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Henry David Thoreau - A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers: "rather Than Love, Than Money, Than Fame, Give Me Truth."Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12th, 1817 on Virginia Road in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau studied at Harvard between 1833 and 1837 taking classes in rhetoric, classics, philosophy, mathematics, and science. On graduating the normal professions left him unmoved and, after a period...
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Hyperion, or the Hermit in GreeceFriedrich H lderlin's only novel, Hyperion (1797-99), is a fictional epistolary autobiography that juxtaposes narration with critical reflection. Returning to Greece after German exile, following his part in the abortive uprising against the occupying Turks (1770), and his failure as both a lover and...
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Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth after PostmodernismMetamodernism: Historicity, Affect, Depth brings together many of the most influential voices in the scholarly and critical debate about post-postmodernism and twenty-first century aesthetics, arts and culture. By relating cutting-edge analyses of contemporary literature, the visual arts and film and television to recent social,...
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Forty Years Among the Indians: Experiences of a Mormon Pioneer on the South-West FrontierThe life of an outstanding Mormon pioneer and Westerner As the title of this book suggests its author recalls a long period of his life in the American South- West of the nineteenth century commencing from 1847 when, travelling to take part in the...
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Metamorphosis and the TrialFranz Kafka (1883 - 1924) was born into a German speaking Jewish family in Prague. He wrote in German and is regarded as one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. His works examine the themes of transformation, alienation, bullying and the...
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Readying Rilla: L.M. Montgomery's Reworking of Rilla of InglesideL.M. Montgomery began writing Rilla of Ingleside shortly after the end of World War I. Her story of the war was not about soldiers fighting and dying on Flanders Fields, but about Canadians struggling to "keep the home fires burning." It is a novel...
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A Public Space No. 30An issue exploring the metropolis through fiction, essays, art, and interviews spanning generations, continents, and languages. For over a decade, A Public Space has published an award-winning literary and arts magazine that seeks out and supports writers working apart from the mainstream--culturally, aesthetically, economically....
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FBI Myths and Misconceptions: A Manual for Armchair DetectivesHow much do you really know about the FBI? Do you know who the FBI is? Do you know what the FBI does? This manual debunks FBI myths and misconceptions for those who read, watch, and write crime dramas about the FBI or have...
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The Brothers KaramazovThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...
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Against Nature (A Rebours)Author: Joris -. Karl HuysmansPublisher: Simon & BrownPublished: 10/30/2018Pages: 176Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56dISBN: 9781731702050This title is not returnable
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Saurastra Ni Rasdhar Vol.IVSaurastra Ni Rasdhar is a compilation of the real stories and incidents happened in the southern part of Gujarat . The time of the story goes back as far as to a thousand years ago from the twentieth century.From the stories of wars, dignity,...
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PygmalionPygmalion by Bernard Shaw. Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then...
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In the American Grain2017 Reprint of 1925 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Although admired by D. H. Lawrence, this modern classic went generally unnoticed during the years after its publication in 1925. Yet it is "a fundamental book, essential...
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Harlem Shadows: The Poems of Claude Mckay2018 Reprint of 1922 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. "Here is a young man, born in the British West Indies, who is without doubt the most talented and versatile of the new school of imaginative, emotional...
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El Gran GatsbyNueva York, a os 20. En la alta sociedad norteamericana, llama la atenci n la presencia de Jay Gatsby, un hombre misterioso e inmensamente rico, al que todos consideran un advenedizo, lo que no impide que acudan a sus fastuosas fiestas en su granmansi...
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Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Life in LettersThe first extensive collection of letters written by war hero and travel writing legend Patrick Leigh Fermor. Handsome, spirited, and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his generation. He was also a wonderful friend....
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New Readings on Women and Early Medieval English Literature and Culture: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Honour of Helen DamicoNew Readings on Women and Early Medieval English Literature and Culture showcases current and original scholarship relating to women in Early Medieval English culture and in Early Medieval English studies and promises to stimulate new work in those areas. Honouring the eminent scholar Helen...
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Die VerwandlungAls Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Tr umen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheuren Ungeziefer verwandelt. Er lag auf seinem panzerartig harten R cken und sah, wenn er den Kopf ein wenig hob, seinen gew lbten, braunen, von bogenf...
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The Picture of Dorian GrayUnabridged version of The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, offered here for chump change. Wilde's only novel was a breakthrough of psychological horror in the Victorian age.Is it about the author himself and his life of destructive indulgence? Is it about the...
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All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger, and the Female BodyWith women's anger, empowerment, and the critical importance of intersectional feminism taking center stage in much of the dialogue happening in feminist spaces right now, an anthology like this has never been more important. The voices in this collection of essays and interviews offer...
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