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Modern Masters Volume 16: Mike AllredA few short years into his blossoming career, Mike Allred struck just the right chord when he introduced his hip, Pop-inspired creation Madman The series won the Harvey Award for Best New Series, and from there Allred was well on his way, going on...
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The Pushcart Prize XLLV: Best of the Small Presses 2020 EditionAs Booklist's Donna Seaman commented on edition #43, "a harvesting of the year's finest stories, poems and essays...a deeply provocative and artistically resplendent anthology." This current edition is further proof that important and exciting writing is found in small presses scattered around the country...
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The Pushcart Prize XLLV: Best of the Small Presses 2020 EditionAs Booklist's Donna Seaman commented on edition #43, "a harvesting of the year's finest stories, poems and essays...a deeply provocative and artistically resplendent anthology." This current edition is further proof that important and exciting writing is found in small presses scattered around the country...
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Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose (Loa #96)"Undoubtedly, the single finest collection of Wallace Stevens ever produced." -- Library Journal Wallace Stevens's unique voice combined meditative speculation and what he called "the essential gaudiness of poetry" in a body of work of astonishing profusion and exuberance, poems that have remained an...
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En RouteAuthor: Joris Karl Huysmans, J. K. HuysmansPublisher: DedalusPublished: 11/01/2002Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 7.82h x 5.02w x 1.02dISBN: 9781873982143This title is only available via back order
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Tristram ShandyWith a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an anti-novel. As a comic novel replete with...
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Selected StoriesWith a new Introduction by Professor Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D.This selection of a hundred of O. Henry's succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer.Here Henry gives a richly colourful and exuberantly entertaining panorama of social life, ranging...
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The Red Badge of Courage & Other StoriesWith an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. Also included are two short stories: The Veteran - The Open Book The Red Badge of Courage is one of the greatest war novels of all time. It reports on the American Civil...
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Vanity FairWith an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull. Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer....
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A Short History of English Renaissance DramaShakespeare is a towering presence in English and indeed global culture. Yet considered alongside his contemporaries he was not an isolated phenomenon, but the product of a period of astonishing creative fertility. This was an age when new media - popular drama and print...
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A Literary Tour of ItalyAn acclaimed author of novels and short stories, Tim Parks--who was described in a recent review as "one of the best living writers of English"--has delighted audiences around the world with his finely observed writings on all aspects of Italian life and customs. This...
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On Contemporaneity, After Agamben: The Concept and Its TimesWho are our contemporaries today? Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy, or Giorgio Agamben, or the already neglected Althusser or Lacoue-Labarthe? From among the thinkers of the last great generation of the past century, who are the precursors whose voice is strong enough to speak to...
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Medieval English Lyrics and CarolsA new and comprehensive anthology of medieval lyrics and carols, in new editions, with introduction and commentary. Lyrics and carols are two of the most important types of medieval literature. This anthology provides a generous and wide-ranging selection, beginning with the first lyrics in...
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A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail CycleArthur and the grail stories appeared in this French prose cycle together for the first time; scholars explore its social, historical, literary and manuscript contexts and account for its enduring interest. The early thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle (or Vulgate Cycle) brings together the...
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Troubadour Poems from the South of FranceModern English translations of a wide selection of troubadour poems. The poetry of the troubadours was famous throughout the middle ages, but the difficulty and diversity of the original languages have been obstacles to its appreciation by a wider audience. This collection aims to...
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Lancelot-Grail: 8. the Post Vulgate Cycle. the Merlin Continuation: The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in TranslationThe Post-Vulgate Cycle reworks the Vulgate Cycle from the end of The Story of Merlin. The sequel opens with Arthur's unwitting incest with his sister, and his establishment, with Merlin's help, of his title to the kingdom. The story of the events leading up...
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The WallaceThis extraordinary poem has been widely popular and influential ever since it was written in the fifteenth century, and its heroic account of the swordfighter Wallace was to symbolise the cause of liberty and independence to many other countries and cultures in the centuries...
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Word Fill-In Puzzles with Solutions: New Year Edition: Large Print: World's Largest-Huge Daily Word Fill Puzzle30 DAY PUZZLES ONLY +250 WORD LISTS 3,4,5,6,7 & 8 LETTER WORDSCan you solve these fun fill-in puzzles by working out where all the words fit?Your challenge is to fill the puzzle grid by fitting all of the given words.Each puzzle has a list...
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Bram Stoker's DRACULA!Dracula comprises journal entries, letters, and telegrams written by the main characters. It begins with Jonathan Harker, a young English lawyer, as he travels to Transylvania. - Harker plans to meet with Count Dracula, a client of his firm, in order to finalize a...
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The World of Sherlock Holmes: The Facts and Fiction Behind the World's Greatest DetectiveEnter the world of Sherlock Holmes, history's most beloved detective, and explore the reality behind the mythThe World of Sherlock Holmes delves into the fictional detective's storied history to uncover the myths and reality of the era when Holmes emerged--a time of great advances...
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