Literature
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How to Read Montaigne'These [How to Read] books let you encounter thinkers eyeball to eyeball by analysing passages from their work' Terry Eagleton, New StatesmanAuthor: Terence CavePublisher: Granta BooksPublished: 08/01/2013Pages: 112Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.17h x 4.81w x 0.38dISBN: 9781862079441About the AuthorTerence Cave is Emeritus Professor of...
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Around the World in 80 Days / Five Weeks in a BalloonWith an Introduction and Notes by Professor Roger Cardinal. University of Kent at Canterbury. Translationsare by Paul Desages (Around the World in Eighty Days) and Arthur Chambers (Five Weeks in a Balloon). JULES VERNE (1828-1905) POSSESSED that rare storyteller's gift of being able to...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManWith an Introduction and Notes by Dr. Jacqueline Belanger, University of Cardiff. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce's Dubliners and the symbolism of Ulysses, and is essential to the understanding of the...
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On DeceptionThroughout his life, the world s most famous escapologist strove to expose the methods and tricks of illusionists and sham spiritualists. Studying entertainers and criminals alike, Houdini investigates the tricks of the mind and sleights of hand that have deceived people throughout history. The...
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The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to ShakespeareA new account of medieval and Renaissance clown traditions reveals the true extent of their cultural influence. From the late-medieval period through to the seventeenth century, English theatrical clowns carried a weighty cultural significance, only to have it stripped from them, sometimes violently, by...
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MetamorphosisA masterful mix of horror and absurdity that tells the story of traveling salesman Samsa, who wakes up one day to find out he has turned into a giant insect. Kafka's novella has beenadapted for film and television a number of times, most recently...
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The Death of Ivan IlyichIvan Ilyich, a high court judge, becomes seriously ill and faces a long and gruelling battle with death. The Death of Ivan Ilyich is more than a story about death, however. It leads the reader through a pensive, metaphysical exploration of the reason for...
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Raymond Chandler: The Detections of TotalityThe master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he...
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Oku No Hosomichi: The Narrow Road to the InteriorOku no Hosomichi is a major work of haibun by the Japanese poet Matsuo Basho considered "one of the major texts of classical Japanese literature." The text is written in the form of a prose and verse travel diary and was penned as Basho...
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Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse: It seemed...such nonsense inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that."It seemed...such nonsense inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that."Adeline Virginia Woolf ( 1882 - 28th March 1941) is one of Britain's leading literary talents and a pioneer of modernist writing especially 'stream of consciousness' which provides the reader with...
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Best Canadian Stories 2019Now in its 49th year, Best Canadian Stories has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many writers who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, Tamas Dobozy, Mavis Gallant, Douglas Glover, Norman Levine,...
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The Black Prairie Archives: An AnthologyThe Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology recovers a new regional archive of "black prairie" literature, and includes writing that ranges from work by nineteenth-century black fur traders and pioneers, all of it published here for the first time, to contemporary writing of the twenty-first...
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The Mirror of True WomanhoodThis work is "fitted for our times. It will be of vast service to many mothers and daughters in the Church, by showing them how they may practically conform their lives to the bright pictures of womanly virtue you have so felicitously portrayed. And...
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Shyamali ( Bengali Edition )Shyamali is the feminine form of Shyamal, which means green. Tagore used the word Shyamali as a proper noun to name not only this poetical work but also the mud house he lived in from time to time in his old age. Shyamali is...
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Common Sense: Thomas PaineCommon Sense by Thomas Paine. Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775-76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. In order to gain a clear and just idea of the design and end of government, let...
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Al-Arwah Al-Mutamarrida ( Arabic Edition )A book so powerful it was burned in the marketplace of Beirut at the time of its publication, Kahlil Gibran's Spirits Rebellious is a clarion call for freedom in his homeland of Lebanon; for individuals and society. His bitter denunciation of religious and political...
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Ramayana: India's Immortal Tale of Adventure, Love, and WisdomDespite its popularity in Eastern cultures, and though Eastern and Western scholars alike recognize it as a literary masterpiece, the Ramayana is unknown to most in the West. This edition gives English-speaking readers the best opportunity yet to discover and enjoy this ancient classic....
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Journal To Write In For Every Day Of The YearLiterally count your blessings by writing about them in this heavy-with-gratitude journal. Fill each page with the things you are thankful of. This habit helps you reaffirm your positive self-talk and will constantly remind you that yes, you are blessed. Despite everything, you are...
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul (Unabridged with all Color Plates)This classic poetry, written in 1789, was originally hand colored on each page and is reproduced here in full color for a visually rich experience. Songs includes his most famous poem, "Tiger Tiger burning bright, In the forests of the night," and many others....
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Our Happy Hours, LGBT Voices From the Gay BarsDuring the days and nights following the massacre at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, the world listened as various spokespersons attempted to explain to the general public exactly what the gay bar/club meant to LGBTQI people. The words "safe place," "refuge," "free to...
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