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Giai Phẩm Hạ 2022Giai Phẩm Hạ 2022Giai Phẩm Hạ 2022 đến với quý độc Giả hơi trể khi tiết trời bắt đầu vào Thu. Nhà Xuất bản xin dịch một đoạn trong bài Summer of Love thay cho lời xin lỗiIt was the summer of loveA delicate...
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Lord of the Rings and the EucharistWhat is "the one great thing to love on earth", according to J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings? The Eucharist! Tolkien made sure his one great love was woven throughout his books. It's easy to find if you...
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One Man's Maine: Essays on a Love AffairMaine is a talisman of the American imagination, offering beauty and wildlife to tourists and natives. Over the last few years, Jim has published many essays about the wonders and challenges of Maine's environment, and One Man's Maine collects and edits them into sixteen...
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Letters To My ExCici. B's debut novel, Letters To My Ex, is a collection of letters written to a past love over a three year period of time that was never sent to him---but they are far from your typical love letters. If you are looking for...
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Principles of NatureOne of the most difficult thngs for a person to do is to admit they are wrong. Elihu Palmer, the author of Principles of Nature, had the strength of character and love of honesty to not only admit he was wrong to embrace and...
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Nature's Nightmare: Analyzing David Foster Wallace's OblivionFrom the author of Elegant Complexity comes a cogent analysis of David Foster Wallace's Oblivion. Nature's Nightmare is the first book of criticism devoted to Wallace's masterful story collection. Carlisle gives an in-depth narrative analysis of each story: "Mr. Squishy," "The Soul is Not...
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100 Reasons Shake-speare was the Earl of Oxford"An exceptionally lucid and thorough exploration of the arguments supporting J.T. Looney's controversial theory that the true Shakespeare was the Earl of Oxford. Masterfully organized, the book takes the reader through 100 primary reasons supporting the theory. Whittemore's long experience studying and writing about...
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The Portable Ana'is NinThe Portable Anais Nin is the first comprehensive collection of the author's work in nearly 40 years, during which time her catalogue has doubled with the release of the erotica and unexpurgated diaries. A handy source book of Nin's most important writings, arranged chronologically...
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French Classics in French and English: The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas Fils (Dual-Language Book)This is a dual-language book with the French text on the left side, and the English text on the right side of each spread. The texts are precisely synchronized. See more details about this and other books on French Classics in French and English...
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Beat PoetryThis is the poetry of the San Francisco Renaissance of the 50s, reconsidered as literature: Lawrence Ferlinghetti's lyrical cityscapes, Jack Kerouac's blues and haikus, Allen Ginsberg's saxophone prophecies, Gregory Corso's obsessive odes, John Wieners' true confessions, Michael McClure's physical hymns, Philip Lamantia's surreal passions,...
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Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters (Loa #50)Twenty years after Appomattox, stricken by cancer and facing financial ruin, Ulysses S. Grant wrote his Personal Memoirs to secure his family's future. in doing so, the Civil War's greatest general won himself a unique place in American letters. His character, intelligence, sense of...
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ExtratransmissionPoetry. LGBTQIA Studies. EXTRATRANSMISSION is a poetic critique of nationalism, patriarchy & gender embedded in an explosive & unapologetic trauma narrative. It begins with an exhaustive loud, & unapologetic section on killing bros, the perpetrators of patriarchy before entering a narrative of how traumatic...
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Snow Lit Rev, No. 11Eleventh issue of annual print-only literary and arts review.Fiction, poetry, essays, art, music, film, from UK, USA, Italy, France, Kenya, Japan, China. Includes essay by Pierre Crépon on Black Cultural Nationalism and music, and by Léa Dreyer on Franco-Swedish sound artist Lars Fredrikson; poems...
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Father Brown of the Church of Rome: Selected Mystery StoriesThis is a unique collection of ten of Chesterton's famous Father Brown stories which puts special emphasis on the role that Brown's Catholic faith played in helping him solve the murder mysteries. As Dorothy Sayers once wrote, Chesterton was "the first man of our...
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Into the Widening World: International Coming-Of-Age Stories26 stories that explore universal rites of passage as well as culture-specific complexities of youth: Nadine Gordimer, Gabriel García Marquez, Bharati Mukherjee, Ben Okri, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Nauguib Mahfouz, Margaret Drabble, Zoe Wicomb, B. Wongar, and more.Author: John LougheryPublisher: Persea BooksPublished: 01/17/1995Pages: 268Binding Type:...
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Making Believe: Questions about Mennonites and ArtMaking Believe responds to a remarkable flowering of art by Mennonites in Canada. After the publication of his first novel in 1962, Rudy Wiebe was the only identifiable Mennonite literary writer in the country. Beginning in the 1970s, the numbers grew rapidly and now...
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Stories in a New Skin: Approaches to Inuit LiteratureIn an age where southern power-holders look north and see only vacant polar landscapes, isolated communities, and exploitable resources, it is important to note that the Inuit homeland encompasses extensive philosophical, political, and literary traditions. Stories in a New Skin is a seminal text...
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MetamorphosisAuthor: Franz KafkaPublisher: Amereon LimitedPublished: 10/01/1983Pages: 102Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 8.85h x 5.84w x 0.62dISBN: 9780884114505This title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order
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The Mystical Theology of St. Bernard: Volume 120This classic study placed the saint squarely among the outstanding theologians of the Middle Ages, and stripped away the sentimentality in which popular piety had wrapped him. Gilson demonstrates in Bernard's works his blend of monastic tradition and the new learning of the early...
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TidingsOne of Germany's literary giants, Ernst Emil Wiechert (1887-1950) was thrown into Buchenwald concentration camp for publicly backing anti-Nazi pastor Martin Niem ller. His final novel, published posthumously, deals with the aftermath of the Holocaust - how the survivors, both victims and perpetrators, seek...
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