Literature
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Best of F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, the Diamond as Big as the Ritz & Other Stories, This Side of Paradise & the Beautiful DamnedWordsworth Classics' new 'Best of' series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born of Irish-American stock in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota. In 1913 he attended Princeton...
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Inventing William of Norwich: Thomas of Monmouth, Antisemitism, and Literary Culture, 1150-1200William of Norwich is the name of a young boy purported to have been killed by Jews in or about 1144, thus becoming the victim of the first recorded case of such a ritual murder in Western Europe and a seminal figure in the...
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Three Midwestern Playwrights: How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American TheatreIn the early 1900s, three small-town midwestern playwrights helped shepherd American theatre into the modern era. Together, they created the renowned Provincetown Players collective, which not only launched many careers but also had the power to affect US social, cultural, and political beliefs.The philosophical...
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The Little White BirdThe Little White Bird (1902) is a novel by J. M. Barrie. Inspired by his friendship with George Llewelyn Davies, the grandson of writer George du Maurier, Barrie penned this heartwarming tale of imagination and adventure featuring for the first time his beloved character...
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Moira Lisa Smile, Book 2 The Guesthouse on the GreenEvery guest who comes to stay at O'Mara's Guesthouse in Dublin has a story to tell. The little red fox who visits the bins in the courtyard has a tale of his own as do the long serving staff, and the O'Mara family themselves...
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Tejanaland: A Writing Life in Four ActsThis collection by Teresa Palomo Acosta--poet, historian, author, and activist--spans three decades of her writing, from 1988 through 2018. The collection is divided into four parts: poems, essays, a children's story, and plays. Each work addresses cultural, historical, political, and gender realities that she...
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Atlantis and Lemuria: History and CivilizationAtlantis was first mentioned in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias, written in 360 BC. In this work Steiner presents the information available about Atlantis and Lemuria obtained from the Akashic Records, under the influence of the Theosofical Publishing Society.Author: Rudolf SteinerPublisher: Iap - Information...
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The Martyrdom of ManWilliam Winwood Reade (1838 - 1875) was a British historian, explorer, and philosopher. His major work, The Martyrdom of Man (1872), is a secular history of the Western world. According to one historian, the book became a kind of "substitute bible for secularists". In...
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Jean Sbogar and Other StoriesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssAuthor: Charles NodierPublisher: Snuggly BooksPublished: 08/31/2021Pages: 302Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68dISBN: 9781645250791This title is not returnable
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Los Tres Crímenes de Arsène Lupin / Arsène Lupin's Three MurdersLOS TRES CRÍMENES DE ARSÈNE LUPIN. LAS HISTORIAS EN LAS QUE SE BASA LA NUEVA SERIE DE TELEVISIÓN DE NETFLIX. LA SAGA LITERERARIA EN LA QUE SE INSPIRA LUPIN. DESCUBRE LAS HISTORIAS QUE CAMBIARON LA VIDA DE ASSANE, EL HÉROE DE LA EXIT0SA SERIE...
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The Sonnets of Rainer Maria RilkeRomano Guardini described Rainer Maria Rilke as the "poet who had things of such importance to say about the end of our own age [and] was also a prophet of things to come." The complexity of Rilke is, then, "highly relevant to modern Man."...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManAfter a scandal breaks out involving a famous Irish Nationalist politician, Stephen Dedalus finds his family being torn apart over their differing opinions of the matter. Shaken by all the fighting and animosity, Stephen begins to wonder where he can place his faith. Questioning...
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TikkunTikkun refers to the Kabbalistic mythology associated with the Sephiroth, vessels created to contain the energies emanating from the divine (En-Sof). Those vessels were unable to contain those energies and were shattered by their force. The broken shards fall in a shower of sparks...
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Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919-1939In Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919-1939, Allison Schachter rewrites Jewish literary modernity from the point of view of women. Focusing on works by interwar Hebrew and Yiddish writers, Schachter illuminates how women writers embraced the transgressive potential of prose fiction to challenge the patriarchal...
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I Was More American Than the Americans: Sylvère Lotringer in Conversation with Donatien GrauA personal take on French Theory by one of the people who invented it. In the mid-1970s, Sylvère Lotringer created Semiotext(e), a philosophical group that became a magazine and then a publishing house. Since its creation, Semio-text(e) has been a place of stimulating dialogue...
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Life in Plastic: Artistic Responses to PetromodernityA vital contribution to environmental humanities that explores artistic responses to the plastic age Since at least the 1960s, plastics have been a defining feature of contemporary life. They are undeniably utopian--wondrously innovative, cheap, malleable, durable, and convenient. Yet our proliferating use of plastics...
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Subjects in PoetryDaniel Brown's Subjects in Poetry is the first book to examine the broad and imposing topic of poetic subject matter, probing both what poems are about and how that influences the way they're made. It comprises one poet's attempt to plumb the nature of...
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Hope Is the Thing: Wisconsinites on Perseverance in a PandemicIn March 2020, as a pandemic began to ravage our world, writer and professor B. J. Hollars started a collaborative writing project to bridge the emotional challenges created by our physical distancing. Drawing upon Emily Dickinson's famous poem "'Hope' is the thing with feathers,"...
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Navigating Chamoru Poetry: Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and DecolonizationNavigating CHamoru Poetry focuses on Indigenous CHamoru (Chamorro) poetry from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam). Poet and scholar Craig Santos Perez brings critical attention to a diverse and intergenerational collection of CHamoru poetry and scholarship. Throughout this book, Perez develops an Indigenous literary...
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Latin in Modern Fiction: Who Says It's a Dead Language?The goal of this book is to prove that Latin is not a dead language by demonstrating how prevalent and strong it still is in modern Western culture. In order to do so, the author, an English philologist with a long experience as a...
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