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassComplete African-American Classic Three Book Set, includes The Souls of Black Folk, Up From Slavery, and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. The foundational civil rights works on race relations in America, the slave narratives, in their own voices. This is their story...
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The CageThe Cage is an extraordinary tale of mystery and suspense by one of Latvia's leading novelists. One day Edmunds Berz, a successful married architect, disappears without trace while driving home to Riga from his parents' farm. No one knows whether he has eloped with...
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Ripped Apart: Unsettling Narratives of Transnational MigrationRipped Apart: Unsettling Narratives of Transnational Migration is an innovative and interdisciplinary analysis of Latina narratives of transnational migration that underscore the intersections of the physical, psychological, sociocultural, and legal / structural traumas endured by migrants and their families. Grounded in theories of narrative...
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Color, Communism and Common Sense2020 Reprint of the 1958 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Here is the story of one Black American Communist who became disillusioned with Communism and penned this cautionary tale of the perils of his experience....
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BlackfaceA New Statesman essential non-fiction book of 2021Featured in Book Riot's 12 best nonfiction books about Black identity and history Why are there so many examples of public figures, entertainers, and normal, everyday people in blackface? And why aren't there as many examples of...
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Paper Concert: A Conversation in the RoundIn her opening, Amy Wright explains: "This essay anchors a central thread of dialogue over a dizzying divide. It weaves a decades-plus-worth of questions and answers from a range of discussions I've had with artists, activists, scientists, philosophers, physicians, priests, musicians, and other representatives...
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Guard the MysteriesGuard the Mysteries is a compendium of five talks that the poet Cedar Sigo presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture series. Retracing the ways in which he first encountered the realm of poetry, Sigo plumbs the particulars of modern critique, identity politics, early influences,...
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Prose of the World: Denis Diderot and the Periphery of EnlightenmentA lively examination of the life and work of one of the great Enlightenment intellectuals Philosopher, translator, novelist, art critic, and editor of the Encyclop die, Denis Diderot was one of the liveliest figures of the Enlightenment. But how might we delineate the contours...
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Barford AbbeyAuthor: Susannah Minifie GunningPublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 11/06/2020Pages: 336Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80dISBN: 9781554814466About the AuthorMargaret Doody is John and Barbara Glynn Family Professor of Literature at the University of Notre Dame. Kurt Edward Milberger is Coordinating Editor, College of...
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The Haunted Hotel: Annotated EditionThe Haunted Hotel is a disturbing novella set in Venice which cleverly combines detective and ghost story genre. This edition is based on the most authoritative text and contains notes and extra material for students. An enigmatic countess is tormented by a dark secret....
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PoliticsAlong with his teacher Plato, Aristotle is generally regarded as one of the most influential ancient thinkers in a number of philosophical fields, including political theory. The title of the Politics literally means "the things concerning the polis". Aristotle's Politics is divided into eight...
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