Literature
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Nabokov and the Real World: Between Appreciation and DefenseFrom award-winning literary scholar Robert Alter, a masterful exploration of how Nabokov used artifice to evoke the dilemmas, pain, and exaltation of the human condition Admirers and detractors of Vladimir Nabokov have viewed him as an ingenious contriver of literary games, teasing and even...
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Twice Told Tales"The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective-wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes."- Edgar Allan Poe "To this little book we would say 'Live ever, sweet, sweet book.' It comes from the hand of a man...
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TarrTarr turned to Hobson, and seized him, conversationally, by the hair. "Well, Walt Whitman, when are you going to get your hair cut?" "Why do you call me Walt Whitman?" "Would you prefer Buffalo Bill? Or is it Shakespeare?" "It is not Shakespeare--" "'Roi...
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The Season of Delicate HungerThe Season of Delicate Hunger offers enough engaging poetry to sate one's appetite for lively songs that amaze and delight in ways academic poetry seems to have lost. Here there's no reaching for effect, no effort to impress, and no dead weight. Open the...
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Knots, Splices and Rope-Work (Fully Illustrated)This book offers easy to follow directions for making all the useful and ornamental knots that are in common use. There are chapters covering splicing, pointing, seizing and serving, etc. This text is ideal for campers, yachtsmen, Boy Scouts, and anyone interested in knots.Author:...
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Hearing Homer's Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman ParryFrom the acclaimed biographer of Jane Jacobs and Srinivasa Ramanujan comes the first full life and work of arguably the most influential classical scholar of the twentieth century, who overturned long-entrenched notions of ancient epic poetry and enlarged the very idea of literature. In...
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So You Want to Be a NovelistWhat does it mean to be a novelist in the 21st century? How do you write a novel? What do you do with it once it's finished? And how do you get a career as a novelist off the ground? Most honest novelists will...
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Complete PoemsKarin Boye is Sweden's greatest woman poet. Born in 1900, she was a poet of ideas, and wrote a powerful prophetic novel, Kallocain. Her involvement in the radical literary and artistic movement Clart during the 1920s led to her interest in psychoanalysis, which influenced...
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A Reader's Guide to Andrei Bely's PetersburgAndrei Bely's 1913 masterwork Petersburg is widely regarded as the most important Russian novel of the twentieth century. Vladimir Nabokov ranked it with James Joyce's Ulysses, Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, and Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Few artistic works created before the First...
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Yeats Now: Echoing Into LifeSeeking to enrich your life with great poetry, looking for the perfect line to enhance an important speech or personal note, or simply to express your thoughts? It might come as a surprise that the poetry of famed Irish poet W.B.Yeats is as relevant...
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Wild Belief: Poets and Prophets in the Wilderness""Midway upon the journey of our life / I found myself within a forest dark."" Dante's Inferno begins with imagery of the wilderness marked by darkness, fear, and the unknown. In folktales, legends, and children's stories, the wilderness is a place of conflict and...
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Not Without LaughterFirst published in 1930, "Not Without Laughter" is the debut novel by Langston Hughes and a deeply personal, semi-autobiographical tale of an African-American family in rural Kansas. Langston Hughes, born in 1902 in Joplin, Missouri, spent much of his youth in Lawrence, Kansas and...
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L'exiléeCe roman retrace le parcours d'une orpheline d'origine noble sans le sou. Courageuse, belle, rebelle, Myrt Elyanni arrive survivre dans cet univers qui ne lui est pas coutumier. Un roman plein de rebondissements qui vous tiendra en haleine tout au long de sa lecture...Author:...
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A Room with a ViewA tour of Italy takes young Lucy Honeychurch out of her predictable life in Edwardian England and places her into a new world that even her chaperoning spinster aunt cannot control. Encountering everything from unlikely traveling companions to street violence, Lucy faces the greatest...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Unabridged. Complete with all original illustrations)"It is altogether the best boy's story I ever read. It will be an immense success" stated William Dean Howells, the great American editor of his day. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer lived up Howells' prediction and is regarded as one of the great...
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The OdysseyThe Odyssey, Homer's epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan war, is one of the earliest and greatest works of literature. It is a wonderful story that has entranced generations over the last two and a half millennia. The...
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Raiders of the RockiesAUTHOR OF THE BEST-SELLING BUCKSKIN CHRONICLES SERIES TAKES US ON AN EPIC JOURNEY IN BOOK FIVE OF THE STONECROFT SAGA.By any measure, they would be considered old-timers in the mountains of the uncharted territory. Land that had been known as French Louisiana and Spanish...
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The Book of CharlatansUncovering the professional secrets of con artists and swindlers in the medieval Middle East The Book of Charlatans is a comprehensive guide to trickery and scams as practiced in the thirteenth century in the cities of the Middle East, especially in Syria and Egypt....
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The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Illustrated by Gustave DoréA mysterious talking raven pays a visit to a man who is distraught from the loss of his lover. The man, aching over the death of his dear Lenore, is upset and distressed by the bird who repeats one word;Nevermore.Steeped in stylized, but dark...
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Martin EdenMartin Eden is a novel by American author Jack London, about a proletarian young autodidact struggling to become a writer. It was first serialized in the Pacific Monthly magazine from September 1908 to September 1909, and subsequently published in book form by Macmillan in...
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