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Great ExpectationsYoung Philip Pirrip, nicknamed Pip, is meant to become an apprentice for his brother-in-law, a poor blacksmith. But his destiny changes upon meeting three unusual people: an escaped convict, a tragic woman, and a captivating young girl. Pip's life is altered in an instant...
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The Last VisitationIn 1969 Astrophysicist Dr. Horace Mitchel would spend 3-years alone in a Nevada desert "Deep Underground Military Base" with what was believed to be a female extraterrestrial visitor from another world. The secret project was a scheduled visit called Project Mogul. During those unsupervised...
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The Great Gatsby (Premium Paperback, Penguin India)Welcome to the roaring twenties, where money, debauchery, and dancing go hand-in-hand. It is the summer of 1922, and the enigmatic millionaire, Jay Gatsby, is in love. He has everything he could ever want, except the one thing that always remains out of reach-the...
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My Path - SentimentsThe title of Ebony Tobias's book, My Path-Sentiments, was inspired by life journeys. It is a cunning way of saying "her life." Reality is a road destined to be traveled. While in the driver's seat, the twists and turns are a vital force. Decisions...
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The Rounding: A Book of DaysIn his new book, The Rounding, Rennie McQuilkin faces down the horrors of 2020-2021, seeing them clearly but focusing on ways in which he and other survivors have found ways to ride out the storm. The poet finds salvation in the natural world, the...
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Azeman, or the Testament of Quincey Morris"How much do we really know about Quincey Morris?In one of the greatest Grand-Guignol moments of all time, Dracula is caught feeding Mina blood from his own breast while her husband lies helpless on the same bed. In the chaos that follows, Morris runs...
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Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-GodsHawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods (1915) is a collection of Hawaiian folktales and myths by W. D. Westervelt. Connecting the origin story of Hawaii to the traditions of other Polynesian cultures, Westervelt provides an invaluable resource for understanding the historical and geographical scope...
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Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of LiteratureRecent thinking has resuscitated civility as an important paradigm for engaging with a violence that must be deemed endemic to our lives. But, while it is widely acknowledged that civility works against violence, and that literature generates or accompanies civility and engenders tolerance, civility...
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The Reader's Joyce: Ulysses, Authorship and the Authority of the ReaderRethinks the relationships between author, reader, and text in literature and criticism, through a study of James Joyce The Reader's Joyce engages with core issues of literary studies by rethinking accepted literary, critical, and theoretical notions of the relationships between author, reader, and text....
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Victorian Nonfiction Prose: A CompanionThe Victorian Era saw a revolution in communication technology. Millions of texts emerged from a complex network of writers, editors, publishers and reviewers, to shape and be shaped by the dynamics of a rapidly industrializing society. Many of these works offer fundamental, often surprising...
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Los Viajes de GulliverObra canónica del género de viajes imaginarios, y tiene un valor incalculable como precedente de la literatura fantástica moderna. Es una sátira repleta de ingenio, comicidad e ironía, pero también de amargura y crítica sobre la condición humana. Un clásico imprescindible. This classic set...
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Relatos de VampirosSelección de los mejores relatos clásicos de vampiros de la historia de la literatura. 12 ejemplos de ese tránsito de criatura bestial a sofisticada mujer fatal o caballero de atractivo sobrehumano, procedentes de tradiciones tan dispares como la rusa, la francesa o la británica,...
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The Boy of the WindsMIYAZAWA KENJI remains not only Japan's most popular and beloved writer of stories for children and adults but a prescient voice for this century on how we can survive and prevail over the most challenging conditions that we face on this planet. Roger Pulvers...
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Tess of the d'UrbervillesHarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances! When I see what you know, what you have read, and seen, and thought, I feel what a nothing I...
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The Inheritors and the Nature of a CrimeAuthor: Joseph ConradPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 02/03/2022Pages: 350Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 8.72h x 5.90w x 1.00dISBN: 9781107016811About the AuthorHawthorn, Jeremy: - Jeremy Hawthorn is emeritus professor in the department of language and literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. He...
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Armadale (Book-V)This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...
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Sweet UndoingsYanick Lahens leads us into a breathless intrigue with her newest portrait of Haiti, Sweet Undoings. In Port-au-Prince, violence never consumes. It finds its counterpart in a "high-pitched sweetness", a sweetness that overwhelms Francis, a French journalist, one evening at the Korosòl Resto-Bar, when...
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The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global LiteratureHow decolonization and the cold war influenced literature from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean How did superpower competition and the cold war affect writers in the decolonizing world? In The Aesthetic Cold War, Peter Kalliney explores the various ways that rival states used cultural...
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The Castles of Athlin and DunbayneAnn Radcliffe's first novel is set in the Middle Ages against the melancholy beauty of mountains and rugged coasts of the Scottish Highlands, tells the story of the warring clan chieftains of Athlin and Dunbayne. One of the earliest Gothic tales (1789), it recounts...
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The Western Island, or the Great BlasketThe Western Island tells the history of the Great Blasket, of the frugality and adversities of life on the island, its folktales (including stories of ghosts and fairies), and also recounts the dramatic day in the Great Blasket's history when the flying galleons of...
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