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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and JoyceFrom the multiple award-winning author of The Master and Brooklyn, an illuminating look at Irish culture, history, and literature through the lives of the fathers of three of Ireland's greatest writers--Oscar Wilde's father, William Butler Yeats's father, and James Joyce's father--"Thrilling, wise, and resonant,...
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The Poetry Gymnasium: 110 Proven Exercises to Shape Your Best Verse, 2D Ed.This expanded edition adds sixteen new exercises designed to inspire creativity and help poets hone their skills. Each exercise includes a clearly-stated learning objective, historical background matter on the particular subgenre being explored, and an example written by undergraduates at Western Kentucky University. The...
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A Dune Companion: Characters, Places and Terms in Frank Herbert's Original Six NovelsThis companion to Frank Herbert's six original Dune novels--Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse: Dune--provides an encyclopedia of characters, locations, terms and other elements, and highlights the series' underrated aesthetic integrity. An extensive introduction discusses...
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The Detective Novels of Agatha Christie: A Reader's GuideThe most popular mystery writer of all time concocted a rich recipe of intrigue, character, and setting. All of Agatha Christie's 66 detective novels are covered here in great detail. Each chapter begins with general comments on a novel's geographical and historical setting, identifying...
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Tales of the Troubled Dead: Ghost Stories in Cultural HistoryConsiders the ways ghost stories appeal to our uneasy relationship with conventional good sense What do they want, the ghosts that, even in the age of science, still haunt our storytelling? Catherine Belsey's answer to the question traces Gothic writing and tales of the...
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A Texas Pioneer: Early Staging And Overland Freighting Days on The Frontiers of Texas and MexicoA Texas Pioneer: Early Staging And Overland Freighting Days on The Frontiers of Texas and Mexico. Authored by August Santleben, Edited by I.D. AffleckAuthor: I. D. Affleck, August SantlebenPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 12/20/2011Pages: 326Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.68dISBN: 9781468101096This...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Beautiful and Damned: New Critical EssaysF. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, The Beautiful and Damned, has frequently been dismissed as an outlier and curiosity in his oeuvre, a transitional work from the coming-of-age plot of This Side of Paradise to the masterful critique of American aspiration in The Great Gatsby....
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Principia EthicaThis collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.Author: G. E. MoorePublisher: Createspace...
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Encountering Pennywise: Critical Perspectives on Stephen King's ItContributions by Amylou Ahava, Jeff Ambrose, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Daniel P. Compora, Penny Crofts, Keith Currie, Erin Giannini, Diganta Roy, Hannah Lina Schneeberger, Shannon S. Shaw, Maria Wiegel, and Margaret J. Yankovich First published in 1986, Stephen King's novel IT forever changed the...
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The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. VI: Prefaces anPrefaces and Introductions, Volume VI of The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, brings together for the first time thirty-two introductions by Yeats to the works of such literary greats as William Blake, J.M. Synge, Lady Gregory, Oscar Wilde, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Lionel Johnson,...
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The Innocence of Father BrownThe Innocence of Father Brown is a 1911 collection of mystery short stories by English writer G. K. Chesterton. Set in the early twentieth century, each of the stories centers around the cunning investigations of Father Brown, an amateur detective who uses his incredible...
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Letters From An American FarmerThis vintage book contains a collection of letters written by an American farmer on Nantucket island, Massachusetts in the late eighteenth century. Within the letters, the author describes to a friend in England his life as a farmer, while also explaining the manners and...
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Old English Metre: An IntroductionOld English Metre offers an essential framework for the critical analysis of metrical structures and interpretations in Old English literature. Jun Terasawa's comprehensive introductory text covers the basics of Old English metre and reviews the current research in the field, emphasizing the interaction between...
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Settling Down and Settling Up: The Second Generation in Black Canadian and Black British Women's WritingComparing second generation children of immigrants in black Canadian and black British women's writing, Settling Down and Settling Up extends discourses of diaspora and postcolonialism by expanding recent theory on movement and border crossing. While these concepts have recently gained theoretical currency, this book...
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Modernism in Kyiv: Jubilant ExperimentationThe study of modernism has been largely focused on Western cultural centres such as Paris, Vienna, London, and New York. Extravagantly illustrated with over 300 photos and reproductions, Modernism in Kyiv demonstrates that the Ukrainian capital was a major centre of performing and visual...
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Discovery: The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic ExpeditionFrom the moment Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr. first left Anarctica, he knew he would return. Both the scope of the strange land and the uncharted scientific promise it held were too much to leave behind forever. Launched during the Great Depression amid great...
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African American Literature: An Encyclopedia for StudentsThis compact encyclopedia, aimed at students, selects the most important authors, literary movements, and key topics for them to know. Entries cover the most influential and highly regarded African American writers, including novelists, playwrights, poets, and nonfiction writers. The book covers key periods of...
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Quote ClipsThis book is compiled with over 300 original inspirational, motivational, and heart touching quotes that will bring a smile to your face and joy to your heart. The popularity of quotes is on the rise with people using them for that burst of inspiration...
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Collected Works of Edna St. Vincent MillayThis is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have...
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Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book OneIn his introduction, the translator says: "I suppose that a very great majority of English-speaking people, if they were asked to name the greatest epic poet of the Christian era in Western Europe, would answer Dante." THE DIVINE COMEDY continues to be widely read...
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