Literature
-
In Harness: Yiddish Writers' Romance with CommunismHere is a detailed glimpse into the lives and times of Yiddish writers enthralled with Communism at the turn of the century through the mid-1930s. Centering mainly on the Soviet Jewish literati but with an eye to their American counterparts, the book follows their...
- HK$445.29
- HK$445.29
- Unit price
- per
-
Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour KrimIn 1961, Beat writer Seymour Krim set Greenwich Village on its ear with a slim volume of essays that featured an unleashed voice, a brash title, and a foreword by Norman Mailer. James Baldwin called Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer an "extraordinary volume." Saul...
- HK$356.39
- HK$356.39
- Unit price
- per
-
Shadows of Future: H. G. Wells, Science Fiction, and ProphecyH.G. Wells - inventor of the concept of the time machine and the phrase the shape of things to come - described his life's work as one of critical anticipation. This book unravels the complex layers of meaning in The Time Machine, and shows...
- HK$237.38
- HK$237.38
- Unit price
- per
-
Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's LiteratureRadical leftist stories...for children In 1912, a revolutionary chick cries, "Strike down the wall!" and liberates itself from the "egg state." In 1940, ostriches pull their heads out of the sand and unite to fight fascism. In 1972, Baby X grows up without a...
- HK$546.44
- HK$546.44
- Unit price
- per
-
The Derrick Bell ReaderAn essential collection of the writings of progressive lawyer and race activist Derrick Bell Lawyer, activist, teacher, writer: for over 40 years, Derrick Bell provoked his critics and challenged his readers with uncompromising candor and progressive views on race and class in America. A...
- HK$659.56
- HK$659.56
- Unit price
- per
-
Bob Seger's House and Other StoriesBob Seger's House and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by some of Michigan's most well-known fiction writers. This collection of twenty-two short stories serves as a celebration not only of the tenth anniversary of the Made in Michigan Writers Series...
- HK$360.86
- HK$360.86
- Unit price
- per
-
Adventures of David Simple-Pa"The Adventures of David Simple (1744), Sarah Fielding's first and most celebrated novel, went through several editions, the second of which was heavily revised by her brother Henry. This edition includes Henry's ""corrections"" in an appendix. In recounting the guileless hero's search for a...
- HK$659.56
- HK$659.56
- Unit price
- per
-
Mind of an Outlaw: Selected EssaysNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL Norman Mailer was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century American letters and an acknowledged master of the essay. Mind of an Outlaw, the first posthumous publication from this outsize...
- HK$263.76
- HK$263.76
- Unit price
- per
-
The Eternal Husband and Other StoriesFrom Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevsky's short masterpieces. Filled with...
- HK$208.33
- HK$208.33
- Unit price
- per
-
The AmbassadorsIntroduction by Colm T ib n One of the final masterpieces from one of the world's greatest authors, Henry James's The Ambassadors is now available for the first time in a Modern Library edition, with a new Introduction by acclaimed novelist Colm T ib...
- HK$152.79
- HK$152.79
- Unit price
- per
-
Invisible ManAn African-American man's search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility.Author: Ralph Waldo EllisonPublisher: Perfection LearningPublished: 03/01/1995Pages: 581Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.10w x 1.20dISBN: 9780812418163Accelerated Reader:Reading...
- HK$415.77
- HK$415.77
- Unit price
- per
-
Pens and Needles: Women's Textualities in Early Modern EnglandThe Renaissance woman, whether privileged or of the artisan or the middle class, was trained in the expressive arts of needlework and painting, which were often given precedence over writing. Pens and Needles is the first book to examine all these forms as interrelated...
- HK$668.60
- HK$668.60
- Unit price
- per
-
Menander: The Grouch, Desperately Seeking Justice, Closely Cropped Locks, the Girl from Samos, the ShieldThe Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander. The translations in this...
- HK$371.10
- HK$371.10
- Unit price
- per
-
Stories of Happy PeopleWhat is happiness in an age of packaged needs and liberated desires? Lars Gustafsson's Stories of Happy People is a collection of ten short fictions that maps the range of contentment, from inner joy to the edges of despair. "Uncle Sven and the Cultural...
- HK$189.68
- HK$189.68
- Unit price
- per
-
The Selected Letters of William Carlos WilliamsSpanning fifty-four years, this collection record the creative growth of one of the twentieth century's most influential and versatile writers.Author: William Carlos WilliamsPublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationPublished: 02/17/1985Pages: 346Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 7.97h x 5.20w x 0.95dISBN: 9780811209342About the AuthorWilliams, William Carlos: - Besides...
- HK$138.08
- HK$138.08
- Unit price
- per
-
Where Silence ReignsWhere Silence Reigns, a sampling from his essays, notebooks, and letters, shows Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), the pre-eminent modern poet of solitude and inwardness, seeking to reconcile his personal conflict between the claims of life and the claims of art. His subjects are commonplace,...
- HK$202.44
- HK$202.44
- Unit price
- per
-
Earth House HoldAs a poet, Snyder tells us, I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the late Paleolithic; the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying intuition and rebirth; the love and ecstasy of...
- HK$207.54
- HK$207.54
- Unit price
- per
-
StarcombingStarcombing contains eighty-five newly collected pieces of David Langford's witty commentary on the SF/fantasy scene - columns, articles, reviews, essays, even a few short-short stories from the famous 'Futures' page in Nature. Compulsive reading, crammed with insights and laughs.Author: David LangfordPublisher: Cosmos BooksPublished: 05/04/2009Pages:...
- HK$266.81
- HK$266.81
- Unit price
- per
-
Devotio Moderna: Basic Writings...a milestone in American religious publishing. New Catholic World Devotio Moderna: Basic Writings translation and introduction by John Van Engen preface by Heiko A. Oberman I intend to order my life to the glory, honor, and service of God and to the salvation of...
- HK$346.41
- HK$346.41
- Unit price
- per
-
The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured ManJames Weldon Johnson's emotionally gripping novel is a landmark in black literary history and, more than eighty years after its original anonymous publication, a classic of American fiction. The first fictional memoir ever written by a black, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man influenced...
- HK$214.27
- HK$214.27
- Unit price
- per