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In Our Time (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway explores deep themes of alienation, loss, and the stark realities of war and personal conflict, reflecting Hemingway's signature "iceberg theory" of storytelling. This collection of stories, praised for its concise language and subtle emotional depth, showcases Hemingway's early...
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Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and FilmIn what ways can or should art engage with its social context? Authors, readers, and critics have been preoccupied with this question since the dawn of modern literature in Korea. Advocates of social engagement have typically focused on realist texts, seeing such works as...
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If Not Now, When?"In Levi's writing, nothing is superfluous and everything is essential." --Saul Bellow A Penguin Classic In the final days of World War II, a courageous band of Jewish partisans makes its way from Russia to Italy, moving toward the ultimate goal of Palestine. Based...
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Human Matter: A FictionMore than a decade ago, novelist Rodrigo Rey Rosa made his first visit to the Historical Archive of the Guatemala National Police, where millions of previously hidden records were being cataloged, scanned, and eventually published online. Bringing to light detailed evidence of crimes against...
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Homer: Odyssey: XIII-XXIVFirst published in the outstanding and long-running 'red Macmillan' series in 1948 and revised in 1958 and 1962 (with, for example, a new section on Mycenaean Greek in relation to Homer), This second volume on the Odyssey has remained the standard edition used by...
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Herodotus: Histories Book IIn the Histories, which could loosely be translated as 'Investigations' or 'Researches, ' Herodotus tells how the Persian Empire began, grew, and then met defeat in Greece in his parents' generation. Book 1 begins that story. It introduces both the world in which the...
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Hartly House, Calcutta: Phebe GibbesThis novel is a designedly political document. Written at the time of the Hastings impeachment and set in the period of Hastings's Orientalist government, Hartly House, Calcutta (1789) represents a dramatic delineation of the Anglo-Indian encounter. The novel constitutes a significant intervention in the...
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Graphic MedicineIn Graphic Medicine, comics artists and scholars of life writing, literature, and comics explore the lived experience of illness and disability through original texts, images, and the dynamic interplay between the two. The essays and autobiographical comics in this collection respond to the medical...
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Futures of Enlightenment PoetryThis book offers a revisionist account of poetry and embodiment from Milton to Romanticism. Scholars have made much of the period's theories of matter, with some studies equating the eighteenth century's modernity with its materialism. Yet the Enlightenment in Britain also brought bold new...
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Fathers and FugitivesAn inventive and emotionally charged novel about fatherhood and family, loyalty and betrayal, inheritance and belonging.Daniel is a worldly and urbane journalist living in London. His relationships appear to be sexually fulfilling but sentimentally meager. He has no relationships outside of sexual ones, and...
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Everybody's Protest Novel: Essays"I am completely indebted to Jimmy Baldwin's prose. It liberated me as a writer."--Toni Morrison This collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin's 100th-year anniversary, probing the shortcomings of the American protest novel and the harmful representations of Black identity in film and fiction Originally published...
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Devil's AsteroidAn entertaining story that plays like 2001 A Space Odyssey in reverse. Martians an interplanetary cold war asteroids and devolution await.Author: Manly Wade WellmanPublisher: Start ClassicsPublished: 04/23/2024Pages: 52Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25dISBN: 9798880903795
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Der Schönheitsbegriff: Eine ästhetisch-psychologische StudieDer Sch nheitsbegriff - Eine sthetisch-psychologische Studie ist ein unver nderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus dem Jahr 1877. Hansebooks ist Herausgeber von Literatur zu unterschiedlichen Themengebieten wie Forschung und Wissenschaft, Reisen und Expeditionen, Kochen und Ern hrung, Medizin und weiteren Genres.Der Schwerpunkt des...
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Deadwood Gold: A Story of the Black Hills"Deadwood Gold...is a graphic well written story of the doings of people in the early days of Deadwood and the Black Hills...Stokes was a pioneer of Deadwood, was a miner." -The Daily Deadwood Pioneer-Times, August 24, 1922 "Stokes was a pioneer in the Black...
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Critical Forms: Forms of Literary Criticism, 1750-2020Critical Forms is an account of the generic forms in which literary criticism has been undertaken. It examines chiefly Anglophone literary criticism, with comparative discussion of French and German material, from around 1750 to the present and examines prefaces, selections and anthologies, reviews, lectures,...
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ChandrakantaChandrakanta is a popular epic fantasy Hindi novel by Devaki Nandan Khatri. Published in 1888, it was the first modern Hindi novel. 1] It gained a cult following, and contributed to the popularity of the Hindi language. The story is a romantic fantasy about...
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Cane A NovelCane explores spiritual and emotional frustration failure of basic communication between individuals and repression of natural energies. It reveals the chaos of contemporary black American life and calls for a spiritual awakening. A land mark novel that changed the way America looked at black...
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Call of CthuluDelve into the dark depths of cosmic horror with H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu. Uncover ancient, eldritch secrets as ordinary minds grapple with the incomprehensible and the unimaginable. Brace yourself for a chilling journey into the abyss, where sanity hangs by a thread and the unknown...
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A Tale of Two Cities: Introduction by Simon SchamaLucie Manette had been separated from her father for eighteen years while he languished in Paris's most feared prison, the Bastille. Finally reunited, the Manettes's fortunes become inextricably intertwined with those of two men, the heroic aristocrat Darnay, and the dissolute lawyer, Carton. Their...
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A Spiritual Treasury For The Children Of God V1: Consisting Of A Meditation For Each Morning In The Year Upon Select Texts Of Scripture""A Spiritual Treasury For The Children Of God V1"" is a book written by William Mason. It is a collection of meditations for each morning of the year, based on select texts of scripture. The book is intended for those seeking spiritual guidance and...
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